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Do you live in the town/city you were raised in?

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Kualma · 10/09/2022 16:22

If not, how far away do you live from it?

Me personally, couldn’t wait to leave! I grew up in North Worcestershire and left as soon as I went to university. Never came back except for a few months while I looked for a job after graduating.

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Soproudoflionesses · 10/09/2022 17:25

SimonAndGarthsUncle · 10/09/2022 17:10

Yes. I would never betray where I am from by thinking I am better than it

Ugh my sister does this...really annoys me!
I still live in the town l grew up in cos l like it!

Snowiscold · 10/09/2022 17:26

No. Grew up in rural North Yorkshire. Now live in south London. I don’t see myself moving away. I lived abroad for quite a while in my 20s.

Hedgesfullofbirds · 10/09/2022 17:31

Grew up in the middle of nowhere in Gloucestershire, moved about a bit via Cheshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Surrey and the Island of Herm in the Channel Islands. Now live in the middle of nowhere in Somerset and intend never to move again - it is beautiful here and has everything I could possibly want.

Never lived in a town though - I couldn't bear it and would feel trapped, suffocated, hemmed in and like a caged animal!

Bluebellbike · 10/09/2022 17:32

Yes I live in the same "county", as Greater Manchester is meant to be. I grew up 2 miles north of the City centre; and moved 9 miles south of the City when I got married. A year ago I moved 12 miles north of the city centre, living alone for the first time in my life at the age of 62. Still just about in Greater Manchester but now in the County of Lancashire, which is on my birth certificate. This is my favourite of all the places I have lived.

Simonjt · 10/09/2022 17:33

No, place 1 is about 140 miles away, place 2 about 6,000 miles.

MassiveSalad22 · 10/09/2022 17:33

No, 150 miles away. My nanna still (again really) lives in the village she grew up in although lived in a city for a few decades in between. My parents still live close to where they grew up. But me and my sister have ended up 150/200 miles away in opposite directions. I wouldn’t move to exactly where we grew up as too remote but it would be nice to have some family nearby.

ChippingLeCrue · 10/09/2022 17:38

Born and raised in a great place, moved out for uni and back home after. Met Dh and moved with him for his graduate job a few hundred miles from home, he is also from the same town and that is how we met.

Moved twice since then, now settled here and won't move again until retirement when our needs will be different. My Dad, FIL and SIL (Mum and MIL both sadly dead) both still live in our old town as does my sister. I love going back but a lot has changed in the 25 years I have been gone. My other sister lives an hour away from "home" too.

I think my home town is fantastic. I do understand if you consider your home town as lacking for some reason and a town will possibly work for some people and not for others.

RampantIvy · 10/09/2022 17:41

Born and grew up in South London. Now live in Yorkshire.
No amount of money will draw me back to living in London again. It's lovely to visit, and equally lovely to leave.

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Kualma · 10/09/2022 17:45

Bluebellbike · 10/09/2022 17:32

Yes I live in the same "county", as Greater Manchester is meant to be. I grew up 2 miles north of the City centre; and moved 9 miles south of the City when I got married. A year ago I moved 12 miles north of the city centre, living alone for the first time in my life at the age of 62. Still just about in Greater Manchester but now in the County of Lancashire, which is on my birth certificate. This is my favourite of all the places I have lived.

I feel the same about where I live too. Although I no longer live in Worcestershire, I live in the West Midlands (I’m only 15 miles away from my hometown) and I’m very happy here! Can’t see myself leaving this area ever.

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Kualma · 10/09/2022 17:45

@hellcatspangle 😂😂😂

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Keladrythesaviour · 10/09/2022 17:50

I knew it was Redditch as soon as you said north worcestershire 😂
I moved out straight out after post grad (I'd been going back during holidays), moved about a bit with my DH and have been settled for the last ten years.
I wouldn't have gone home, nothing there for me (love the family but no need to be physically close) and I feel it wouldn't have prevented me branching out in life and learning what I needed for myself (I'd have kept going to the same places, shopping at the same shops etc). I love moving to a new town and exploring new places.

CirreltheSquirrel · 10/09/2022 17:50

No, but I moved when I was 16 and now live about 15 miles away from the place we moved to (technically a different county, but pretty close).

livingonpurpose · 10/09/2022 17:53

Yes. Never left and see no reason to: family and friends here, good job, nice area, reasonably priced housing. It's not that I would never move, it's just that so far I've had no need to.

Trinity65 · 10/09/2022 17:55

No
Same Borough, but a totally different part of it is where I live now, and have done for the past 25 years.

Bottomofthepileasusual · 10/09/2022 17:56

I have been in my home town (South Wales) all my life. Moved to West Yorkshire once. Soon came back though. Currently 3 miles away from family home.
My gran stayed in the house she was born in until she died there.
I'd never leave here. It's a small city which suits me.

RobertsRadio · 10/09/2022 17:58

Not in the village I grew up in, but about 15 miles away. I moved away and lived and worked in Devon, Geneva, Paris and London and then moved back to the area when I had had enough of city life and moving around. Was very happy to move back and be close to my family.

PanettoneMoly · 10/09/2022 18:02

No, grew up in the north east and have lived in London for the past decade. Between 5.5-6.5 hours to get back depending on method of travel.

AdoraBell · 10/09/2022 18:03

No. Born in central London, now in Somerset after moving around including Latin America.

AntlerRose · 10/09/2022 18:04

I was born and raised in one area, but my family moved to south east england for my dads work when I was 10 and i have stayed about 5 miles from the town we moved too since then.

Mizmerise · 10/09/2022 18:06

Yep. London born and raised and lived here all my life.

avocadotofu · 10/09/2022 18:07

Absolutely not. I was raised in a small American town and I now live in London. I never moved back after uni.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 10/09/2022 18:07

Yep I love about 3 miles from where I grew up- I’m from and live in London, one of the cheaper parts of London so saw no reason to leave.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 10/09/2022 18:07

Live not love

weebarra · 10/09/2022 18:07

I was born and raised on the east coast of Scotland and came east to uni. Apart from a couple of years, we've stayed within about ten miles of Edinburgh. I like where we live now, although it's very similar in feel to where I grew up, and as a teen, I was desperate to leave!

Goldmember · 10/09/2022 18:10

We moved as a family 300 miles when I was 17. Loved it as I had not had a great time as a teen and moving away meant I could start again afresh. I've visited friends back there now and again and it's a strange place to me now.