Birmingham town center what a crap hole.
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I love threads like this. OP makes a comment about the number of foreigners in Birmingham, and along comes the "You're a racist" crowd to have a pop.
I bet if the OP was black and complaining that he feels like an outcast in Birmingham, then all of a sudden the same people would start scurrying around like hyperactive ferrets trying to put it right.
But no, it's an English person, feeling like an outcast in an English city. So racist it is.
I was just thinking that.
i love the home fan only signs pubs put out on matchdays. I know they must be in other places but i havent seen them anywhere else for years
Yeah! We have the same signs outside of a few pubs here in Stoke too, but then again we do attract a far higher calibre of football team to our Stadium than you. You know, with us being in the Premier league and such.
I've been to Brum a couple of times during the past few years..
Things I like:
* the accent - please shoot me with a peashooter
* traffic flow seems to be better than London as there is dual carriageway going through and around the city centre
* the redeveloped bits
* the cheap 3 course meal at the casino in Star City
* the Bullring
Don't like:
* full of 60s/70s tower blocks
* how a lot of it is still undeveloped
* New Street Station/The Pallasades.. both need to be bulldozed
If I have the money one day, I'd buy a flat in the Holloway Circus Tower..
Things I like:
* the accent - please shoot me with a peashooter
* traffic flow seems to be better than London as there is dual carriageway going through and around the city centre
* the redeveloped bits
* the cheap 3 course meal at the casino in Star City
* the Bullring
Don't like:
* full of 60s/70s tower blocks
* how a lot of it is still undeveloped
* New Street Station/The Pallasades.. both need to be bulldozed
If I have the money one day, I'd buy a flat in the Holloway Circus Tower..
Meh fail. I was born and lived in birmingham for 20 years. The only problems i had on the street was from (mostly) white chavs. While i agree that i wouldnt want to live in the midlands again, it is not because of immigrants.
Also my parents are both factory workers and no poles/blacks/martians have stolen their jobs by working 23 hours a day for a kit kat, an orange and a piece of coal.
I went Birmingham today. A positive is it has some great architecture. Negatives I think the people that go there think it's a land fill. There are bins everywhere you see them every few steps but the amount of litter is beyond a joke. It's worse than Stoke On Trent for litter. Also when I got there I begun to think if I would actually see any English people. lol
One minute I felt like I was in Pakistan, Then Africa and as I carried on it changed to Japan.I never felt that much of an outcast before.
Anyway I think my favorite town here in good old England which I've visited so far is still Stafford. There's virtually no litter. The people seem lovely and there's some wonderful buildings I think some maybe Medieval.
A lot of us feel just the same way mate.
I love threads like this. OP makes a comment about the number of foreigners in Birmingham, and along comes the "You're a racist" crowd to have a pop.
I bet if the OP was black and complaining that he feels like an outcast in Birmingham, then all of a sudden the same people would start scurrying around like hyperactive ferrets trying to put it right.
But no, it's an English person, feeling like an outcast in an English city. So racist it is.
Unfortunately this is true.
As soon as I read the OP, I knew what was coming.
You want to try getting the police to arrest the 'locals' in Shelton when they shout "Oi you white ****, Why are you walking on our ****ing streets"! The police don't want to even know!
The thing is though, if I'd have turned around and said "Yeah, it may be your street, but it's my ****ing Country you **** ****" I'd have been arrested on racially aggravating charges in an instant!
Sadly you aren't alone, there is a lot of white flight from areas blighted by mass immigration, not just in Britain but in many Western countries. I suppose only when it starts to affect affluent white neighbourhoods will people wake up and vote for change, but by then it will be too late, if it isn't already.
To top the lot, them ****ers aren't racist when they call me a white ****, yet the moment I use any sort of phrase that indicates they're of a different colour it's instantly classed as a racist insult! Why is that if we live in a multi-cultural, and equal, society like we're told we do?
Something in this once great Country is ****ed up beyond a joke!
Something in this once great Country is ****ed up beyond a joke!
Exactly until the middle class and those in power are effected nothing will be done. Until then our country will be continued to be raped by foreign invaders.
Don't say that, I might actually try and meet you
Citadel Chambers, right opposite Crown Court
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i love birmingham but as you say you do feel like you're in another country (this is more noticable in the city centre) but that's because 'white' british are an ethnic minority in birmingham.
the city has a lot of life to it though and like every city if you can overlook the bad bits there are some really nice places to go in and around it to suit anyone's tastes. i like hiking around the lickey hills and the surrounding villages like barnt green myself. some stunning greenery for the country second largest (and grubbiest) city the vast majority of people are fairly pleasent as well, always a friendly 'good morning'.
love the accent
love the people
love the atmosphere
love the museums and architecture
love the parks and wide open spaces on the outskirts
love my nans house
wish we'd never moved to brighton, it's a much less friendly place in comparison, i think if given the chance i'd like to move back at some point.
the city has a lot of life to it though and like every city if you can overlook the bad bits there are some really nice places to go in and around it to suit anyone's tastes. i like hiking around the lickey hills and the surrounding villages like barnt green myself. some stunning greenery for the country second largest (and grubbiest) city
the vast majority of people are fairly pleasent as well, always a friendly 'good morning'.love the accent
love the people
love the atmosphere
love the museums and architecture
love the parks and wide open spaces on the outskirts
love my nans house
wish we'd never moved to brighton, it's a much less friendly place in comparison, i think if given the chance i'd like to move back at some point.
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Birmingham scares me, especially at night. There are times I have genuinely feared for my life (whether it be from gangs of chavs/Pakistanis or asphyxiation in the seas of litter).
And if it makes me racist to vehemently dislike mass-immigration to an already overpopulated country (with all the inevitable social problems non-integration brings), then I'm a racist.
And if it makes me racist to vehemently dislike mass-immigration to an already overpopulated country (with all the inevitable social problems non-integration brings), then I'm a racist.
**** fan
ADAMS BARMY ARMY
I feel sorry for you guys, he took us up in like, 2002 but the last time he was with us he couldn't motivate his way out of a paper bag. I mean, he'll always be an Albion legend but I think his fire has dimmed somewhat.
Yeah! We have the same signs outside of a few pubs here in Stoke too, but then again we do attract a far higher calibre of football team to our Stadium than you. You know, with us being in the Premier league and such.
Well, at least you get to watch the opposition teams play some attractive football. Whenever I've had the 'pleasure' of watching Stoke we've either lost or it's been on the TV and you guys really do play the ugliest, most boring football I've ever seen!
Not true.
Birmingham is an ethnically and culturally diverse city. In 2005 the ONS estimated that 67.8% of the population was White (including 2.7% Irish & 2.1% Other White), 20.4% Asian or Asian British, 6.6% Black or Black British, 1.1% Chinese, 3.1% of mixed race and 1.1% of other ethnic heritage.
57% of primary and 52% of secondary pupils are from non-white British families. 16.5% of the population was born outside the United Kingdom.
(Wiki).
I live in Walsall (fortunately a hygienic distance from Birmingham), and although I acknowledge that Birmingham has a significant ethnic minority population, I have never felt as if I was "in a different country" when visiting the CBD.
WatchTower said:
I think you mean China.