Rate This City: Day 58 - Richmond VA

[1thouwow]

What part of The Beach you from? I love The Beach too, but Richmond the most popping city in Va...

Green run/lynnhaven. Maybe for college kids.

 

[murksiderock]

Green run/lynnhaven. Maybe for college kids.

Word I'm from Town Center area...

Nah Richmond is more popping period, much stronger nightlife, stronger restaurant scene, bigger and better festivals and community events, etc. And I fell in love with Virginia Beach, its home now and definitely the best city in Tidewater, but it's second to Richmond in VA (only to Richmond though)...

 

[youreWelcomeBk]

Wrong. I was there when the statue was erected....that's the James Brown statue in Augusta that kept getting vandalized. Not this one.

i was there too on my pops shoulders - there was confederate nikkas protesting and waving flags along with police. Never said it was vandalized said it was being protected from being vandalized at the time. I also don’t care enough about Richmond to go back and forth with you so let’s just end it here scrap.​

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

SKinheads in Richmond???? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The most ghetto and liberal southern city with skinheads??? Cant name the school eitther?? Type of shyt is this??

Got to be Hanover CO, even thats hard to believe.

EDIT: when the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville ended, they wanted to protest in RIchmond but they didn't show up heavy (if at all) because the liberal cacs and college black people who were angry showed up and shut that shyt down. This aint Charlottesville nikka

 

[Chelsea Bridge]

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...



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...



100%...

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...



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...



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...



100...

I lived in Chelsea Square. It’s near or in Henrico County

 

[murksiderock]

That's Henrico County, way out on the Far West End. Deep Run/Short Pump/Innsbrook, I can more easily see your experience happening there...

The probability of Skinheads trying that shyt in the central city are low as hell...

I use to bop round that Tucker High area a couple times, had some clients out there and there's a Buffalo Wild Wings I used to stay giving my money to over that way lmao...

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

That's Henrico County, way out on the Far West End. Deep Run/Short Pump/Innsbrook, I can more easily see your experience happening there...

The probability of Skinheads trying that shyt in the central city are low as hell...

I use to bop round that Tucker High area a couple times, had some clients out there and there's a Buffalo Wild Wings I used to stay giving my money to over that way lmao...

hey murk is Richmond va got any similarities to Richmond ca

 

[VirginiaSlim75]

This is funny until you realize these definitions of regional identity are fluid and changing by the generation. Barely more than a generation ago most Baltimoreans and Washingtonians considered themselves southerners, what changed? They both still in the same geographic position they always were and both still have most of the same cultural characteristics they always had, so what changed?

People online don't like hearing this, and if you're from the area you probably already know this, but Rich has centuries of history with DC and Bmore that link them all. It's only 100 miles south of DC, this isn't really directed at you specifically but I've always found it odd that people online have this assumption that somewhere so geographically close to DC and Bmore should be so different---->there are obviously unique things about each but there are a host of similarities between the three....

Richmond is on the northern half of the East Coast, has a culture, a layout and build more similar to some Northeast cities than pretty much anywhere south of Norfolk, and was founded and given designation as "southern" when the US had 13 Colonies and the entirety of what became the South wasn't even known...

It isn't Northeastern, and it is southern, but there is a basis for calling it Northeastern that is rooted in how the city is both today and historically, and that publication isng the only entity that calls Richmond Northeastern...

Whatever made the public change their minds on DC and Bmore 40-50 years ago is working on Richmond too, and this same conversation in 2050 will not have people scoffing at the idea of Richmond as Northeastern, even though it'll always have southern roots the same way DC and Maryland do!

You was making good points bout the city in most your post but I gotta disagree with you here...Richmond is southern imo

 

[VirginiaSlim75]

I fukk with Richmond....being from Hampton Roads me and my boys wold make trips up there to hit the club. We thought it was the best thing ever because it was the actual “city” unlike anything in the 757. Living in the DC area now I look back and laugh at that.

I’m still out Richmond often tho. Probably like once a month to fuk with my boy. It’s a lot of misconceptions in this thread lol...but everyone has their own opinion

 

[murksiderock]

hey murk is Richmond va got any similarities to Richmond ca

Just the hills lol, that's it. Both are really hilly...

Everything else is way different, starting with geography and weather. Richmond VA is blacker and the black people are more prosperous. Richmond VA feels like it's own city, Richmond CA is just any other East Bay town/suburb...

Nothing about the cities besides the hills are really alike...

 

[murksiderock]

You was making good points bout the city in most your post but I gotta disagree with you here...Richmond is southern imo

Rich is southern but is less characteristically southern than Hampton Roads. All the 7 Cities southern as a bytch, there's a pace and northern element in Richmond that doesn't exist in Hampton Roads, even though Rich is still southern...

Rich is still and probably always will be the alpha city in Virginia, you 100 that there is nothing in Hampton Roads like it. And I'm a Beach boy, that's my city, I'd put it #2 in Virginia after Richmond...

 

[Consigliere]

I’m leaving Richmond right now

Spent turkey time out in Midlothian VA.

Richmond gets a 6/10

 

[Lord Scion]

I like going out to Richmond for a weekend or so being from Norfolk and all.

It's cool, I prefer the 757 since I'm from here but I don't got much beef with Richmond outside of their roads and the potholes

 

[Apprentice]

What part of The Beach you from? I love The Beach too, but Richmond the most popping city in Va...

Yeah idk about that one

Richmond nice but North VA cities still got it

 

[murksiderock]

Yeah idk about that one

Richmond nice but North VA cities still got it

Nah hell nah, I lived in Woodbridge and Fairfax and that shyt is all suburbia. There's some nice shopping for sure but the best part about Northern Virginia is you can hop the Metro to DC, everything else is regular shyt you see in suburbs of any big city...