Are you sitting down?

Birmingham’s being flooded with positive recognition.

Amazingly, most of these headline are within the past 30 days.

It’s enough to make the Birmingham haters scream for mercy.

Click on the headlines to see the story:

National Geographic magazine highlights Birmingham as a city on the upswing al.com, March 8, 2013

Zagat restaurant guide names Birmingham one of country’s 7 ‘up-and-coming food cities’ al.com, March 8, 2013

Alabama Theatre one of nation’s most beautiful Flavorwire, March 1, 2013

USA Today names Birmingham as one of ten great places for a fabulous film festival USA Today, February 22, 2013

Urbanspoon’s most popular restaurant bar list features four from Birmingham Urban Spoon, March 11, 2013

Birmingham makes ‘Today’ show list of six hot places to travel in 2013 due to Civil Rights commemoration, affordability al.com, January 1 ,2013

Birmingham, Al–One of top 15 cities with emerging downtown Forbes.com, March 26, 2013

Award winning Railroad Park, Regions Park, the Rotary Trail, the Sloss Welcome Center, Uptown, and the Lyric Theatre are here, under construction, or on the way. Or maybe you’re going to join the thousands at the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama?

And to top it off…

UAB in top 10 best medical schools, says U.S. News–School of Medicine tops the likes of Harvard U.S. News, March, 2013

Birmingham’s number #1 in quality of life.

If you don’t believe it, read what others say.

Birmingham haters, how are you going to spin this?

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David Sher is a co-founder of Buzz12 Marketing and co-CEO of AmSher Receivables Management. He’s past Chairman of the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce (BBA), Operation New Birmingham (ONB), and the City Action Partnership (CAP).

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