@pog2018: there’s no Homewood in Berkeley indeed: Homewood/Charles Village is where JHU is located. It’s NOT Baltimore inner city as someone was trying to make it sound. Baltimore is not fun (beside the inner harbor) but Homewood feels more suburban.
I was contrasting it to the area around Berkeley which is bohemian and gritty at the same time. Maybe I’d have liked it better if I’d been 25 years younger.