WH is the best living decision I’ve ever made. Amazing neighbors, lightning bugs a plenty in the summer, assorted wildlife and access to the river/Buttermilk, fairly cheap $5-7 Lyft ride to everything downtown. Downsides: jerkbags speeding on Riverside, Semmes, occasional randos breaking into cars, those damn trains slamming into each other almost nightly 🤦🏻‍♀️

Zooming in to look for ghosts

Like there’s a lot of mold outside in the air?

We have never had an issue in WH. Some neighbors have had a shed broken into there or a car rummaged through here and there. Normal stuff for a city neighborhood.

Generally just crimes of opportunity. Sheds and alleys and unlocked cars.

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Sometimes Godfrey’s has techno

10 years?

Guessing their lease was over

“A popular restaurant and bar near Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus will be closing near the end of January.”

The beginning of this sentence must’ve been so surprised by the end of the sentence

Thanks for that. We took a a drive through and came away with the exact same impressions. Is crime a big concern? Obviously subjective. But I'd like to hear about that.

Stagnant and low lying water everywhere in the woods. It’s awful in the summer.

I will say, there’s a bunch of single women in their 50s with nothing to do but complain all day near Cherokee. So that’s about the worst of it

Overall both are classic neighborhoods in the city that were founded as streetcar suburbs way back when. We’ve been in the area for two years so all this is subject to change, but as it currently stands:

Dislikes: Semmes Ave., varying degrees of walkability throughout both neighborhoods depending on where you’re at, public transit is a little underdeveloped compared to other neighborhoods in the city, car dependent for the most part, no grocery store in the immediate neighborhood(s), people who have something against the southside for no reason

Likes: Bike-able, WPA, Crossroads, Outpost, multiple access points to the James River Park System (trails and river), very easy access to downtown and the Fan (five minutes in a car, 15-20 on bike), quiet/sleepy, residential/friendly, Forest Hill Park, Carter Jones Park, historic feel, preserved houses with a lot of character

Lots of mosquitoes. It’s like living on Guam

I don't know what it is, but I used to frequent that place back when Baja was still open. I just sort of stopped having the desire some 5-6 years ago. I couldn't exactly tell you why.

Agree it’s decent but can be quite crowded.

Former member, no complaints

I’m biased towards WH since I live here ( twice now) and we made a concerted effort to live here again after moving out of state for years. But FH is also nice. Drive around both neighborhoods and check out the houses. Both neighborhoods border FH Park. Both are right on the JRP and all it has to offer. FH is a closer walk to Maymont and beyond. WH is a closer walk to Belle Isle and Browns Island etc.

The Manchester YMCA is newly remodeled. I’m not a member but have done some one-off classes, and it looks nice and clean inside.

Yep, my sinuses are not happy right now. I think I blew some brain matter into my tissue earlier from blowing my nose so much.

What a great Richmond tale

great neighborhoods

huh. maybe that's whats going on with me

The Planet Fitness on Hull St is decent. It’s close to 23236.

LMAO well I went once after some IPA festival after 9 or 10 beers, way more than I normally drink. Had a shot of fireball and may have gotten sick at a bar table…

The bartender was not pleased as you could imagine.

That being said, the silver lining is she made a very cutting remark about my thinning hair (was unaware at the time) which basically got me self-conscious about it. Now I’m on Keeps and have a thick head of a hair again. Who knows if I’d be at this point had she not hurt my feelings like that.

I understand the distinction but OP is anti this restaurant, not ante.