Episode Transcript
Speaker 1 00:00:03 Guys, welcome to another episode of Moving to Maryland. Today we're gonna talk about Middle River. I'm here with Josh Nick. Hey guys. Hello.
Speaker 2 00:00:10 Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1 00:00:11 So, I have a great memory of Middle River. I took my fir first flight lesson at Martin State Airport, and I remember, uh, you know, I was taxiing out to the runway, and then I was like, looking at the instructor and I was like, trying to look at his eyes and see if he was ready to die. <laugh> and I, I, I, because I didn't, I was scared of death of flying. I'd forgotten how, how scared I was of flying. And, um, I was like, Hey man, how many hours do you have? He's like, he was like, 6,000 hours. And I was like, man, that's a lot of hours. He might be due for a crash.
Speaker 2 00:00:50 Might not make it. The 6,000 ones, huh? <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:00:54 What? I love Mill River. That's a great place. What I was gonna say is like when we, so we took off and flew around and it's beautiful from the sky, like overlooking, uh, middle River. There's, uh, just so much, uh, waterfront and so many cool places. How was it growing up there, Josh?
Speaker 2 00:01:08 It was great. Uh, so Middle River is kind of a more quiet community. Um, it's k it's much like Dun Dock, but not as much water access, but it still has its water access points. It is bordered by Essex Rosedale and, uh, boy Quarters.
Speaker 1 00:01:24 Nice. Yeah. And then you can get, get to pretty easy from the highways.
Speaker 3 00:01:28 Yeah, I mean, it's right off 95, which is great. And it gives you a lot of access to a lot of other places. So if you need to go to like White Marsh or even downtown or even farther north up to like the Aberdeen area, it's, you know, 95 is right there and 6 95. Uh, so it's a really, really great accessible neighborhood for anybody driving in and out.
Speaker 1 00:01:46 It's, it's fun with the, uh, you know, there's a squadron of eight 10 s that, that are at Martin State Airport, the, uh, air National Guard. So you see some pretty cool military planes coming in and out. Uh, and the Blue Angels are in town. It's a, a staging area that they take off and land from. Uh, so it's really, when you're in that area, you'll see some military air aircraft and helicopters and stuff like that. But, um, actually, well, you know, I think my first, uh, memory of Middle River was going to, was actually around 1995 going to Benji's Drive-in movie theater. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. You ever been there? Yep.
Speaker 2 00:02:21 Yep. Uh, Benji's is actually a great place. I've been there a few times. Um, you drive in, you know, you set the radio, it's, I think it's only one left on the East Coast, not
Speaker 3 00:02:32 Mistaken. Yeah. Reminds me of the movie Grease, you know, going to this movie, this driving movies, I a great first date spot when you're in high school, you know, you like, you want to not take her somewhere nice like Chili's and then, or Applebee's, which is classy establishments, but you say, Hey, let's go, let's go catch a drive-in and you know, and see and see a movie. So it's a, it's an awesome spot, you
Speaker 1 00:02:49 Know, it's like happy days. So you don't, like, you wouldn't take them over to watch the submarine races?
Speaker 3 00:02:54 No. <laugh>? Yeah. I don't, I haven't seen,
Speaker 1 00:02:57 Well, you've never seen Happy Days. Back in the day. All
Speaker 3 00:02:59 I remember is, uh,
Speaker 1 00:03:00 You get, you can't see submarine races, so they'd go park, you know, to watch submarine races, but submarines are underwater, so
Speaker 3 00:03:07 We were born in the nineties, so
Speaker 2 00:03:09 Yeah, you wait to see who comes up on the other side, <laugh>. That's how you
Speaker 3 00:03:12 Know, all
Speaker 1 00:03:13 Theon.
Speaker 3 00:03:13 He jump in the Shark. That's all I remember.
Speaker 1 00:03:15 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This episode might have just jumped the shark. I, I'm not,
Speaker 3 00:03:19 Well, we're rocking and rolling. I say we keep
Speaker 1 00:03:22 <laugh>. Ah, so, uh, so, uh, middle River, what are some of the fun spots? Middle River, somebody's thinking about Moon Middle River, obviously, like it's a boating community. There's marinas and stuff like that and, and Marino slash water, uh, restaurants. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. What are some of your, uh, fun spots? Thinking
Speaker 2 00:03:38 About little, so much like ddo, it does have a lot of Bayside Access restaurants. Um, so you can always pull your boat up, go in for a good bite. Um, one that comes to mind is Questions Creek. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you got Sunset Cove.
Speaker 1 00:03:49 I've been Sunset Cove, and actually that overlooks the airports.
Speaker 2 00:03:52 Yep, yep. Very nice spot. Um, you got sand, um, and then you have Bos on the, on the bay. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, which is a very nice spot as well. Yeah.
Speaker 3 00:04:00 And not to mention that, but you have also, you know, all of the major shopping and, you know, more chain places as well. And it's, like I said, super easy to get to. So if you want to go to places like Essex that have a lot of great restaurant options as well, I mean, it's really, it's really nice to get to and really easy to get to as well.
Speaker 1 00:04:18 Yeah. It's certainly on the map. If you're a boater and you're coming over that whole Dun dock, uh, middle River, Essex, there's, you know, you can stop in Dun Dock, uh, hard yacht cafe, some other spots over there. Work your way up all the way up, you know, all the way up into Hartford County. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> if you want. Depends on how many Jello shots you want
Speaker 3 00:04:39 <laugh>. Yeah, that's true. That's very
Speaker 1 00:04:42 True. What's your limit? 12?
Speaker 3 00:04:44 Yeah, I'd say probably depends on what else I'm supplementing it with, but, you know.
Speaker 1 00:04:50 Nice. So, um, what about, I mean, there's some parks in, uh, middle River in there.
Speaker 2 00:04:56 Uh, there's actually a really nice park, uh, Eastern Regional Center. This is where I park. I grew up going to playing soccer. They have a really nice turf field. They have a few other, um, you know, ground fields, but, uh, another park would be, uh, Wilson Point Park. And this is just a, a little more smaller park, but you know, it has Bay Access as well.
Speaker 1 00:05:18 So Middle River has some popular neighborhoods and you, you hear about Bo's quarter quite a bit, almost to the point where you might have think of that as like a city in itself. Right. But what are some of the other areas in Middle River that, that, that stand out for you?
Speaker 2 00:05:32 Um, so you are, so Bo's Quarters would be a little bit north, uh, right before you get to Oliver Beach, you have, uh, um, you have Essex to the west and then Rosedale to the north.
Speaker 1 00:05:45 Right?
Speaker 3 00:05:45 Yeah. And there's, you know, great options for anybody what you're looking for. I mean, if you want waterfront housing, there's plenty there. If you want something that's a little bit more suburban neighborhood oriented, there's, there's tons of options for people who, who want to move there, depending on, you know, the lifestyle that you're looking for.
Speaker 1 00:06:00 And, uh, so you went to school in that area?
Speaker 2 00:06:03 I did,
Speaker 1 00:06:03 Yep. What were your SATs? Did you turn out okay?
Speaker 2 00:06:06 Yep. The highest they could be possibly
Speaker 3 00:06:08 <laugh> 2,400.
Speaker 1 00:06:11 Uh, yeah, so, you know, Baltimore County school systems, uh, have a, have a pretty decent reputation. So yeah, they do
Speaker 3 00:06:18 Have a good, they have do have a great public school system there, which is nice.
Speaker 1 00:06:21 Most, uh, most people I know from that area turned out okay. So
Speaker 2 00:06:24 Yeah, it was very easy going there. Uh, everyone's very cool.
Speaker 1 00:06:27 Oh, that's cool. That's,
Speaker 3 00:06:29 Yeah, that's
Speaker 1 00:06:30 Cool. That's cool. Yeah, <laugh>. So, uh, let's talk about real estate. I mean, there's obviously, there, there's a range in Middle River. Uh, certainly, you know, I, I'd spent a lot of time looking in Middle River and, um, you know, you have smaller off water. You have, uh, you know, uh, waterfront that hasn't been touched. You have new, you know, places that have been torn down and new builds that are up, you know, close to a million mm-hmm. <affirmative>.
Speaker 3 00:06:55 Yeah, I, there's a lot, like, like you said, if you want something that's more waterfront oriented, there's, you know, extremely affordable compared to, you know, going down south in like Arundel County. So if you want something that's directly on the water, they're really nice and affordable. You have these older kind of Cape Cod style houses that were built in like the thirties in, in these grilly, great residential neighborhoods that are still close enough to, you know, having water access, um, that are great. And then you have, you know, other more affordable housing options as well in, in Middle River.
Speaker 1 00:07:25 Yeah, I know, uh, quite a, I know a handful of families that lived in the city and had summer homes in, whether it was Essex or, or, uh, middle River or Dun Dock, actually, that's, that was kind of, they, they call it the Shore. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. So there was, you know, 20 minutes away they could get to the shore,
Speaker 3 00:07:43 And that's, that's nice. Instead of having to deal with, you know, bay Bridge and beach traffic, you know, you'd be like, oh, I'm going to the shore and it's only like 20 minutes from your house. It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1 00:07:51 Yeah. That was one of the things that we, we had thought about my wife and I, um, instead of having a place down at the beach. But, uh, you know, we ended up going, you know, the beach made more sense for, for a lot of reasons for us. Nice. So, um, what kind of house did you grow up in?
Speaker 2 00:08:09 Uh, I grew up in, uh, semi detach. Um, but they had, but a lot of my friends grew up in, uh, town homes, uh, detached homes. There's a lot of newer construction as well.
Speaker 1 00:08:19 Sure, sure. Nice. Anything you guys think is important to share about Bill River?
Speaker 3 00:08:25 I mean, I haven't been there as much as Josh without, you know, him, him growing up there, but in all the times I've been there, I think it's a, it's a great community, you know, everybody really gets along. It's a great place to live. And not to mention just based off of a location, I mean, anything that you need is, is really, really close by. If you need to go to White Marsh or you need to go to Costco, you want to go into the city. I mean, it's, it's 20 minutes from everywhere, and I think that is a really good draw for a lot of people as being, you know, within a really short driving distance to anything they need.
Speaker 1 00:08:53 Yeah. I think, uh, you know, I, I, I think of it like, uh, Glen Burn in Pasadena, like Middle River and White Marsh. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, and, you know, you have that, um, you know, uh, less crowded, uh, waterfront lifestyle. Some of the communities there, just very low traffic. And then if you wanna get to the city, you're 20 minutes away, you want to go to some of the restaurants in the city, so you have all the amenities of the city, but you have that waterfront lifestyle just, just Right. You know, 20 minutes away. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Awesome. Well, uh, Josh, Nick and I are realtors. We're, we're with the Greatest Moves team. Uh, we have multiple locations throughout the state. We'd love to show you around that whole area. S six, middle River, dun Dock. Josh grew up there. Nick's been there quite a bit. Uh, I as well, uh, I would love to help you out. Our information is in this post. Take care. We'll hope to see you next episode.
