Do you live near where you did when you were 14?

Ahahha funnily enough, I do. I left home aged 19 to go to London, and lived in the UK all my adult life. Been back to my Swiss mountains for 3 years now- and live about 6 miles from my old home- does that count?

I'd put it at 7 miles in my case.

I'm one of the other 50%. I have lived over 400 miles from where I was born for the past 32 years.

Amazingly only 105 miles between our home in Normandy and my birthplace in south-east England. Never done it in less than five and a half hours though!

Should add I was still there at 14. Very good website "as the crow flies".

Never moved house until college at 18. Now have moved round and round. Over 100 miles away from childhood home.

I now live about 20 miles from where I was born and grew up and even closer to where DH was brought up. But, in the meantime we have moved around a fair bit and spent a year in Australia.

It would be interesting to know how people end up where they do. Whether they didn't stray far or returned for any other reason.

We came back to be close to DH's parents when they were getting older and frail (MiL suffered a stroke aged 61 but lived to be 80). DH is one of 4 boys but none of the others seemed to think it was a good idea to move back. It has had the benefit (?) of us now living close to my Mum and close to my brothers.

I am now in the same house as I was when I was 14 typing this thread.
I lived in Sutton Coldfield and moved to London for work and got early retirement. I owned a house in London.
Both my mother and wife passed away within months of each other.
I discussed the situation with my father as I had inherited my mothers half of the house and we decided there was no point in me buying a separate house and I came back to my childhood home.
The other motivation to come back to Sutton Coldfield was my 2 daughters went to Birmingham University and settled in Birmingham.

Frank

Good morning Frank. My parents, when alive, lived in Streetley, bordering Sutton Park? Do you know the area?

I live only 5 miles from where I lived when I was 14. As I wrote on another thread, by my 21 birthday I had had 21 permanent addresses, attended 10 schools and lived in 6 countries, and I would add 7 different locations in the UK.

Why do I live where I do now? Well, after university I got my first job in London. I married someone whose work involved a lot of travel in this country and abroad, this meant living somewhere with easy access to Heathrow and Gatwick and tyrains to London, so we bought a house in south east Berkshire.

DC reached 11 and I was returning to work full time and work and having to run a family taxi service because we lived in a rural area meant we moved to a house close to the centre of Reading where the children could get around on public transport..

With children independent we decided to move somewhere quieter, we have also always hankered to buy a really old house in need of restoration, but DH was still working so still had to be able to get to airports and trains to London. This pushed us to north west Berkshire and a house that just happens to be 5 miles from where I lived when I was 14.

I live 35 miles from where I lived aged 14. From 21 -31 I lived 5 miles further up the A41 (the New Chester Road). At aged 32 I moved to my present home I'm very happy here.

We moved because DHs employment situation was precarious and he was offered a permanent job. I would have found it a wrench to leave my parents had they been alive then but I was happy to wave goodbye to my dragon of a mil having lived in the next road to her for the first 11 years of my married life.

That dammed house again!

I live within 6 miles of where I lived at 14, this is the furthest away I've ever lived from my childhood home.. apart from my son all my family live within a few miles too.

Around 300 miles! I was born in the house on the coast of Ayrshire where we lived until I was 17. Then my father's job took us over towards Edinburgh and I went to University in St Andrews, since when I've lived in Kenya and several different addresses in England - now NE Cheshire. I haven't lived in Scotland since I was 24.

I live about 2,000 miles from where I lived when I was 14 years old, and even further from there earlier in my life. In fact except for the present, now I live about 150 miles from the place where I was born.

I live about 4 miles from where i lived at 14 x

I live less than 3 miles from were I grew up, all my siblings have moved away but I am still here and very happy about that. I used to hate being away from home, I am not as bad now.

I'm about an hour and a quarter's drive away from where I was fetched up (as my Dad used to say - mostly to wind up my Mother!), and I'll be popping in there later this month as my brother still lives there.

Hi Soop

I know of Streetley.
I do not know exactly where it starts and finishes.
I had a friend in Foley Road West some years ago but sadly he has now passed away.
I understand when I drive up the Chester Road to the Old Irish Harp for a meal occasionally I go through Streetly.

Frank

I live in Berkshire about 8 miles from where I was born in Surrey but about 60 miles from where I lived at 14 (Wiltshire) I have lived in Australia in between though.

anno my late oh was born in Ardrossan.
I was born in Westbromwich and now live just outside Bristol.

I live around six miles away from where I lived at 14. This is the furthest I've ever lived from where I was born. Although I lived at several addresses over the years I never moved out of a 3 mile radius until I was 47 and moved here.

London born and bred, although quite widely travelled, and for many of my adult years I lived within 10 miles of my family home. Three years ago I moved up to Darlington in the North-east as part of my plan for the Great Upheaval. Mr absent was born in Darlington and lived here until he was 20, when he moved down to London, so it was quite strange for him to return. His Mum was still alive when we came here (she died towards the end of last year at the grand old age of 93 and a very important quarter) and there are still lots of brothers and sisters locally. However, the Great Upheaval – otherwise described as emigration to New Zealand – is due to happen on 10 May. Then I shall be living about as far away from where I lived when I was 14 as it's possible to be.

Galen

Don't worry. Every lock has been changed on the house and a new alarm has been installed so she will not get in.

Frank