Ha, yes. I agree there isn't obvious 'pull' other than £ per square foot - when you come from Central london and are never more than five minutes from an artisan loaf / flat white.
On the day I moved out of my flat , the police were exhuming the corpse of a murdered lady from a neighbour's FRONT garden. That's all you need to know about Coventry in the 90s.
Has anyone actually been to these places? I go to MK and Coventry for work quite often and there isn't really anything that appeals to me about them.
Every time I go through Coventry I wish the Germans had been just a little bit more efficient.