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I'm now back in Cheshire (South Wirral). Less than 10 miles from where I was born.

Me too, Heswall (playground of the rich and famous)


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:04 pm
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Morpeth but I now live in Alnwick, I didn't move far.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:14 pm
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From: The South

Live: The North


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:15 pm
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andytherocketeer, when were you at Surrey Uni?


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:22 pm
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Born and raised in Nam..... Cheltenham!

Back here now!


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:27 pm
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Surfer my girlfriends from Heswall, Its a nice part of the world, hoping to move back there.

I'm from Stafford now living in Chester, lived in London too.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:27 pm
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CharlieMungus, 1992-93


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:34 pm
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hmmmm, postgraduate? What dept?


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:35 pm
 LoCo
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Wiltshire, Nr Erlestoke

Now the Valleys ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:35 pm
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just a 1yr Masters - EE dept. (well the SatComms part of EE)


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:38 pm
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Keats???

actually, no Keats was not andy


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:42 pm
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Born - Sheffield
Lived - Derbyshire/Cambridgeshire/Peak District/Manchester/Sheffield
Live - Peak District


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:45 pm
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Halifax.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:45 pm
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Originally from Workington on the Cumbrian coast.

Currently living in Glasgow.

All kinds of places during the time in-between.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:45 pm
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andytherocketeer a contemporary of Sammut?


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 2:49 pm
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Democratic People's Republic of Croydon.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:03 pm
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?
I assume you are/were there as student or prof?
Don't recognise the name.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:04 pm
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Born in Lancaster, lived in Morecambe until I was 20 so nearly a Sandgrownun, now live in Prestwich but that will hopefully change if we can sell our house...


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:04 pm
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I assume you were there as student?

how about Donnchadh? (pronounced Doniker?)
Ken Cullen?


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:06 pm
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Ah yeah remember Donnchadh (is that really how you spell it?). Thinking about it was Tony Sammut the French (or French Canadian) guy? Others in the same year: Marcus Robinson, Michael Scharfe, Kumar (no way can I spell or pronounce a SriLankan name),...


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:13 pm
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Sammut was Maltese but from Pompey really.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:20 pm
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Was born in North Lincolnshire (the Humberside) then moved:

Texas,
Oklahoma,
North lincs,
Prague,
North lincs,
Hamburg,
Newcastle (for uni),
Now settled inbetween Preston and Chorley!


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:26 pm
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Born in Khartoum, Sudan, Welsh by nationality (Sudo-Welsh, as some would have it ๐Ÿ™‚ )

Brought up in various parts of Africa. Been trending in a south-westerly direction since uni at St Andrews, via Manchester (blech), West Yorkshire (ace), Worcestershire (superb), Wiltshire (fun), have now been in Zummerzet for a couple of years and ab-so-lutely loving it here.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:31 pm
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Born in Durham, lived in;
Exmouth,
Arbroath(ish),
Yeovil,
Poole,
Lincoln(ish),
Bury St Edmunds,
Vrysoulles (Cyprus),
Kambia (Sierra Leone),
Stafford,
Wolverhampton
and am now in Chester (but trying to convince my SO that it's time to move on)


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 3:46 pm
 Spud
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Nottingham
Perth (Aus)
Nottingham
Manchester
Nottingham

Can you see a pattern here...


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 4:08 pm
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Born Kingston, Jamaica.
Brought up in the Home Counties.
Now living on the edge of the Brecon beacons. Which is quite nice ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 4:09 pm
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born middlesbrough. moved to nottingham, then to isle of man, then to manchester and back again to the isle of man


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 4:11 pm
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I'm based in Norfolk, big sky country.

I've also lived in Beauvais and Istanbul.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 4:20 pm
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From near Keighley, now live between Wakefield and Huddersfield


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 4:21 pm
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Nothing special. Born in llangollen, bummed around here and there for a few years, only to end up about 10 miles away from where I popped out.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 5:23 pm
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Born an raised south London before moving all of 12 miles to Reigate/Redhill just off the M25 in east Surrey.

They call me Phileas Fogg!!


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 5:36 pm
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Seems that there are a few 'hubs'. Places where many folks have been, and not all entirely obvious


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 5:39 pm
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Born in Hertford (moved when only a few weeks old though)
Lived in:
Cotton, Staffs
Oakamoor, Staffs
Quorn[don], Leics
Lima, Peru
Salford Uni
Current: Chorlton, Manchester


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 5:49 pm
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From Malvern.

Lived in:
Camborne
Eltham
Medway towns
Newcastle
Paisley (!)
now live in Glasgow.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 6:06 pm
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Born in Shipley then lived in Plymouth and Portsmouth for a bit moved back to Shipley now living in Rawdon. Rock and Roll!


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 7:48 pm
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Annan, Dumfries and Galloway


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 7:53 pm
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Sunny Poole in good ole Dorset


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 8:12 pm
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Born in Nebraska, USA, now live in New Mexico, USA and in the 60+ years intervening lived/worked in many places, both in the US and otherwise, including 6 months in the UK (London).


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 8:50 pm
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Born in high wycombe, then off to hong kong, then chinnor for 20 years then London for a bit then Canterbury and now Whitstable.

Would love to move back to the chilterns one day, turn into a homing pigeon if I get within 20 miles.

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Posted : 10/05/2011 9:07 pm
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Still living 1 mile from the house I was born in 55 years ago

Why move away from Herefordshire!! ๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 9:14 pm
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Why move away from Herefordshire!!

lol, with you on that one. 'Fordian through n through me ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 10:16 pm
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Born in New York USA, moved to London when I was 12, moved back to the USA when I was 24, decided the USA wasn't for me any more and moved back to the UK aged 29, studied again at Cambridge but now live in a valley in South Wales hence the biking ๐Ÿ™‚ You guys don't know how good you have it!


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 10:37 pm
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Born northern India
Lived in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Cumbria, Liverpool, Kirkcudbright, Sheffield, Killin.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 10:39 pm
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Born in Rinteln, Germany.

Live in Bournemouth via Leeds, Andover, Sennelager, Tidworth, Andover, Warminster, Iserlohn, Tidworth, Camberley, Dortmund, Lulworth Cove and errr...Rinteln.

Additonally, I know I'm going to Heaven for I have lived in Hull.


 
Posted : 10/05/2011 10:40 pm
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Born Leeds; Huddersfield for Poly; Pembrokeshire for a year; London for about 20 years; now south Manchester


 
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