Columbia? Really? I'm not sleep I've been there many times. It's cool but no where near the nicest place I've been. Not even top 10 in the area.
Have you never been MoCo, Fairfax County or Loudoun county? I mean even parts of Annapolis and PG put Columbia to shame. That's the nicest place you ever been? You can't be serious.
“One of”
For contexts I live in Bowie and every time I go to Columbia, which is not often, I’m impressed by the retail/restaurants and most notably the customer service.
My comment is mostly in response to the association you alluded to with Baltimore. To that point, Columbia feels much closer to some of those moco and va locales on the spectrum than Baltimore.
Maybe it’s two sides of Columbia though
I’m not the Columbia expert.