without many "pretty parts." From my point of view, whenever I have passed it on the train, it never looks very inviting. I have been to Stoke and that is probably one place in the UK, I don't return to unless I have to. Declined industrial legacy with poor economic knock-on effects. And for whatever reason, a lot of people don't seem to think very much of the accent. Tbh, my anecdotal evidence shows it to often come only second to the USA for negative stereotyping. Sorry! Because in the old days Birmingham was an industrial town and the posher areas viewed birmingham as dirty and Nasty unfortunately some of this has rubbed off onto our generation, not helped by the fact that lots of Birmingham is dirty concrete and warhouses