Birmingham's a massively underrated place (I can understand why someone who gets the train to New Street and goes straight to Villa Park and back again might not see it that way).
Work in Leeds quite a lot - not keen, too generic and built up. Not as impressive as Manchester but not as homely as...
In my experience, Liverpool's one of the friendliest places I've been to.
Lovely people, lovely vibe.
One of the pubs let me briefly borrow their Gibson guitar for no other reason than "so I can say I've played one".
To provide some context to this judgement, on my only visit to Stoke for the FA...