[Closed] Where do you live and how did you get there?

I was born in Lincolnshire, grew up in Herefordshire, went to uni in Cardiff, moved to Manchester, back to Cardiff, then to Finland and back to Cardiff. Don't really feel like I have roots, particularly.

Saltwood, near Hythe in Kent. I've lived in Canada, California and Australia, but I keep coming back and now I've got sprogs I'm staying here. Beaches for windsurfing, some pretty good trails for biking and a pub on the village Green (and an awesome school for the kids) - what's not to like?

I was born in Portsmouth. I've lived all my life in Fareham, ~5 miles west of Portsmouth. I'll be off to uni in October (hopefully), in Exeter. Can't wait.

Madrid, airplane? 😆

Born in Birmingham, live in Devon.

Anyone asking why has obviously never been to Birmingham

Born - Surrey lived in New Haw then Cobham then West Horsley
Moved in 1989 (aged 14) to Cornwall - Trebetherick then a small village nr St Endellion
Uni - three years at Swansea
First job - four months in Kingston then offered a great job in Bristol
Dotted around Bristol, got married travelled for six months, back to Bristol then did a year in the Docklands, back to Bristol again (Abbots Leigh) then finally back "home" to Cornwall - but Truro area. Been here over four years.

Born in South Africa, now live in North East UK. Moved here when I was 5 after my parents divorced.

Lived in a few places around the UK but only short term. Done seasonal work in the ski resorts as well but again only short term.

Where next? No idea

Born in Kingswinford West Mids, moved to Wombourne, Got job for Large Construction company worked in Northampton, Helensburgh, Folkestone then Warrington, Met Mrs in Sheffield moved over to there, settled down had kids etc now living in Barnsley then.....

Visit my Mom once a year in Wombourne but lost my roots along the way

middle park, melbourne, the tram

Born in Bolton, moved to Durham to study. Moved to Somerset for work for a few years before coming back oop north to Newcastle where I've been for 2 years.

No plans to move anytime soon, just bought my (our) first house. No fear of moving though, most likely it for work reasons. Would love to work overseas. Both mine and my GF companies are large multinationals and people move all the time. Unfortunately the companies operate in different countries and cities. Both of us moving together would be a challenge.

I'd love to go and live in the far east for a few year.

devon, A38.

Fair Isle, Dunnet Head, Isle of Arran, Stranraer, Girvan (dad = lighthousekeeper), Glasgow (Uni), North London (job), Christchurch, Addlestone, Maidenhead, Reading, Faringdon part time, ??retirement TBD

Barnsley > Middlesbrough > Durham > London > Umbria > Doncaster > Durham > London
an eclectic mix driven by work and play

yamyamblade.
I think I used to be mates with your brother.
Did he ride MX for a while?

S Manchester, N Manchester, Calderdale, back to N Manchester.

Dumfries, Edinburgh, Frome, Buckingham, Nottingham, Ipswich, Hampton Wick, Ealing, Hampton, Varanassi, Buckingham, Holyhead, Dumfries, Leeds, Gibraltar, Totnes, Belo Horizonte..........next move is two months back in Dumfries to finish my MSc, then to where the work is, hopefully still in Belo Horizonte as opposed to Sao Paulo.

I would happily live down in Devon again having been there for 6 months.

Born Northampton-raised in Milton Keynes.

Lived there for 30 something years-worked in bike trade.Mate working for same company got offered a job in Wales.6 months later he offered me a job.

Wasn't a driver at the time-bought a CG125 and "ride west young man"
Currently NW of Swansea with views of the Gower or the Brecon Beacons on a good day.
Plan was to cycle lots but bigger bikes made that stumble and fail.
Pedal a bit still but not as much as I should.

Would like to be a bit further west-will see what happens....

Born on the Wirral, left for Sheffield Uni, back to the Wirral, lived with a couple of different girlfriends, moved to Aylesford in Kent, lived in a few different places in that area for 2 years, back to the Wirral for 4 years, moved to West London last Novemeber... And planning on Canada in the next couple of years...

Oldham born 'n' bred
Out to Saddleworth ('posh' bit of Oldham...)
Thence to Mossley (less posh bit of Oldham / Ashton)
Finally to Marsden 'by accident of divorce' - only place I could afford to get a place- It's worked out the best thing to have happened to me - love the place 😀

Stafford, London, Toulouse, Zurich, Frankfurt, London, Frankfurt, San Francisco, Boston, Denver/London.

From Liverpool and live in erm... Liverpool.

Had an unpleasant stint living in Guildford for 18 months recently and realise how great it is up here 🙂

No desire go move anywhere else now.

Spent the best part of 6 years in Ibiza, spent 10 months in Stafford over a decade ago and spent lots of summers in Toronto.

Family also has had a cottage in Carbis Bay for over 40 years so lived in St Ives for a few years when I was a kid and still go down there a lot.

Born in the far reaches of east anglia, then moved to Milton Keynes, and damn it I've been there ever since....about 35 years which is way too long believe me.

would love to break away to the coast or peaks area (good biking and great climbing) but wife and kids are well settled, so it's concrete cows and roundabouts for a while longer.

Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch, Tekapo, Mt Ruapehu, Surfers Paradise, Brisbane, Queenstown, Annalong, London, Nottingham, back to London.

Came to this country 17 years ago chasing a woman I'd known for three months, never left despite it not working out with her.

Toon

NE(born)>London(till 16)>NE>London(uni)>NE

travelled extensively, but all leisure, not work ....

Born in Stourbridge, lived in Halesowen (s. West of Brum), uni in Northampton, back to Halesowen, Queenstown, NZ for a while, back to Halesowen again and finally to Stourbridge where I am now.

Clearly I lack some imagination...

From a village (Bonnybridge) in Central Scotland. Moved to Linlithgow first then spent some time working overseas (Germany twice, Belgium twice, Holland, Switzerland and Hong Kong twice). Decided to return to Scotland due to the need for stable schooling for the kids about 10 years ago and pretty much been in Balerno (on the edge of both the Pentland Hills and Edinburgh ever since). Still find Edinburgh one of my favourite cities (along with Munich and Hong Kong) and particularily like the balance of living where I do. Good trails right out of the door but also with a good bus route (and a mostly off-road cycle route) into the centre.

born warrington
grew up in holmfirth
uni wakefield
Worked seasons for a few years so flitted between holfirth, brighton, france, Italy, austria and greece from 2000 - 2004

settled in brighton and been here for nearly 6 years. Can't see myself moving anytime soon, though the south west has a massive draw for me.

Born Malvern, Uni in Cambourne, Cornwall, then Malvern again, then Uni in London (Eltham, Then Uni moved to Chatham, so lived in and around the Medway towns, then back to Malvern, worked for a bit in Stourport, just on teh commute run, then Uni again (MSc) to Newcastle, then Uni (PhD) to Paisley, then quite swiftly to Glasgow as Paisley is a shytehole. Moved about various flats in Glasgow while doing my PhD, met a girl, moved to a cottage by the canal in Bishopbriggs, got married and here I am.

Will probably end up either somewhere sunny or next to a Loch.

Donks-make the break from MK if you can-I miss my family but not the cultural vacuum!

Nice surrounding area but a real breath of fresh air to be somewhere else!

Sometime during September 1978 my Dad...

Born in Harrogate and lived here my whole life. Quite happy where I am and never seen the need to move (although I have been away and done some travelling).

Gatehead.
Kirklevington (Cleveland)
Nunnington (N Yorks)
Pocklington (E Yorks - school)
Aldershot / Cambereley / Minden / Hamburg (Army)
(2yrs back packing adventure in SE Asia)
SE / N London.
Bushey, Herts (last 9 yrs)
Next..... don't know but would consider a move, no problems with that as I'm self employed & single.

singlespeedstu - yeah we both did!!???

brighton. first job i was offered after graduating (7 years ago)

From birth:

Leicester->Grimsby->Poole->Durham(Uni)->Basingstoke->London->Poole/Bournemouth->Southampton->Australia->Chelmsford->Southampton->Leeds->Worcester->Malvern.

First 3 or so driven by my dad's job, rest driven by 'seemed a good idea at the time' life choices! 😉

Where shall I go next?

Goole - Harlow - Goole - Hull - Leeds - Buckinghamshire - Dusseldorf - Buckinghamshire (now 10 years)

But in that time worked all over the world, like travelling, but like been home more.

yamyamblade - Member

singlespeedstu - yeah we both did!!???

Couldn't remember if you did or not.

It was a loooong time ago. 😉

MKChris..trust me i have tried it's like this god forsaken concrete hell has some kind of hold over me....in a Patrick magowen prisoner kind of way!! if only some one would offer me an electrical engineering job in the heart of the peaks 😆

i guessed it was you somehow, hope you've had your haircut!!

😆 i wish I could still grow hair.

Born in Sheffield.
4 years in Stafford which was ace. Wouldn't want to live there now tho.
Basingstoke (first job). Horrible place.
Cranleigh in Surrey. Nice place to ride bikes, fairly useless for most other stuff.
Basingstoke again (Girl.. nothing else would have got me there)
Stone (just outside Aylesbury.. lovely place except for the Aylesbury bit)
Now settled near Ross on Wye (10 miles from MM) course. Kids settled, nice house or it will be when it's not a wreck, 20 acre field outside my window, Riding is FoD or Malverns then < 1hr to Wales.

Can't see us moving now. Not now I've got to the expense of grafting on the extra finger 🙂

Live less than a mile from where I was born, although I have lived as far as five miles away!

Very lucky to be born in Friday Street, now in Abinger Common. Has never so much as crossed my mind to move out of the Surrey Hills.

Perth, Dumfries, Hamburg, Hamelin, Perth, Dundee, Paris, London, Dundee, Kilmarnock, Glasgow, Aberdeen, London, Inverbervie, Dundee

A long way to end up 20 miles down the road.

Born in Corby, moved to BoroughBridge (N,Yorks) aged 7, moved to Somerset at 22 years old to open new business and still here.
Would like to move a little more rural one day.

Born in Devon.. still in Devon.. anyone asking why obviously hasn't been to Devon..

(Did you know that you can take any song with the word Heaven in it... and replace it with the word Devon... and the song will actually make more sense..? FACT!)

Born Stourbridge - lived there until I moved to Stafford for two years for a job - moved back to Stourbridge for another job - then lived in Claregate Wolverhampton for 9 months - then split with fiance (1) - then back to Stourbridge for a bit - now living In Dudley with my fiance (2).

Not a lot of mileage there, although I did live and work in Connecticut, USA for 12 weeks in the summer of 97.

born Aldershot
brought up Tetbury (Gloucestershire)
Uni Aberystwyth
now Reading (sort of crash landed here)

Not very exciting really

Reading seems to have a bit of a rubbish reputation but I quite like it - the rep keeps the ponces at bay, and there are plenty of proper pubs.

Born in Suffolk and, apart from a stint in London at uni and then in Watford, lived there until I moved out to Cambridgeshite for work. Been here a long time now.

Wimbledon - Banbury - Durham - Chester - Manchester

Swindon by accident, its time to get the hell outta dodge!

was born in cork then moved hamilton (just outside glasgow) when i was a bairn and ive lived here ever since, i commute to glasgow for work and have great hills within an hours drive

dont really see the need to leave

South of Brum (Parents) -> Central Brum (my own flat) -> Stourbridge (g/f's house) -> to Nr. Stourbridge (g/f's new house - I still have a house in Brum though)

Not really gone that far have I?

born in london,an will die in london

Born in Durham, studied in Bristol, went to work in London, bought a place in SW London, had to move out, rented a place in central London, got a job in Bristol, moving there in September.

Would like to move a little more rural one day.

Priddy?

Somerset born and bred ,bought a house in Ebbw vale in 1990 at the height of the price rises then as I couldn't afford Somerset . Quickly sold it and moved back to Somerset to rent!! Still in Somerset now

Hereford > Llandrillo > Corwen > Holyhead > Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch > Bridgend > Tregarth > York

ShiteLand with many corrupted "Dear Leaders" but slightly ok 😕 -> Coventry 😉 -> Kent(Canterbury) 😛 -> Leeds 😐 -> ShiteLand to work for "multinational" shite company only short of goose-step 👿 (£20 saving/month for several yrs. That will learn me) -> Kingdom of Geordie .

Will root down in GeordieLand. Wahey!

😆

Sonning Common (nr Reading) -> Durham (Uni) -> Reading -> Woking -> Guildford

Looked at moving to somewhere else in the south east when kids were born but decided that even though it's very expensive the wife and I like living here. So can't see us moving unless a job forced it.

Plus my folks are still in Reading and her mother is in Addlestone so easy access for them to see the kids.

Surfmat - West Horsley 1989? You might know my cousins.

Kew (London) -> Idaho -> Southampton -> Cairo -> Madrid -> Villalba -> Galapagar (the last two are small towns at the base of the mountains west of Madrid).

Mainly ended up here in Spain as I couldn't afford to get to Asia. Been here for 14 years now!

The New Forest till 19 (New Milton)
Trefforest (Wales) for Uni,
North Somerset (Congresbury)
Bucks (Great Hampden, Luton)
Herts (Baldock)
North Someret (Worle)

Live near Candodavid and, like him, I'd like to live more rural Somerset.

No plans to move out of Somerset if I can help it. Love the place.

Started life in Witham (Essex)
Six months in Finland before uni doing national service
Liverpool for 8 years (Allerton, Wavertree, Toxteth, Dingle, Aigburth)
Witham
Chelmsford now living 400 metres from where I was born so I feel I've come a long way!

Rothbury
Whitley Bay
Colchester (university)
Birmingham
London
Maidstone
London
Rickmansworth
Watford
Brussels
Harefield
Watford

I'd love to live back in the North East, but since I've now spent well over 50% of my life away, I'm in danger of looking back with rose-tinted glasses. Besides, I'd find it very hard to do the sort of job I do anywhere other than in London.

Offered a job in Manchester. Moved almost overnight from Devon. Like it here more.

Born in Macclesfield, live in Whaley Bridge and always have done.

Born in Surrey, now live in Glasgow.
Offered a job so moved, I love it here, but contract end soon so who know where I will be!

Born in the Lake District / Cumbria
Moved to Singapore for a year and a couple of long visits for fathers work when younger
Back to Lake District
Lancaster for 2 years pretty much for College
Sunny Stoke on Trent for uni for 3/4 Years
BACK TO THE LAKES NOW so I don't commit suicide in Stoke.

Loving it, but will be going travelling for a long period of time soon 😀

Born in Leeds, then moved to...
Stourport
Derby
Ambleside
Windermere
Liverpool (college)
Windermere
Crewe (college)
Bridgenorth
Germany
Windermere
Ulverston...no plans to move from here until I retire.

Aliens drafted me in to 'singletrack' land Tod Mor Den or as some would say 'Odd mor den! 😕 i woke up one morning and here i was slap bang in the middle of some of the best 'fells' 8) there is to be had....lol 😉

Sidney, you seem to have lived in exactly the same areas in Liverpool as me....

Chippenham, Wilts. Born here.

Born Colchester
then Auckland
Yateley
Berlin
Rostock
Luxembourg
Moscow
Yateley
Dublin
Guildford
Might add to that list one day.....

Glasgow 1 year
Bristol 7 years
Cairo 3 years
Hants/sussex border, liphook and liss, 3 and 4 years
Hatfield 4 years
London 1 year
Brighton 1 year
Stockholm 6 months
Brighton 2 years
Bath 12 years

Rochdale 18 yrs
London 18 months
Malmo 6 months
London 2 yrs
Rochdale 10 yrs
South Manchester 9 years

Born in BMH Munster, Germany
Hampshire 3 years
Somerset 15 years
Wiltshire 1 year
Oxford 3 years
Bristol 5 years
Southampton 4 and a bit years

Bristol - back soon, me babbers.

Born in leeds, moved to devon when I was 5, went to boarding school near horsham when I was 10, went to uni in bath when i was 18 spent 6 years there and now have moved to maidstone for work.

I don't feel at home in maidstone so will move, either up north, back to bath or nz or canada.

Born in West London, lived on outskirts then moved to North Kensington. Moved out to Hampshire then Berkshire. Moved to New Alresford, Hampshire and spent a short but happy time there. Back to Berkshire and pretty much dislike it, very unsettled.

Dunno where I'm going to end up but would love to live in the Cheviots. Maybe one day ...

Andover > Sydney > Andover > Reading > Andover > Reading > Dorset seaside.

Took 20 years for the homing device to break. Hard to resist the allure and bright lights of Andover??? 😕

Born in Poland, moved to London following a GF, change GFs but stayed there for 13 years, now in Ireland. Future? Dunno, would love to be back to London but the Lottery numbers are coming up incorrectly all the time 🙁