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

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 🙂

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Different, not dufferent..where IS Duffrent county?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.