Do you live where you grew up?
Poll: Do you live where you grew up?
Total Members Polled: 384
Discussion
I live in the same area, we live in the house my wife grew up in, we bought it from her parents.
She has never lived outside of the first 3 digits if her postcode.
My life in the Merchant Navy means I have got out & about plenty, and as a result the edge of the Quantock hills in an incredibly clam & homely place to live.
We have looked further afield but the combination of London being 2 hours away by train, house prices, family, peace & quiet & country pursuits is hard to beat.
She has never lived outside of the first 3 digits if her postcode.
My life in the Merchant Navy means I have got out & about plenty, and as a result the edge of the Quantock hills in an incredibly clam & homely place to live.
We have looked further afield but the combination of London being 2 hours away by train, house prices, family, peace & quiet & country pursuits is hard to beat.
Born and lived in a few towns in Central Scotland until I was 56, then with the Girlfriend, now Mrs, moved to Moray, where she had holidayed for years.
Apart from being a bit further from our adult kids, though one is in Helsinki and one in Adelaide, it's great, we're 10 minutes from a 7 mile beach, few neighbour and fresh air.
No litter, fireworks, and none of the sectarian poison that infects Central Scotland.
Best thing ever!
Apart from being a bit further from our adult kids, though one is in Helsinki and one in Adelaide, it's great, we're 10 minutes from a 7 mile beach, few neighbour and fresh air.
No litter, fireworks, and none of the sectarian poison that infects Central Scotland.
Best thing ever!
Nope.
Lived in the same place from birth until I moved out as a young adult.
Interesting that neither do my parents, siblings or any old friends - everyone is now somewhere different in the UK or the world.
So no actual reason to ever go back.
In the past when traveling though the area I've done a motorway diversion for a quick drive around to look at houses I lived in, places we hung out as kids, schools etc but found it all a bit underwhelming and unrelatable. So doubt I'd bother doing it again.
It's not that it was an unhappy time or an unpleasant place, it's objectively a desirable place.
I just don't think I'm particularly sentimental in that respect. I like spending time with people I value wherever that may be
Just not fussed looking at an old place thinking "oh look, they've cut the apple tree down we used to play on and put a driveway on the front garden, I used to play in that after school with my childhood friend John at No.53" or "y'see see that Tesco Express there, that used to be a Barclays bank I used to pay in my salary cheques into when I got my first job" or "looks like the old Red Lion is a Turkish restaurant these days".
Lived in the same place from birth until I moved out as a young adult.
Interesting that neither do my parents, siblings or any old friends - everyone is now somewhere different in the UK or the world.
So no actual reason to ever go back.
In the past when traveling though the area I've done a motorway diversion for a quick drive around to look at houses I lived in, places we hung out as kids, schools etc but found it all a bit underwhelming and unrelatable. So doubt I'd bother doing it again.
It's not that it was an unhappy time or an unpleasant place, it's objectively a desirable place.
I just don't think I'm particularly sentimental in that respect. I like spending time with people I value wherever that may be
Just not fussed looking at an old place thinking "oh look, they've cut the apple tree down we used to play on and put a driveway on the front garden, I used to play in that after school with my childhood friend John at No.53" or "y'see see that Tesco Express there, that used to be a Barclays bank I used to pay in my salary cheques into when I got my first job" or "looks like the old Red Lion is a Turkish restaurant these days".
NDA said:
I grew up in a small Devonshire town. I have lived and worked in London nearly all my life (although now living in Hampshire)... I cannot imagine how life would be if I'd stayed in a small Devonshire town, very different.
You are not dissimilar to me. Was born in a Devon City but we moved a couple of time for my Dad's career then post uni I moved all around the country and worked overseas for a few years. The most time was spent working in central London and i loved every minute of it. The pace was demanding but it help grow my career to give me an excellent living and some nice toys. I could not imagine a life where I'd stayed where i was born. The boredom of provincial living would have killed me although i have returned to live by the sea (Hampshire) as that's where my non work related passion has always been.
I will never be far from the sea.
Yay - I think I can win this one! 
Born in Carlton Lodge on Leeds Road in Harrogate - it is a care home now but was a maternity home for mums having 3 child onwards in the 60s.
I now live two streets away, 0.4 of a mile according to Google maps, 3 minutes by car or 9 minutes flat walk.
My secondary school was a similar distance in the other direction!
I should get out more....
Born in Carlton Lodge on Leeds Road in Harrogate - it is a care home now but was a maternity home for mums having 3 child onwards in the 60s.
I now live two streets away, 0.4 of a mile according to Google maps, 3 minutes by car or 9 minutes flat walk.
My secondary school was a similar distance in the other direction!
I should get out more....
Born in Cornwall, bought up on the outskirts of Bristol, joined the Forces and moved around a lot then settled in Hampshire for a long time before moving to Wales. Happiest here and always enjoyed my time over here whilst in the Forces, just feels like home. I do find it interesting and I am slightly jealous of people who have always lived in the same town/village and have a close circle of friends even from school days.
Countdown said:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th houses were all about 300 yards of each other.
It's a small town in East Lancashire , nice area, good schools, low crime, 20 minutes from Manchester and most importantly its close to family.
I reckon you’re just south of me over the big hill.It's a small town in East Lancashire , nice area, good schools, low crime, 20 minutes from Manchester and most importantly its close to family.
I’ve lived within 4 miles of where I was born all my life and quite like it.
I’m a mile from a motorway, 3 airports within an hour, I can get to London by train in 2.5 hours and there are great and empty driving roads within 10 minutes.
Property prices are relatively low here and there’s no way we could have afforded our house if it was in the vast majority of the rest of the country.
However, the main reason we’re staying here is because our kids and grandkids are here and will be for the foreseeable future. Our middle son has a very good local job and his brothers own their own business, so none of them will be abandoning us any time soon.
Born in Harborough Magna just outside Rugby, but lived in Rugby most of my life with a few years in West London back in the '80s. My job is here with a ten minute drive each way, passing my two sister's homes on the way as well as the nursery, infants and middle schools I went to. A two minute detour on my drive to work takes me past the house we lived in from '65 to '78 and two minutes in the other direction is the church where my parents were married and the pub my paternal grandparents ran for ten years, it's also where my dad died, with a pint in his hand.
My brother lives down in Bristol doing the same job as me, we pass each other occasionally and wave(!).
Weirdly, whenever I'm back in West London with work or visiting mum's side of the family, it still feels as much like home as where I live now, despite moving back up here almost forty years ago.
My brother lives down in Bristol doing the same job as me, we pass each other occasionally and wave(!).
Weirdly, whenever I'm back in West London with work or visiting mum's side of the family, it still feels as much like home as where I live now, despite moving back up here almost forty years ago.
Back in the same town I lived in until early teens. Moved a few miles when married and now back in the town but across the other side.
Chose commuting instead of moving as it made sense financially and family upheaval negated. Wife’s work, childrens’ schooling and interests/friends.
Commute was 25 miles each way then 60 each way later.
As well as financial and family reasons my interests/ hobbies would have changed, similar with the family.
Turned out great for our retirement.
Chose commuting instead of moving as it made sense financially and family upheaval negated. Wife’s work, childrens’ schooling and interests/friends.
Commute was 25 miles each way then 60 each way later.
As well as financial and family reasons my interests/ hobbies would have changed, similar with the family.
Turned out great for our retirement.
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