In honor of ModerateVA, I suppose. I don't think this one has been done recently.
As for me, I have many politic friends on the Maryland side of things, and I must say it is more up my alley. I have never been to Baltimore, although I have heard pleasant things. The Bay is beautiful. SOMD is full of uppity transplants from the northeast/Chicago/West Coast (including my friends that reside there) - my people.
NOVA has an older and more southern population - not my people. Alexandria is really nice, though. The Virginia coast is nice, but doesn't beat the Bay. And inland Virginia is Mississippi, so bad.
Maryland is more expensive than Virginia and somehow still manages to have worse roads and infrastructure. The whole area has an air of decay about it despite its residents paying more tax than their Virginia neighbors.