virginia: Which of these cities is the best to move to? Virginia Beach Norfolk Richmond|||Virginia Beach - the others are not even in the running!|||Yeah, if you live in Virgnia Beach, you basically live in Norfolk bc theyre right beside eachother. Va Beach is safer so stay there and drive to Norfolk when u need something. Report Abuse |||me and my girlfriend lived in virginia, keysville and richmond. richmond and farmville is better i used to drive through and stop at country cooking Report Abuse |||Chesapeake would be the best place to move to in Hampton Roads. Avoid Richmond. Norfolk is about 10% good neighborhoods and 90% bad. Virginia Beach is too spread out, takes forever to get anywhere. Report Abuse |||I lived on the Peninsula for about 9 months....hated every minute of it.....only drove through Richmond getting the heck outta Virginia....but Virginia Beach was nice!!!|||Richmond the City Shopping :)|||i live near VA Beach. The beach is really nice and there's beautiful waves, but there are a little more crimes there. in Norfolk, it's nice and there's a lot of businesses there. then environment is o.k richmond is far away from VA Beach and norfolk but it is very close to washington d.c where you can eat and shop for a lot of things i personally prefer the peninsula which is near Virginia Beach and Norfolk|||Richmond, I lived in that area for a long time and went to college in Richmond, it's a great city. Plus the location is great! Two hours to the beach, two hours to DC, two hours to the mountains. I now live on the Peninsula (between Richmond and VA Beach) which is okay but I liked Richmond better. VA Beach is the most populated of the three.