Where to live in Birmingham?

[BrummieReturner]

We are hoping to move to Birmingham. We'd like a suburb on a bus route into the city centre no more than an hour on the bus. Schools not an issue as dc now at university. Probably can spend 250k and would like 3 bedrooms. Where is nice for that money? I gather Harborne is very expensive these days?

Harborne is nice and so is Solihull. Expensive though. Sutton Coldfield is nice but a bit boring (I used to live there). Bourneville is gorgeous. Moseley lovely to raise a family but again, expensive.

I've lived in all those places apart from Harborne. Moseley was my favourite and I would absolutely move back there when DS is older.

i lived in Halesowen very much small town on main Hagley road for the center, Harbourne has always been expensive but nice my aunt lived there, Kingstanding isnt too bad

Thanks I like the look of Halesowen.

I live on the Trainline which runs from worceStwr to Birmingham. I'm
About a 20 minute train ride to brum city centre.

A friend lives in Stourbridge and I always think how lovely it is whenever I visit her.

Lovely Moseley/Kings Heath, it’s where DH grew up. Not great for city centre connections (no train) but gorgeous houses and a great community.

I grew up in Moseley & Kings Heath. You don't have a train to town but you do have the number 50 bus, which is along every 2 minutes, literally. Plus there's loads to do round there.

Stourbridge and surrounding villages are lovely and you’d get more for your money than in Harborne or Moseley. Close to Merry Hill and on a train route to Birmingham

I live longbridge way on and think it’s teally nice. There’s some lovely houses round cofton Hackett too.

This may be a "dead thread" but I'll add my two penneth worth anyway...

What you want is Bearwood - it's where you go if you can't afford Harborne (which has gone silly) but still want to be in that part of town (which is great). It's very much on the up and my house has literally doubled in value in the last six years ! BIG Victorian houses with very decent gardens, nice shops in the high street, a genuine sense of community, Warley woods to go walking or for a picnic, yearly street festival which is much better than the Harborne silly circus, 15 minute bus ride into the "West End" of Brum, plans for the tram to come down the Hagley Road - it just ticks all boxes.

Mosley is nice but it's way out in the burbs compared with Bearwood.
I walk out of my back door, all I can see are trees, I walk out of my front door and (in the car) six minutes later I'm at Gas Street Basin. Sorted.