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<li> I think summer housing in Rockville is going to be a tough nut to crack. Rockville isn’t the kind of place that has a lot of subletting and seasonal turnover, like a university town. It’s the kind of place where you live so you can send your kids to the public schools. I can’t think of a better place to start than by asking at NIH, though.</li>
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<p>If I were young and single, I’m not sure I’d want to live in Rockville anyway. I’d probably want to be in DC near the red line and commute backwards.</p>
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<li> In Baltimore, I’d look for summer housing in Charles Village, near the Homewood campus of JHU. In fact, I did live there in a summer sublet between college and grad school during the summer of…oh, wow, that was a long time ago.</li>
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<p>I’d look for listings of sublets in the housing office at JHU.</p>
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<li> Near Bayview? Really? Seventeen? I have no good suggestion for this. During the aforementioned summer in Charles Village, I worked at the Bayview campus (it was called the Francis Scott Key Medical Center at the time). It’s not easy to get from Charles Village to Bayview without a car. And while I wouldn’t really want my 17-year-old to live in Charles Village for the summer, I’d agree to that many times over before I’d let her live on her own (meaning, away from her parents) in Highlandtown. At least when I was in Baltimore City, it just wasn’t a neighborhood where an inexperienced 17-year-old should have been learning to fly on her own, nor was it a neighborhood where she would have had any fun doing it. And it wasn’t a neighborhood where there were any young people doing that. The young people beginning their lives away from their parents were near Hopkins’ Homewood Campus, or near Loyola.</li>
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<p>I am sorry if I am stoking any parental anxiety. It would agitate the bejeesus out of me to read what I’ve just written. But this is a plan that would really give me pause.</p>
<p>(Oops! I just noticed that all the discussion of Rockville and Baltimore is pretty old by now. Sorry. I do hope those housing issues are resolved.)</p>