skeevy-stevie t1_jaa8r6n wrote on February 27, 2023 at 11:50 PM

I live in Ashland, my wife drives to downtown Richmond for work, takes about 20 minutes, no way it’s 30+ as others are saying. I can get to Lakeside in about 15 mins.

There’s not much here, especially for night life. Local brewery closes at 9pm, sports bar at 10pm. The brewery is in the downtown area and there are three other restaurants with small bars.

You can drive two exits down 95 for center of the universe brewery, industrial tap house, kreggers and pizza and beer, which isn’t bad. Still wouldn’t call it night life.

It’s nice here, it’s quiet, we have a great neighborhood and house, but if I were still in my 20’s, I wouldn’t move here. I’m in my late 30’s and if Caboose (restaurant / beer shop) and Origin (brewery) weren’t here, I’d go nuts. You’ll be driving to Richmond often, we do, it’s not a bad drive at all, unless you hit 95 Sunday/accident traffic.

Edit - there are a bunch of new condos and townhouses just off 95 a few exits south of Ashland you might want to look at. It might put you in the middle of things though.

nilmergreeb t1_jaah0wu wrote on February 28, 2023 at 12:49 AM

Agree on the drive time. I live in the town of Ashland and work downtown RVA. It’s 25 minutes in peak traffic, 20 in light traffic. About once every six weeks there’s an accident bad enough to make it over 30.

CurrentlyInHiding t1_jabdik5 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:07 AM

Idk. I worked in the fan until recently. Drive in was about 20-25 but on the way home it was almost always 35+. That godawful interchange getting onto 95N from 195/powhite where 64 merges on too. Always backed up without fail unless I left work no later than 4:45.