How many counties have you lived in?

[SushiSheep]

5 for me

Four, the UK, Pakistan, the US and Sweden

Counties not sure...countries? 8 countries across 5 continents

1. My home country, the UK, Spain.

3 for me if we count England and Wales as separate, if not then 2

4 London boroughs
5 counties
3 UK counties
2 other countries

Six counties
2 countries

5 in the UK, 3 German states, 1 other country

9 counties in 5 countries.

It is fabulous seeing so many others with itchy feet. I’m somewhat of an anomaly amongst my friends and colleagues.

Having read the words, counties and countries too many times, they are starting to look peculiar!

3 different counties.

It is fabulous isn't it @RogersOrganismicProcess
and very fascinating!
Some of these numbers are amazing.

Counties or countries, it's all about the geography.
And some history thrown in to boot - thanks all! 🙂

One!

@MayorOfHuyton do you have DC, will they/have they moved out of town, spread their wings a bit?

My town is a half hour bus ride from a city with two great universities. I went to one and my brother went to the other and we both stayed at home during that.

I actually ended up leaving in my first year though and only graduated this year finally, but I went through the OU so it was able to fit around family life.

@Tarkan , I think that stability is absolutely as precious as roaming. When I look back at my career and where it took me I am not sorry, but if I could do it again I probably would make different decisions. I'd had enough of it all by 30 but kept going until 40 because I was too wary to make a drastic change.

We live somewhere that allows my DC1 to commute less than 25 miles to a uni that's ranked in the top 8 in the UK for their subject. It also looks like DC2 is going to commute to the uni that's 20 miles away in the opposite direction, again, in the top 7 for the UK in their chosen subject. So many of their friends are commuting from home.

@MsXmasGGMasterTwat - I did hate parts of it at time as I did feel I couldn't go to as many party nights as others staying there, but I had friends I could stay with at times so it's not like I missed all of it. And I do appreciate my parents for encouraging it as it saved us both a lot of money on accommodation and we didn't have to worry about costs of food etc either. My only expense really was a monthly bus ticket and then whatever I was having for lunch each day.

Both my DC have left school now and both went to college at first, again we have a great local one with a campus in town and a couple of campuses through in the nearby city. My eldest has dropped out and is working now instead but the youngest hated school, but is getting on so well at college, they're travelling every day but again they have the security of being at home and just needing to get the bus and pay for lunch each day.

3

4 UK counties and 2 countries

One. That's interesting isn't it?

Army?

Three. Would have been two but the London county boundary moved out to take-over the first one.

Long term one….i live in the village I was born in.
i did go to uni for three years if that counts?
and had a summer job somewhere else for three months, other end of the country.

Nope. It was made quite clear that uni wasn't for people like me. If I had decided to go anyway it would have been the one in my home town anyway. I don't think my mum could have afforded for me to go anywhere else, and I have no idea what funding there was at the time.

I also had a lot of other shit going on so never looked into it myself.

Eeek sorry I misread and thought it was countries!

In that case:

East Sussex
Surrey
Hampshire
London
Devon

@imnotwhoyouthinkiam ever thought about moving now. If you have DC do you think differently for them?

Renfrewshire
East Dunbartonshire
City of Edinburgh x 2
Dumfries & Galloway x 2
City of Glasgow
West Lothian
Fife

7 but have moved in and out of 2
twice