West Brom and the black country have many positives. The beer (Bathams in particular), good curry houses, the great black country museum, Dudley Zoo, Merry Hill, Great fish and chip shops, proper people, the Vine on a Saturday, pork scratchings..... I could go on. Really happy with where I am living now, but I would note in 1983 when I left school, if I wanted to work I had no choice but to move. Mrs Thatcher had mullered the jobs market, and there was no work... not even at MacDonalds.