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UAB and Five Points is really nice. I think the area just around and south of Vulcan is great. Farther south is Hoover, a really nice area. I flew over the city in a helicopter at only a couple hundred feet. You can request a VFR overflight of the downtown from Birmingham Tower since KBHM is Class Charlie Airspace. On the ground however, most of the rest of the town (like the other 80% besides what is mentioned) is like a third-world country. Just one giant ghetto. Go to 5 points.
thegothicl
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If you knit.....
If you knit you have to visit Nouvoe Knits in down town Homewood!!!!!!!!!!!
Alabadrock
Tuscaloosa
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Why I recommend this place to visitors
I recommend this place because, after it’s troubling past, it has made something of itself. If you’re ever looking for a city that has done it’s absolute best to try and rebirth itself and change it’s ways, Birmingham is it. It’s pact full of history and I’ve never had a shortage of things to do, it’s amazing.
I live in North Alabama, so, I can’t make it down very often, but, when I do, I’m always anxious to get there and enjoy myself. Eventually, I do plan to live there.
ecu4awhile
Greensboro
Not worth visiting!
Historically Boring
My college football team had a bowl game in Birmingham. The bars dont close…(they obviously dont know ECU fans). ECU fans beat the crap out of some USF fans and got put on the patty wagon. THey shut the bar down for the entire night. That was the most excitement Birmingham has seen in decades. UAB students cannot be cool.
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