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

Born in Pakistan, my Dad had a contract there, moved to Welwyn, then Perth in Scotland. We moved down to Hampshire when I was 6, where I’ve lived in various different places until moving to this village nearly 40 years ago, three different houses. We lived in Françe p/t for 4 years, from 2015, decision made after the first year to retire early.

I live in the suburb of the city where I was born and only a couple of miles from the house I grew up in.
DH was born and lived in the Edinburgh area. Being in the services he has lived at various locations in the UK. However I have never gone with him, but I stayed at our house with the Children, so they had stability at school, he had to do the travelling.

I still live in the same house I grew up in. It's been in my family for several generations now. Love living here. We can step out of our back lane and be in open countryside and woodland, yet we're only a short drive, bus trip or train ride from Edinburgh.

I can’t count! Have been in this last house almost 10 years, in its predecessor 18 years. Clearly not a great fan of moving house, though could probably do with something smaller and cheaper to run.

I live about 4 miles from where I was born.

People who have moved here maybe 40 years ago are still classed as being from ‘away’.

‘This is a local shop for local people. There’s nothing for you here’. (The League Of Gentlemen).

My mother lived all her 93 years in the same place, my father bought the house next door to her parents after their marriage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We live where we grew up. Suffolk.

Purchased my GPs home 63 yrs ago.

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.

boheminan

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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