{"id":3043,"date":"2016-01-29T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-solihull-west-midlands\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T23:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:56:15","slug":"lets-move-to-solihull-west-midlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-solihull-west-midlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Solihull, West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nUrbs in rure, goes its slogan, though it\u2019s more rure in urbs, with fragments of its quaint past embraced by suburbiaWhat\u2019s going for it? You say Solly-hull, I say Sow-lihul. It\u2019s all terribly terribly, round here \u2013 all Groves, Avenues and Crescents, 1920s lawns and conifers. Under different circumstances, it might have continued life as a small Warwickshire market town with a fine sandstone parish church, a manor house and a huddle of half-timbered cottages, but Brum fattened up in the 20th century, its girth swilling over pretty Solihull. Urbs in rure, goes its slogan, though it\u2019s more rure in urbs, with the fragments of its quaint past now gripped in the suburban embrace of Ramada hotels, John Lewis and labyrinthine avenues called Beechnut Lane. Solihull was voted the best place to live in the UK a few years back and, indeed, it is the kind of untroubling town the nation, had we met by committee, might have agreed on as the optimum place in which to while away our lives, trimming the hedges and polishing the Land Rover.The case against You can tire of 1920s suburbia. The centre is humdrum. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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