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@danwentskiing
^ yeah, let's turn this thread around. there may not be anything good bike-wise, but there are upsides to birmingham. the place isn't full of self-important assholes who can't stop going on about how special their city is. birmingham is special! it's full of miserable ugly people!
upsides:
(overly and unnecessarily) compact city centre/suburbs means the countryside is only a 30 minute drive/cycle/train journey from the centre, even less if you're like 99% of everyone i know and live a few miles south... go for a ride or pub lunch, or walk.
houses/rent are cheap. i'm an impoverished shop assistant yet with my missus i can pretty easily afford the mortgage on a 2 bed house 3 miles from the centre, with a nice garden.
being a compact city, everyone i know or like lives within a few miles. in london and other cities you spend half your time travelling, whether it's to socialise or to work.
things/places i like:
prince of wales in moseley - proper pub
coach and horses in wetheroak - proper pub with its own proper brewery
capeling and co in kings heath. - proper cheese shop in brum (finally)
lots of nice (small) parks - admittedly cannon hill is full of littering cunts
re-generated canal district is nice to walk through, even if there are no nice places to drink or hang out.
great irish pubs in digbeth (spotted dog in particular)
lasan (eatery) in hall green - totally different indian food
balti-belt - i know every other city has something similar, but it's still cool. BYOB!
mr egg - past its best, but it still has a fucking egg on the ceiling
bullring market - cheap-ass fruit and veg for amoral assholes like me, high-quality organic stuff for ponces like pastrylover.
rag market - who'd've thunk rags could *be *so cheap
amusing place names - i live on pineapple road, my missus works at the custard factory, some wit took a crucial 'l' off the 'dogpool road' sign, there's a street called 'gooch st'...
okay, i'm scraping the barrel now. still, it's not all bad.
still agree about the general apathy thing though.