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Plymouthbrummie	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? posted on: 8/8/2007 9:49:51 AM If Brum so great.........
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 8/8/2007 7:02:04 PM For the same reasons every single big city on the planet has people leave and arrive each year, one would imagine.
prem1um	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 8/9/2007 3:58:27 PM Carl Chinn?
sebastian1 This message was updated on 2/24/2008 5:55:10 PM by sebastian1	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 2/24/2008 4:44:18 PM Having seen this thread I'm really quite surprised that not more people have replied, given this is such a poignant issue. Having been born and brought up in Erdington, I studied at Manchester University before moving to London last year at the age of 23 to pursue my career as a town planning consultant. I now live in Wimbledon, South West London. Well, having not been back to Brum for some time I ventured back to visit my folks last week. How shocked and saddened I am to see the decline of this once great city. As I walked up Corporation Street from New Street Station on Friday night, I was struck by the amount of boarded-up shops and rubbish blowing around the place. As I proceeded to wait for the bus on Bull Street I felt incredibly alienated, and seemingly a foreigner in my own land. All I seemed to see were youths that looked like they'd slit your throat for your last quid. Not one person looked remotely middle-class. Cars with tinted windows cruised round with rap music pumping out filled with dodgy people, always going somewhere but nowhere. I sat on the top deck of the bus, near the front. I was still wearing my suit, having left the office in London before catching the Birmingham train from Euston. This made me feel incredibly self-conscious. Everyone looked and spoke as though they came from a ghetto. Someone was smoking marijuana, another was playing rap music from an Ipod. Two girls got on at Six Ways Island, who frankly looked as though they should have been working the streets of Amsterdam. I went into town on Saturday and felt similar disappointment. So much of the new architecture, mainly in the form of apartment blocks and shops, was bland and generally of a poor quality. I went into the Mailbox, having not been through there since 2002 when it was fully occupied by a number of prestigious retailers and restaurants. Many of those shops have now gone, the windows embarrassingly tinted up by the management with some 'artwork' installed to disguise their vacancy. With that in mind it struck me that there are hardly any decent shops in Birmingham, with the exception of occasional independents in the slightly more genteel surroundings of Colmore Row. Broad Street was another disappointment. What has happened to the cultured venues like Ronnie Scotts? All I saw were lap-dancing clubs, chain bars and run-of-the-mill restaurants. On my way out of town, Aston looked like a desert of dilapidated and vacant industrial buildings, interspersed by run-down tower blocks and swathes of cleared land. My impression of Birmingham has been soured. I didn't always feel like this - quite the opposite in fact. When I left to go to Manchester in 2002 I was very proud of the city and tried in vain to sell it to the sceptics. But now I just feel defeated. So many people who I grew up with, as well as older family members and friends all feel the same. This is exemplified by the general consensus to get out whilst they still can. My parents are desperately clinging on until they can retire and will sell up and move to Devon. I always thought I'd come back to Birmingham one day but not any more. To put it bluntly, Birmingham is dying and no longer feels like an English city. I don't want my children being brought up mixing with the growing underclass that is being left behind. I know many people reading this will probably think I'm snobbish but I'm sorry, it's just the way I feel.
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 2/25/2008 2:17:13 PM quote: I don't want my children being brought up mixing with the growing underclass that is being left behind. Oh, the ironing.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 2/26/2008 12:41:38 PM Ironing indeed. Having said that, and speaking as a fellow émigré, I have to say I was a bit disappointed with the city centre on my last visit just before Xmas. It looked scruffy and a bit down at heal really. I don't really know why, but I felt a little deflated as I headed back down the M40. Hey ho.
Mildesque	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 3/3/2008 12:03:01 AM I think it's because people are treacherous cowards with no civic pride who rather than try to deal with a problem, blow it out of proportion and run away from it. We should hunt them down and cast them into the canal network. I plan to turn Brum into a sprawling dystopian society on a floating platform which occasionally uses heat rays to demolish various suburbs of London. This shall solve all the image problems with Birmingham, and you'll all damn well be grateful.
kingshurstphil Rank: Toyah	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 3/3/2008 9:17:28 PM the problem we have in birmingham is too much space is being sold to convert in to trendy flats. The problem being people in trendy flats like the idea of living in town but not the whole thing that goes with it. I know that people in thge flats in digbeth complained about the noise from the pubs and again the same with the flats down hurst street. also town planners have been very naive with the whole reshapping of town. The bullring has just pulled in shops from the other sides of town and left a huge hole in terms of available shops in birmingham city centre, shopping is a huge chore and not the fun it used to be.
pennellier	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 4/27/2008 11:29:14 PM I don’t get it. The answer to the question is glaringly obvious. Birmingham is a self-confessed ‘experiment in multiculturalism’ (social engineering by another name), and is probably already the first major western city to have displaced the indigenous population. Brummies have migrated en masse because they feel more comfortable living in an enclave of England, as opposed to an Islamic colony.
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 4/29/2008 6:03:23 AM The ragheads are coming! WE MUST FLEE!
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/24/2008 4:31:32 PM quote: If Brum so great......... I think you're missing the point, you southern simpleton. We ain't saying it's great. All we're saying is it ain't shit. And what's with all this racist crap, the rest of you? You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 5/27/2008 5:28:08 PM by Rowley-Russ	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/27/2008 5:26:46 PM Pffft. The only reason you're calling him racist is because he doesn't like anyone who isn't white. Edit: I think Brum is pretty great, incidentally.
peakyblinder old hand Rank: Chinny	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/27/2008 7:23:42 PM quote: Pffft. The only reason you're calling him racist is because he doesn't like anyone who isn't white. Edit: I think Brum is pretty great, incidentally. Stop chattin bubbles. It's not "pretty great," it's OK. Like everywhere else, it has its phat and its minging. In fact, I'm thinking of setting up a rival website: 'Birmingham: It's Standard' or whatever. Random.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie This message was updated on 5/28/2008 11:34:41 AM by Gravy Hole	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/28/2008 11:32:49 AM quote: ...as opposed to an Islamic colony. The first thought that flew into my head on reading this was (surprisingly) one regarding an Islamic Nudist Colony. I can envisage an utopian world where bearded Islamist versions of Syd James and Bernard Bresslau are playing naked volleyball with buxom and shaved Asian Babes, whilst the older womenfolk sit round alfresco tandoori ovens baking mouthwatering garlic naans and kofti kebabs. So precisely what is Pennellier moaning about; I'd pay bloody good money to live somewhere like that. Of course, the womens' heads would still have to be covered over, but surely having all the women otherwise starkers shouldn't prevent the mysoginism endemic in Islam to prevail should it?
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/29/2008 6:55:35 PM 'Endemic'? 'Phat'? What a bunch you lot are.
pennellier This message was updated on 5/30/2008 6:40:05 AM by pennellier	Why do thousands of Brummies migrate each year? replied on: 5/30/2008 6:34:46 AM quote: quote: ...as opposed to an Islamic colony. So precisely what is Pennellier moaning about; I'd pay bloody good money to live somewhere like that. Who's moaning? - I was merely answering the question posed on the thread header. Now that virtually all of my family & friends have moved out of that place (and bedder's chippie is under new management), I thankfully have little reason to go there anymore, so while it doesn't overly affect me, I do feel saddened by the sight of what my hometown has become.
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