I'm sorry but having gone to school down the road from Yardley in Acocks Green, and also worked for a year in Yardley, there is absolutely no way it's 'quite a nice area'. It's chavvy, the pubs are rough and I've seen rats running out of people's front gardens.
I grew up in Yardley, it does have its good and bad parts, but it is a nice area.
Acocks Green on the other hand!! Gospel lane alone is worse than all the bad parts of Yardley... I lived in Pollard Road for 5 years and could not wait to get out of there.
the first week I moved in I was filling a skip and from the time it took to go upstairs to get some stuff to put in the skip and back downstairs some kids had set the skip on fire!
lets not have a competition of whose shit area is better or worse,,, ive got a cousin who lives in Alum Rock.