07/28/2026
If you're thinking about moving to Richmond this is the advice I'd give you if I weren't afraid of hurting your feelings.
1️⃣ The neighborhood everyone tells you to move to might not be the one for you.
Your friends might love living in the Fan because it's close to Carytown's restaurants and shops. But if your job is in Short Pump and you're driving 45 minutes each way, that "fun neighborhood" is going to feel a lot less fun by month three. Pick the neighborhood that matches your actual lifestyle.
2️⃣ Don't buy the first place with a renovated kitchen.
A new kitchen is the easiest thing to fix in any house. Location, light, layout, and noise are not. I've watched buyers fall in love with a quartz countertop and ignore the fact that the place backs up to Broad Street. Five years in, you stop noticing the countertop. You never stop noticing the noise.
3️⃣ The commute you think you'll get used to? You won't.
Drive it. Not on a Sunday afternoon — at 8am on a Tuesday, in real traffic. If you hate it on day one, you'll hate it on day 800. This is the single most underrated decision people make when they move here.
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