Do you live far away from where you grew up?

born@reared in the tenements of Dublin.I come from a big family and we were always taught to take it on the chin. Escaped when I was19 yrs of age and actually flew to Bristol,moved to Soho Hill in brum to get a better paying job. Met Marie soon afterwards at the Irish Centre in Hurst St. her first question was (are you a catholic),Married in 61.Moved to Ladywood and after years of careers and kids she died 6 years ago. I took it on the chin but it nearly finished me

I married and lived around 10 mile from where I grew up, moved to within 3 mile from where I grew up. Re-married 30 years ago and now live in the next road and 5 houses from where I grew up. Sad isn't the word for me. I hanker after living in Norfolk, Suffolk or the Western Isles but it will never happen.

I was born and brought up in Scotland. Trained in Edinburgh and Dundee, moved to London in 1968 for a year, it has been a long year! I got married en route but that was over years ago. I doubt if I will move out of London now.

I was born in Salisbury, moved to Chester aged two weeks ( father in the Army). Left school at 17 and spent a year in Canada ( father was Canadian but died when I was 9). Went to college in Manchester for two years then spent five years working in London. My mum had moved to Malta in the '70's and it was on a visit to see her that I met my husband. I have been living here for 32 years now, so I am quite a long way from where I grew up.

Three of my oldest and dearest friends still live in Chester in their childhood homes so I feel quite nostalgic when I visit them, but I don't think I could go back to live there after all these years.

I have always lived in the North East. I love living beside the sea and couldn't imagine living anywhere else really.

I was born in the North East, left there for Staffordshire in 1967 then to South Derbyshire 1981- 1991. I had 4 years of wandering around so I decided to see what the South coast had to offer. Torquay was next then Newton Abbot for a couple of years and back to Torquay to get married for the third time. I started to get worried about all of the care homes there, so decided I would not end up being part of one of Torquay s main sources of income, so we bought some land in the Hebrides and after great great difficulties we managed to build our home doing most of the work ourselves

It's fascinating. I have kentish parents who hadn't moved apart from going to boarding school - farming and naval families. I never ever wanted to move away, I still miss it. I have lived all over Kent, a few months just outside Chicago, back to Kent, then up to Lincolnshire not far from Horncastle, then down to Winchester, a few months in Cornwall's roseland, back to a different area in Winchester, now on the Norfolk/Suffolk border right in the middle of East Anglia. I would prefer to be nearer the sea, I do miss it.

I hope we stay here though, I am fed up with moving. In Kent I spent most of my life before marriage in Tun Wells, (born in Knockholt) after that in various villages and a spell in Maidstone. Strangely my daughter was born there, and now she is the one who has returned to the area of her birth although she has moved around far more during her upbringing years. I miss the oast houses and architecture, the hop fields and orchards but they are all changing and the traffic when we go down to visit old friends and my daughter is horrific by comparison with here.

Another one here from the NorthEast coast - I've moved a lot, now in SW France, but still think of Northumberland as "home" and hope to return there eventually.

Born and brought up in Sussex, still here!
Started off in Patcham, on the outskirts of Brighton, then to Burgess Hill at 6yrs old. School, courtship, marriage and children all happened there, went to Horsham for 4 years when marriage ended, then back to Burgess Hill.
Moved to Ansty (3 miles away) 14 months ago, but work in Burgess Hill.
2 youngest sons still there, and eldest 5 miles down the road in Hassocks.
Brother still in the vicinity, and most of our cousins and their families are in Brighton/Hove/Worthing area.

Very happy though, and have no hankering to travel or move, unless we could all have a mass exodus to Cornwall, the only other place I really feel at home.

I'm a true Devonshire Dumpling who has moved many times, but only within Devon. Born in Plymouth, now living near Newton Abbot which is only about 30 ish miles away.

I have actually ended up in a new house we bought 18 years ago, on the site where as a child we used to have our bonfire. When I go outside first thing in the morning I swear it smells the same as when I used to set off for the local primary school (61 years ago!)

I was born in Newcastle upon Tyne but always wanted to live in London. I moved to London with my husband and young children when I was 32. I've lived in London for 33 years, am now divorced and will probably move to Sussex next year.

agile; do you ever go on the Ted Rudge site that shows pictures of old Birmingham? I looked at it yesterday and there was a picture of the exact spot where our house used to be. Isn't Hurst Street is where the National Trust back to backs are? I'm planning to spend a few days in Brum, looking at all my old places..school, workplace [Bush House] etc. Never thought, when I left the place that I'd end up feeling so fond of it.

Born and bred in London, married and moved to Basingstoke and then built the family home in a test valley village. Had a cottage in Suffolk and because of work lived there and Aberdeen. Lived in most countries where oil was produced and shipped by sea or sub sea pipeline with the exception of Australia and New Zealand. Spent far too many years living on North Sea Barges, Rigs and Platforms. Now live in Cheshire and occasional stints at a work in progress home in Cyprus. My heart however is forever in the test valley and North Hampshire Downs. So yes I live a long way, in fact a lifetime away, from where I grew up. My child playground was Kennington, Lambeth and the post war bomb sites of which there were many and my shelter from rain was Bedlam Park and the Imperial War Museum.

Born and lived in Highgate until bombed out - grew up in New Southgate and Muswell Hill - today I live about an hour and a quarter away from there by road... out hear Windsor and Staines.

I live in the house that I grew up in. I inherited it from my parents. I have my own property 1 miles from here

Hi Tegan, I was never lucky enough to live in one of those back to back houses,my cousin did in heath street. With six in a bed you would never get cold even in the worst winter and with four houses sharing the same toilet you would never get lonely, there was always a queue particularly after the Dick Barton Special Agent radio show.
Bush House is gone now,if you are unfortunate enough to become homeless now the Council just offer you a house in James Turner street.
I love Brum too,

I was born in SE London. Married, moved to Rayleigh in Essex, then Suffolk, Gibraltar, Spain, Norfolk, Devon and now by the sea in Dorset.

Born In Edinburgh but moved to Weymouth when I was 8 ( after sojourn in Arbroath and Yeovil - guess who was a naval family )

Left home at 18 for Cornwall,then poole - not far but now right back to my bedroom I slept in in 1968 as we bought the family house after my my Mum passed away......
I'm not very adventurous!

I was born in Slough,moved to Marlow,Bucks.Then moved to near canterbury where I lived and worked for nearly 40 years.Now in Loghborough and living in Loughborough on my own with 2 sons in Leicester
Any ladies living locally?

Hello,Pleased to find somebody local,I live in Loughborough,walking distance from the shops when I feel energetic
Hoping to hear from you,Roderick

I was born and lived in Cardiff.I am now in Manchester were my late husbands job brought us.I have lots of friends since becoming a widow and have never wanted to move back.

I was born and lived in Brampton, Cumbria until I married. Then lived in small village near Carlisle, back to Brampton for ten years. Now live in west Northumberland, only eleven miles from where I was born.

i was born over the top of a bicycle shop called Bournes and apart from time in the merchant navy and airforce i still live within 2 miles of where i was born

Born in East Yorkshire, now in East Cornwall. We've also lived in Helensburgh, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Yes, it was marrying a sailor in the RN which caused these moves.