My wife and I lived in Laurel, maybe 30
miles away. Likely the whole area within
100 miles of the Washington Monument is
much more highly built up now than then.
I suspect that now Laurel is a bit expensive,
and the traffic from there to the Homewood
campus is
likely too much for a daily commute.
When my wife and I were at Hopkins, there
was some nice graduate student housing
just east of campus, and I'd look into
that.
For the
neighborhood of the medical school
campus,
maybe it's okay, but I'd
check to be sure.
edit: Incidentally, JHU is where I've gotten offers to continue. How did you like living around there?