Things to do in Birmingham

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This was my post in a Brum thread a few years ago. It’s definitely a bit out of date, a few things don’t exist anymore or have moved.

Places to add: Botanical Gardens, Winterbourne House and Gardens, 1847 (fancy veggie food), Damscena (cheap middle-eastern).

Birmingham

Lived and worked in Birmingham from 2011-2015 and absolutely loved being there so gonna defend it. There’s tonnes of great stuff going on, it’s just often quite hidden and people don’t tend to shout about it so you need to either look it up first, or meet people who are in the know. Took me a good few months to settle when I first moved there. Also the city itself is weirdly laid out due to all the redevelopment, and it’s tricky to get to the suburbs etc where interesting things are. Public tra…