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DSS1
135 posts
16 months
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I suppose its which area of Birmingham you go into?
I mean, I head out to Handsworth now and again, I can't say I like it
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TroubledSoul
1,310 posts
64 months
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Just don't park on any double yellow lines with 5 foot gaps in around there 
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Huff
1,154 posts
61 months
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sday12 said: Birmingham Superprix was a bit tasty
Apparently the Sierra Cossies were going faster than the F3000s Presumably road-legal cars trying for escape velocity.
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Tubbytommy
420 posts
67 months
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Took the wife and boy there recently, went to cadbury world then went to see relatives in Grimsby. On comparison Birmingham is beautiful.
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markcoznottz
1,979 posts
94 months
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For the size of the city the pubs/ bars and the nightlife is dire, and I mean dire. One street of pubs some still stuck in the early 90's, and er that's it.
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Pesty
26,137 posts
126 months
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Blown2CV said: Britain's second largest city, but it's a weird one isn't it? Who ever says ooo let's go to Birmingham for the weekend? . This fella. 
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Shay HTFC
2,979 posts
59 months
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Babu 01 said: I was only playing to the stereotype really. I've got some find memories of the place, including some mad nights at Custard Factory.
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Bungleaio
2,936 posts
72 months
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My mrs is from Birmingham, we haven't spent any time in the centre together but some of the outlying parts are really nice, Bourneville in particular.
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DrTre
12,428 posts
102 months
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Huff said: sday12 said: Birmingham Superprix was a bit tasty
Apparently the Sierra Cossies were going faster than the F3000s Presumably road-legal cars trying for escape velocity. Probably nicked more like.
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Babu 01
1,553 posts
69 months
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Shay HTFC said: I was only playing to the stereotype really.
I've got some find memories of the place, including some mad nights at Custard Factory. I shouldn't bite so easily
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antspants
776 posts
45 months
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Ayahuasca said: That makes Coventry and Leicester the homeless old tramps smelling of wee with hacking phlegmy coughs. Oy!!!! I live in Leicester and it's very.....erm....erm....bugger I've got nothing. However it is not I repeat not as bad as Cov!
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antspants
776 posts
45 months
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Babu 01
1,553 posts
69 months
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markcoznottz said: For the size of the city the pubs/ bars and the nightlife is dire, and I mean dire. One street of pubs some still stuck in the early 90's, and er that's it. Oh dear. You ended up on Broad Street. I suggest you try a little harder than asking the Taxi driver where's good to go next time.
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,515 posts
86 months
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15 odd years ago, my mate had a bird there, so we often used to go up on our bikes for the weekend. I remember the roads were hilaroius fun around the town - lots of elevated sectons and tunnels that were great fun on loud, noisy motorbikes! We were 'rocker' types and had many great nights in 'XL's' nightclub which used to play rock music. Things may have been enhanced for me somewhat by the fact that I ended up sleeping casually with my mates bird's flat mate too And then later in the 90's, I went up for the shopping - unsurpassed for cool stuff and designer lables. It was the only place, for instance, that I could buy 'Vans' trainers off the shelf. Then later, around 2007 onwards, I used to go to the NEC and do the Sporting Bears Dream Rides thing with my Porsch 911 - which involved spending a couple of nights in the city on my own in a B&B. After visiting the town centre and being a bit brave, let's just say it was unusual that I'd sleep alone in my B&B bed! So for me - Brum is flipping great, and has some pretty good memories! 
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NiceCupOfTea
22,058 posts
121 months
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Fashionable to knock Birmingham, but I have always liked it and it has improved a lot. Great shopping, good pubs, friendly people. Certainly better than I have found Manchester on my visits.
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38911
108 posts
21 months
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Used to work in the city centre in the late 90's and quite liked it. Moved away and hadn't been back for years but happened to visit twice recently.
First time i got treated to a £50 parking ticket for leaving my car in an empty (and i do mean empty) car park at 6:25pm without buying a Pay & Display ticket. Charging ended at 6:30pm so I figured nobody would be petty enough to be patrolling an empty car park 5 mins before charging ended - wrong. Welcome back to Birmingham.
Second time I was in the bullring and had the audacity to get my camera out to take a photography and was pounced upon by security and asked to leave because they couldn't be sure I wasn't a terrorist!
Add to that the high number of druggies, tramps, chavs and general undesirables, I have to say it does nothing to make me want to return - ever.
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williamp
11,316 posts
143 months
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we like it. and we have spent a weekend there. Bournville, Jaguar factory, then staying near the nice new canal bit for a good evening out.
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PSBuckshot
4,645 posts
29 months
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Its like every other city in the UK, you have good parts and s  t rough parts.
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Blown2CV
Original Poster
6,776 posts
73 months
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PSBuckshot said: Its like every other city in the UK, you have good parts and s t rough parts. ok but it's huge, and i have never heard about any good parts. Where are they? Post pics! It does get knocked a fair bit, but on the flip-side the only times I have ever heard anything positive said are basically just brummies getting defensive. Maybe it is fashionable to do the place down, but generally there is an underlying reason rather than it just being victimisation of an entire city! Generally interested to hear about something good about the place. I've seen a couple of bars and a cinema on here that someone posted but tbh we have bars and cinemas in the rest of the country!
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heebeegeetee
19,571 posts
118 months
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Ayahuasca said: The problem with Brum is that it was largely flattened by the Luftwaffe and rebuilt in soulless grey concrete.
Er, I think you're thinking of Coventry  It's worth mentioning that Birmingham and the Black Country still has thousands of factories, not to mention Jaguar and Land Rover, and countless suppliers to these factories and to Toyota just up the road in Derbyshire. There is still one heck of a lot of industrial creativity in the area, still one heck of a lot of stuff made, one heck of a lot of people employed. I realise that none of this is regarded as being particularly fashionable, and will not register with many PHers. If we were like the Germans we'd have more respect for the area, but as this is the UK people completely overlook the importance of manufacturing. It just ain't fashionable.
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