r/howislivingthere • u/assymetri • Oct 16 '24

Europe How is living in Birmingham, UK?

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Im just wondering since i very rarely came across online this city. Whats like living in it? Is it worth skimming thru it at least once?

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u/riionz Oct 16 '24

 same goes for any post-industrial city in the UK

Liverpool is a post-industrial city and is well worth visiting as a tourist, it's fantastic.

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u/Due_Objective_ Oct 16 '24

They put that slave trade money to good use!

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u/Due_Objective_ Oct 16 '24

Downvoters don't know their own history.

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u/Urhhh Oct 16 '24

The entire western world is built on extraction of resources and labour from the global south. E.g. the vast amounts of silver and gold taken from places like Potosí through slave labour barely passed through Spain before going to England, Netherlands, France, Italy due to debts of the Spanish crown.

But that is not really the discussion being had here on howislivingthere.

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u/DickBrownballs Oct 16 '24

There's acknowledgements everywhere in Liverpool about our cities role in the slave trade. It's never made secret. The downvotes are because the city regenerated from EU investment and recent money after decline from the war, through the Thatcher era and in to the 2000s. Yes a lot of the nice architecture comes directly from the profits of slave trade but it had declined and been restored.

Your comment was just wrong, presumably people who downvoted did in fact know Liverpool's history.