[Relocation thread]

A few weeks ago I visited my friend in Baltimore. It was my first visit to the city and I absolutely loved it. After a few days there I knew it was my kind of city and I really want to move there. The problem of course is I can't just move to a far away city without a job.

I was hoping someone here might have some suggestions of where to look. I'm an urban planner so that seems to make finding a job difficult. I have my application in at the City of Baltimore but who knows if I'll ever hear from them. There must be planning consultant firms in Baltimore, but I don't know of any and searching on google for them seems to be useless. What about nearby Baltimore suburbs? On my visit I didn't spend anytime out of the city so I don't know any of the suburbs. The only one I heard mentioned several times was a place called Towson.

Any help would be appreciated!

General Growth Properties is by virtue of its size a sort of regional urban planning group, albeit a commercial one. It's largely responsible for the direction of our region's most famous planned city, Columbia. It also owns several other malls and mixed-use projects.

There are few actual municipalities in Maryland: Most of the government is county-based. A few exceptions include Annapolis, Bowie, Baltimore (city) ... I'm relatively new to the area, so I don't know many of them. The counties around Baltimore are Howard, Baltimore County, Harford and Anne Arundel. PG is a bit farther away.

Within Baltimore, there may be neighborhood organizations that can pay something -- though probably not as much as you'd need.

Other overlay organizations like the MTA may also be able to use you.

Good luck!

[Relocation thread]

Yea Baltimore is a great city but must people only looks at the Crime and Homicide rate and the run down neighborhoods and that's how they judge it. There is so many great things about Baltimore that most people don't know about.

I'm glad to see people looking seriously at Baltimore. It's a great city.

In order to help people make the urban transition, I've made a map of all the full-service grocery stores in the city. You can find it at:

http://www.BaltimoreGroceries.org

This is literally just a thrown-on-the-web version of a map my wife and I have been using in our home hunt. I hope someone else perhaps finds it handy.

-- Patrick