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

On my 9th, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Gower, Hampshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire and now N Wales

I was born in the village I still live in, and have lived in the same house, having moved up the road when I was 8, for 61 years - I am moving on Monday, but only 8-10 miles away!

Oops! I forgot to mention that I was born in Yorkshire and lived there till I was six weeks old. Returned there briefly aged about three.

I have lived in Lancashire (3 homes)
Cheshire (3 homes)
Netherlands (1 home)
North Wales, Clwyd (1 home)
Shropshire, (5 homes)
Oxfordshire (1 home)

In or very close to Liverpool all my almost 73 years, it has it's faults but it's home and I love it.

I live 6 miles from the street I was born on. The building no longer exits. I’ve only ever lived in 10 mile radius of that street. My husband is the same although it was in a different direction. 3 of our 4 children were brought home from the hospital to the house we live in. My middle AS, moved into a flat in the east end of Glasgow, but after 3 years they bought a new build a six minute drive from here. He specifically want the same view of the hills he grew up looking at.

I too was born & lived in the same town all my life, albeit moving around during the course of my life, marriage, etc. & am in my 90th year, having no desire to be anywhere else, and feel fortunate to have spent my life in such a lovely environment, surrounded my lovely countryside and not far from the Jurassic Coast.

Witzend I remember that.
How extraordinary!
Thanks for the reminder.

Moved 10 miles from SW to SE London, then 120 miles to the West Country. Now I live 500+ miles away in Scotland.

Born in Canada, but have lived most of my adult life in Surrey, now on my seventh and hopefully last house.

I have lived in 11 different areas, (in England and Scotland) more than one address in each area. Consequently I am now in house 27. Think there must have been a little big of gypsy in my soul!

I was born in the North East and moved with my parents to Berkshire then Northamptonshire and then Hertforshire. I then moved to Bedfordshire and am now in Cambridgeshire. Looking back I wish my parents had stayed in the North East, I would have loved a childhood surrounded by relatives and friends I had known for years. I am pleased that I now live near most of my grandchildren. I think we all benefit from that.

I was born, grew up, married and raised my children in South London. Moved out to Hayes in Kent, then to Bournemouth in Dorset. Moved again to SW London, then finally down to SE Kent. I think I'm settled now!

Not the same village, but five areas of the same City in my 62 years

Brighton
Kent
Leeds
Australia
Surrey
Bradford

I've moved to different areas and countries at least 15 times, I kept losing count, numbers were never my strong point.

Talking of staying put, who else remembers when Cheddar Gorge Man’s DNA was taken? He apparently dates back around 9000 years, IIRC, and once the scientists had his DNA, they asked people living within a certain radius to come forward - if their grandparents had also always lived there.

Because apparently, if your grandparents were born, bred and settled in an area, there’s a likelihood that their ancestors were too, even way back.

They did find one person whose DNA matched Cheddar Gorge man, a local teacher, who said, ‘My wife always did say I was a bit of a cave man.’ 😂

My Parents and grandparents spent their whole lives in Lancashire apart from my father's time abroad during WWII.
My brother and I left to go to uni, but while he worked away briefly before returning to our hometown and still lives in the next town, I never returned to live. I lived in 3 towns in Hertfordshire, 2 in Oxfordshire,1 in Surrey and now ! in Berkshire, though I may downsize back 'Up North' when I decide where to go. I can't afford to stay here so need to move to be mortgage free and able to afford the odd holiday.

My parents parted and got back together so many times from my early childhood until my teens. Each time was a different house, or flat, or school (I counted 10 different primary schools.) So Bristol, Bournemouth, Folkestone and now retired to Devon.

i've moved around quite a bit, born in oxford, lived in berkshire moved to devon and lived in several places there, now live in sussex.
an 87 year old friend lived in the house she was born in all her life until she moved in with her son and partner last year

Southeast England, near Paris and Beijing.
My eldest DD France, UK and Australia and 3rd DD France, Beijing and UK.
Eldest DGD, France and UK.

I was fostered when I was young and lived in many different places including South Wales, Reading, Oxford, Southport so was glad to return home to my birth family in the midlands after the war. Since then I have never lived more than 10 minutes walk from where I was born until downsizing 20 years ago I talked my husband into buying a bungalow half a mile up the road where I still live today. My children said I would need a passport and oxygen to survive the move but I proved them wrong 😂

Born in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester) moved to Essex then on to NZ and then back to Greater Manchester then to Cheshire and back to Greater Manchester. My Dad has lived in the same area all his life and each time he has moved it has only ever been a few streets from where he started. I have 2 other sisters and we are all back within 2 minutes walk of our parents.

No i dont thank goodness!- it seems to have all gone downhill there, with loads of closed businesses,shops etc. I do have family still there though.I moved to the next county.its more rural here.

Live in the town about 6 miles from the village I grew up in. Lived here for the last 43 years, would like to move eventually when I retire, but that will depend on dh’s mother (she is 93) and our dd’s and grandchildren and where they are living. Eldest dd currently lives next door and we help with their 4 children, youngest dd lives at home but would love to live out but can’t afford to around here.