Do you live where you grew up?

[Kermit power]

I was born in the UK and live here now (albeit a couple of hundred miles away), but grew up in multiple European countries, so went for "on the same continent".

[shirt]

slopes said:

Sheets Tabuer said:

There's a guy in my village, about mid fifties and has only ever been to the local town about 5 miles away. Doesn't have a driving license, never been abroad.

Back when i lived in Doncaster, i once got chatting to an older woman and mentioned we had been to Whitby.
Where is that?
The coast about x miles away, north of east of York.
Where is York?

Hold on....have you ever been outside of Doncaster?
No
You've never been to Sheffield then?
Where is that?

i once stayed in a hotel in dumbarton for work. i asked the barman where was the best place to go for a curry.

oh there's nowhere really.

what? for real? glasgow is supposed to be great for a curry!

oh you mean glasgow. sorry wouldn't know, haven't been there for years.

mate, you can see glasgow from the window ffs!

[Gtom]

I’m in the process of buying the family home so I won’t have moved far at all. I’m only buying it because it’s the right house, it’s the right price and the location isn’t too bad.
Always lived within 5 miles of it, not always through choice, it’s just how it’s happened. I had the chance 15 years ago to live in Perth WA but the then Mrs didn’t want to. I could say I regret not going but I’m happy with how things are now.

[GappySmeg]

Grew up in a lovely small town, moved away to uni, then to the big smoke for hedonistic 20's, moved back to small town to start a family.
Quite a common story by all accounts.

[Quattromaster]

Three doors down from the house I grew up in.

Small village in North Essex, been here 47 of my 53 years on the planet.

[Davie]

I’m back where I started.

My folks moved several times when I was very young but separated, so I moved with my mother to a small village where my grandparents lived. My mother then got a house there and I went through primary and secondary schools so said village was always my home.

I moved away, went down south, moved back to Scotland and lived a few places until meeting my now wife and we had a house in East Lothian. Covid hit, we sold up with a view to moving to somewhere less isolated because of the newly arrived baby. House hunting was a nightmare, ended up with her father post sale.

Given my home village was where a lot of my school friends parents still lived, an opportunity presented itself to buy one of said parents houses who were moving on at a price that couldn’t be ignored… and so, nigh on 25 years later, I’m back and in some ways I’m quite happy to be back and in others, I’m not so sure.

My little girl goes to nursery in the same classroom I finished primary 7… and my little boys relief teacher also taught me. But what was odd is bumping into people I was at school, with their kids and then realising, that’s also me. Wife was a bit on guard with the mums at first until she accepted I had no history here in that sense!

Funny how life turns out at times…

[Wacky Racer]

I've lived in eight houses all within 20 miles of my birthplace, except for nine months living on the south coast in 1972.

[Nethybridge]

Early days, interesting, with 13 % claiming to be born same or different continent it
roughly matches our current population not born in the UK.


Still in the same town, never moved, and can trace my underwear back to 1956.

[Alex_225]

I'm 41 now, lived in the same area up until about 8 weeks ago. Moved from my parents place when I was 23 to the next small town. Recently moved from Surrey to Gloucestershire so I'm same country but 130 miles from my original home.

[J4CKO]

I have done a triangle round Manchester airport from Heald Green, to Timperley for a bit and then Wilmslow.

[M005]

Born in Leicester, now live in Brisbane, Australia.

In a weird twist of fate, my sister (only sibling) moved to live ~2km from me a few years back, first time we've lived on the same continent since she left uni & went to Hong Kong 20yrs prior.

Parents (separated) still back in the UK and now both living back n the same villiage they did when I was born 46yrs ago.

[BossHogg]

Grew up in Bootle on the outskirts of Liverpool, left to join the army in 1986, returned in 1993, met the wife to be in Cumbria in 1996, moved in with her 6 months later and been here ever since.

[wibble cb]

Grew up in and around west berks, but been in Toronto for 18 years now, likely not coming back either!

[bmwmike]

wibble cb said:

Grew up in and around west berks, but been in Toronto for 18 years now, likely not coming back either!

Is the expat meetup group still going?

[fttm]

wibble cb said:

Grew up in and around west berks, but been in Toronto for 18 years now, likely not coming back either!

Born NSW , moved to Somerset at 8 years old , Saskatchewan Canada for the last 20 years . Won't be leaving

[Skeptisk]

Nethybridge said:

Early days, interesting, with 13 % claiming to be born same or different continent it
roughly matches our current population not born in the UK.

I assume that there are many like me who were born in the U.K. but emigrated, rather than the other way around.

[lrdisco]

Now back to within 3 miles of where I was brought up. Moved a lot though. 30+ times man and boy due to family.
Spent 5 years on a different continent and 10 years in N Yorkshire now back in E Yorkshire.
Very different places. One costal and one Dales.
Pleased to be home but planning to go to Spain in the next 2-3 years if my health allows.
I hate our winters and they make my body ache.

[ntiz]

Couldn’t get out of North Norfolk fast enough. Thought it was boring and restrictive.

Went and lived in various places across Europe through my 20s.

Fast forward to my early 30s I’m now living a whopping 100 metres from the house I grew up in. Married with a 7 year old with another on the way. Couldn’t be happier in North Norfolk now, we love it.

Funny how perspectives change.

[smifffymoto]

I’m in the process of trying to leave France and move back to the village I grew up and started out married life.
I can’t wait to get back to Holmes Chapel,it may have changed a bit in the past 14 years but all my family and friends still live there.

[cheesejunkie]

I think it might be a factor of being moved when young but I don't feel a strong affiliation to any place I grew up in. If you ask me where I'm from I'll answer with a city but if you take a deep dive into who I know there you'll rapidly realise that I don't know many and my affection for the place is not very deep. Mentioned on another thread all siblings have emigrated as have all my wife's. I now live near my wife's locale rather than my own.

I've lived on other continents but ended up within 100 miles of my parents. I'm not a home bird but my wife is.