Is birmingham the most depressing place in the UK?

I live in birmingham, and I have never really found anybody "rude' as you describe it, I have met worse people in other places of the UK. Calling someone "Rude" depends on your mood at time and wether what the individual did is really something to complain about.. Humans inadvertantly exaggerate things without realising. This question proves this.

Look up Birmingham Breweries. Unlike just about every other major city in the country, there is not one distinctive beer worth drinking which comes from Birmingham. This explains why the locals are not the most cheerful or sociable people in the UK, but some have argued that this in fact is putting things the wrong way round. It may be something to do with the people in Birmingham which resulted in them not making any decent beer.

I've been travelling through B'ham for around 30 years on visits home with good ol' National Express via Digbeth which isn't the most pleasant looking area of B'ham or the UK and I've found quite the reverse. I like B'ham. I've always had friendly responses, had some great times and look forward to many more visits. I go the big arts festival every year and the atmosphere around the place is really good. B'ham symphony hall is just great,. It's well known in the music world to be the best concert hall in the UK and one the best rated concert halls in the world believe it or not and it stands on rubber feet, sort of, haha,...well, the trains run close by and vibrations from those would upset performances so the building has an unusual design technically but it's not alone in that. It's said that B'ham audiences are much quieter now because the of low extraneous noise levels in the hall. Technically it's a suberb building. Visually it's quite dramatic and soundwise it's had loads of top reviews and won awards for the high quality of the acoustics through excellent design and construction. The roof rises and falls to change the acoustics to suit the kinds of performances, classical, stand up comedians, jazz, all sorts. And they did Turnage and Mahler for an opening concert, O joy of joys! http://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2012/01/26/happy-21st-birthday-to-birmingham-symphony-hall/ . . . . . Well, I could go on and on while you seeth and rage about the place and bring death and destruction down on it like John Betjemen wrote about Slough. That didn't get him any friends, calling on the Nazis to bomb Slough out of existence, haha I know what he meant though. I saw enough of Slough on the way to Windsor for days out it's a shame there was no other route available on the buses or I'd have avoided Slough like the plague. Long ago and still no plough Even Slough is better now Still bad enough as soon you'll see And Birmingham will still do me Above the grimy muck of Slough Still not levelled by the plough And served by even fewer buses now. Here it is with Ricky Gervais afterward 'analysing' it...err, sort of http://wn.com/Slough_by_John_Betjeman_poetry_reading B'hm School of Art, another top rated one in the world rankings, loads more that could be mentioned, getting back to Brummyland, now scrummy land of gastronomic fame. No not fairy tales Birmingham trumped space trips in the latest NY Times list of the 100 best places to see, on account of it's buildings including that hall and ....and for it's rising status in the world of food and eating out Sounds about right...... Published in January this year.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-16473657 Anyway I suppose this fella is what you were on about haha Grumping on about spaghetti bolognese like he knows the first thing about it. Good for a chuckle and I got a dig in about the Brummies twice Where were they in a time of absolute crisis and disorientation? In the Irish pubs in Digbeth maybe or raving it up in the Arcadian.. Old answer and he's probably lost the bruise on his head now if his wife's comment is to be believed.. Unless it was all a set up job.....they do actually have fun in Birmingham ....hehehehe http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091020085347AArlfMq Siberia is nice at this time of the year...cheap, lots of ice for drinks, good views, see for miles when it's not blowing a blizzard..........