Have you ever been to your parents childhood area?

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Yes because my grandmother loved there.

Yes my mum still lives in the area she grew up in.

My dad still lives in the house he was born in!

Yes because I grew up there too

Yes been to where both parents live

And further my mother has only ever lived in her parents house and her married home!

I grew up there too, although I moved away as an adult.

Yes, but not for years.

Regularly visited the house where my mum was born as a child. Only went to my dad's childhood home once, and then we weren't able to go inside the house.

Not to where my mum was born, but I grew up where dad was born

Yes. I actually ended up living in my grandparents old house. It was very different by then, my dad thought it so weird visiting me there!

Yes, for both.
My aunt took me past the school that she and DM went to, though not past the house.

I've also been to where my father spent the first 10/12 years of his life. The area has been transformed by modern development, but you can get an idea of what it would have been like.

Since my GPs passed away, no, though I visited most weekends up to when I left home! My DBs kids grew up in the same village I did, and my DParents still live there.

My mum, no, she grew up in Alsace.

My f's family, yes, it's one of those old rural villages where I'm related to most of the churchyard.

I go occasionally to tend the graves.

i live here! Two streets away from my mum’s primary school. I love it - I know everyone and there’s so much family history. I’m always telling my dc about it. Just last week I heard my mum telling my teenage son about which pubs she got drunk in as a teenager 😁

Yes. I grew up in the same village, moving to my grandmother's house after she died and my parents deciding to live there.

My dad’s yes. As I was born local to his birth place and had family there for years. Once went to an area close(ish) to where my mother was born to visit her aunt but I was a child and don’t remember much about it.

Yes for my mum as my grandmother lived there until she passed away.

I’ve been to the area where my dad was born as it’s not far from where we live now. Where he grew up for most of his childhood not so much. Though it’s not a million miles from where we grew up my grandparents had moved away and there wasn’t really a reason to go there.

I was born in my Mum's area but its changed a lot now.
The road where Mum lived with her family is long gone and a small council housing estate stands there now.
Dad. Definitely . As my Grandad and Gran lived in the same flat that Dad had been born in. Visited there until 1995 when Grandad sadly died . Gran moved to Cornwall to be nearer to a Son of hers. They had both planned to move there but sadly that wasn't to be

We used to visit both each time we came home from abroad, but lived in neither.

Funnily enough we as in DH and I almost bought a house in DF's home village but bought one 10 miles away.

DS couldn't visit mine as DF was RAF and we lived all over the world. He grew up in his F's town till he moved away as and adult.

Not to my dad's area but my grandad still lived in the house my mum grew up in until the day he died. Her "area" was an island (originally an island but they built a dyke connecting it to the mainland at some point in her childhood) in a lake in Lapland, was a dairy farm when she was growing up. Reindeer for neighbours (literally, there were several we always saw roaming around the island, coming right up to the house sometimes, including an albino one)

Yes, she grew up in Yorkshire. We visited the house she lived in and the pub outside of which her Uncle Ernest was run over because he was drunk.
Walked the Moors and climbed the Cow and Calf as she did as a child.
She died last year aged 91 and those memories are so precious.

Yes, I still live in the area, so do my siblings, so do my cousins.

Yes, another country, my grandmother lived there and even after she died visited as my cousin lives nearby.

My sister now lives in the house I was born in. It was my parents marital home and my Dad's parents and his Dad's parents home before that.
The village has changed alot over the years but the school is Still popular, a couple of pubs and the mill were closed but still a lovely safe place to live.

Dad grew up in Govan in Glasgow, gran always stayed in the 3rd floor 2 bed tenement flat where she raised 9 dc, mostly as a single mum (his dad died young from cancer). Mum and Dad moved away in the late 1960s but we visited her and the area often as kids and adults often. She died in the 1990s, and I last visited it with dad just before they knocked it all down sometime in the noughties.

Mum's parents moved around different areas of Glasgow, so never went to where she was as a child or teen.

Mum was born abroad but my grandparents took us both there (me and DB) when we were in our late teens. Their house was gone and in fact had been built over - my mum says she's glad she didn't see it.
Dad was brought up in the house his dad and step mum still lived in, a huge lovely house in the West Country. My DGF had one much younger child, my age, we visited loads as children and teens, lots of happy memories. I don't think it had changed much since my DGF and DGM lived there - they first moved in the day the NHS started!