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Me? I live on the East Kent coast. I ended up here after living in High Wycombe, then Oxford, then Hong Kong, then Oxford again, then London.
I moved down to East Kent on a whim. I'd been reading the darling buds of may by HE Bates, had gotten bored with London after living in Leytonstone (in the squatted street on the M11 link road scheme) and fancied a bit of Catherine Zeta-Jones style action down in the bluebell woods of kent, a bit of a dreamer I guess 🙂 . I haven't managed to leave again yet (17 years and counting) despite both me and the missus wanting a change of scenery.
Where's next for me? Not sure at present, both my kids are pre school age so we aren't really tied down. Just back from a visit to Plymouth where a big branch of my wife's family are from (we are talking a BIIIG family, they have their own songs FFS) and I think Devon is a likely candidate.
what about you? Have you moved away from home never to return or have you returned to your roots?
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 - Membersinglespeedstu - 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.