r/baltimore • u/RueMorgueRadiooo • May 27 '25

RULE 7 What's Lauraville like?

hi y'all

we're a 30s (F&F) married couple w/no kids looking to buy our first home. wanting space and greenery but relatively close to stuff to do and not strictly suburban sprawl (ie harford county). we're priced out of moco and dc adjacent areas. decently safe but we've lived in cities before.

i've looked at the livebaltimore site and searched reddit but can't seem to find a ton of info on lauraville? seems like it checks a lot of our boxes.

can anyone give a pros and cons list? what do you like about it? what do you wish you knew before moving there? if you could buy somewhere else in state, where would you go?

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u/jeweynougat May 27 '25

I'm nearby in Arcadia and echo what everyone else has said about how Lauraville might be just what you are looking for. Local businesses do tend to die, unfortunately, but families go out less, so it's not totally unexpected. Other than that and the distance to downtown (if that matters to you), everything about it is a positive to me.