Is it nice in Birmingham UK?
77- beautyrose
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Please tell me what kind of people living in Birmingham? as they make bad joke about the people there. I'm just worried about it cause i have a special friend from there. Is there something i need to know? cause i also felt his not been honest with me.
People usually make jokes about the Brummy accent, cos it does make you sound a bit thick, but actually what ppl think of as a Birmingham accent is really from small towns like Dudley which are part of greater Birmingham but not the city itself. We call them yam yams, cos they say yam (meaning I am, you are, we are etc etc.) all the time.
I guess I can't be trusted to comment on the people of Birmingham, seing as I am one of them (we are all great by the way), but the city itself is a great place to live. Lots of good pubs, clubs and restuarants, the city center has some very impressive architecture, and the city specialises in big events with the National Indoor Arena, National Exhibition Center, and so on.
An interesting fact about birmingham is that the city is said to have more miles of canals than venice. Many of them haven't been touched since their old industrial days, but there are some really lovely places around the city center.- 77
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kephrira wrote:
People usually make jokes about the Brummy accent, cos it does make you sound a bit thick, but actually what ppl think of as a Birmingham accent is really from small towns like Dudley which are part of greater Birmingham but not the city itself. We call them yam yams, cos they say yam (meaning I am, you are, we are etc etc.) all the time.
I guess I can't be trusted to comment on the people of Birmingham, seing as I am one of them (we are all great by the way), but the city itself is a great place to live. Lots of good pubs, clubs and restuarants, the city center has some very impressive architecture, and the city specialises in big events with the National Indoor Arena, National Exhibition Center, and so on.
An interesting fact about birmingham is that the city is said to have more miles of canals than venice. Many of them haven't been touched since their old industrial days, but there are some really lovely places around the city center.sounds interesting the. Do i need a visa or passport in order to be able to have a tour in Birmingham. I think you are under british government right?
yes, its a British city. I don't know anything about visa requirements but you'll definitely need a passport to come from outside the UK.
beautyrose wrote:
Please tell me what kind of people living in Birmingham? as they make bad joke about the people there. I'm just worried about it cause i have a special friend from there. Is there something i need to know? cause i also felt his not been honest with me.
I was in Birmingham in February last year. The experience of being in this post industrial town in winter can only be described as abysmal. The place exudes grey. Grey sky, grey rain, grey buildings.
I went to the cinema one evening while I was there to cheer myself up. I chose to see Slum Dog Millionaire which was billed as a 'feel-good' movie, which it is, ten minutes before the end. The bit before is a depressingly realistic look at a life of poverty. Okay, that's not strictly related to Birmingham but the cinema did sell of beer and wee which didn't help.
The people of Birmingham are another matter. Friendly, nice sense of humour, although they do all speak like Jasper Carrot (crap English comedian) which is annoying. Large, vibrant Asian community (great place to get a balti).
If your friend described Birmingham as a playground for the rich and famous, then he is er . . bending the truth somewhat. If he described it as a cold, grey, bleak, wind-swept, void of a city with nice people, good currys and lots of brutalist civic architecture from the 60s, then he's telling the truth.
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beautyrose wrote:
Please tell me what kind of people living in Birmingham? as they make bad joke about the people there. I'm just worried about it cause i have a special friend from there. Is there something i need to know? cause i also felt his not been honest with me.
I certainly would not use the word "nice" to describe B'rum.
Great people. Wonderful Indian food and as Don so aptly put it - "Grey"
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Birmingham; a city of 1 million people with the same speech impediment!
Birmingham is the 2nd biggest city in the UK, so like most big places it has its good bits and its grottier bits. There are some really nice places on the outskirts like Henley-in-Arden and there are some run-down inner-city estates. Birmingham has a busy town centre with lots of shopping and night life, 2 universities, really bad traffic etc.
Depends on what you like really? Probably never going to be the tourist capital of the world.
