Does your childhood home still exist - especially if you moved around a lot when young!

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DF was in the RAF so we moved around a lot when young.
It's sometimes nice to go and see old haunts - but time certainly changes stuff.

The RAF shut a lot of bases - and redevelopment has had a massive impact.

Was in North London yesterday - home from the 70s has been completely knocked down and replaced with what is a very nice modern house.

The other house and the whole base has been completely redeveloped with flats. Lots of flats. The area is unrecognisable - from "just" 40 years ago.

Home from the 80s is behind a gated community now. The other one is actually on the base so can't see it.

Childhood home abroad - burnt down.

Basically - I've been able to just find 1 house that is still standing and is still the same - from 1988.

So - do you think your child hood home still exists! Have you been to see the area?

I lived in two houses a child, we moved when I was 7 and my parents have now lived in that second home for 40 years. It’s an old listed cottage so fingers crossed it’ll be around a long time. I have no plans to sell it once I inherit it.
I went back to see my first home a couple of years ago. The area was exactly the same and apart from the front garden now being paved over for a drive, it looked identical. I desperately wanted to knock and ask if I could look around but didn’t as I thought they would think it very weird.

Yes, my parents still live in it 50 years later!

The one I was born in - no idea.
the one I lived in from tiny to 4 - yes.
the one we lived in in Singapore, no idea
the one I lived in from 6-8, yes
the one I lived in from 8-12, yes
the one I lived from 12-16, yes
the one we lived in in Australia, no idea
everything I lived in after that - yes

My mum still lives in the home I was born into. They moved there in the 80s, I was born 1990. It's nice to see my son playing exactly where I did, even have a lot of my toys still there in my childhood bedroom!

One I lived in 0-4 yes. 5-18, no. After we sold it the next family sold it to developers for an enormous sum, to the disappointment of my parents who had got divorced. Now it's flats. Wierd as it was just in the corner of a cul-de-sac.

My dad's home is still there and his grandads home which used to be a sweetshop :) We often drive by. Its cute as I can see his attic bedroom window.

Mine has long gone. I sometimes like to look on Google street view at it.

You can change the date to see the view at other times, which is lovely. Or sad. X

OOh. Someone else who moved round a lot !

Weirdly - the only home that has always been a constant has been my Grandma's house. Still there, looking exactly the same and a constant in my life.

Yes, Google maps is wonderful.
I've gone and looked at houses from 30-40 years ago. It's amazing how everything has changed and a village we lived in has expanded hugely as have small towns.

I used to dream so much about my childhood home, that I was back there, safe, settled. That home represented so much to me, the last good place before a decade of woe.Then in my early 30s I went back to view it. It had been so poorly looked after that it ended those dreams.

I was quite lucky and lived in one place almost my entire childhood (we were in one house until I was 3, then the one I grew up in). Nearly 17 years ago, just after DH and I got married, mum and dad moved to a slightly smaller, semi detatched house nearby. It's funny because it's of the same era and style and with all the stuff I grew up with being there it still feels like my home, though I have never lived there.

I go past the old house a few times a year, it's not likely to go anywhere any time soon.

My parents bought their house in 1964 when they married. Dad died a few years ago no but mum still lives there as do many of her neighbours as they bought when the street was first built . It's really lovely to see.

I moved 7 times between birth and 18…all houses still exist yes

Yes, it still exists. From time to time, I look on Zoopla / Rightmove to see if any of the houses I've lived in have been put up for sale, so that I can snoop inside to see if they knocked through the kitchen to the dining room to make a kitchen diner, or if the bathroom is still the same.

Yes.
It is literally around the corner, our road is off the road my only childhood home is in. My parents still live in it. They’ve been there since the late seventies, I was born in the early eighties and moved straight in here with DH early 2000s.
I’ve traveled the world but I love home and would never move.

My childhood home in New Zealand still exists but when I looked it up online it had just an overhead drone photo with a red line highlighting the land boundaries. So I reckon that will soon be gone sadly. The neighborhood also changed over the years from families to gangs 😞

I lived in one house until I was three, and another until I was 18, and they were both on the same road, and are both still there.
The road is on a council estate in a town about 16 miles away from where I live now, there is an annual event we sometimes go to so I make a point of driving past to look at it every few years as I have very fond memories of the house, the road and the estate, I had other relatives living there within walking distance.
It does seem a.bit rougher than it was, but that may be me looking at it through different eyes.

Yes, we bought the house I grew up in, extended it, and still live in it.

I moved around a lot and therefore didn't feel.i ever had a family home as such.
it was immensely damaging to me and still impacts me today as I have struggled as an adult to adapt to change in all areas of my life.
I have raised my own family in 2 homes and lived in one for 17 yrs and the second for 21 yrs and counting. I finally feel I have stable roots.

My first ever home was a farm surrounded by fields. Now just an old house in the middle of a massive new housing development. Second house has completely gone. Demolished with all the others around it and replaced by a new housing estate. The village it was in has been swallowed up by urban spread from the town that was two miles away when I lived there.

I’m an army brat and have never been back to Germany, North London, Salisbury plain x 2, Northern Ireland x 2 and Cyprus houses. I hated having a rootless child hood and don’t want to go back to those places. I do live round the corner from my Grandparent’s house which was the closest thing I had to a home. I’ve seen our civi street house I moved to at 13. Still looks the same.

Army brat here.

I can't remember most of my addresses to look them up, but Google tells me that the flats in Hong Kong were demolished ages ago, and I regularly drive past the site of my old London home in Putney, which was rebuilt decades ago.

Google street view tells me that the private rental in Europe that my parents lived in when I was a student and in my early twenties is still there. Very fond memories of that house.

My two childhood homes are definitely still there.

The one I lived in from the age of 5-17 was on the market recently. My siblings and I found the listing on Rightmove and had a long WhatsApp exchange about what had changed and what hadn't since we moved out in the late 1970s.

There were some obvious big changes, for example they had made one bedroom into an en-suite and they had ripped out the walk-in larder in the kitchen. But there was a lot that was still the same, like the parquet flooring, and odd things we all remembered, like an unusual looking airing cupboard in the landing and a very small cupboard under the stairs.

I'm sure my mother would have been pleased that the wisteria she planted on the front of the house in the 1960s was still going strong!

@cakeorwine services child.....

Yes it does...my parents never moved, so the house I was born in (literally...in the front bedroom!) was where I (and my siblings) grew up.

My parents continued to live there, and we only sold it this year following the death of my mum (dad died a few years ago).

65 years they lived there!! I just can't imagine living in one place so long, but I have so many memories in that house. It was absolutely heartbreaking seeing the 'SOLD' sign up 😢