Quite few people got excited about Chelmsford becoming a city. It's kind of ironic how a large number of stores have closed down here. Also even though the council has spent so much money on applying for this whole thing the prices are likely to go up a bit now due to the fact that Chelmsford is SO close to the capital and is now a city -.- Ugh to be honest apart from that it makes no difference whatsoever , except that now some people can say 'Hey , I'm from a city'