Property News · May 15, 2015

Let’s move to Kings Heath, Birmingham


It’s the promised land, with a touch of bohemia drifting in from MoseleyWhat’s going for it? Kings Heath is the promised land. Indeed, before we all got aspirations about individual fulfilment through things other than a daily commute to nine-to-five jobs, suburbs such as this supplied everything most of us could dream of. The loveliest homes: late Victorian or 1920s, all period details and roomy rooms. The streets are broad and bursting with juicy trees. There are parks for toddlers and terriers to run wild: one, Kings Heath, all tea rooms and municipal borders; the other, Highbury, rambling and raggedy. Golf course? Of course. Good schools. The High Street is just the right side of humdrum. But Kings Heath has a wild side, too. A touch of bohemia is drifting in from Moseley. Da Heath is gathering a “scene”, since Laura Mvula waxed lyrical about her hometown in Green Garden. The magnificent Hare & Hounds has long let commuters unleash their inner mosh: coming gigs promise Young Fathers and Thurston Moore. But the flat whites are coming. Before you know it, there’ll be craft beer and everything.The case against Occasionally plagued by tornadoes (yes, really: 2005, 1931). You miss a train station. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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