Lately I'm having a lot of conversations with people who want to buy a home in Chester County, and almost all of them end the same way. Not with an offer. With a sigh. "Sam, we love the area, but the numbers just don't work." Here's the short answer, in case that's all you came for: buying a home in Chester County right now is harder than it was five years ago, but not impossible. With average sale prices near $650,000, mortgage rates above 7%, and only about 1.9 months of in