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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]City of Richmond is awesome, suburbs you're interested in will be much like where you're living now.

There is no traffic, fantastic biking trails, class 4 (not really sure of the correct terminology) rapids on the James. Great restaurants, VCU basketball, art galleries, many of the same bands that play DC will also stop in Richmond and play at a smaller venue/cheaper tickets, Carytown, VMFA, The Fan, brunch at Joe's Inn, very art centered community.

The city is currently working out how and when to remove the confederate statues on Monument Avenue. No one local is proud of the confederate history.

I grew up in the Fan, attended the public schools (Open High!). I love Richmond![/quote]

Agree with all this. Lived there for a yr for a job and liked these aspects of it and really wished I could stay for these things. And yet IME -- being a brown Muslim in RIC wasn't easy. Sure no one knew I was Muslim when I walked into a show or an art gallery but these events were very much for the white folk (or the few AA families known around town bc dad is a McGuirewoods partner or a cardiologist - so they're welcome at these things as "respectable black folk"). Otherwise a brown person walks in and there are looks. Work and the neighborhood was cliquey in the same way -- surface level friendliness/acceptance but still being made to feel like you're the "other" and lots of being asked "where are you REALLY from" (uh Philadelphia - no really I was born there). Even generally for white newcomers [b]there was a feeling of -- everyone who lives here has lived here and been friends since birth, their parents went to high school together etc. so it felt very insular in a way the northeast doesn't[/b] -- though I think you can work around this one if you are living in the city. Lots of positive attributes to Richmond - if you can fit it.[/quote]

This is 100% correct.[/quote]

I also completely agree with this. I have also lived in Charleston, SC ( the deep south) and I found the people and culture there to be very warm, friendly and welcoming.  No one cares where you are from or what school you went to etc...  Richmond is very cliquey.[/quote]

Interesting re Charleston. My experience in Richmond led me to assume that all small southern cities had this insular vibe. Richmond is the only place I've seen where associate and partner bios for one of the 3 biglaw firms state -- Associate X went to St Christopher/St Gertrude/Benedictine/wherever -- bc it was THAT important to potential clients to be dealing with a true Richmond attorney -- not someone who moved for a job; they want to know that generations of your family have lived there and you are one of them - even in the interview process. Very odd.[/quote]

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