You sound like one of those yahoos who makes incredibly broad generalizations from tiny, one-time personal experiences. For you to condemn the entire state based on one area or one county is asinine and blatantly shortsighted. I'd be embassasted to make such a post if I DID feel that way. I was born and raised in MD and anyone who knows it knows that, for such a small state, it's remarkably diverse in its population. You would never know that someone from the western mountains, someone from Baltimore City and an someone else from the Eastern Shore were all from the same state they're so different. Did it occur to you that your experience in a bad neighborhood does not necessarily translate to the condition of the entire state?? Maryland as a whole doesn't even have a high crime rate problem-- certain areas of Baltimore City do. But even not knowing that, claiming that "everyone" even from the same neighborhood is the "nastiest, rudest, most vulgar" is absurd. If you could only understand how this commentary reveals much more about you than than about Maryland to anyone with the slightest bit of common sense.