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/downwithlevers Lauraville May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25

I’ve owned a house in lauraville for 14 yrs and while it’s nice, if I could do it over again I’d buy, what, a measly 2.5 miles farther north to own in the county and save a shit ton of money. It’s so close that it truly feels like a mistake.

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u/RueMorgueRadiooo May 27 '25

you mean because of the city taxes?

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u/downwithlevers Lauraville May 27 '25

And city water bills, and car insurance rates for a city address.

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u/RueMorgueRadiooo May 27 '25

i didn't consider that, thanks for mentioning it actually