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

I was born and grew up London. I am now 74 and have lived in New Zealand since 2013. Before emigrating, my husband and I moved briefly to Darlington, where many of his family members lived and still live.

Born and grew up in a village in Northamptonshire.
I have lived in the house we're in now for 47 years.
My family home is just around the corner from where I live now.
When I look across out of our upstairs back bedroom window I can see the side of the house and the bedroom where I was born.

I was born not far from the two famous football grounds in Liverpool. At the age of five moved to the outskirts to a then rural area. I moved five miles away but after the birth of my first child and I was unhappy and really homesick.

I moved back to where I grew up by then a much built up area and have been here ever since. With two house moves but a ten minute walk from where I grew up it’s familiar and what I call home.

No, not really a local, even though I've been here 42 years. My DH is local, born here and we are living in the house his parents built in 1963.

Mollygo I think moving away to a university is what generally made us make that first move - if we weren't a "forces" family.
My father's first move was to an apprenticeship in London though - so maybe that happened too in earlier times.

Oh! That's great Allina. I hope you liked it in spite of some daft people.

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

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.

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 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!

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.

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).

*year, not tear!

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.

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.. 😊

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.

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.

I have returned to whereI started …Wales

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) 😂

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

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…