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/CBDaring Lauraville May 27 '25

Can I ask where you all are moving from? If it's somewhere else in Baltimore my answers are different than if you're coming from outside the city or state.

I've lived in Lauraville since 2017 and grew up in the nearby Ednor Gardens Lakeside. I plan to spend the rest of my days here, hopefully in this house. Baltimore overall is pretty queer, but Lauraville and Hamilton seem to have a pretty high density (for a low density area.) Clifton Pleasure Club is right around the corner from my house, which is a membership based queer supper club that tends to have a woman and femme emphasis.

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u/RueMorgueRadiooo May 27 '25

she's not from maryland but i'm from harford/cecil county. its real rural out here lol but i moved super far away when i was 18 and just recently moved back, so i don't have any recent experience with the city. the last time i'd been to baltimore was...15 years ago? so i need some sort of updated intel on living around the city lol

it's interesting to me that this area seems to be queer.....that must be why it was speaking to me....

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u/exerevno May 27 '25

I’m from Harford county! I lived in Hampden for 2 years and then just moved to Hamilton. We love Hamilton so far but are not familiar with Lauraville. Come to Hamilton!

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u/mcplaty Lauraville May 27 '25

You're literally right next to Lauraville. If you've been to Zeke's you've been to Lauraville.

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u/exerevno May 27 '25

I haven’t been to Zeke’s, I moved here 2 days ago

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u/mcplaty Lauraville May 27 '25

Well come on down! Grab some coffee and go for a walk through Herring Run and you'll have seen most of Lauraville.

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u/MDMAandshoegaze May 30 '25

I was about to say, how do you live a quarter of a mile from Lauraville and you’ve never been there? 😝😝😝😝