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My understanding is that some folks in Baltimore and Maryland started feeling uncomfortable with the depiction of the city after the first season, and then The Wire threatened to move production to Philly, cuz the cities look similar enough to have Philly stand in as Baltimore. So it was a threat to Baltimore and Maryland big wigs ("we'll just move production to Philly and CALL it Baltimore"). Bigwigs stopped complaining.