Not sure if you're joking. Colmore row & Brindley place are the nice-ish places in a yuppie central 7/8 quid a pint probably think Jeremy Clarkson / Piers Morgan are really funny and have a point tossathon post work and the rest is a building site where each week or so the scaffolding gets moved so you're funneled between a different cranes for a change.
Now they're doing the tramlines it's committed the city to being a joke for probably another 10 years whilst a massive strip of perfectly functioning buildings have been torn down for HS2 which will probably never happen. Not like there's a massive homeless problem in the city or anything...(for clarity, there is.)
The council are obsessed with big weird shiny metallic designs for buildings that no other city wants to take on which leads me to think that the council has been taken over by magpies and are running the show from the trees and New Street station is the perfect microcosm for the an example, they pumped a huge amount of money in to the station so there's a brick load more poncy shops (as if the bull ring wasn't big enough anyway) yet no improvement to the actual service provided. I literally haven't got on a train that's been on time in 11 days and I'm on them twice a day going through that brick show.
Don't get me wrong, it'll be alright once trams are sorted and should connect south Brum a little better where there are things going on but it's a real slow process and it's the marketing execs and consultants that must be raking it in because every fancy building / venue / shopping center is renamed or refurbished every couple of years so keeping track of what is called what nowadays is hard enough.
And yes, you may have touched a nerve here
It's good to vent sometimes even if it doesn't solve anything I guess!
Edit - And just to keep this thread vaguely on topic, Manchester can go fudge itself.
