Jack's Listless Life
by Jack Lauterback
You may have seen that Short Pump and Mechanicsville were recently named two of the most boring places to live in Virginia by Movoto.com. That’s the online real estate brokerage and referral site that brought us such listicle-clickbait-gems as “14 Things You Need to Know About Dating Someone in Virginia,”“These 21 Photos of Richmond Will Make You Want to Move There,”“30 Things People From Richmond, VA Have to Explain to Out-of-Towners” and the classic, “10 Richmond Stereotypes That Are Completely Accurate.”
Stereotypes from that list include: The River Is Absolutely Gorgeous, College Sports Are a Hot Ticket, Richmonders Love Their Festivals and lastly, to show that Movoto did a modicum of basic research on us — Richmond (Still) Loves Ukrop’s.
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