Where did teenage you dream of living?

[RzorC]

an apartment in Manchester

London..and here I am. I grew up in rural Somerset where there was nothing to do. We have a three bedroomed house rather than a glorious Richmond/Hampstead villa but I'm very happy.

Australia on a beach
Now I live in the Caribbean on the beach.

London. And I've lived here now for 30 years and love it. Now I daydream of returning to the place I grew up some day.

One of those white wedding-cake houses in Belgravia. And I was going to have 'staff' to look after it while I travelled the world as the next Maria Callas.

Hampstead

London - which is where I ended up. Not as centrally as 15 year old me imagined, but I'm happy here and have no desire to move.

Until I was 19 I had absolutely no vision at all and wanted to stay where I was.

Then I had an epiphany and realised that my home town was definitely NOT where I wanted to be. My uncle lived in London and was having a great time so I wanted to live there. In a swish City flat.

I eventually - 10 years later made it to South London and lived there for 3 years, had some of the best times ever, met some amazing friends, met DH then we moved up to South Manchester. The best lifestyle decisions were made after I was 29 without a doubt.

I grew up in Devon in the 60s. The summer holidays when we went to DGPs in London were a highlight of my life, and here I am in SW London and very happily so.

At 16 I wanted a flat above a shop in swinging Camden, right in the heart of the mid 90s action.
The age I am now, that is my idea of hell 😂

Somewhere warm near the sea. Not five miles away from where I grew up in London...