RICHMOND: It is awesome.
by Ross Catrow
Found over at Double Vision.
And yes, I know, “if I love Pennsylvania so much, I can go back there.” But I can love Richmond, too. I love the women with the same blond helmet bob who wear twelve silver bracelets at once and have beribboned and monogrammed purses and never leave the house without makeup and a manicure. I love the old men who call me “girlie” and “honey” and let me cut in front of them at the grocery store just because I am young and cute. I love the history of this place and am fascinated by the contradiction of its insular nature and the people who just randomly and genuinely ask and truly want to know if you are having a good day. This has been my home for almost nine years, and I don’t plan on leaving it any time soon.
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Someone recently told me that richmond was one of the most livable cities there are on some list, and I was like yep. True.
I mean I get down on it because it isn’t always perfect for me and it doesn’t have what I want all the time (in ways I can’t make up for by just creating stuff), but it’s definitely a pretty livable city.
I love the women with the same blond helmet bob
We don;t get too many of them up this way.
Old men calling you “Girlie, Young, and Cute” and letting you in front of them in the grocery store? I suppose the next step is to ask you out :)
BTW I think Richmond is awsome too. Its convenient to everthing in virginia. 1-2 hours from the Mountains, 1-2 hours to the beach and 3 from DC. Great!
3 hours to DC? Are you building in traffic?
is there ever not traffic?
insider tip–leave to head north to DC in the evenings after 4 and south to Richmond in the mornings before 9 (except on saturdays, leave earlier) and you will almost always get there ~2 hours.
Caveat–car wrecks.
I’m just saying, “1-2 hours to the beach and 3 from DC” sounds suspiciously like williamsburg to me.
1-2 hrs from the wammer to the mtns makes speedy gonzales look like regular gonzales.
Cville is in the mountains. You could make cville to the wammer in 2 hrs.
We need a map, some pins, a compass (the kind with a needle that draws circles), and an eye patch to figure this out. Oh, and a parrot.
i mean, sort of the mtns. GIRL MOUNTAINS.
who here has seriously dreamed of finding a pirate treasure map? man how cool would that be. the adventures!
let’s do blood and guts.
I don’t think anyone can predict DC traffic, also your tip leaves out that going north on any sunday during summer is a bad idea. Leaving richmond around 4 puts you in fredricksburg at 5, that’s a bad idea.