Go to DC instead, please

Plant house!

Yeah, wasn't going to wait in a line without knowing how long it would take. I had a 30 minute window to vote and couldn't risk being late to another obligation. Wtf would you do?

That sounds like a quote from a poem, maybe?

An old therapist once described Richmond as the biggest “small town” she’s ever lived in.

As far as dating goes, I guess it’s fine and so long as you’re not from the area you won’t have to worry about running into people you don’t want to (at least at first).

I don’t go out very often anymore, but used to, and I think the bar/nightlife scene is decent enough. I’m in a couple Facebook groups where people from NYC and Nova seem to do nothing but complain about how boring Richmond is. I’m from here and didn’t fully appreciate it until I was in college (Almost 30 for reference).

The past two years have been a bit off, but there’s usually something going on every week/weekend. Depending on your interests though, it may not be every week (or month) where something super exciting that you’re interested in is going on.

If you decide to move here, I promise everyone will be more than nice to you in person. Ngl, a lot of Richmonders are kinda salty about the influx of new people moving in and contributing to increased housing costs. However, if we ran into you at Ardent or Hardywood (or wherever else) we’d almost definitely forget about all that and would be pretty excited to hear about where you came from and how you were liking Richmond.

As a CYA, YMMV haha

Being a homeowner is one of the biggest responsibilities in my life. The weekend we closed on our house, we bought a security system. I feel like that’s honestly the biggest assurance we have that we are protected. I can’t recommend it enough. We have 24/7 monitoring, all our windows and doors have sensors, outdoor and indoor cameras, glass break detectors, flood detectors, and combo CO/smoke detectors. Have felt very safe with that and don’t feel the need to get a gun in my relatively safe neighborhood.

I've heard Madison is great. But I've never heard anyone say anything good about the weather there...

ok? Did you have a point?

You'll know they're expecting outages if you see bucket trucks staged in empty parking lots around the city. Given that there is only rain forecast, I expect they aren't too worried about it.

Probably loves Madison

Good idea, the crime map shows quite a few theft/burglary in just past 3 months…trending up

Yeah... hence my trepidation. Lots of responsibility but I also don't want to catch someone in my house or breaking in without anything to defend myself with.

If you buy one you need to train yourself to use it and defend it.

If you have a gun, then any fight you find yourself in will automatically involve a gun.

Defending your house with a gun can turn into some dude in your house with your gun if you don’t know what you’re doing.

😂 👏

This the most privileged shit I’ve ever read lol 😂

I remember 1 year where something like 10,000 chicagoans died of heat in the summer. And I was like, my god, worst climate ever. Like 2 weeks of decent days

Not true! I saw this guy last week too and he is a lichEN. He’s just moss basically. Lots and lots of people in Richmond are just moss.

Hey look another Scott’s addition newly single dude.

Gf here. The guy that followed him witnessed the whole thing. He followed him and got the pictures while I watched his dog for him. I was very grateful to have him walk by as it happened because that’s what led to his arrest.

Not to mention having him, his dog, and another neighbor sit with me helped while I had processed what had happened. 😅

Gf here. I called the police immediately after it happened.

Eh, the summers in Chicago are probably a bit nicer. Further north I think it really starts to get comfortable. August/September in KC can be awful, hot and or humid. It used to snow a lot more when I was a kid, now the winters are mostly like RVA just a tiny bit more cold and a bit more snow. It's a good town but I live in RVA for a reason 😆

without precipitation I wouldn't be worried. Ice and we will have problems.

Cold on it's own won't hurt power.

I'm not going to say you shouldn't, that's your call, but honestly, breakins in the Fan/MD are rare. You shouldn't be overly concerned.

I'm not anti gun, I own one, but I wouldn't buy one for fear reasons in your location

10 years, run into lots of characters? I don't understand?

If by ptown you mean Mass, yeah we don't have dick dock here. but still plenty of characters

some idiot downvoted this... That's awesome.