I live in brum and always have, cannock is close and is fantastic if you know the good stuff, I’m close to Sutton park which you can ride 2 hr in comfortably, Sutton or Erdington would both be good bases for you, the other sides would be sell oak mosely etc m, which have the lickey hills close by, feel free to email me for more detailed info and the midlands is not shit as some have said
Commuting is a piece of piss by train in brum to get to either side