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i went to Birmingham for the first time in DEcember last year, and was pleasantly surprised by the place. I was expecting a Reading, but found something more akin to a large European city instead. Not Paris or Berlin, obviously, but perhaps a Frankfurt or even slightly better.
The thing that struck me was ; it was the only city i've ever been to in the UK that felt like a large city in it's own right ; a place big enough not to be a subsidiary or London, which is what your Readings etc feel like.