Leafy Harborne, with your pretty duck pond, ornate shrubbery and astonishing house prices. You're like Dannii to Bournville's Kylie; the similar-looking, but slightly naughtier, suburban sibling who’d rather drink booze than eat chocolate.
Yes, you know you live in Harborne when…
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Tom Lennon
…you sometimes worry that your major contribution to Birmingham culture is the Harborne Mile pub crawl.
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Tom Lennon
...one of your local boozers is the only known instance of Schrödinger's Pub: it’s a White Swan and a Dirty Duck at the same time.
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Tom Lennon
…it’s mathematically impossible to draw a straight line through the local Waitrose without crossing at least one person dressed in a North Face jacket.
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Tom Lennon
..you’re menaced by gangs of vicious geese.
(Geese fact: the collective term for a group of goslings is known as ‘a Ryan’).
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Tom Lennon
…you’ve got such a wide range of international cuisine on your doorstep, you could quite easily circumnavigate the globe from the comfort of your postcode.
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Tom Lennon
…the local club scene is cunningly disguised as someone’s house.
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Tom Lennon
…a quick trip into the city centre by bus means jumping on a 22, 23, 24 or 29. Everything else seems to go via Huddersfield.
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Tom Lennon
…your old butcher’s shop has been turned into a restaurant that serves ridiculously tasty chicken wings to diners sat at tables made from pallets.
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Tom Lennon
…seeing Thor, Batman and Elsa from 'Frozen' stumbling along the High Street means there’s a new batch of freshers doing the Harborne Mile.
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Twitter: @HarborneBatman
…you have your very own grumpy, bat-themed vigilante on Twitter.
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Tom Lennon
…Broad Street is only a couple of miles away, so walking home after a big night out in town isn't such a ridiculous idea.
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Tom Lennon
…and you’re never too far from a duck pond.
Can you think of any more? Just let us know in the comments below…
Alternatively, perhaps you are more familiar with Sutton Coldfield or Longbridge.