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

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Indigo8 Thu 10-Oct-24 10:09:09

I have just counted up and I have lived in eight different areas since I was born. All, except one, in the south of England.

I recently chatted to a woman in her 70s who has always lived within a mile or so from where she was born and was very proud of the fact.

I know some of you may have grown up in a different country from where you are now.

Cateq Fri 11-Oct-24 15:00:06

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.

Cagsy Fri 11-Oct-24 15:31:56

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

Aldom Fri 11-Oct-24 15:33:31

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

Aldom Fri 11-Oct-24 15:36:46

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.

MattDanNana Fri 11-Oct-24 15:39:28

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!

Soniah Fri 11-Oct-24 16:18:01

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

NotANana Fri 11-Oct-24 16:23:25

Born in one of the Metropolitan Boroughs, then taken to Somerset as a baby, then to the west coast of Scotland, then down to Leicester (where one set of grandparents lived - the others lived in Middlesex and then Bedforshire).
Then out to E coast, then back to Midlands, then to the North-East. This last move was in the summer I turned 10.

It was all to do with my Dad's job (he was a civil engineer in a particularly specialist area...).

The family stayed put at that point (my dad worked away during the week and returned home at weekends for a while, as well as working within commenting distance of where we lived).

My parents made one final move, into a bungalow literally around the corner.

In the meantime I left home aged 16 and moved to Yorkshire, then a brief spell back in the NE. then moved to Birmingham, where my fiancé was from. We lived on the same side of the city as they did, moving from a terraced house into a semi, and finally into a detached house, all within a mile or so of the house in which he was born...

We currently live in tied accommodation about 33 miles away from where I consider my home to be, in Birmingham. And we shall move back there when the time comes.

I hated all the moving as a child, and still find house moves incredibly stressful. And I don't make friends easily because I learned in my formative years that these friendships couldn't be sustained.

Retired65 Fri 11-Oct-24 16:24:21

No, I spent 21 years in my home area, which was in Middlesex but during that time I went away to College for three years to train as a teacher, Bishops Stortford in Hertfordshire. I lived in Harlow, Essex for over 17 years. Moved house, 5 times while living there. Then we moved to Pontefract, West Yorkshire, for my husband's work. We were there for about 34 years. Moved twice while there. We moved last year to Gloucestershire, to live nearer our daughter.

rowyn Fri 11-Oct-24 16:32:16

Hrrrrm ... Born in Yorkshire- Uni in Aberdeen ( 4 years)-
1st job Lincolnshire ( 3 years) -
2nd job ( after marriage ) Lancashire; ( 3 years)
(husband's job move) -Berkshire - and lived in Berkshire for last 30 years, with one move to smaller house in same town when divorced.

Imarocker Fri 11-Oct-24 16:43:12

I have only moved about 10 miles from where I grew up in East London to N-W London, which is a different world. We’ve been in this house for over 50 years.

mabon1 Fri 11-Oct-24 17:04:51

My first 30 years were spent in a leaf suburb of Liverpool and I was very happy. We moved to a very small ancient town near sea and mountains, just ten minutes walk away in Wales 52 years ago and I would never return to Liverpool. So, two ver different area.

posset Fri 11-Oct-24 17:49:33

Started out in Cheshire, Then Scarborough, Eden Valley, Penrith, Oxford, London, South Wales (3 homes), Cornwall, USA, South Wales (2 homes), Gloucestershire, so 14 in all.

rocketstop Fri 11-Oct-24 18:01:11

Born in Yorkshire, lived in Scotland for seven years in the 2000's back in Yorkshire but dufferent county !

rocketstop Fri 11-Oct-24 18:01:56

Different, not dufferent..where IS Duffrent county?grin

Dianehillbilly1957 Fri 11-Oct-24 18:03:59

Born in Surrey, lived in different parts of Essex growing up, now living in the Scottish Highlands since 1979.

Goldieoldie15 Fri 11-Oct-24 18:32:44

Clocked up 4 different countries, 3 continents. And not just for a year or two here and there.

Lucyd Fri 11-Oct-24 20:08:48

Born and raised in a small rural town in sw Scotland and live just 3 miles outside it. It is a friendly place and my parents lived their all their lives. My husband is buried there and I will be too but I don't really have a strong connection with the place. I have a much stronger connection to the town about 12 miles away where I currently work. I went to sixth form there, lived and taught there for several yrs and always told dh that one day I wanted to move back there one day. I never imagined as a teenager I would return to sw Scotland and lived overseas and near London. I sometimes wish I had done more travelling or that we had emigrated to Canada as we once talked about but I really do live in the most beautiful place where you actually an leave your door unlocked and even people you don't know speak to you.

Chardy Fri 11-Oct-24 20:19:07

I've lived in 8 counties the length of England, in the north-west, the Midlands and the south

Nansypansy Fri 11-Oct-24 21:34:45

Brought up and schooled in Hertfordshire. Moved to Devon in 1965 and never looked back

DillytheGardener Fri 11-Oct-24 21:41:59

I live in the road parallel to my childhood home. My home is a 3 min walk to my in-laws home. Our first home was next door to my in-laws, with a gate that connected our two gardens. I never had itchy feet I guess. One of my children now lives in NZ and the other I suspect when he finally buys will buy somewhere walking distance from our house.

biglouis Fri 11-Oct-24 22:14:59

When you are the unmarried child free daughter it makes sense to put distance between you and the family - even if its only 50 miles!

Harmonypuss Fri 11-Oct-24 22:30:15

56, born in Birmingham and have lived in Birmingham and Solihull my whole life, although i am planning to move away from here next summer.

NotSpaghetti Sat 12-Oct-24 00:31:50

MattDanNana - sending you good wishes for this move!
I do hope Monday goes well and that this is a great choice - and that these 10 miles are worth all the upheaval!
Happy new home and new life. flowers

Mamma66 Sat 12-Oct-24 00:53:30

I live in the same house I grew up in, but in the meantime I have lived in London, Belgium, Northern Ireland and Staffordshire. I lived with my parents in our family home until I went to University and then lived all over until hubby and I moved back into my childhood home in 2019. I love it 🙂

Twopence Sat 12-Oct-24 05:38:12

Born in Darlington, formative years in Whitley Bay, then in Newcastle. Moved to Humberside after marriage, then to Devon where I've been for the past 52 years in the same house. I'm now here on my own since DH died in February.