astwood,
Sounds like the England which as a child, I saw only from a vehicle or on foot from a A to far B, so didn't stop to enjoy as you are daily able to....walking the dog etc.
You have family to happy (and helping) hand and good friendly local environment - with a reservoir as a plus.
Will honestly say I never knew a brum with a smidgeon of those amenities, yet I liked BH, as we do when we know no other - it's just the 'safe' attraction of familiarity.
I do not have, and want no affinity with the utterly different places (Hazrat Sultan Mosque, Ombersley Rd - no church), schools (Al-Hira in Clifton Rd) practices (no traditional brummie ways) as no ethnically indigenous people or environment remain (all shops in different, and very limited trades) - this is what it has become....in a word, alien to all I last saw of BH.
I know where I'm happier now 30 C, breeze and bright sun watching 'on/off' test cricket
trapio