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

[Kualma]

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.

I live in the same village I grew up in. Until recently I worked in the same room I was born in!

We live in the neighbouring town. Our house is approx 2 miles from the house I grew up in. Would love to move back to the village I grew up in but dh and the kids don’t want to.

No. I am about 150 miles away so it’s close enough to visit easily by road or rail, but not too close.

My home town has grown on me though, and I would be OK with living there now. When I was a teenager it was boring as hell. Now that I have my own income, a car, and internet shopping has been invented, I’d be fine.

I grew up in Leicester and have lived there most of my life apart from a year or so each in Milton Keynes and Nottingham for work

Now live in Loughborough so about 12 miles from where i grew up

I doubt I'll ever move away, I'm a real homebird and get homesick on holiday 🤣

DH wants to move to Wales but I'm afraid he'll be going without me if he does

I left the small market town when I was 22 and never lived there again. I escaped 😱👏never gave the place a second thought

God no. Couldn’t wait to get out. Left my Scottish home town at 18 for university, did my postgrad degree in another city then worked in City of London. I did stints of living and working in the Far East and another EU country. Came back to London to live and work for 15 years and now live in another liberal UK city. I grew up in the world’s most dull dormitory town. My mum still lives there, quietly mouldering in boredom. It has “good schools”, endless cul de sacs and literally nothing to do.

Yes. Born in london, raised in london. Raising my family in London. My husband is from London too.

No, thank goodness. I’m 250 miles away from the place I lived aged 7-21.

it cracks me up when people say that they didn’t grow up “around here”. And then tell me they grew up 3 miles away, or the other side of the city. One of my friends once told me how she moved away when she first got married… about six miles away!

No, I get up in Wolverhampton..couldn't wait to get away!!
We've lived in 5 different towns/cities around the country. We live in a small market town now and I know so many people who have lived here all their lives.
The world is a big place, why spend most of your life in one tiny part of it? As soon as our children are ready to move out (and I'm encouraging them not to stay around here forever) we will most likely be on the move again. Somewhere by the sea next time!

No.
I live over 6000 km away, on another continent.

No I actually love moving somewhere new and the anonymity of starting over again. Although since having a child we’ve committed to staying put for the next 14 school years but then we will move on again.

I find it really odd going back to where I grew up and seeing all these old people I used to go to school with!

No, grew up in the Midlands and now live in Cornwall

No, I haven't lived in what I class as my hometown for a long while (ie not where I was born but only a couple of miles away from there and where I spent my youth).

I only live around 45 miles away from said hometown but recently have become strangely homesick for it. I have never really felt settled where I live now despite having an amazing job, great home and close friends.

Despite its proximity, where I live now is just so, so different and I'm not sure I'll ever adjust.

No, i've moved from one side of the country to t'other..
Born and raised in London, then Gloucestershire now West Wales.

Yes I do now. I left at 24 and came back at 32 after living in two other cities. We wanted to be near my family for bringing our kids up.

No not since I went to uni which was in 1989.

Yes, all our childhood homes x3 were all within 1 mile radius. My adult homes have always been within a2 mile radius of childhood homes.

Currently live approx 1600km away, and have lived (and will again) 6000km away. Genuinely cannot imagine staying in one place my entire life, I’d feel trapped.

Born and raised in Indonesia. Now live in england for 9 years. I’m from thousand miles. The other side of the earth.

No, I grew up in the North West of England, then moved to the North East for University and am now in Berkshire. Met DH here and he has always lived in this area which I find really strange on one hand, he's never experienced living anywhere different but also it's nice he's still got friends and family all in one area.

No but strangely my sons after having jobs abroad after university came back in their thirties quickly met fell in love and married local girls. They both live in the same village where they were raised one wife lived at the top of the road they live in now the other wife 15 miles away.

Yes.I live 2 miles away from where I grew up.

My parents moved a lot anyway, for my DF’s job, so I don’t have a ‘home’ in that sense. Have lived all over, inc. abroad.
I often think it must be nice (but a bit odd) to stay in the same place all your life. I just don’t have those sort of ‘roots’.

My folks were the same. Neither stayed in their home area.
Dh’s folks, OTOH, lived in the same London suburb - and the same house - from just after WW2 until the mid 80s, when they downsized to another area.

Are you neither from or in the UK then? I think (but may well be wrong) that there’s no land that distance from here.

No. Live about 100 miles away, different country actually. Grew up on very small town with limited opportunities, left for Uni in city and met dh, got jobs etc so never went back after I left at 19.