Where near RIR? There's a massive difference between Northside and Hanover.

It is loud. Terrible traffic when the race is in town. The good news is you can monetize your yard and charge for parking.

Live half a mile from it (north highland park)- the sound isn’t bad- have heard some car racing noise but it really isn’t anything major. There have been steady shootings (in which someone gets shot at least once a month these past couple of months) but, as you mentioned, isn’t wild for Richmond. My biggest gripe living over here is the amount of street litter (we need more public trashcans) and lack of grocery stores nearby. Very car dependent. The Ann Hardy park is very nice though.

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You're gonna have a bad time.

Shitty. Loud. Bad areas. There is a reason it's cheap.

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I can hear the races from my neighborhood where Lewis Ginter Garden is. So, if I can hear it from here…

Yep. I'm closer to Staples Mill than you in the Lakeside area and can faintly hear them too if I go outside on a race evening.

I can hear it from the fan. It’s loud as fuck.

The raceway is only crazy two times a year, but I hear smaller races every now and then. It's really not bad unless you need to drive down laburnum. I live in Brookland Park and would not live any closer to the raceway due to how sketchy it is though.

RIR has nothing to do with how long those houses have been on the market

Those apartments near RIR on Laburnum with the giant hills of dirt in front of them? Those are earthworks they built in the 90s to prevent drive-bys.

I’m close enough to hear concerts. I hear random music sometimes, but once I was sitting in my backyard and said “damn, that sounds like a live snare drum I wonder who’s at RIR” and it was fuckin Ringo Starr.

Bad time.

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I'd be less concerned about the raceway and more concerned about celebratory gunfire on the Fourth of July and New Year's. Go up in the attic and check the roof for holes regularly. I lived up there on the other side of Brookland Park Blvd. near Hotchkiss Field and any time there was a race it sounded like a swarm of hornets for hours on end.

Actually, no.

First, it isn't really that loud. It would be akin to living near an airport for twice a year, during the day.

Second, the shape of the track "Pushes" the sound up, similar to the cone in a speaker. Depending on atmospheric conditions, the loudest place would be somewhere between 1-5 miles away.

Regardless, noise is not why those houses are not selling.

3 men shot there last night

I would just come drive around the neighborhood and look at the houses and vibe and see if it feels worth exploring to buy. A lot of comments on here are acting like Highland Park/Providence Park are the ends times when in reality it is a historically segregated area that has been shut out of development and city services. In reality though, most people who live here are older black folks and multi generational families, and now a growing amount of (mostly) white, millennials with dogs and babies. This area is changing (for better or worse, don’t know yet- much like what we see around Richmond as a whole) but let’s not forget the Fan and other areas that aren’t “sketchy” also get shootings and I would argue have more issues with break ins and porch thefts. This violence is a city/wide and national problem not a neighborhood problem.

You sure? I was always told those are earthworks left over from the outer confederate defense rim.

I live half a mile away and have no issue Races are basically like having a neighbors loud ac compressor going on 2x a year. It's really a street by street comparison to how nice the neighborhood is. I'm on Chatham Drive and it's quiet since it's backs up to a cemetery (which is great for walking and seeing wildlife) Moved here 6 years ago and it's changed a LOT

There were three people shot there last night, but I guess it depends on what you call safe

No, that's just 64 you hear.

People who don’t live in NHP will tell you to run away. People who live in NHP will explain the nuances. Make sure to identify each comment.

• NASCAR is only twice a year, try it out, maybe kids will enjoy it! We walk to the track, from the house, without issue or harassment.
• City life is city life. Enjoy the ups and avoid the downs. This applies to people as well.
• Crime hasn’t been an issue for us but we have cameras.

Things I don’t like:

• Neighborhood is changing over fast - so the economic disparity is becoming more and more noticeable. How will this affect daily life? Dunno yet.
• Somewhat related, I will say majority of the newcomers don’t seem very friendly. Maybe it’s just my perception though. Passerby acknowledgement type of stuff. I’m not looking for conversation but a smile or wave would be nice, instead of staring at me as if I just self-immolated.

All of Virginia thinks Richmond is Gotham but then half of Richmond buys into the same BS and thinks that North Highland Park is Gotham.

So my childhood church is nearby, and I distinctly remember sitting there in the early 90s and the youth pastor and the teenagers talking about how they had been recently built for that reason.

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Well now I'm sold that you compared it to Gotham. Look what you done did

The good news is that the races are like 2, max 3 weekends a year. Look up what else is there that might be loud. You could just get a noisemaker in your bedroom.

Quite honestly the races are a hoot, and being able to walk home from them is awesome.

People would just randomly fire at an apartment building so they put up hills between the road and the apartments?

What makes it an international raceway? International in the same way our airport is? /s

I live on West Laburnum Ave, not close to RIR, and I think the road on its own is noisy enough to disturb me in my bedroom at the rear of my house.

The name was formally changed to Richmond Raceway a while back. No longer has international in the name.

I used to live on Patrick, and I could barely hear it. The traffic isnt terrible if you dont go out during peak hours. Where I was at too it wasnt "sketchy" at all, nice little area, with a good community.

Yes. Drive-by shootings and those aren't random apartments. It was really rough there. Hell, my BFF told me that when her brother had just started with Henrico County PD ages ago, he was assigned to those apartments and all he did was ask folks to do their drug deals under the streetlights so everyone could see what everyone was doing, and no one would get shot. She was like, what was a single white guy going to do? Arrest everyone there?

I was about to say don't forget what it was like in the 80s and 90s, but then I realized that I have no idea how old you are.

I’m not the one comparing it to Gotham, some random dude at a gas station in Martinsville did! 🤣

Then the folks in this sub, who live in Richmond but not NHP… they would ironically sneer at Gas Station Man’s comment & take offense - but all while they themselves denounce Northside to anyone who remotely asks.

It’s a circle. 🙄

I just don't know whether to be proud or offended by the comparison, but my proud-o-meter is certainly lighting up green

A friend there has some notorious porch pirates. I've done some work on the house, a few bullet holes in the shed and frequent shootings.

I live near the corner of Laburnum and Mechanicsville Turnpike... It's probably 2 minutes from the track and I can still hear the track. Fwiw though you can only hear it if you are outside or have the windows open and it's not unbearable.

Luckily too where I'm located I can avoid the traffic by going the opposite way.

As far as sketchy- I've had one package rummaged through and my car was rummaged through once when I didn't lock the doors. Imo that's nothing. When I bought my house I was told that the area I am in was considered "the right side of the tracks". It's the truth when it comes to actual crime/news stories.

Edit: I'm considered in East Highland Park

Those apartments are called St Luke’s, and I will withhold the adventures I’ve gone on inside of that. But I will say there’s no need to purposefully be anywhere around there.

The neighborhood on the Richmond Henrico Tpke side behind it doesn’t even want the roads to go through to it anymore.

It’s not that sketchy, and it is loud.

I'm late 30s but I got here in early 2000s

I did buy on the edge of Church Hill when residents were still highly aware there was an area that had like the top murders per capita in the 90s or something like that. A square district somewhere around M street and the 20s to 30s Streets.

Yeah, things were just starting to turn around then. According to one of my professors who used to be the US attorney for the area, one of the main reasons for the improvement was Project Exile - enforcement of the federal law forbidding firearms to be held by felons.