Quick Question.

Submitted by ThatChildNextDoor t3_yxup27 in rva

Why does everyone accuse short pump of rapidly turning into nova, when western chesterfield and arguably chester areas are ever so increasing in traffic and development?

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Danger-Moose t1_iwqlroe wrote

Cause there's no REI or Apple store in West Chesterfield, so the people who complain about Short Pump don't go there.

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Asterion7 t1_iwslb4t wrote

Don't forget the new sierra trading post.

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KiwiStack t1_iwvm31o wrote

NGL, I checked that place out and it might be the only store I’m willing to go to short pump for

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Particular-Bonus6571 t1_iwr36e4 wrote

Because all the millennials who grew up here remember when it was 95% cow pasture.

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ThatChildNextDoor OP t1_iwrbq9v wrote

I mean the brandermill area past Woodlake was just that in the early 2000s.

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Particular-Bonus6571 t1_iwrgqgl wrote

Sure, but no one really goes out of their way to go to Brandermill if they don’t have to. There were no movie theaters in Richmond pre-Movieland, and all the city-folk occasionally went out to Short Pump to catch a movie, seeing the cows and the weird store with the airplane on top on the way. That pretty picture very quickly turned into the sprawlscape that it is today.

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KiwiStack t1_iwqu03e wrote

Because no one north of the river goes to west chesterfield because tolls

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Hedgecore138 t1_iwqjudc wrote

I mean...they're both pretty awful?

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ThatChildNextDoor OP t1_iwqk2lj wrote

Yeah, but chesterfield is growing much faster and has more room to grow, while short pump inside Henrico has effectively ran out of room.

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Hedgecore138 t1_iwqs404 wrote

Okay, so Short Pump is Tyson's Corner, and West Chesterfield is Leesburg. Miserable hellscapes of chain stores and the same shoddily-constructed apartment blocs ad nauseum.

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PercyDovetonsils t1_iwrigoa wrote

You’re seriously saying that Chester is turning into NoVa? Western Chesterfield, I get. But Chester? I’ll agree that Chester has more traffic and development than it did when we moved here 24 years ago, but it’s nowhere close to NoVa, or even Short Pump.

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Freseper t1_iwryu1w wrote

Short Pump is more densely developed than Swift Creek, which may or may not be a bad thing depending on your perspective.

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MyDogJosh t1_iwvindv wrote

I’m sorry, did you just ask North Of The River folk to acknowledge that South Of The River exists???? NEVAHHHH!!!

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[deleted] t1_iwspp8e wrote

There are a whole bunch of "don't Fairfax chesterfield" assholes out here around Magnolia Green. Jesus H. Christ. If you have to drive 15 minutes to get to a non-pizzeria restaurant, you aren't becoming anything.

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