Glad to hear that someone else was disappointed in Chuck's stew. He's a great dude, but the stew is extremely bland.

That could be said for every state

Move to Baltimore or hell Philly instead

Shits Addition doesn't sound like a great place to buy food.

Well he probably meant 150 not 50 and now I feel bad for being an asshole about a typo!

no

Looks like around #149 according to one list.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP

People from NOVA are so easy to pick out on the street. You can smell it on them.

Check out the apartments in VCC, on Rt 1 across from the Walgreens. There are also townhomes on the corner of Hungry and Hungry Springs. No idea how much they cost.

Dial up only, sorry :(

Stay in nova please

Bon Air or anything out in west Henrico in the Tuckahoe area. If you don't want hood, stay west of 195 and southwest of 150.

Take whatever it is you don’t like about NoVA, multiply that feeling x10 and that is the level of dislike that Richmonders feel about NoVA transplants.

Get OP and take him back to nova with you

Can confirm. This is the one thing that sucks about Richmond - no Bolivian food!!!!

I'm a NoVa transplant myself. Moved to RVA 11 yrs ago and never looked back. NoVa sucks and RVA is a much better fit for me. Very LGBTQ+ friendly, lots of inclusive martial arts gyms if you are interested in giving that a go given your level of athleticism.

>RVA is a left-leaning

Wait, you mean I'm not the only Socialist here?

Arlington consistently ranks as one of the wealthiest counties in America.

Don’t move here.

(i) Richmond is very queer friendly and has a relatively large community for a small city.

(ii) In the city, I have not seen any xenophobia or weirdness. Fairly open.

(iii) Richmond is small. Secrets are not really easy to keep here. Especially within certain professional circles, people talk.

(iv) Fairly diverse. We have a lot of Vietnamese immigrants, as well as a small but active Armenian community, same with Greek, same with Jewish all with a great food festival associated with them.

(v) I have 1Gbps verizon, pretty solid. Comcast isnt quite as reliable in my experience. I don't think Fiber is a thing here yet outside of certain heavily commercial areas like downtown but allegedy its coming.

and im fucking sick of it

dude move somewhere else

American Legion post 186.

I can't really speak towards the Laurel area, but have you considered North Chesterfield? Specifically, places between Hull Street Road and Midlothian Turnpike, to the west of Chippenham Parkway?

I used to live over there and I quite liked it. I think you can find a two-bedroom apartment for under $1,500 somewhere in the area.

I can tell you specifically the effects it’s having and why that’s worthy of my dislike. It’s gentrifying Richmond at a rate that means people who don’t make a Nova salary and aren’t real estate investors are already priced out of buying property, and pretty much out of renting too. It means that historically black and low income neighborhoods are being whitewashed and long time residents can’t afford to pay their property taxes or skyrocketing rents and are pushed further and further to the periphery, where they don’t have access to services and things like grocery stores (look up food deserts in Richmond… it’s a massive problem). So unless you have a WFH job that’s paying a rate intended for a place with a much higher cost of living, Richmonders either can’t reach even the bottom rung of the property ladder or are being pushed off wherever they were.

Also the traffic. 10 years ago you could go anywhere in the city in 15 minutes. Now you spend 30 minutes trying to get through 3 stoplights on Belvidere or Broad.