Birmingham - The Pros and Cons

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What will you like to know about Birmingham? Birmingham is one of the unique cities in England, it is located in the West Midland area of England, approximately 160 km or 100 miles away from London. It is often referred to as the "Second City '' of the United Kingdom, as it is considered a major metropolitan in the heartland of England. What else? Birmingham is regarded as the largest city in the West Midlands region and the second-most populous city in the UK, after London. The city has a very rich history, a diverse population, and a thriving economy, Birmingham holds a significant place in the country's cultural, economic, and social landscape. Hence it is not surprising it is getting attention with more and more people relocating to the city. So, in this piece, we provide well-rounded information and all you need to know about living in Birmingham. Stay tuned!!
Let's start with the pros of living in Birmingham. Living in Birmingham comes with some exciting privileges here are some of the Pros you need to be aware of.
1. Cost of living
First on the list is the cost of living. People generally tend to move from an area where the cost of living is not favorable to an area where the cost of living is favorable. If you are considering moving to Birmingham, I am glad to tell you that the cost of living in Birmingham is very favorable compared to many other cities in the UK. However, it's important to note that the cost of living can vary depending on individual circumstances and lifestyle choices. But on a general level, it is still better than most cities in the UK. You might be wondering what indices are used to arrive at this conclusion. Well, the indices used to include
Housing cost.
The cost of housing in Birmingham is quite lower than in cities like London but may be higher than in some other regions of the UK. Also, important to note that housing renting price is very fair and flexible
Transportation
Transportation cost is also an index that is factored in. The transportation cost in Birmingham city is affordable and decent in price compared to many other cities like London. Other indices of cost of living, like groceries, dining out, and entertainment, are also generally reasonable. Individual preference and taste can define people's experience but overall, it is still fair compared to other cities.
2. City life without the price
Another advantage of living in Birmingham is that you get to enjoy city life without paying the price for it. Generally, people stay in cities because of the social amenities. And guess what Birmingham is one of the high-profile cities in the UK. It is regarded as the second city in the United Kingdom. It has several city amenities that you can enjoy.
Amenities such as:
Good roads: Birmingham has good road networks that are well interconnected and rival many other cities
Shopping mall: Birmingham has one of the best shopping malls in the UK. You sure cannot miss anything you wish to get. The city is home to Bullring & Grand Central, one of the largest shopping centers in Europe, featuring a vast array of high-street brands, designer stores, and independent boutiques. Additionally, the Jewelry Quarter is famous for its jewelry shops and unique artisan designs.
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@MbanweiNancy-re6ml
@MbanweiNancy-re6ml 7 місяців тому
Thank for sharing
@jackhackett80
@jackhackett80 2 місяці тому
Funny to think it's only 100 miles away from London because it takes forever to drive between one to the other.
@TheWhitehawker
@TheWhitehawker Місяць тому
I was bought up in Birmingham, but am really glad I got out.
@havishmabl6839
@havishmabl6839 Місяць тому
Why
@Panaichnisane
@Panaichnisane Місяць тому
Why
@jrr3613
@jrr3613 2 місяці тому
Birming-ham
@robjessop5864
@robjessop5864 6 місяців тому
…interesting vid… Birmingham looks good…
@jameschampken2660
@jameschampken2660 5 місяців тому
It's got pros & cons. A bir rough around the edges & once was a big Indistrial city, lots of the industry left.
@barjumbo1969
@barjumbo1969 3 місяці тому
Mixing-up footage. Parts of this is, clearly, in america!
@ishabrown
@ishabrown 3 місяці тому
Birmingham is a great city but too much gap between rich and poor - you need to earn high wages to live in the nice areas
@ZzZz-fx7zb
@ZzZz-fx7zb Місяць тому
Still cheaper than London even in the rich areas
@Panaichnisane
@Panaichnisane Місяць тому
@@ZzZz-fx7zbwhat about work do they have good wages in birmingham ?
@martw.5938
@martw.5938 7 місяців тому
[BUR] + [MING] + [U(H)M]
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 6 місяців тому
BIR + MING + HAM, where the hell does GUM come into Birmingham's name
@jameschampken2660
@jameschampken2660 5 місяців тому
​​​@@peterwilliamallen1063first....it not GUM, it is, Bir....MING.....UM......, the "H" is silent, it's how they pronounce it in UK, you will get laughed at otherwise.
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 5 місяців тому
@@jameschampken2660 What utter rubbish, you are actually talking to a Brummie ( a Birmingham Citizen ) of 68 years with my family before that and the only people who pronounce Birmingham as either Birmingum or Birmingum are of 3 things, they are not from Birmingham and do not know other wise, have a deep black country type accent or have a speech impediment. I can tell you that the " H " is NOT silent at all, Birmingham actually stands for something, the Ham bit stands for Hamlet a very small village as in Anglo Saxon times it was called Beomingaham " the Home ( Hamlet ) of the tribe of Beomingha, as time moved forward the De Bermingham family became the Lords of the Manor and the Town was called Bermingham with William De Bermingham being the Lord of the Manor establishing a Charter to hold a Market where the Bull Ring is today. Over the years Birmingham has become a City and the name changed to BIR-MING-HAM now being the second largest City in the UK and Birmingham Alabama USA was named after. A few weeks ago Jay Blades of the repair shop did a programme of the Midlands and Birmingham and was incorrectly pronouncing Birmingham as Bernimum, Carl Chinn who was on there tried to correct him to no avail and then a lady in one of the TV mags also wrote a letter complaing how he pronounced Birmingham as Bernimum correcting him saying it is BIRMINGHAM, so as a Brummie who family now has lived in Birmingham for generations, I have never heard such crap as what you have just said. This applies to a few other things such as Buckingham Palace, Buckinghamshire and Buckingham, sorry like Birmingham the "H" has never been silent, how you say it is how yo say it but as this lady also quoted which like me annoys me is that the CORRECT pronunciation is BIR-MING-HAM full stop, so stop making your self look like a nerd and trying to correct people who call my City correctly because you think different. Oh and no you won't get laughed at for pronouncing Birmingham Correctly, it is not how the pronounce it in the rest of the UK and people do call it Birmingham.
@fizzjuty5798
@fizzjuty5798 2 місяці тому
@@peterwilliamallen1063Its pronounced bur-ming-uhm
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 2 місяці тому
@@fizzjuty5798 And fizzjuly5798 you are trying to preach to a bloody Brummie of 68 years mate how to pronounce my Cities name correctly grow up and get a life, it's correct pronounciation is how it is spelt " BIRMINGHAM" as the name has an historical reason, how YOU pronounce depends on your dialect and whether not to be rood you have a speech problem. Birmingham or in Anglo Saxon Times Bermingham derives from medieval times called Beormingaham or Ham ( Hamlet ) of the tribe of Beorminga, So do not try to explain how to say Birmingham to me or other people mate
@jameschampken2660
@jameschampken2660 5 місяців тому
USA/Canadian accent pernounce it with a hard "HAM" at the end, and in this video thats a serious hard on the HAM, but in the UK its pronounced more hard on the "Bir" "MING" "UM" , .the "H" is silent. If you pronounce it like the guy does in the video at some point somebody in the city will laugh at you for it with banter to make fun of your hard American accent. No joke, lol.
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 5 місяців тому
No mate as a Birmingham citizen I and many others of the majority pronounce it Birming-HAM not "UM", you do not pronounce Buckingham Palace or Buckinghamshire, Buckingum palace or Buckingumshire, if you are pronouncing it Birmingum it is you that is wrong as it is the way you are pronouncing it because of your accent and it has always been pronounced and called BIRMINGHAM and no there is no silent H I am afraid as the HAM bit is part of the Cities name being short for Hamlet, as the name Birmingham originally Beomingaham meant the Hamlet ( HAM ) of the tribe of Beormainga, this changed in medieval times to Bermingham after the family who were lords of the Manor of Bermingham, William De Bermingham which later changed to Birmingham, it is lie the people who wrongly call Shrewsbury, Shrowsbury.
@jameschampken2660
@jameschampken2660 4 місяці тому
@@peterwilliamallen1063 you don't pronounce it with a hard twang HAM like this American guy does. Very different way of pronouncing it. West Ham in London isn't even pronounced the same as Birmingham. Different ways of pronouncing it.
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 4 місяці тому
@@jameschampken2660 So you are trying to explain to a Brummie a Birmingham Citizen of 68 years how to prononce my City's name, give it a rest as the way the Americans prononounce BIRMING-HAM is the correct way as per Birmingham Alabama which is named after Birmingham UK. How people pronounce it is how their accent may be, but what narks me is ppeople like your self who try to correct people who pronounce my City the correct way but do not correct people who say it wrong. The Ham in Birmingham stands for Hamlet, in Anglo Saxon times Birmingham was called Bormingaham, which stood for the Hamlet of the tribe of Beorminga, this later changed to Bermingham after the family of the De Berminham family who were Lords of the Manor of Bermingham arround the Dooms Day Book, later on the name Changed to BIRMING-HAM and has never had the name of Brum or Brummegium, this name being a pet name for Birmingham and during the Civil War BBirmingham made a lot of cuonterfeit steel products that got the nick name Brummagem ware. So yes actually tis Americamn is actually pronouncing my Cities name correctly but we may soffen the H in Ham.
@yunglockjaw3815
@yunglockjaw3815 4 місяці тому
@@peterwilliamallen1063 i dont know anyone from brum or the black country who say birmingHAM , the H is never pronounced, Bir-min-um or Bir-ming-um is typical. no one except yanks say HAM
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 4 місяці тому
@@yunglockjaw3815 Well you do now, ME I am a Brummie mate and hundreds pronounce it BIRMING-HAM. It's official name is Birming-HAM, no silent " H " if it was called Birmingum offiialy it would be called the City of Birmingum but is not is it and how many people do you know from Birmingham or the Black Coutry that actualy say Birmingham because I hardly say it unless some one asks and the Black Ciuntry people don't even call their main town by it's official name IE Dudley, they call it Dudlay and you do not call Buckingham Palace Buckingum Palace or Bucinghamshire or the Town of Buckingham Buckingum, no it is Buckingham Palace, Buckingham Shire and Buckingham and so from a 68 year old Brummie a Birmingham Citizen to you my City is pronounced correctly as Birmingham full stop, it is the variouse accents that mess up how people say it or if you have false teeth and then you get the real bastarisation of my Cities name when Jay Blades from the BBC work shop series did a prgramme on Birmingham and the West Midlands and kept calling Birmingham Bernimum, god almighty even the Hairey Bikers on their Christmas show pronounced it correctly "Birmingham" and the name comes from the De Bermingham family who were Lord of the Manor of the villiage of Birmingham at the time of the Doomsday book if you know what that is and the Ham at the end refers to Birmingham when it was a small Hamlet in Anglo Saxon times when it was called Beormingaham or in other words the Hamlet of the tribe of Beorminga, so if you pronounce it Birmingum thats your problem it is actualy called as the Yanks say it Brimng-HAM thats why it is spelt Birmingham and by the way Birmingham Alabama was named after Birmingham UK, so just give it a rest you lot are getting rather tediuose and boring and pronounce it as you want but do not dcrytisise people pronouncing it correctly as you are making your self look silly to the rest of the world, no wounder people iin other Cities keep saying Brummies are thick if tey cn't even call their cities name correctly in Kings English
@mothrax2672
@mothrax2672 2 місяці тому
Best things to do in Birmingham. #1. Leave
@TheWhitehawker
@TheWhitehawker Місяць тому
I did !
@makesgoodsense8274
@makesgoodsense8274 7 місяців тому
Birmingham full of crime unemployment and boring lifestyle and homelessness if you look up rental prices in edgbaston is unaffordable and to get a job you need pervious experience no entry level position here and there traffic during rush hour in school run and Birmingham Airport doesn't travel to vancouver Canada Birmingham is a multicultural city but lack of opportunities and overall a city I like to leave and never return to
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 6 місяців тому
Birmingham UK has no more crime or unemployment than any where else n the UK and for boring, no way there are loads to do in Birmingham and why would Birmingham specifically require flights to Vancouver Canada
@marthasheilds2446
@marthasheilds2446 6 місяців тому
Birmingham has the highest employment In the UK locals are lazy and many suffer from mental health issues, Birmingham doesn't have much opportunities its s grey ugly concrete city lots of poverty and crime ,Birmingham has.always been rough.
@haroonhussain259
@haroonhussain259 7 місяців тому
I heard Birmingham council gone bankrupt? Thriving economy are you having a laugh 😆
@canisiuszharare1797
@canisiuszharare1797 7 місяців тому
So where do we mivr too in uk which is not London
@kayejones6217
@kayejones6217 7 місяців тому
I live in Birmingham it's an absolute joke 😢 I'm ashamed to be from here. If it wasn't for my circumstances I would move straight away horrible place to be😢
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 6 місяців тому
It is only Birmingham City Council that said it was bankrupt, the City itself is not bankrupt by any means.
@jamesanthony3072
@jamesanthony3072 6 місяців тому
@@kayejones6217absolutely rubbish, Birmingham is a wonderful thriving cosmopolitan city… some beautiful places to live, on the whole very nice interesting, helpful people, very Green and so much to do be it arts, sightseeing, leisure, bars and restaurants… I’ve lived in London and afew places round the world, Birmingham comes very near the top, especially as it’s reasonably affordable in most respects
@marthasheilds2446
@marthasheilds2446 6 місяців тому
​@@jamesanthony3072Birmingham is a dumping ground its a hostile boring city lots of racism and segregation issues areas reflect crime is high.
@anjanbiswas302
@anjanbiswas302 6 місяців тому
You must clearly mention in the title that you are referring to Birmingham, UK, and not Birmingham, AL, USA, just so that there is no confusion while scrolling through.
@hxi7141
@hxi7141 6 місяців тому
No one gives a flying fuc about the small unknown town in the U.S
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 6 місяців тому
You mean to say you can't tell the difference between Birmingham UK, the main City of that name and Birmingham Alabama USA which was named after the UK Birmingham
@calvinspiff4348
@calvinspiff4348 5 місяців тому
I'm an American, and I think of Birmingham UK when I hear of Birmingham. Alabama never comes to mind. Ever.
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 5 місяців тому
@@calvinspiff4348 Well some of the pictures shown are not of Birmingham UK
@tyronmadden939
@tyronmadden939 3 місяці тому
Pfft I think the majority of the world recognise Brum as Birmingham not wherever Birmingham US is. You’s have towns called London and Manchester as well but there can only be one
@Tan92lfc
@Tan92lfc 5 місяців тому
Birmingham is full of concrete dull building
@peterwilliamallen1063
@peterwilliamallen1063 4 місяці тому
Like most modern Cities.
@tyronmadden939
@tyronmadden939 3 місяці тому
Most of the modern world is concrete dull buildings
@younger2bad287
@younger2bad287 2 місяці тому
Birmingham uk will take your kids take your soul and the list go's on the whole place is a set up ..... wish i never came here city centre is so crap and expensive not worth it 😒
@Itzz_sh
@Itzz_sh 7 днів тому
The bloke has no idea what he’s talking about!! It’s just like London and has shit roads shit prices for housing etc waste of a video I’m from Birmingham and can tell you that and many others will too
@doctormong1
@doctormong1 6 місяців тому
Crap.
@ceciliahelpinghandlimpopo1037
@ceciliahelpinghandlimpopo1037 5 місяців тому
😂😂😂
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