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Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat
I hope you all are right about Chester. I am much more pessimistic than you guys. I think Chester will be limited by the nicer areas around it rather than revitalized. There is only so much population growth to go around, and for anyone looking for a new place, I don't really see any benefit to living in Chester compared to some of the nicer areas other than housing prices I suppose. Work in Northern Delaware/202 Corridor? Why not Wilmington, it's nicer and much more active downtown. Work near the airport? Why not just living in Philly? IDK it just seems to me that the plethora of options people have would seem to work against Chester rather than for it. It's not like our population is booming (relative to what you see in the Sunbelt at least), or that we don't have plenty of buildable lots in places that are nicer than Chester. And housing prices are already pretty low in the Philly metro compared to some other places (in large part due to rowhomes), so I'm not sure we're anywhere close to seeing people priced out of the surrounding areas and forced into Chester.
But alas, I hope you're right and it does become a nice place again.
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Because everyone has different reasons on why they want to live somewhere, some people may want to be in the middle of two cities, IE: Philly and Wilmington, some people may want to be right off the highway which Chester surly is.
However there are so many reasons for why a person may want to do something, there's a spot for everyone in this world.
Now you may be pessimistic but im sure people said the same thing about living in Kensington, Fishtown, North Philly, South Philly and more, we talk all this crap until its done and the areas changed to much we go from broken street lamps to LED street lamps and busy store fronts. Time is the teller of all and people are the mover of all things.