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For those who aren't aware of Birmingham, UK, Here's Telly Savalas impression of it from 1981 (His kind of town): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHVO1eSMFc h

• dijit 5y ago
  I didn’t recognise anything except St Martins from this video. Birmingham is in an unfortunate position in the UK- while technically it’s the second city (where London is the largest, richest and most populous), Birmingham by contrast seems deeply impoverished and constantly attempting to redesign itself. The city, thusly, has more cameras per capita than London, since crime and poverty are slightly more abundant. I was raised in neighbouring Coventry, my father was from Birmingham, as was my first girlfriend and college. Coventry was much worse than Birmingham of course, but they’re both pretty grim compared to places like Evesham, Oxford, Leamington Spa or Bath
  • dougSF70 5y ago
    I remember the great floods at Leakington Spa. Terrible.