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

Greenfinch, where I live is very expensive, one of the highest council taxes in the country/highest rates electricity and gas, high house prices. Very little to do unless you travel outside the town. It's one of those nice to visit but not so good to live now as far as I am concerned.
If I ever get the chance I am going back across the border to my family area of Somerset.

Grew up in Surrey,left home at 18 and have lived all over the U.K.and Europe,I was in the Army so that included many moves.

I have lived in the house I am in now for 22 years,in the Midlands.I miss the South a lot,especially the South Downs,but know moving back wouldn’t be the right thing to do.

Born in Derby where I lived until I was 27. Met my DH there who was from the North West. We had been married a year when we relocated to East Yorkshire with his job. Thought it was a stop gap but 39 years later we are still here. Not complaining though as we love it here.

In 2001 we fell in love with somewhere abroad. Having thoughts of moving there our Ds was in his early teens and DH said let’s get him through his education first. So we did but life challenges along the way stopped us later on. How we now regret that decision. Now there are grandchildren in the equation who I’d hate to leave behind.

I have lived in 8 different properties in 6 different towns and villages, all in Berkshire.
I’m only 35 miles from my family home and couldn’t afford a family sized property there now.
I would love to live in London but sadly never will.

I have lived in London, Edinburgh and Liverpool. I lived in Wirral as a child, but have not returned. I went to university in London, lived there for a while and would dearly like to return there, but jobs led me north, and London is too expensive now. Both my children live there.

My brother, too, has lived in the London area all his adult life, but now (in his late 80s) is moving to Nottingham to be near his son and family. I think he’s crazy! If I had a nice house in London I’d stay there.

I live within four miles of where I was born and had lived in our previous house for 40 years which was even closer. We moved 6 years ago.

I have lived in three continents- Africa, Australia and Europe.
Since coming to the UK, I have lived in Dorset, Hampshire, Kent and now Bristol…

I was born in Reading and grew up in a small village near Henley. I met OH and we lived in Goring by the river before living in Seychelles for two years. Back to UK and spent a year in Newcastle where OH did a Masters. We finally moved to our West Oxfordshire village where we have lived in three different houses. We sometimes wonder whether we should buy a bungalow. Our daughter thinks we should! Thing is, our house is too big for us, really, but perfect when we have family to stay which happens a lot.

MaizieD

Born in NE Essex, moved to Yorkshire in early 20s, then to Durham nearly 40 years ago.

I love Durham but still have a soft spot for the area in Essex where I spent my formative years 😆

You know the saying MaizieD

you can take the girl out of Essex, but you can’t take Essex out of the girl

🤣🤣🤣

I live 11 miles from where I was born and grew up. I am in a different county though. I love my surroundings and wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

6 different U.K. locations, 3 different foreign countries.

I don’t see what there is to be proud of in having stayed put all your life - I do see certain advantages, though. My parents moved area 3 times when I was a child/late teen. Before there were cheap/easy phone calls, let alone email/FB etc., it was all too easy to lose touch with friends you’d made.

The summer after my first year at uni, when my parents had moved 100 miles away from our former home, was the most miserable of my entire life. I knew not a single soul.

Born in Yorkshire, moved around the county, moved to London as a young child, then back to several places in Yorkshire.
Married and moved to Scotland, then back to London. Spent 18 years in the Netherlands then moba k to the Midlands in 96 and lived here ever since!

Born in Bath, grew up in Woolwich.
Then:
Greenwich
New cross
Southend
Leigh on Sea
Tollesbury
Maylandsea
France for one year
Canvey island ( short stint)
Maylandsea ( again)
Southend ( again)
Bulgaria ( 5 years)
Southend ( again) 😂

I have returned to whereI started …Wales

I've always lived in south Devon. Born in Plymouth, raised in Torquay from age 4, left Torquay after 50 years to live in the countryside. Now live on the edge of Dartmoor . I love Devon.

henetha

I've always lived in south Devon. Born in Plymouth, raised in Torquay from age 4, left Torquay after 50 years to live in the countryside. Now live on the edge of Dartmoor . I love Devon.

You're definitely not a furriner then, like me. 🙂

Where I live I know very few people who were born and brought up locally. We all seem to be furriners.

Well, to some old fashioned people anyone born outside of Devon is considered to be a 'furriner'. We're a bit more broad minded these days.
Perhaps try a west country holiday sometime, Allira.. 😊

Sort of! My parents were in the army, then my mum had to leave when pregnant, so I was born in Singapore
then lived in Malaysia then Germany, where my biological Dad died, then around 3.5 years old moved back with my mum to live with her parents in Essex, then Mum remarried and we moved around a bit within Essex three times, with a year living in California, then I moved to Ascot for a tear, then back to Essex, where I still reside.

*year, not tear!

henetha

Well, to some old fashioned people anyone born outside of Devon is considered to be a 'furriner'. We're a bit more broad minded these days.
Perhaps try a west country holiday sometime, Allira.. 😊

It's ok, henetha, I lived there for years and married a Devon boy!
But I was a furriner (apparently).

Only those who know Maldon in Essex. My dear friend was a barge skipper and kept the barges going.
He considered anyone who lived up the town a furriner.

I have lived in 16 different places:

one in Wiltshire, two in Surrey, three in Birmingham (college days) two in Michigan, US, four in Luton, one in Dunstable, (ex-husband worked for GM) two in Staffordshire and finally, two in Devon!

Have moved around a bit but the place that truly feels like home is a small rather scruffy and rundown little mill town in Lancashire where I lived for 30 years, from the age of 5.
The people there were some of the kindest and friendliest but also the poorest I have ever known. I have still got some dear friends who live there, two on the same street we lived on. They visit us and we visit them. Never made friends like that when we moved South.
I do miss it, especially the hills, which is why I am excited about a move to the South Downs.

I was born in Surrey, but moved before I was two and have only one relative there now. My school years were in Leicestershire, but most of my adult life was in Yorkshire. Now I have returned to about 15 miles from where I grew up, though in the next county, but it feels like I have come back to my roots. When I did my family history, I found that my Mum’s family ( though not my mum ) originate from Nottingham and Grantham areas. I will probably finish my days here, I guess.

Born in Cheltenham where I went to school. Then Yorkshire. followed by Essex, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire and Cheshire. Now West Canada.