Do you live far away from where you grew up?

Born and grew up in North Devon and still live in the same town. Never had any desire to move anywhere else because I've always wanted to be near my family. MY DH moved here from London about 34 years ago after meeting me at a party. Several of his family now live here too and neither of us would like to live anywhere else. DH has only gone back to London about 3 times in all those years and can't wait to come back 'home'.

I started life in the Cotswolds, moved to Somerset and then 20 years in Hampshire, so I'm a Southern Girl. Moved to S.W.France 8 years ago. When I am even older and greyer I shall probably return to England - who can tell? There are times when I am homesick for the Cotswolds - my roots are there - but visit frequently to get my 'fix' !

I have always been proud of being A Lancashire Lass, then Redcliffe Maud changed my birthplace to Cumbria. I was evacuated to the Lake District, how lucky was that? We are planning a short holiday up there in a few weeks time, and just reading the place names on the Streetmap.com maps for our B&Bs fills me with such nostalgia. Now living in Cheltenham, after fairly peripatetic life as Army wife.

Have lived in London all my life, now live about 6 miles from where I was born in West London. Two of my three children live closeby as do all my 7 grandchildren. We are thinking of moving out when Hubby retires in 4yrs , I'm already retired but who knows if we really will do it. I do love being so close to all the shops, museums , cinemas etc but it also would be nice to be near the sea. We shall see..

i moved away from sheldon Birmingham when i got married at 19. we moved to cornwall my husband got restless every 4 years as we didn't have children then we kept moving every.4 years or so.from cornwall to Perth Australia from there back to Bournemouth, then to Ringwood new forest area then to Banbury oxfordshire by now i had 2 little children so stayed there for 28 years my husband died and i moved to Weymouth Dorset,will i move again, maybe i am now 71, but if the right chance came along we will see.

I was born in Edinburgh, lived outside it in a little place called Blackness, went to school in Edinburgh and left at 18. I have lived in London eversince, apart from two years in Japan, two and a half years just outside New York and two and a half years just outside San Francisco. My sister lives in Glasgow,so I visit quite a bit, but haven't been to Edinburgh for a while.

I was born under a wandering star - my birthplace is Salford and I loathed it. I have lived in Surrey, Kent, the Wirral, Preston, Wales, Monaco, Brussels, East Yorkshire and eight different departments of France. I am very happy in France for the next few years, as I am close to both the Swiss and Italian borders, so I can explore to my heart's content. However, my daughter wants me to live in a 'sleep out' (a kind of luxurious cabin with a pod bathroom) in her garden in New Zealand, so she can 'keep an eye on me'!
I have only found one place unwelcoming but I won't name it.

The OP said she thought men tend to stay close to home - that is the exact opposite of my experience. I have found that women like to be near their mother and the men go roving. It used to be a class thing - working class families stayed geographically close whilst in the middle classes young people went away to university and never went back home. I suspect that is still partly true. My own two sisters and my brother all lived within a few miles of my mother and their children did the same.
My grandchildren are now fairly widespread - in Kent, London, Yorkshire, Lancaster (at university) and New Zealand. We hope to be all together next August when one grandson gets married in Kent. It may be my one chance to get a photograph of all ten grandchildren and my four great-grandchildren.

Born and bred in South Yorkshire. Finally moved to Cornwall in 2005 after about 12 years of planning to do so ... my husband is verrrrry slow and likes to plan thoroughly -thats his explanation anyway.

Born in Solihull,lived in Hampton in Arden then lived near Birmingham. Moved to Warwick then Chorley,Lancs. I then lived near Manchester and finally ended up here in Cassino Italy!!

I live 20 miles from where I was born. (By suspension bridge Bristol) I came by a roundabout route Devon, Australia, various places in North Somerset. But going back to where I was born it is all so changed and I don't know anybody there now, most have moved away. I find places of my childhood are sad as they bring back happy memories of family long gone. I understand my mother when I offered to take her somewhere she was reminising about always saying " I'd rather remeber it as it was"

I was born in Manchester, only moved 10 miles away when I married, and have lived in various parts of Manchester and Stockport all my life. 6 years ago I moved to my current home which is just 2 miles away from where I grew up. I've travelled widely, though, and would live in San Francisco at the drop of a hat (if I could take my family with me).

Born in London, moved to Brighton as a small child.
Once married, we moved from Middlesex to Surrey to West Sussex to Berkshire to Northants to West Sussex to Dubai.
Since my divorce I have lived in East and West Sussex (moving house 4 more times and about to move again) and have also lived back in Dubai.

I've lived in N/W London all my life and now I live about 8 miles from where I was born... I love London what can I say...

About 3 miles as the crow flies .

I was born, grew up and lived in Brighton until our younger daughter was nearly two. Then we moved to Mid Sussex and stayed there until seven years ago when we moved to France.

Born in Nottingham, but moved when I was 20. Been all over the place sinse then! I am now in Kent,.

I was born in Beaconsfield, Bucks lived and worked in London & Australia but have lived in NW Norfolk since marriage 38 yrs ago.

I was born In westbromwich. Went to school in Lichfield, Birmingham uni then lived in Walsall. Finally moved to just outside Bristol with views over thebristol channel been here about 32 years. Will only move in a box!

Whereabouts in Nottingham were you born, Ariadne? I was born in Ruddington, (just outside Nottingham), then moved up to Fife as a child. Down again to London when I met my partner, then back up to Nottingham, to live in Basford. Then back up to Fife again, where I'm very happy to stay forever!

I was born in Sheffield and met and married my handsome German husband in the late 60s and followed him back to Germany. We had several homes there and now live 70 km West of Stuttgart and 100 km South of Heidelberg. Just where Germany begins to look nice with red roofs etc. Someone once said to me the first 20 years are the worst and so it was. After many years being occasionally homesick and visiting often, I now have no desire to go back to the UK.
I would hate to live in Sheffield now and was overjoyed to leave that ugly city, as it was then. It is different with the Peak district and the Yorkshire Moors and Dales. They are lovely holiday areas.

I was born and bred in Chester-le-Street, County Durham. As a young man I moved to Norway to find work and found a wife as well. Fourty years, three children, and four grandchildren later I still love it here. I do however still get homesick and need to get back to my roots every now and again, and every now and again I get disapointed because everything has changed. No one knows me anymore and ofcourse I don´t know anyone living there. I still have to go "home" though,just to breath the air and listen to the sounds of the people and places.

I was brought up in Bo'ness (Scotland) and moved to Essex when I married my husband who comes from Somerset. We've lived in Essex, Suffolk, The Netherlands,Australia and are now in Cambridgeshire. Neither of us ahve any desire to go back to the places where we were children, but fancy Suffolk or Dorset as places to retire to. We'll see !

I was born in Llanelli - of course I love rugby. I lived in London from five to twenty-one and then back to Wales for the next thirty years. Now I live in SW France and feel just as Welsh as ever but love where I live now. I think so much of the UK is really beautiful but there are far too many people on a piece of land less than half the size of France which has a slightly smaller population.

I have lived no more than 1 mile away from my first home for over 57 years, have only ever flown 3 times, once on a helicopter to the Scilly Isles, once to Dublin and 34 years ago to Yugoslavia, I do go on holiday to Southwest France every year but am always desperate to go home after a week

South-East England, North Wales, Yorkshire, South Coast and now North-West France. I think we will go back to the UK eventually though. Much as I love France I find the battles with bureaucracy to get anything done absolutely exhausting and I am not sure I want that as I get older.