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

I wish we had never left Cardiff. I was eleven when we moved to the North East of England. My mother suffered a terrible nervous breakdown after leaving the house she had lived in for 26 years. ECT followed and many years of difficulty.

I left the North East and moved to Devon after my marriage broke up. My sister was living there after leaving Wales. I thought being near family would be a good idea, but had failed to realise the power of the network I had built up.

It was Devon for the next 28 years. Now I am back in Newcastle because my health deteriorated and I needed to live near one of my daughters.

There are pros and cons for staying put. More pros than cons I think.

I live away from where I grew up on west coast Scotland and now live in Glasgow but don't feel local. Back home, My dad lives nearly in the same street he was born in. He did leave as a young man but came back. I don't feel local at home now either as I moved away. Only go back to visit now.

I have been living in Norfolk now for over 40 years but left the U.K. at the age of 5 for Nigeria, at the age of 6 moved toHK where I lived until I came over here to go to college.
I spent most of my life thinking I ‘came’ from HK.
I feel that I now belong here, I always see people I know when I go shopping . That may not seem special to those of you who have roots but to me it is.
As a family we are close in spirit but not in miles.

I am back near where I was born, a mile from where DH was born but we've lived in dozens of different places in the UK and 8 countries in the Far East.

Born in Wales. Until I was 35 I had never lived anywhere longer than 5 years. Been based in Surrey for just over 30 years. Military family so spent first 15 years in Singapore, Cyprus and Germany with a few flits back to the UK in between.

A few years back in Wales then a year in Norfolk, London for 5 years followed by Hertfordshire then here to Surrey. Also spent 3 years in Australia and 3 years in USA.

Family are spread across the UK, no one within 150 miles 😁

I’ve travelled to many places on the globe, but I’ve not strayed far at all from my birth place when it comes to permanent residence, and am unlikely to do so now.