9 reasons northern Baltimore County is not a cultural wasteland

When I moved out of my parents’ house in Lutherville, I vowed to never live in the suburbs again. For nearly two decades (minus a 2-year stint in Honduras), I was a city person. I found the scent of bus exhaust exciting. I lived in Charles Village and Hampden and, for six years, in a quaint Mount Vernon apartment so near the old Hippo night club that its dance music rattled my radiators until 2 a.m.