Birmingham is the best big city in the UK. Fact.
Show me anywhere else you can live and be in the peaks or North Wales in an hour and a half, lakes or Devon in 3 and if you really can’t be bothered to drive, cannock in 30mins!
Also excellent for the annual Scotland and Alps trips. That there London is 5 hours from anywhere, and I can probably get from birmingham to Dover on a Friday night in the same time it takes to get from London to the m25…. So in summary, Brum is a great place to live if you don’t want to be there!