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

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

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

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.

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

I thought you said this was a quick question.

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

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

Quick question but not quick answer

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.

I read this at first as, "...because trolls" and I was like, "That's fair."

Also trolls, but we don’t talk about those

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.

>There were no movie theaters in Richmond pre-Movieland,

Cinabistro

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

Don't forget the new sierra trading post.

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.

Cinebistro was only built a few years ago.

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

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