yes i live in brum , hall green not far from the dog track

theres rough areas in every city no matter where you go

as for solihull it use to be part of birmingham but it has it's own council now so it's classed an other town , chemsley wood, kingshurst, olton,smiths wood, parts of yardly ,sheldon ,shirely these all use to be birmigham areas

birmigham was a big place , if you look at places like, quinton, oldbury/west brom/ all still have b'ham post codes and b,ham 0121 phone codes

birmingham use to have alot more areas than it has now

nothing wrong with brum parts of it is good parts of it is shite ....lol...

marco