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

I was born and brought up in West Yorkshire but left to go to college and haven't lived there since. Our home is now about 90 miles from where I was born but in the meantime I've lived in Liverpool, Chester, London and near Worcester, moving because of DH's job. Quite a lot of our time has also been spent in the Netherlands, where DH worked for a few years.

I grew up in the North, 280 miles away and never, ever saw myself staying there. It just seemed the thing to do - to move to a bigger world. I just couldn't imagine staying but always enjoyed my trips 'back home'. My immediate family are all now London and striking distance thereof so moving back North wouldn't happen but, even so, I doubt I'd want to. I love all London has to offer.

Maybe if you grow up in London or the Home Counties, there's little incentive to move anywhere else - the bright lights of?

I live in the same road that i grew up in and my father (86) still lives in that house now. I left my parents house when i got married and lived a couple of miles away for about 6 months before buying a house back in my parents road. My oldest DD and her partner live with me and and my youngest DD and SIL and DGD live just around the corner from me and i see them all every day. We live in Warley, West Midlands about 5 miles from Birmingham city centre.

Born in Perth Scotland, moved to Wales at age five. Left home and lived in London at the age of 17, got married there had children there and then moved to Wiltshire. Left in 1977 and came to cardiff, have now m oved moved from cardiff to a plave near Barry, Vale of Glam. At the age of 71 I think my traveling days are over and will probably stay where I am,

Where you've been since 14 is really interesting. I think the speaker on Today meant to suggest the 50% had stayed put. Sometimes the case but some of us are real globe trotters.

I lived near Wetherby, North Yorkshire when I was 14, I now live 95 miles away in Northumberland - via Leicstershire, Kent, London, Essex, Northamptonshire and Co. Durham.

Not 25 miles, should have typed 15 miles.

I'm around 45 miles from where I lived when I was 14. At that time I lived in Bushey, Herts. Moved further North when we married and have been in the same small town now for 37 years but have move once within the town. All three of our DDs live within 25 miles of where they were born but none quite as close as 5 miles.

Both daughters grew up in Surbiton where I now live. One has only moved a few miles to New Malden, but the other lives in Luxembourg.

I'm 270 miles away from where I was at 14 and have lived in 9 houses since then. Can't imagine what it must be like to stay in one location all one's life. I think I must have some wanderlust genes.

I'm seven miles away from where I grew up. Mr H grew up two miles away from Me. Our son lives near us, but our daughter lives 300 miles away - she'd love to come home, though. I love to travel, but have no desire to live anywhere else - this, I feel, is where I belong. That said, if my son also moved in the direction of my daughter (not unlikely for work purposes), then we would rent out this house and rent a place near them. I'll definitely end my days here, though! My roots are in the soil here!

No, born and brought up in Scottish Borders, then university, and married sttraight after graduating. Moved to London like so many of my peers and stayed there until move to North Bucks, mid-80's When I do go back to the Borders, I feel half and half "at home" and a complete stranger. Miss having roots really.

I live on the other side of the world from West Yorkshire where I was born and lived to age 19, when I had a year or two in Vienna. However, while I was still in the UK, I spent most of the time very close to where I was at 14, apart from 4 years in Portsmouth which was not a choice but a necessity - DH was a sailor.

I never thought about this before Lilygran but I was born in my grandmas old house which is just 3 miles away from where I now live (we only moved here about 18 months ago) . My grandma is 97 and now lives in a little bungalow which is every closer to us.

Galen, I went to that Scout jamboree in Sutton park too. I lived in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield until I was 13. I now live 8 miles from the place I lived in from then until I went to uni. I have moved quite a bit but in the same area. Another move necessary and urgent because of DH failing health. Wish we didn't have to go from our home!

I live about 2 miles from where I grew up. I have only lived in 3 houses. I left home to get married at 21. We lived in that house which was still in my home town for 13 yrs. Then moved 1mile from there. Still here 26 yrs later.

OH is from London. I wanted to move there when we married but he liked this semi rural area. And of course property is much cheaper.

I live about 5 miles from where I was born. We lived in Germany for three years, but couldn't wait to get back to UK. We recently went back to the town were we lived in Germany, for a short break. It was beautiful and I wonder why I didn't appreciate it 40 years ago!

I was born in Brighton, live in Beirut for a couple of years, then moved to London when I married. Now live in Surbiton.

I am now about 1,000 miles away from where I was brought up and when I am back in UK I am about 160 miles away. The nearest I ever lived to where I lived when 14 was when I lived in another part of Surrey for twenty years.

Why 14 I wonder?

I'm another of the other 50%. I left home to go to uni when I was eighteen and since then the nearest I've lived to the place I lived when I was fourteen is about 90 miles, and that was only for one year. The rest of the time I've lived further away, the furthest being over 6000 miles. Most of the time, it has been between 200 and 250 miles away.

My parents didn't live near where they grew up and neither did my grandparents. My grown up daughters don't live near where they grew up either.

Currently 12,000 miles away, normally 1,000 miles away - I got out of Salford as fast as I could. My late brother and my sister and two of her sons never moved more than 10 miles away, albeit to the 'good' district of Ellesemere Park in one case, in a house worth almost half a million.
I hated Salford and still do. There are some very lovely parts of Lancashire, such as the Trough of Bowland, but Salford/Manchester is not one of them.

I'm about 50 miles from where I lived when I was 14, which is also where I was born.

DH is probably about 120 miles away, although he's closer now to his birthplace in London, within Bow Bells!

We live where we do because of DH's job; I can work more or less anywhere.

I remember the scout international jamboree in Sutton park when I was a girl guide! Must have been the 50s.

I'm also a Londoner and have simply moved 15 miles North of where I was born and grew up and my two sisters and my mother have all followed suit, albeit after many years. My son lives 10 miles from us and we are still in the house he was brought up in. My daughter made it to Birmingham for 5 years but is back with us. On the other hand, my husband grew up 120 miles away and my mother is 250 miles from where she was born. Quite unusual for someone of her generation I think.