You literally sound insufferable.

You know that the colloquial reference to Short Pump includes places like Wyndham, and you are REALLY stretching to pretend that's not the case. Yes, the rich people in the West end took their rich people money and built short pump. Some of them come from slightly different neighborhoods that are very close by and that all house other wealthy people. Wyndham is literally 5 minutes from Short pump.

I've also referred to your gender exactly one time, and we've never interacted before. Bit of a sensitive drama queen aren't we? "Anything you say on Reddit", huh?

Honestly I don't know why I even wasted my time on some egotistical dude such as yourself when there is data that can't be argued with.

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Richmond-Virginia.html

"If I do several sets of mental gymnastics, I can convince myself my lie is the truth!"

You're still hurting your cause.

I called it upscale- you're the one getting offended at the notion, it sounds like because it's not upscale enough for you. Just because you look down on people who live in mcmansions doesn't mean those people aren't comparatively wealthy to the rest of the city.

You are delusional if you think the money isn't the reason Henrico County West End schools have the best public school test scores in the area. It's about access to resources. Wealth in Richmond is heavily concentrated in the white west end. To deny that is just racism, really.

Thanks for giving our guest an excellent example of why people say Richmond would be fabulous, except for the people. You can split hairs about old money vs new money, but you just outed yourself as a classist asshole.

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Richmond-Virginia.html

Oh right, they built that hotel onto the side of the mall so that regular middle class people could fly in for the day and go shopping at Michael Kors. Yeah I forgot they were targeting just your everyday, average working person when they added the Warby Parker.

http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Richmond-Virginia.html

Of course it is, that's why all the state senators live over there and everyone talks shit about rich kids in the West End. You can be jealous, but you can't say it's not an upscale place.

Welcome in! We're all half-joking. Short Pump isn't that bad, and it's considered a fancier upscale area. I am sure it would sound nice if you saw an advertisement! But it is very commercialized and soulless and cultureless, which the people from the city really resent. We aren't making fun of you, just the idea of Short Pump being a travel destination, which we all also know Short Pump would love to be. Carytown/the Fan will give you the experience you're looking for.

We all make mistakes ❣️

You're not wrong it's still inequitable and should be expanded, but it was flat out false to claim we have a flat tax rate. We are ideologically aligned on this, but blurring the truth because it is convenient for you isn't how you should go about addressing it.

If shopping is something you're targeting (what most people go to Short Pump for), check out Cary Street. Full of local, beloved shops and restaurants. The Poe Museum is over there, it's maybe 10 minutes from Riverside Drive, some of the best recreation on the James. Go walk the bridge to Belle Isle and stand in the middle of the River. The museum district has fabulous outdoor space and many of the museums are free. Maymont is the local wildlife refuge, there are bison, bears, foxes, and eagles. See a show at the national, or some stand up at the Sandman. Visit one of the many breweries in Scott's Addition.

If you grew up here, you probably remember and long for a time before Short Pump. Richmond has the culture, Short pump has the money. It's very.... Cheesecake Factory. Not sure how else to describe it.

If mediocre, overpriced food, sitting in traffic, and swimming in a sea of Karens is what you might call "worthy", I would highly recommend it, yes.

While you're correct that cross contamination is a huge issue, it's the lack of proper plastic recycling infrastructure that keeps most localities in the US from recycling types 3-7. Once China stopped importing our trash, it meant that it didn't matter how you sent in your plastic recycling- it was getting sent to the landfill by the recycling center anyway.

Attempting to shame individuals into having to separate and haul their own recycling is also an extremely inefficient and ineffective way to go about improving recycling rates. If you want people to recycle en masse, make it free, convenient, and accessible. If poor people who don't have cars, work multiple jobs, and barely have time to take care of their kids can't do it, then your solution has elements of classism, racism, and sexism, that will render it moot.

Instead, demand that producers, not consumers, take responsibility for their own waste. Producer take back laws effectively place the time, energy, and financial externalities of dealing with waste back onto the producer, as opposed to the time strapped, survival focused, resource limited consumer who should be presented with better choices anyway.

I wouldn't necessarily call it anti-pedestrian so much as anti-anyone-who-isnt-me. Those drivers are also so aggressive to bikers and other drivers. It's selfishness and anger.

Entitled is absolutely the word. And egotistical. Can't tell you how often I see crashes here, and it's obvious one party could have avoided it but were clearly committed to being "right" rather than being safe. The entire city values self-righteousness over actual morality, this is just one way it manifests.

Nope, fake news. The state of Virginia has a progressive income tax as low as 2.5% and as high as 5.75%.

I personally would rather hang out with the person upset about an incident of rape over the rapist himself.

I moved here from Denver, and the reaction there was genuine confusion about why anyone would mourn a known rapist. It's common knowledge. Richmond is so full of double standards.