A half hour buss ride from Washington, DC, on a bay in the state of Maryland.  :)<br/><br/>Their football team is the Ravens (Poe is burred there, I believe.)  The city proper is thickly habited with tall buildings.  The suburbs are green and wildlife comes down a lot.  Public transport is good, busses run late, the light rail and the one subway line run 'til at least 2AM.<br/><br/>It's got a lot of good creative people.  It also has a scarily high violent crime rate, and petty criminals make extensive use of public transportation these days.