00:00Right, well I hope I sound like a Brummie, but I'm actually from Yorkshire originally,
00:04so I came here to go to college and I absolutely love the place. It's brilliant. I think people
00:11are just snobby frankly, and a lot of the people that are rude about it have just never
00:15been here. It's a brilliant, modern, European, international city. I always think it's a
00:23bit like the United States. Hardly anybody here can go back more than, I don't know,
00:28maybe three generations. I'm in my 60s now, a lot of my mates have Irish heritage, but
00:33then you move forward a bit more and there's a lot of people from the Indian subcontinent.
00:38You walk around, you hear so many different languages. You don't need to go abroad, you
00:42can just hang out around here. I moved here in 2000, and when I moved here from London,
00:51people were saying, why on earth are you moving to London? When I turned up in Birm... Why
00:56are you moving to Birmingham? When I turned up in Birmingham, people said, why on earth
00:59have you moved here? So, you know, you go to Manchester and people there big up the
01:06city like no one's business. You go to Birmingham and it's really difficult to get people to
01:11be enthusiastic about the place. Well, we're not from Birmingham, but we've come for the
01:15day because I've been before, and I think Birmingham is a beautiful city. Now, the reputation
01:21it could be because years ago it wasn't so beautiful, it wasn't so clean, and it wasn't
01:27so airy and spacious. So maybe people are still living in the past, whereas I think
01:33it's a beautiful city. Well, the thing is, many people come to look at Birmingham, they
01:39can't believe how bad it's going. They thought it was going to be fantastic, the nightclubs,
01:42this and that. And when they come round, they told me the other day when I was here, there's
01:46nowhere to go. I said, no, that's what's happening. I said, but then if you go into our market
01:49centre, where it used to be famous for, the market, and now it's gone so down, so low,
01:55people think, God, what's the point of coming to Birmingham these days?
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