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I want to move to Birmingham
I have a little boy who lives in Leicester, and my brother lives in Coventry. I have lived all over the East Midlands, but I'm now back in my native West Yorkshire but hate it.
I was in Birmingham yesterday looking at different areas and noticed that many nicer areas are next to what I'd term as "sh*tty looking" areas. Some parts looked pretty rough too.
What I want to know is, where could I get a 1 bed flat for around £450 pcm in a nice, clean, safe area? I'm not against looking further out to neighbouring boroughs, so it doesn't have to be Birmingham, but certainly within that conurbation.
I was in Birmingham yesterday looking at different areas and noticed that many nicer areas are next to what I'd term as "sh*tty looking" areas. Some parts looked pretty rough too.
What I want to know is, where could I get a 1 bed flat for around £450 pcm in a nice, clean, safe area? I'm not against looking further out to neighbouring boroughs, so it doesn't have to be Birmingham, but certainly within that conurbation.
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http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/Sheldon/1-bed-flats.html
East side of the city so handy for both Leicester and Coventry, also good if you are plane spotter.:D
Beirut also has some nice areas.
You might as well write the north off completely.
East Birmingham (Where Sarah is) is ok in parts, homes are pretty cheap if you don't mind ex council properties you can easily get one within your budget. access to the M6 and places like Coventry.
I am in Northfield, SW Brum. It has alot of council, but also alot of other types of houses but it is very slightly more expensive than east. I pay just under 600pcm for a tiny 3 bed semi, so shopping around should get you what you are after. There are very close links to M42 an M5, along with access to the SW England easily.
I agree with Kings Heath observation, it has a fantastic 3 min 24 hour bus service though so cars are not necessarily needed if you get a place close enough to the bus route.
North Brum is close to M6 and spaghetti junction, with Areas such as Erdington being affordable. But places like Sutton Coldfield would be out of your budget, on a par with Solihull prices (quite expensive unless you live in a home that is cheap and very uncheerful)
Basically most of the city is fine for your price range if you go for places about 5 miles out of the city, any further or closer then forget it.
Litter can be bad in most places, but where I am I rarely see none. Might help that I am 2 minutes walk from the countryside, and not in the hub of the city. But even then there is alot less than I remember growing up.
I might be looking through rose tinted glasses but I don't see hardly any.
Sorry, i don't normally raise grammar but I don't understand what you mean here.
Do you mean you hardly see none ie you see litter most of the time, or are you using a double negative but mean you hardly see any litter ??
Not sure what the post about the 'litter situation' is all about. I wouldn't have thought we had any more litter than any other city!
Mark1974, Birmingham Welcomes you with open arms
Mark has a little thing for litter - look at his posting history bemoaning how he hates Wakefield (his current abode) as there's too much litter.....
Would have thought it was the first thing he asked, knowing how obsessed he is.
Ah, gotcha
Ok, once he narrows down his choices I'm sure us Brummies will do a recce for him and report back on the litter situation ;-)
Trust a Yorkshireman to have a dig about that. Is it so wrong that I don't like to see litter? Do you actually like it, because if you do I'll bring some round for you, although living up here you've probably got plenty of your own.
I saw plenty of litter in Birmingham on Saturday, but in areas I wouldn't want to live. I also saw plenty of nice, clean areas. On the whole Birmingham is very green with lots of parks, open spaces and trees. Quite frankly it beats any city up here.
Kings Heath was actually somewhere I visited, and with a train every 10 mins into New Street, it would be very handy.
It would be if they hadn't closed the railway station in 1941:D
Hahaha, good point. I'm thinking Kings Norton!
Too many "kings" in Brum, what with Kings Norton, Kings Heath, Kingstanding, Kingshurst.
South Brum is definitely better. I live just round the corner from you in Cofton Common, which is a stones throw from West Heath. Brilliant motorway links and Longbridge is looking pretty good at the mo with M& S opening very soon and new opportunites.
not just litter you have to be concerned with but uninsured drivers, higher crime rates lots of traffic.
no nice places to visit, yorkshire has the dales, moors, scarborough to name a few birmingham has erm...
but I guess thats it, I think Yorkshire is better but I am sure the brummies for some strange reason think birmingham is better
The West Midlands region (not the county) has Stratford, Warwick, part of the Cotswolds, the Malvern Hills, Shropshire Hills, Staffordshire Moorlands, Alton Towers, Cannock Chase, Wye Valley, the cathedral cities of Lichfield, Worcester, and Hereford, historic Shrewsbury, Vale of Evesham, and part of the National Forest.
In the West Midlands county, Cadbury World, Black Country Museum, National Sea Life Centre, Dudley Zoo, Dudley Castle, Thinktank, Botanical Gardens, Coventry Cathedral, Coventry Transport Museum, Sutton Park (biggest urban park in Europe), Jewellery Quarter, and the Lickey and Clent Hills. Not to mention Birmingham being a great shopping destination, full of parks, canals, and home to the famous Balti Triangle. On top of it all, it's centrally located.
The downside is it's so far inland, but all in all, you can keep your Yorkshire.
And we have a lot more opening in September
Ahhh yes, only 2 years overdue
Pull2open: I meant both, and yes my grammar isn't the best. But when you have to limit what you type to minimise the pain you get from it, you just type the quickest thing you can. Sorry if offended
bostin_austin: I should've guessed at your name that you was a fellow Brummie
Mark: I am sure that you will choose a good place whatever part of the country you live in.
For me its the best of both worlds, being 5 miles from the city centre yet very close to the countryside within 5 minutes walk I can be next to Bartley Reservoir and being bitten to death by horse flies
That's right, although there hasn't been much about it in the news.