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[quote=Anonymous][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. [b]No one local is proud of the confederate history.[/b]

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

This is not totally true.  My DH is from Richmond and his parents still live there.  His family has been in the Richmond area for a long long time.  They are fairly wealthy and far from being rednecks but honestly don't get what the fuss is all about.  They are proud 5th generation Virginians and while they don't have confederate flag stickers on their cars I think deep down they maybe wish the civil war had gone the other way.  There are definitely pockets of progressives in Richmond but its far from the whole city.  [/quote]

Yep -- worked at the courthouse with lots of attorneys, paralegals etc. so not your redneck hicks working at Walmart -- and they too were civil war proud. They were just a touch too eager to tell you all about every confederate general and what buildings/homes/families in Richmond were the keys to the confederacy. Also recall some "wistful" conversation re how bad desegregation of schools was -- of course with the caveats of 'oh it's ok now' -- but you could tell in their heart of hearts they don't understand why their neighborhoods/schools etc. can't be white and Christian and what is so wrong with it if the black folks live on their side of town and why are brown folk being let into the country . . . . These attitudes are there just below the surface even amongst the well educated, non hicks. [/quote]

This is the biggest pile of bologna I’ve ever read on DCUM, and there’s been some crazy $hit on here.  I’m from Richmond, grew up in Richmond, went to grad school in Richmond, meet my husband in Richmond, my entire family STILL lives in Richmond, my sister married a black guy (OMG) and they even have kids together (double OMG)  and my brother is gay (sweet baby Jesus OMG) and they all live right there right now.  I go there all the time.  NONE of what you wrote is true.  Did you work for Judge Judy court or something, in la la land?  [/quote]

I could post names of ED Va employees if you'd like.[/quote]
Yes, that would be great.  Desegregation of public schools in Richmond started in 1959.  You mean to tell me you had recent conversations with several Richmonders in Richmond who are highly representative of the Richmond population and are the reason no one should move there and who also were old enough that in 1959 they can tell you why RCPS should still be segregated.  You know such highly, openly racists people????  Who work in the courthouse?  Or you know one or two hicks that you met once?  Your suggestions to the OP about why Richmond basically has the KKK marching around in its courthouse is so ridiculous, back it up or it never happened.  Do you even know who Oliver Hill is? [/quote]

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