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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the below have solid healthcare available, the usual range of retail and restaurants, more affordable housing, and are visibly lower cost of living.

The grocery market in SE Virginia is one of the most competitive in the country and has lower prices, because so many people in that area have the option of buying from the on-base Commissary.

Henrico County, near Richmond VA. 
Virginia Beach, VA
Chesapeake, VA
Williamsburg, VA
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Richmond (and Henrico which is basically Richmond, I grew up there) is not significantly cheaper than NOVA. People seem very shocked when they look into moving there that it isn’t a bargain. [/quote]

It’s still significantly less expensive (sibling lives there), but it’s not the steal that it was before so many DC-area residents started moving there for a lower cost of living.  [/quote]

We are just going to have to disagreed. My sister, her family, my parents, and most of my high school friends all still live there and my mother is in real estate. Henrico is big (but people just call it Richmond, I have never heard anyone say I live in Henrico County, they may say the neighborhood but not Henrico). I would compare it to Fairfax in that there are real differences depending on where you are in Henrico. My family all live in 23229. That is VERY different from eastern Henrico and even different from the far western part of Henrico/Short Pump.

But it’s not significantly cheaper. The traffic IS significantly less, so much so that directional apps like Waze, that require user interaction to crowd source data to be accurate don’t work well because enough people aren’t using it. So there are some lifestyle trade offs that are definitely positive living there vs NOVA. I recommend people moving there. I love it there and wish I could move back. Hope your sibling is happy. [/quote]

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