Can we just remember that this thread is about "Birmingham as it is now, what do you like or dislike". Yes whilst Birmingham's salvage department is a valid point, I think it has pretty well been covered now and as we don't want the thread to turn into a thread on that topic alone it would be best if we now moved on.
To be honest I like none of it , members remember like you I was a mod in the 60's and could not keep away from the city centre, alas
those long far off younger days have gone . Looking at brum the way it is today, not for me thanks, last time I was there it was claustrophobic , beggars on corners near New St station , that really niggles me there are that departments now for peoples welfare how can people still be sitting on the floor begging . There was nothing like this help in the 60's and people were not openly begging
apart from the Hari Krishna conglomerate . None of present day Birmingham attracts me like days gone by, the architecture is naff ,where has all the artistic buildings , like the Victoriana as was gone .