I've lived in Baltimore City for 34 years. I was born here. During my childhood years, it was so much better. Clean, safe neighborhoods. Over the years I've noticed that drugs and crime have elevated. There's a bar on every corner, there's addicts on every corner and there's a plethora of homeless people that are ignored every single day. My mother and I were robbed at gunpoint when I was a child, I've been followed by strange men as a teenager and I've been sexually harassed by men as an adult while simply standing outside of a grocery store. The worst of this city, is Social Services. (Especially Hilton Heights District.) Unfortunately, a lot of residents depend on government assistance and some social workers have made life harder for these residents. When people have to sell their food stamps just to pay their bills, that speaks volumes. It's an ongoing joke in my house that there's nothing "charming" about "Charm City."

