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 about 12 miles from where I grew up but given that it's London it's a million miles away!

Nowhere near, we moved to the UK when I was eight, I haven’t been back since I was a child and I’ll never go back again. I haven’t been to where I grew up in the UK since I left, not sure why I woulf as I no longer have any connections there. My friends all move away, so even when I see them I don’t need to go back.

About 45 minutes drive but I'd love to move back to the actual area. Unfortunately DH won't move there and it's fairly rural so harder for kids to get jobs etc (which is why I moved).
Probably go back once a month or once every two months but my parents visit us weekly.

I love the town I was brought up in but my parents live there so I live somewhere else 4 hours away.

Nah, 2 hours away.. apart from my mum and brother and his family and my best friend and his husband, I rarely see anyone from home.

I recently moved about 20 mins away. My family seem to think it's too far to visit

Nowhere near. Grew up and uni in Scotland, spent some years travelling, settled briefly in NZ, now live in France. That’s close enough for me. My parents still live in the village I grew up in. It’s very picturesque but also very smug and gentrified. Nice place to retire to, I guess.

Nowhere near. Grew-up in Provence until the age of 14 then came back to the UK to live with my grandparents on their Dorset farm. Now live in Richmond Surrey.

I do but I lived away fron 18-33. I moved back, not far from London after my eldest was born as it is cheaper/easier to raise my kids with a lot of their family around. I would have hated to have stayed ny whole life.

Once my boys graduate uni I will be back to London where I belong!

Nope, I live on the other side of the world. Best case scenario, it's going to be around 4 years from when we left to when we go back. DH lives closer to where he was born - in Northern England, but he emigrated to NZ when he was three, and counts that as home.

Yes, I moved back to my home town when DS1 was a toddler. DBro moved back around the same time too. Its lovely, we all invite ourselves to my parents house to eat all the time :)

My home town is a small city so there's jobs/opportunities for the DC etc.

Yes because it's a lively area

I’ve moved a billion times. I have multiple places that I call home. I couldn’t name one place that I grew up in.

No. I live about 4 hours away. My sister and her family moved away from the area, and my parents, aunt and uncle are no longer with us so I have no reason to go back and visit.

Nope and very rarely.

I was brought up in the suburbs of North West London, now live aboit half way between Nottingham and Sheffield.

I have a few family members scattered around London but we are not massively close. I didn't grow up living near any family, they are spread across the globe so nothing much to go back for really.

I do silently envy people who love close to where they grew up and who have close knit groups of friends from childhood. My longest friendship is 25 years (am early 40's) where as people I work with who have remained local have friends they have known their entire lives.

My next closest friendship is probably only 5 years.

No, it's a fairly dull place to live. I live about 20 miles away in a larger town now.

@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.

Another way of looking at it is that you have roots and a real sense of long-standing community. One of DD's best friends is the child of a boy from my class at school theory years ago. He and I didn't stay in touch and my DD met his DS independently of us parents - but I think it's pretty cute to think I was hanging out with the boy's dad when we were the same age as our kids are now. Good memories :-)

No, I live about 2 hours away. There's no jobs in my industry where I'm from, its mostly agriculture or tourism. And DH definitely couldn't work there, we will always have to be close to a city. I'm the only person in 3 generations of family to have left our area!

It's a lovely area and I wish I got to enjoy it more, visits tend to be a bit busy and rushed.

@ShirleyPhallus

Another way of looking at it is that you have roots and a real sense of long-standing community

Yeahhh, no.

I’ve never lived more than 3-5 minutes away from the house I grew up in let alone area. Am moving 10 minutes away in the new year and it feels like I’m moving country 😂

The same sort of area but not the same town (12 miles away). I like where I live now and live where I used to live. Still close enough that I can see family and friends but far enough to have a nice life here too - my hometown is a little small town and cliquey! I felt like moving even a short distance away was a fresh start!

My partner was born and had his childhood in a totally different part of the country. He's never been back to his hometown the decade we've been together and not much before that either! He doesn't have many ties there now though apart from cousins he barely knows now!

I don’t live near any of the places that I grew up and never go back

Jesus, no. I moved a short plane ride away for uni. There's really nothing to go back for anyway since my friends scattered for uni and my DPs often come to me. I go back about once every two years. No regrets.

Live 3 hours away. This is the closest I’ve lived since I left at 18. Haven’t been back for years.