Let’s be real. The white people in West Henrico aren’t going to take bus. It will probably need some kind of Light rail system as it keeps expanding into Goochland to connect Chesterfield, west and Downtown.
Mayor Stoney’s Navy Hill project would be a major boom to attracting more businesses downtown but I understand the financial reluctance to building a big new stadium.
Richmond isn't big enough to sustain light rail, it would just be a net negative like it is in Norfolk. I think it coulda worked if it ran along Broad to Willow Lawn like Pulse does, because Pulse is successful, but now there really is nowhere else to put it...
Navy Hill gonna be a big deal and as soon as they confirm the new arena that area gonna change the game. The Navy Hill project is basically equivalent to how Southwest DC was redeveloped, its gonna work...
Didn’t Richmond have a high ass murder rate not even a decade ago. Looks like the crime dropped a lot.
Richmond one of the wildest cities in America historically. There's places in Richmond today (where I hung out in The Ward, Carver, Church Hill) that still have plenty of black people but have been gentrified and were literal murder zones 15+ years ago. The stories I heard were epic...
Even today, the areas it still gets crazy are off the charts....
You know I been all over the country bro, I've been in different hoods and cities specifically involved in criminal interactions. Richmond one of the most raw I've been around, after Memphis and Baltimore there isn't anywhere else off the top of my head I'd say is above it, and that's saying something considering the areas I've parked in...
Nah, cant allow this slander to happen.
Drive around the city proper and you would NOT find a Confederate flag hanging on the porch. NO MAGA caps either. Richmond is a very blue, very liberal city.
Black owned restaurants, black-owned bars, black owned fish markets, black-owned bakeries, black owned BANK (Maggie Walker's bank), never had a problem with cacs down here, police are respectable and mostly black.
No stop-in-frisk, black mayors who arent aloof billionaires, gentrification isn't kicking nikkas out, no giants rats, and yes we have NY pizza down here too oh and a BLACK OWNED pizza parlor.
This is true, but the Pulse line is changing that. ANd people can't drive for shyt, but in the DMV they drive like they are in a drag-race.
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The crazy thing is online I hear these things, then I moved to Norfolk/Virginia Beach. Definitely a higher level of racism them, the black culture is not as sophisticated or impactful on local politics and social culture. It's not weak out here but is definitely weaker than Rich...
Cats really get twisted off that Capital of the Confederacy shyt and run with it lol. The only reason the Confederate memorials are even able to stay open is because of white people from the burbs and outside the city, I have never even seen a single white person in Richmomd who supports it...
Living in Richmond it never even was a topic of conversation until some racist shyt like the Charleston shooting or Charlottesville shyt happened. Like literally nobody talked about it...
It's the Confederate statues these muhfukkas have to protect that get habitually marked up lmao...
Only thing I will say is it did seen for the most part that whites and blacks operate in separate bubbles in the city. It isn't that integrated, and this is one of the things I appreciated when I moved to The Beach, larger level of diversity overall and much more integration, it didn't feel like whites and blacks just happened to be in the same venues together...
White Richmond is scared to death of Black Richmond...
Aye Rich brehs, how's the Hip Hop scene down there? Do y’all fukk with Fly Anakin? Slim seems jhi nice wit it, reminds me of a mix between 1999-era Joey Bada$$ and Meek Mill on a soulful beat.
This nikka Young Lan is good peoples and has a name in the city on the producing side:
The scene is really connected with DC's underground, a lot of inter-production and black marketing between the two. I can't remember the names of a lot of artists in Rich, most of them weren't that great to me, but the scene is healthy and supports itself...
I’ve been to Richmond plenty of times, even lived there for a bit as a child and all I have to say is there’s absolutely nothing worth going there for
That’s the city where my sister and brother got chased on the school bus by some skinheads.
You’re not missing anything by not going there.
Nah don't hit and run Chelsea, you gonna have to say where yall lived at, because it's hard to believe this was in the city of Richmond. Skinheads afraid to bop thru Rich and keep that shyt out in Ashland or the Tri-Cities...
I went to VCU and enjoyed my time in Richmond. I haven’t been back much since I graduated but I definitely didn’t have any of the issues people in this thread had. I would actually argue that RVA is an ideal city for young black students/profsssionals.
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