Are you local? Do you still live where you grew up?

I have lived in 5 different places, 4 in Somerset and 1 in Dorset.
My other half has lived here in same town in Dorset all his 77 years. In 4 different houses, the first being a 10 minute walk from here and the others just down the road.
I would move tomorrow but he is determined to stay here.

I have boomeranged. Started off in Surrey, moved to Australia then back to Surrey and Wiltshire and have finally been in Berkshire since marriage 52 years ago although in four different houses.

Not me, but my Mum and Dad lived on the same page of the London A-Z all their lives! It was page 61, as I recall...

I would not move either justnoneedif I lived in Dorset. DH comes from there but would have loved to move back but all our children and grandchildren live in Berkshire so that settled it for us.

I moved to where I live now with my family one month before my 14th birthday.

Then my family relocated to mainland Europe, so I commuted between there and here for over ten years (interesting with young children, partner and U.K. based business 🙀)

Two of our children attended my final senior school, as does one of our GC.

See friends from schooldays frequently (one of my good friends is married to a man I went to school with)

We did try living in Cambridgeshire, lasted six months, moved back down and tried living by the beach, lasted four months. We have been back here ever since (over forty years)

Isle of Wight; Surrey; Hertfordshire. I've moved to several different places within these counties

My mum has lived in the same town all her life, as did her Dad and Gparents so the family connection goes back at least 200 years.

I moved away to Scotland when I was eighteen and have lived in many different places around the UK since.
Now settled here in Bedfordshire for 25 years. It really does seem to fit me and certainly feels like ‘home’. I love going away but always get a tingle coming back across the county border.

House inherited down generations and still going strong with inherited furniture, linen, and crockery from the War and the bathroom is 60 years old but very solid and still fully functional.

Strangely enough, after 40 years living abroad, I am back just 15 mins from where I grew up until age 19.

Sometimes it feels like I left yesterday and sometimes it feels like centuries ago.

Born in Kent, worked in Brussels, came home, worked in Rome, married, lived in Rome, back to Kent to our own house, eventually when mum died moved back to childhood home,
Children went to my junior school. Life in the area is very different from the postwar years. Everyone knew everyone in my road, and were all known as Mr or Mrs. In the car age we know far fewer but all by first names.

I lived in Derby, North Wales then back to Derby.

We moved again to Leicestershire when I was 19. Met DH, whose family had been in Leics for years.

After we got married, we trued Coventry, Shrewsbury and Melbourne before settling back I Leicestershire.

We are now about 10 miles from where DH grew up, 4 of our children went to the same school as he did.

3 of our children live within easy striking distance, one near where I grew up and one miles from the rest of us.

I grew up in East London, moved to Essex (several addresses), moved to North Yorkshire, then to Leicestershire, then to Cheshire then back to Leicestershire. Looking to move to Suffolk/N.Essex border in the nearish future.

No. I moved away at 17.
Didn't go back to live.

My children have grown up in different homes /areas.
My father and mother both moved.
Likewise my husband and his parents.

I admit, I'm confused over what 'local' means! I've lived here for 47 years and some of my daughters friends who were born here 30-40 years ago see themselves, but not me as local.

I live 3-4 miles from where I grew up. Never felt the wanderlust like my brother and daughter.

moved here when I was 12 ,58 years ago .Here is 20 ish miles from where I was born in Glasgow .Wouldn,t swap it for anywhere on earth

I have lived in the same village I was born in , I used to know everyone here, but there are so many people have moved here that now I don't know half of them.

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I admit, I'm confused over what 'local' means! I've lived here for 47 years and some of my daughters friends who were born here 30-40 years ago see themselves, but not me as local.

It seems you have to be born there to be local. I lived in rural Berkshire for a while and one of our neighbours, a widow in her late eighties was always known as 'The Londoner" she had married a village lad when she was 19 and had lived in his Berkshire village ever since. One of the charming "locals" told me that they hated the London evacuees more than the Germans during WWII.

In 1966 I moved from Scotland to London for a year. It has been a long year- I got married and the rest is history.

I am asked as I am Scottish and retired why do I not return? I have no relatives there and know nobody. My life is in London.

We live where we grew up. Suffolk.

Purchased my GPs home 63 yrs ago.

I was born in Liverpool (native Scouser) and moved to Manchester as a mature student in early 1980s. Remained in Manchester because that was where I was immediately offered work on completing my doctorate. Subsequently spent a year working in the USA then back to Manchester.

I live in a town 10 miles from the fenland village l grew up in. My dad and his family lived there for generations. My mum was from Teeside. She came down in the war to work at Chivers jam factory. Apart from 6 years living in the US, l havent lived anywhere else. Late DH and l lived in Tampa so l very pleased we decided to move back here.

Grew up in west London, moved to York on marriage, 21 years later DH’s job took us to Bristol for 13 years and since then, nearly 40 years, have lived a few miles from the village where my father’s family originated, something we didn’t know at the time. So in a way I have come home to the Somerset roots I didn’t know I had.

Born in Edgeware. 5 years in Northolt.

16 years in Bushey, Hertfordshire but 2 different houses.

Moved to our market brown in N. Bucks when we married. First house for 8 years and then moved to the house we are still living in, 40 years. No wish to move, plenty of countryside. I just wish we were nearer the coast.