Do you still live in the area where you grew up?

[layingunderthestars]

Do you still live in the area you grew up in, if you don't how often do you travel back home to visit family? For me personally I live about an hour away from where I grew up so it's not that far to travel to see family.

I live 20 minutes away, go that way at least once if not twice per week.

I do. I'm 10 mins walk from the house I grew up in

An hour and that’s perfect. Nobody just drops in unexpectedly, but it’s near enough to visit for lunch. Wouldn’t have it any other way!

I moved 50 miles away. I visit a 3 or 4 times a year, but my mum visits me weekly.

Yes I do. I would never want to move.

nowhere near

I grew up in the south of Ireland, now live in England. Haven't been back in 9 years!! We are planning a trip next year hopefully.

We do however live ten minutes from where my husband grew up and where every single member of all his family still live. I hate it 😂 it feels very claustrophobic

God no, I escaped as soon as I could and never moved back!

I couldn’t think of anything worse. I find it really depressing to go back to my home town and see people who I went to school with, who still frequent the same pubs, married one another, have jobs in the same town etc. It feels very claustrophobic to me and I want to shout “there is a whole world out there!!!!”

Not to mention that everyone still seems to gossip about stuff that happened at school?! It’s so weird.

300+ miles. Used to visit more but now one every 12-18 months ish

No but I would love to. Beautiful town bu the sea and most of my family still theee. I'm three hours away and inland and I've always felt somewhat claustrophobic being inland.
I don't get up as much as I'd like since having DC and covid etc. It's probably every three months or so.

Some day I'll love back!

@SecretKeeper1

An hour and that’s perfect. Nobody just drops in unexpectedly, but it’s near enough to visit for lunch. Wouldn’t have it any other way!

This. I used to live closer. I used to live father away (10+ hour flight). But an hour is perfect.

2.5 hour drive away.
Last time I went was July 2020, I generally go once a year.

I haven't lived in my home town since I left to go to university. Almost 40 years later I'm now living in a different country. I go back to my home town occasionally, but since covid it's been almost two years.

No.
I grew up in a couple of different areas of the country, and none of my family live in either place anymore either, so I never get to go back for a visit.

4-6 hours away..

I left for more opportunities, but will probably go back in the not too distant future. Visit a few times a year as it's a few hours away.

Our County has an East/West divide. The East is the shit side...cheaper houses, poorer schools. The West is the lovely side, excellent schools and housing costs a fortune.

I live in the same City as I grew up in but moved from the shit side to the nice side as soon as I could afford to...about ten miles away from where I grew up.

@ShirleyPhallus

I couldn’t think of anything worse. I find it really depressing to go back to my home town and see people who I went to school with, who still frequent the same pubs, married one another, have jobs in the same town etc. It feels very claustrophobic to me and I want to shout “there is a whole world out there!!!!”

Not to mention that everyone still seems to gossip about stuff that happened at school?! It’s so weird.

Same here. I escaped when I was 18, and now visit rarely. Currently live about 500 miles away. Go back once a year if I can get away with it. My parents never visit us.

But I was getting away from something (homophobic family and town generally, small-minded and nosy people) so I’ve an incentive not to revisit past horrors. If I’d had a better time of it growing up I think I’d not have gone so far.

No. I live on the other side of the world to my parents and the rest of my family are scattered around mainland Europe.

I see my parents once or twice a year, I see my extended family maybe once every 2 years.

Yes, I sometimes sing the line "There must be more than this provincial life" from a song in Beauty and the Beast at my DH when he's annoying me. To be honest I'm quite a homebody most of the time although I plan to travel more once the younger ds is a little more in the swing of adulting. I'm a crap singer so I am arguably more annoying than DH to be fair

I live in another part of London from where I grew up - about an hour away (by public transport). My house would cost about £400k more where I grew up, so there’s no way I could afford to live there! My family have all moved elsewhere, anyway.

Yes. I’m 51 and still live in the same house I was born in.

I live a ten minute drive away.
I much prefer where I live now.

Nope.

About 2 hours away though. Don't go 'home' much, there's not a lot there these days.