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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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?