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I've lived here all my life. Traveled to many places, Italy, San Fran, New Orleans, Boston, Martha's Vinyard and many other points unknown. Birmingham is still the place I always want to be. No city is perfect, bad things have gone on and will continue to go on, but once you live in B'ham, you never want to leave. The people are wonderful, the city clean....great restaurants and things to do, everythIng. Yeah, some naysayers will come on and slam the city, but there is just something about the place. No wonder they call it, "The Magic City."
@Sondra Vickers Sondra Vickers All of our jobs got sent to Mexico and China. Corporate capitalist is the biggest sellout of all time, they turned their backs on us for profit. Nothing short of a crime. They should be tried for treason and hung.
I'm from Georgia. When I moved I lived in Birmingham for seven years. Moved back to Georgia my mom wanted me to come back home but I still think about Birmingham almost everyday. I miss birmingham a lot. May not be perfect but no place is. There is just something about Birmingham that stays in your heart.
This video doesn't give justice to the great beauty of this city. The rolling hills that surround it or the view from Red mountain. It is very clean , lush and green!
Asking not saying.... but it’s sad to see how slow our growth and high the crime. People need jobs, industry that brings good paying jobs. Best people in the world!
Fun Fact: Birmingham was offered all of the things that Atlanta had (large airport, big business, corporate offices, designer shopping malls, six flags) but the mayors and leaders at the time turned it down even though birmingham was central to everything southern and they went to ATL, Georgia and they said yes
@@josephd.5120 Yeah but I think when the mail service came around, birmingham was more focused on their mining and iron. They did apply but atlanta was chosen over birmingham.
It's crazy to say and maybe I'm biased because ive lived here but I've been all over the world to places like Italy and Greece, Japan, Korea, Seychelles and Africa, and many more places. And even all over the state's except for places like North Dakota and that area. I lived in NC for a couple years and I do like other parts of America but honestly I only want to live in bham. It's such a weird thing to describe but the place just has a vibe and feeling that I can't get anywhere else. Going downtown after eating on a summer night is the absolute best. Everyone is just so nice and it's always a good feeling being out and about with friends here.
For those asking why no one is walking around. For one, It's a car city, a lot of sunbelt cities are like this... Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, LA, Miami, etc.. a lot of urban sprawl causes this. Hence why the interstates are usually bumper to bumper. If you want to see people walking you have to go to the shopping areas of these cities. Downtown is usually just business districts. Can't compare this type of city to places like NYC, Boston, Philly, etc. built totally different. Also, depends on the time of the day, as mentioned the only time you'll see a lot of people moving about downtown is lunchtime, or when people are going home. Just a totally different city.
I feel like Miami definitely and maybe Charlotte and some other would be before Birmingham as a city hub. Still wonderful city and would surprise most people I assume.
Lived here all my life. The city went downhill in the 80's and early 90's while the suburbs were flourishing. A lot of it was blamed on "white flight" but in the late 90's middle class black families started moving out of the city as well due to high crime and bad schools. They've made some great progress cleaning up and revitalizing the downtown area in recent years but the same two major issues of crime and education are still a problem.
@@MoneyComethToshelia you know the Christian conservatives will never allow the lottery. They seem to like watching millions of dollars flow out of state down I20 to Georgia every time the PowerBall or Mega goes up. 😒😠
that is a big city.much cleaner as our cities. not much powlice and no bicycles.lt looks as if that city has tremendously grown in the last decades. Birmingham University is known here. swampy underground so to hear.
😢 Birmingham is a quiet city. I always thought small towns were quiet places to live. But the big cities were noisy. But Birmingham is mighty quiet. Named from Birmingham England.
@@c3realK1ll4h lmfao shut yo lame duck ass up bitch you're not from Bama or the US in general so don't speak on situations you don't know of you peon....
Back in the mid sixties the down town area looked a lot busier than it does now. It is certainly cleaner than it used to be. I hear it is more dangerous now but that is true of America, all over.
Well, except for the traffic light it kind of looks like Los Angeles. This is my first time seeing Alabama. Even though I can not travel any other states because if my health problems, but it is nice to know what other cities looks like.
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This city has definitely changed. That vacant lot on the left by the car dealership is a huge Publix with Lofts above and so many hotels and lofts are now downtown. Restaurants and theaters. There’s now life downtown on the weekend. This looks like a Saturday downtown maybe three or four years ago.
15:20 youre passing by the historic Alabama Theater built in the 1920s by the paramount movie company to show silent movies from hollywood and Vaudeville acts It was the first theater in the state liek this . It still has the original wurlizer pipe organ from the 1920s . It was abandoned in the 1980s and restored in the late 1990s
I used to live in Birmingham in the late 2000s. It was so dead downtown it was sad, like the civil rights era dried the city up. You had to go over to Homewood or down to Hoover, Cahaba, Montgomery or John Hawkins Hwy, or Pelham to find anything really going on. So much shopping around the Galleria. Hopefully it's better in 205 now.
It used to be a ghost town after 5pm downtown but it is much different than it was even 5 years ago. Downtown is thriving with a lot of new construction and many of the older buildings are being remodeled. Lyric Theater has opened downtown and much of the area around it is thriving.
Read somewhere that in 1960 Birmingham population was 340,000 and today it is about 210,000. That is a massive loss of people in 60 years. Why? What the hell happened? Why did so many leave? In that same time period the USA population grew from 180 million to 330 million today.
+Pablo Tupone Some places in the suburbs of downtown are very dangerous, but most big cities have those dangerous places. It has really improved in the last decade, and downtown is now a family friendly, walk around place. It's not the sad and dirty place it was just 10 years ago. Crime overall has dropped a lot recently.
+J Utah beside making video every city, I hope you also give information what cities in USA you recommend not to visit. Because of high crimes etc.. Thanks.
If you are in downtown Birmingham it is quite safe. Once you venture out to west of downtown...shootings going on everyday. Those are the poorer and higher crime areas. Next if you go to Centrepoint and east of Birmingham, you will hear of more crimes and shootings. So my advice is to only hang out in downtown B'ham, Homewood, Hoover, Vestavia Hills....you will love the places I mentioned.
+J Utah yeah. I thought it would be like florence, SC. in my city, MOST of the buildings are at eye level...and the sky is bigger than anything everything is spread....out . just a few tall buildings.. and we still park diagnaly. Places with bad reputation gets overlooked....but this....I think ill go see it for myself
+Terrance addison Come on down. Birmingham has really taken a turn for the better in the last 5-10 years. 10 years ago it was a pretty run down, sad place. A lot of new life has been injected. We now have a lot of great attractions, parks, good restaurants, music venues, and interesting shops. It's very much a walk around city in the downtown area. We have gone from an uninteresting, crime infested city to one that scores close to the top of many lists for best city in the country. Not sure how I ended up here, at this video. I've lived here for 30 years... I guess I just like seeing a different perspective of the place.
+ZyklonB95 exactly It's really going to be competitive with Nashville in about 5 years from now , Birmingham is prime location the last southern mecca. save the best for last they say .the Metropolitan area is about 1.2million. an Birmingham technically would be 600,000* plus within its own population had the "one great city" plan had taken place.its a great time to be from the magic city area ,,,,, get ready :)))!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm so glad those rough riding ass trolleys are gone!
Much love from Birmingham, England
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Much love to you from Bham Al
Birmingham England is probably much better than Birmingham AL and it's rotten history.
@@annt.7785 and birmingham,alabama ,is probably no worse ,than what ever rotten city you call home
I live here. It's really interesting seeing another point of view on places I'm familiar with. Love your channel!
Thank you!
gammaTF2 same
gamma you live downtown or in suburbs like Hoover, Homewood, or Mountainbrook, etc...
I'm originally from and currently living near Warrior in north Jeff Co. But I have lived in Five Points South
Why aren't there crosswalks lol
I've lived here all my life. Traveled to many places, Italy, San Fran, New Orleans, Boston, Martha's Vinyard and many other points unknown. Birmingham is still the place I always want to be. No city is perfect, bad things have gone on and will continue to go on, but once you live in B'ham, you never want to leave. The people are wonderful, the city clean....great restaurants and things to do, everythIng. Yeah, some naysayers will come on and slam the city, but there is just something about the place. No wonder they call it, "The Magic City."
OneWomanAndSomeSongs Birmingham U.K. is better
I teel the exact same way about Baltimore. Both our cities are troubled and misunderstood, but offer an experience unlike anywhere else.
@Sondra Vickers Sondra Vickers All of our jobs got sent to Mexico and China. Corporate capitalist is the biggest sellout of all time, they turned their backs on us for profit. Nothing short of a crime. They should be tried for treason and hung.
@@colerainswaggify6387 whoa calm down there cowboy
I'm from Georgia. When I moved I lived in Birmingham for seven years. Moved back to Georgia my mom wanted me to come back home but I still think about Birmingham almost everyday. I miss birmingham a lot. May not be perfect but no place is. There is just something about Birmingham that stays in your heart.
This video doesn't give justice to the great beauty of this city. The rolling hills that surround it or the view from Red mountain. It is very clean , lush and green!
Ill be back to film again :) Was on a tight schedule this past visit. I appreciate the feedback!
Red Mountain is in Birmingham
if Larry Langford was still here we would have been catching up with Atlanta by now! he was this city best mayor
How he robbed the city? Am I wrong? I grew up here but gone 25 years.
Asking not saying.... but it’s sad to see how slow our growth and high the crime. People need jobs, industry that brings good paying jobs. Best people in the world!
Fun Fact: Birmingham was offered all of the things that Atlanta had (large airport, big business, corporate offices, designer shopping malls, six flags) but the mayors and leaders at the time turned it down even though birmingham was central to everything southern and they went to ATL, Georgia and they said yes
@@josephd.5120 Well, that was a mistake right.
@@josephd.5120 Yeah but I think when the mail service came around, birmingham was more focused on their mining and iron. They did apply but atlanta was chosen over birmingham.
Thanks for the share. I have Birmingham on my US bucket list along with many other places of historical significance.
That's my hometown never going to forget Alabama someday I'm going back
Im moving back.I cant wait.Im really excited.
Wow!! I must say the streets are so clean!
Being in 29 Palms, CA. I watched this a dozen times wishing I could go back home... Thank you for this. I love my city.
It's crazy to say and maybe I'm biased because ive lived here but I've been all over the world to places like Italy and Greece, Japan, Korea, Seychelles and Africa, and many more places. And even all over the state's except for places like North Dakota and that area. I lived in NC for a couple years and I do like other parts of America but honestly I only want to live in bham. It's such a weird thing to describe but the place just has a vibe and feeling that I can't get anywhere else. Going downtown after eating on a summer night is the absolute best. Everyone is just so nice and it's always a good feeling being out and about with friends here.
For those asking why no one is walking around. For one, It's a car city, a lot of sunbelt cities are like this... Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, LA, Miami, etc.. a lot of urban sprawl causes this. Hence why the interstates are usually bumper to bumper. If you want to see people walking you have to go to the shopping areas of these cities. Downtown is usually just business districts. Can't compare this type of city to places like NYC, Boston, Philly, etc. built totally different. Also, depends on the time of the day, as mentioned the only time you'll see a lot of people moving about downtown is lunchtime, or when people are going home. Just a totally different city.
You forgot to mention NYC,Chicago,SF,Charlotte,Nashville,San Diego,San Antonio.
@@user-hf3eb8lj5g NYC and Chicago aren’t sunbelt cities. The others are.
I like your video. I like to see cities in all USA. Thank! Keep on making video about cities in USA. Be Spirit!
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Birmingham isnt a small city. It used to rival Atlanta an is really picking up momentum. This is the souths next hub after Nashville.
Birmingham doesn't rival Atlanta in anything, because it can't compete with Atlanta
"USEDTOO" but thats your opinion sooo.
PaSo Liberty205 Oh my bad, I didn't read your comment all the way.
I feel like Miami definitely and maybe Charlotte and some other would be before Birmingham as a city hub. Still wonderful city and would surprise most people I assume.
Yes it probably did rival Atlanta ->50+ years ago.
Very nice video. Roads are so clean.
Downtown Birmingham today is a much different city than a few years ago. Lots of residential buildings and people downtown now
Craig still a small city
@@californiamade5608 you call that a small city??
the streetscape is interesting, wide sidewalk, median vegetation, its great.
I was surprised as well with the city - That was my first time visiting!
For the people who live in Alabama, I bet they don't never get bored because Alabama will keep them busy.
True, the simplicity of it keeps people here.
Now that is a city i can live in, quiet not overcrowded and clean
Huh? It's the the third city with highest murder rates lol
My daughter just called to the Birmingham Alabama mission and I had to see what it was like! It looks nice!
Ginger Durbin You haven't been to the other areas yet 😅😅😂
Mobile Alabama here, when I come to Birmingham I always have a great time.
Excellent. Its like actually being there. A great look at Birmingham.
Many thanks!
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I live in moody but I love going down town the aesthetic is so pleasing
So glad I live in Birmingham Alabama 😎😎😎
Drove through the other day from phoenix. Nice
Lived here all my life. The city went downhill in the 80's and early 90's while the suburbs were flourishing. A lot of it was blamed on "white flight" but in the late 90's middle class black families started moving out of the city as well due to high crime and bad schools. They've made some great progress cleaning up and revitalizing the downtown area in recent years but the same two major issues of crime and education are still a problem.
Well education wouldn't be a problem if they had the lottery like Atlanta! 🙄 And I want mention the racist and racism that still exists in Birmingham
@@MoneyComethToshelia you know the Christian conservatives will never allow the lottery. They seem to like watching millions of dollars flow out of state down I20 to Georgia every time the PowerBall or Mega goes up. 😒😠
Alabama is one of the most beautiful and sexy places to visit and to live on Earth.The Yellowhammer state the heart of Dixie and the Cotton State.
That looks so amazing and cool!👏👍🙌
I think I'm in love with Alabama. Very nice city to live
It is just like Seattle. They love their pickup trucks.
Very nice city Birmingham Alabama love to visit there love from Richmond virginia
I love Birmingham!!!
Mirandaalexis your from?
The city looks really clean. Good ole south,i guess!
LOL, that's just downtown.
Maurice Blackmon well their is these places located in Birmingham called gate cities. Gate is pretty much short for ghetto
that is a big city.much cleaner as our cities. not much powlice and no bicycles.lt looks as if that city has tremendously grown in the last decades. Birmingham University is known here. swampy underground so to hear.
Its very clean compared to what i would have thought. Greetings from Denmark
Nice place. Shout out from the Philippines
Likewise 😊
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none stop monday- sunday the grind a never stop
I live near there, calera to be specific. Birmingham is where i always go to the hospital at.
LoL just down the road from me in Montevallo :)
I have been to B'ham over 20 times, I live close. You best not turn into the wrong area..just saying....
Well yeah, but that's true in every city in the U.S.
Almost Serious going downtown at 1am is not a comfortable situation.
LOCAL AND DX RADIO i dont understand why is america so dangerous to walk around on streets and live there. i mean u should be able to ge where u want
It's that way everywhere, even in small towns.
Same here in mobile alabama
Pretty, green and clean city!
This city looks pretty organised
Virtually every UK/Irish city has a counterpart in the USA.
not really, but most of those cities named the same were named during colonial times by British colonists not after independence
My dude. What's your occupation that you have the time to do all of this? Not hating or anything, it's dope. You cover a lot of ground. 👌🏾
I would love to move down there
Really?......Uuh,.....Uh'kay.
The Pittsburgh of Alabama. And the Magic City.
awesome Alabama:)
would like to visit Nell Carter's first home.
It's very clean. It looks like a mix of Savannah and a downtown of a city in California. Nice look, B'ham!
kaizersolze what city in California does this city look like? Not San Francisco or LA, not San Diego. More like Fresno or Sacramento to me.
@@californiamade5608 Yeah. I'd say Sacramento.
😢 Birmingham is a quiet city. I always thought small towns were quiet places to live. But the big cities were noisy. But Birmingham is mighty quiet. Named from Birmingham England.
I did some research why this city is called Birmingham cuz it's named after the original Birmingham in England. Sister cities 😅
I live in Birmingham
We have in England the city of Birmingham come end compare it. Sister cities. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Alberto Hernández ours was named after y'alls
You know officially the two Birminghams are not sister cities. Birmingham US sister city is Liverpool while Birmingham sister city is Chicago.
J Groenveld why does this even matter to you lol.
Alberto Hernández except that Birmingham U.K. is a shithole compared to this, Birmingham U.K. is a ghetto overrun by black and Pakistani streetgangs
@@c3realK1ll4h lmfao shut yo lame duck ass up bitch you're not from Bama or the US in general so don't speak on situations you don't know of you peon....
The population in Alabama is 4,903,185. Now that many people who live in the southland of Alabama are glad to call Alabama their homestate
In Lynard Skynyrd song Sweet Home Alabama in the lyrics, in Birmingham, they loved the governor.
Back in the mid sixties the down town area looked a lot busier than it does now. It is certainly cleaner than it used to be. I hear it is more dangerous now but that is true of America, all over.
Can’t wait for you to do Louisville!!
I got my butt ate out in louisville😂😂😁
@@bobbydouglas7909 oh I have too honey!!!
Well, except for the traffic light it kind of looks like Los Angeles. This is my first time seeing Alabama. Even though
I can not travel any other states because if my health problems, but it is nice to know what other cities looks like.
Sandra Dee Lawson. Haha this doesn’t look like Los Angeles lmfao
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This city has definitely changed. That vacant lot on the left by the car dealership is a huge Publix with Lofts above and so many hotels and lofts are now downtown. Restaurants and theaters. There’s now life downtown on the weekend. This looks like a Saturday downtown maybe three or four years ago.
Soy el unico hispano aqui? Birmingham es increíble
Hola prro :v
EmmanuelH vives en birmingham alabama?
James Jdan estaba buscando un comentario en español 😂 quiero ir a Birmingham hoy que Tienta o lugares me recomiendan
Driving through Downtown Birmingham looks a little bit like you're going through Orlando Florida.
Thanx,Nice to see the city.My bro lives there in the burbs.I love the old buildings.carry on.Oh what time of day was this?
+larciabella I was impressed! A good mix between preserved buildings and modern towers. I think this was a Friday afternoon?
Downtown is really clean compared to northern cities.
It's seems quieter than when I drive through here...
My hometown...B'HAM!!!
Beautiful city
I remember the video The children's March about when Dr. King and Bevel fill the jails with children during the Civil rights movements.
Yeah and before they made the left turn at about the 4:30 period they were headed to a park that only one race of people could step foot in
Imprecionante como o estados unidos é lindo❤️
Nada, lixo de país, só iludido e favelado admira essa merda
My grandmother is from here 💕
So is my bd grandma
The state has one person I love ...
Pittsburgh of the South The Magic City
Seems kinda quaint, slow paced....would like to visit someday
Yep. No trains to catch, no Pro sports, not too many tourist attractions other than the civil rights places.
15:20 youre passing by the historic Alabama Theater built in the 1920s by the paramount movie company to show silent movies from hollywood and Vaudeville acts It was the first theater in the state liek this . It still has the original wurlizer pipe organ from the 1920s . It was abandoned in the 1980s and restored in the late 1990s
I miss Alabama !
8:05 Hey Susan! 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽
Alabama is a wonderful place to call home. The Yellowhammer state the heart of Dixie and the cotten State
five years later, the Brown-Marx building at 1:48 on the right is still under construction, and the sidewalk is closed off again.
The south will rise
Hey, didn’t Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth use to preach in Birmingham?
I used to live in Birmingham in the late 2000s. It was so dead downtown it was sad, like the civil rights era dried the city up. You had to go over to Homewood or down to Hoover, Cahaba, Montgomery or John Hawkins Hwy, or Pelham to find anything really going on. So much shopping around the Galleria. Hopefully it's better in 205 now.
It used to be a ghost town after 5pm downtown but it is much different than it was even 5 years ago. Downtown is thriving with a lot of new construction and many of the older buildings are being remodeled. Lyric Theater has opened downtown and much of the area around it is thriving.
Go Bucs!
go bucs
Read somewhere that in 1960 Birmingham population was 340,000 and today it is about 210,000. That is a massive loss of people in 60 years. Why? What the hell happened? Why did so many leave? In that same time period the USA population grew from 180 million to 330 million today.
i saw a video on youtube and this city is considered one of the 10 most dangerous citites in the U.S...:(
+Pablo Tupone Did not get that feeling at all. The city center and Homewood both felt very safe. Would recommend!
+Pablo Tupone Some places in the suburbs of downtown are very dangerous, but most big cities have those dangerous places. It has really improved in the last decade, and downtown is now a family friendly, walk around place. It's not the sad and dirty place it was just 10 years ago. Crime overall has dropped a lot recently.
+J Utah beside making video every city, I hope you also give information what cities in USA you recommend not to visit. Because of high crimes etc.. Thanks.
Pablo Tupone it’s a very safe black city, try Johannesburg, jeesh
If you are in downtown Birmingham it is quite safe. Once you venture out to west of downtown...shootings going on everyday. Those are the poorer and higher crime areas. Next if you go to Centrepoint and east of Birmingham, you will hear of more crimes and shootings. So my advice is to only hang out in downtown B'ham, Homewood, Hoover, Vestavia Hills....you will love the places I mentioned.
So! long ago. How things have changed.
Birmingham looks pretty generic unfortunately. Where are the people and hustle bustle? I just see cars and buildings.
Joshua LeonardoASMR All them bruddah are hiding in the buildings ready to shoot and mug someone
Probably at work
Like of u live in Birmingham or in alabama
I’m in Mobile
Красивый автомобиль! Beautiful car!
does Birmingham have any good public transportation?
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But if there's one positive statement I make about the American state of Alabama is she is a huge state!!!
Anyone from the UK LMAO
SOTV keep right on
not what i thought it would be....
+Terrance addison Myself as well. I was impressed with the size and the vibe of the city!
+J Utah yeah. I thought it would be like florence, SC. in my city, MOST of the buildings are at eye level...and the sky is bigger than anything everything is spread....out . just a few tall buildings.. and we still park diagnaly. Places with bad reputation gets overlooked....but this....I think ill go see it for myself
+Terrance addison Come on down. Birmingham has really taken a turn for the better in the last 5-10 years. 10 years ago it was a pretty run down, sad place. A lot of new life has been injected. We now have a lot of great attractions, parks, good restaurants, music venues, and interesting shops. It's very much a walk around city in the downtown area. We have gone from an uninteresting, crime infested city to one that scores close to the top of many lists for best city in the country.
Not sure how I ended up here, at this video. I've lived here for 30 years... I guess I just like seeing a different perspective of the place.
+ZyklonB95 exactly It's really going to be competitive with Nashville in about 5 years from now , Birmingham is prime location the last southern mecca. save the best for last they say .the Metropolitan area is about 1.2million. an Birmingham technically would be 600,000* plus within its own population had the "one great city" plan had taken place.its a great time to be from the magic city area ,,,,, get ready :)))!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Terrance addison Birmingham is slowly growing ive lived here my whole life it's awesome
But how come it's so quiet, cuz I always believe cities are the noisy places and towns are the quiet ones.
a southern new york
HAH!!!
Looks like Houston downtown
My kind of city.
Nice💗💗💗
ALABAMA band performs My home's in Alabama.
The Furnace is the place to be in Birmingham.