(i) Richmond is pretty friendly to the LGBTQ community (ii) We’re are a mixed bag, as far as ppl moving here, but folks tend to be fairly friendly, overall (iii) Richmonders can be kinda clique-y, but there is a lot to do here, so meeting ppl isn’t too hard (at least, plutonically) (iv) We have a pretty good food scene (v) The internet is pretty good around here. Rarely have issues w/ connections

Honestly I never disliked nova people until the last few years. I moved here around the same time you did in 2007 from the 757. It just seems like most people from nova now are extremely proud and it defines their entire character. I just don't understand why they moved to Richmond. Like if you love it so much please just move back.

Petersburg is amazing, definitely live there.

You’re making a big mistake

from nova, moved here in 2005 and imo there's always layers to this but yeah lol I take NO OFFENSE, after a certain point in the timeline this "proud nova-ite" influx became nothing more than a negative imbalancer/culture destroyer to the city of richmond as it, independently was, in and out of scene/generation, for a long time. but the sorta systemic change that's happened in the last 5 years alone has really, very much destroyed and "remade" the sorta social systems that existed pre-covid and other social revolutions for both better and for worse, that have altered the business/arts landscape of the city and helped pave way for this new era of even more juiced up real estate competition and then ofc by historically proven near cliche the normification and gentrification of the entire urban environment in and of itself. it's like people have been lecturing and preaching A LOT on this website lately. flexing how "back in the day in 2018".... idk. it's just a weird time in richmond lately imo.

ehhh. veryyy debatable from what i hear out in the streets these days

This has to be satire.

Either you’re trolling or this is hilariously out of touch

Supper Club sometimes has it!

As a native Richmonder, who can trace his family back to landing here in the late 1600's.. that had one of the largest king grants of the time.. relatives that have fought and died in the revolutionary war, and both sides of the civil war..

We've always been bitching about folks moving from NorVa to Richmond.

I quite literally eat a can of that stew every day for lunch. Sometimes i accidentally buy the can that doesnt have the pop top though and have to fumble with ye olde can opener.

You’ll die 100% of the time

I 100% read this as satire the whole way.

I don't get the, people from X are all like X and they are bad. Seems super prejudiced and ignorant to me. I love the influx of new people with money! I bought my house in 2006 and it's worth way more than I paid for it then, by far!

Still do it each and every year in spring and fall!

I am on this sub for a feeling of community but I do agree it feels a bit like a clique from middle school…inside jokes are cool but being shitty about people moving here is against the whole reality that this country moves around!! I lived in Seattle in the early ‘90s with the “native” bumper stickers….the fun was in the mash up of everyone from everywhere!!!

I grew up here…left for 18 years…moved back and it is becoming the city I always wanted to live in BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE AWESOME PEOPLE MOVING HERE WITH ALL OF THEIR AWESOME DIFFERENCES!!!

Come on NOVA!! Not everyone is a douchecanoe!

No.

There is nothing close to Unkol Chuck's. He is so busy that you have to preorder nowadays.

You're right! It really is mostly this sub... Nova bad, search sub, chicken bone lol. It's kind of sad. I have neighbors from all over and they a really nice an fun to visit with.

Sorry Richmond doesn't need anymore weebs. Just go live near VCU

You have a point?

Lol thank you for proving my point.

You couldn't be more wrong. Post or don't post whatever you want I don't give a fuck. You seem like an asshole. No wonder you don't like people. Try not to stereotype so much guy.

Let's not post personal shit here. Why do you care so much? I know you're from Nova and take this personally, but really just chill. And this is why I don't like most people from Nova. So aggressively proud of being from there and if anyone disagrees they take so much offense.

I think people moving here is good but not when they come from Nova