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I was born in Bath but ended up in Woking after a few moves around the UK as a child. I bought my first, and only, house in Guildford over 30 years ago as, at that time, housing here was cheaper than Woking. I went to university as a very mature student and rented this place out and had no intention of coming back. After my bachelors and masters degrees I couldn't get a job so ended up coming back here as at least I could have a roof over my head. I ended up getting a job fairly local to here so have stayed put. As I have said in another post, I really like Guildford, even with all its faults. I still have friends and family round here, so, until I retire, I think this is it. it.
Born in Manchester, lived there for four years. My dad was a big climber so we moved to New Mills then. Grew up in New Mills which was awesome..
Work drove me after that. Moved to Liverpool for a couple of years, then Manchester, now live in Leigh near Wigan. It's useful being at the crossroads of the M6 and M62 and I'm close to work but I miss the proper hills.
Why do I live in the lake district? See those hills, the ones next to those lakes...?
Because despite Edinburgh City Council granting permission to desecrate a UNESCO world heritage site for no logical reason, the city remains beautiful beyond words on its best days.
And I can ride Calton Hill, Arthurs Seat, Castle Hill & the Water Of Leith on my lunch.
Smashing.
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Wirral - been here 15 years now still like it
Brought up near Kendal. Went to Uni in Sheffield & really wanted to live near there because of the biking, but ended up getting a job in Leeds instead. Went rock climbing at the Cow & Calf rocks above Ilkley about 15 years ago & fell in love with Wharfedale. Met my wife in Leeds a few years later & after we got married decided to move to an area better for bringing up a family & I knew that Wharfedale would be perfect.
Been here ever since & it's fantastic. Only an hour from my parents in Cumbria. Decent rides from the door & loads to choose from within an hours drive. Great people, good pubs & restaurants nearby. Leeds is only 30 minutes away, so city life is easily accessible when we want it too. It's got everything we need. Love it!
I long to move away to sunnier shores, and as much as I love travelling and do it all the time, i love my home. Apparently as a child, according to my parents, as soon as I'd cross the border into England, I'd start crying and as soon as we crossed back on the way home, I'd stop
I've lived abroad before and was offered relocation to China a couple years ago but I really struggle with the concept of leaving my home country
Born and raised in Leeds, met a Swedish girl and now stuck here in Gothenburg, Sweden...
I graduated n 92 in the mini recession. I got one job offer in Somerset. I have changed jobs once since but never felt like leaving the area.
Because my kids live here
because it's by the coast and the mountains and my family, the 3 things I give a shit about.
Born Sunny Scunny 17years
joned HM Forces lived in Germany 5 years
Demobbed back to Scunny 6years
Married moved to Scarborough(Partners job)4years
Left Scarborough to Lichfield (partners job)12 years
Got divorced
Hooked up with partner have child
Leave Lichfield move to Kendal 8 months(partners job)
Just waiting for it to go tits up 😉
Went prospecting in parts of the world then ended in the Toon. 😯
Its near the wifes place
I live on the gold Coast of North East Lincolnshire 'cause the pays good and the houses are cheap.
Born in Aberdeen , grew up In Elgin . Moved to London for 5 years at the age of 23 . Then moved back to Scotland but couldn't afford Edinburgh so bought a house In east lothian and been here ever since. Been offered a job in Oz but would really miss living near Edinburgh so I doubt I'll move anywhere else.
Born in Maidstone, Uni in Portsmouth, back to Maidstone, London for 6 months, Melbourne (Aus) for 7 years, Hebden Bridge for 5 years, now back in Melbourne for the past 3.5 years. Although Hebden Bridge will be home next year.
I blame the wife for all the moving (she's an Aussie).
Milton Keynes (born before it was there)
Bedford, Oxford, London - educated
Cornwall. Plymouth - more training
Sydney
Newfoundland, Canada
Swansea,
Taunton
How did I end up in Sussex for the last 18 years?
Bristol, Holland, Germany - cos that's where work is, and the hills are nearby (now)
With what I do, work tends to dictate location.
Fife, Aberdeen, Edinburgh,methven nz, Val d isere, vail, methven again, london, Wellington nz 13 years amigo and now stuck. Great city, lovely people, no desire to shft despite various pressures.
Denver, CO. Skiing, mountain biking and my wife.
Born - Sheffield
Childhood - North Derbyshire
University - Manchester
1st Job - Manchester
2nd Job - York
3rd Job - Stirling
Moved back to Manchester for new job.
After getting fed up with living in Manchester moved to the High Peak.
I now have the best of both worlds and life is good.
Born in dundee
Brought up in arbroath
Live in aberdeen , mrs t-r came here for pgde so i came up and found a decent job so we stayed
Born in the East coast of the states.
Stayed there through childhood.
Homeless in the meidwest for a couple years.
Moved to Cambridge for work.
Then to Norwich for a fiance.
Then to Thetford to be closer to work.
(although, if I could do it all over again, I would have gone to sheffield in the beginning)
Work is now in the states. West side this time.
Moving in a few weeks.
I have been and will be where I have been because there is no reason not to.
Born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, apprenticeship and then redundancy in early eighties, job in New York city south Bronx, 6 dead in one day body without head come home survived. More years of factory work, marriage, house , children and more redundancy, relocation to Yeovil without family, new friends great riding Somerset and Dorset beautiful counties but family problems mean back to Bromsgrove and built a new house had some lucky breaks of late and live in a very nice area opposite the woods and in conclusion Bromsgrove isn't such a bad place to grow old in 🙂
Born in Wirksworth, moved mid-teens to London and stayed till my mid-twenties. Work gave me a year each in New York, Oslo, Rome and Bergen. Swapped jobs and ended up in Rawtenstall, and a further job move resulted in the last five years have been in Crumpsall. I do wonder where it all went wrong 😉
Yeadon -> Swansea -> Yeadon -> Wolverhampton -> Yeadon -> Very central London -> Otley -> King's Lynn.
The london and King's Lynn ones were partner driven.
Got itchy feet now for a move from King's Lynn (even though I really quite like where I live) but tied to my address until the NHS have finished with me as policy sends me to back of queue if I move (yes, really!)
EDIT - oh, and it's where my house is, which makes it a convenient place to live 😉
Rachel
It's nice, I like it.
It's where my house is
Live where I live due to schools and job. In that order. Purely a practical decision, but only 15 minutes from Woburn so could be worse...
Hills on four sides.
We moved here because the accommodation was ideal and the riding was superb.. with a good school and family nearby..
Sadly I left behind a large and very close knit small town community that I had built myself a well loved position in over the last 20 years..
grew up pretty much 'off grid' on the Isle of Wight. Bored bored bored. So now live in the heart of the biggest new town (Milton Keynes) and love the futuristic modernity, and that it's 30 minutes to central London.
And the types of riding I love are on my doorstep (endless tight cheeky singletrack at Woburn for MTB, relentless hammering through rolling countryside of Aylesbury vale for road).
Hills on four sides.
Don't you feel vulnerable to attack ?
I would move to higher ground.
Fort William, born and raised, have evolved webbed feet and a set of gills to deal with the crappy weather, often ask my self what the hell am I doing here, life doesn't have to be this wet! Then now and again the sun comes out and all is good again,
Born in Melbourne, grew up here and did degree (Science) here. Spent a year in Canada (lake louise and Waterton national park) as a ski bum, moved back to finish degree, off to Canberra for a Ph.D., Wageningen (holland) for a research job, left when contract finished and relationship broke down. Moved to london for another research contract before retraining as a teacher (longer holiday, much more fun and explosions). After 8 years in London moved back about 30 minutes from where I grew up, dragging my english wife and kids back here. Teaching at a school where mates went when I was young. Living by the river with lots of good riding nearby.
Shropshire born.
Moved to Preston (uni)
Then Birmingham (also uni and later work)
Then London
Then a brief sojourn in France
Then London again
Then Taiwan
Now Leipzig, Germany (for the foreseeable future 8O)
Sadly I left behind a large and very close knit small town community that I had built myself a well loved position in over the last 20 years..
Wow! you built an entire town and community.
0-6 dundee
6-24 village near dundee
24-28 dundee
28-? different village near dundee
Wow! you built an entire town and community.
with my bare hands and the stuff that the everyday folk leave behind..
Because my wife is an only child who wants to live near her parents. It's been a disaster!
0-3 Lewisham, south east London
3-18 Bexleyheath, south East London
18-20 Southampton (Uni)
20-26 Bexleyheath
26-31 bit of a nomad, split between southend and Bexleyheath
31-34 Southampton/gravesend - split between second stint at uni and Girlfriends
34-37 Gravesend
37-present day (39) Farnborough Village - near Biggin hill airport
We moved here as its near my other half's job, and we wanted our kids to go to the village School, we've given up a lot to make it happen, as 4 of of us are currently 'existing' in a tiny 2 bed bungalow - if we moved 3 miles down the road we could have a 4 bed detached house, but I like Farnborough....
Born in Banbury, moved to Gloucester 'cause of dads job, when I was teeny been here ever since.
S'ok really, Bristol not far away, Welsh hills, can think of worse places.
Born in Plymouth in the front room of where we lived & I lived in that house until I was 28.
My job moved me to Launceston so moved to a small town in Cornwall just over the Devon/Cornwall border & I'm still living there 22 years later even tho job is now back in Plymouth & ironically less than half a mile from where I was born 🙂
I love living in Cornwall in the countryside, I've got some great riding from my doorstep, Dartmoor is only 15 miles away & Bodmin Moor only 8 miles. I get to commute across the Tamar bridge in the Summer & I don't want to move anywhere else.
essex lad born and raised. buggered off to Oz for a year when i was 19. met the German GF there. whilst i was there my folks moved from Thurrock (think Lakeside shopping centre, but not the new build area, but the shitty area behind that towards Tilbury) to Chelmsford as it is where my mum was born and lots of her family still live.
getting a place of my own didn't seem to make financial sense so i built a mini-house/large shed in the folks garden.
moved to Germany back in early 2008. spent one year living in Lindau - a very picturesque town situated in/on Lake Constance with alpine riding on the door step.
got bored of work so went upto live with the GF in some ADW (arsch der welt) town on the border to old East Germany whilst she was completing her studies. bit of a backwater really.
now in Munich, the GF's hometown, and really like it. i was here often over the last ten years and always liked the feel of the place. it is just pleasent. the alps are only a short train ride away. the river Isar in summer is jam packed full of lurrvly lady students being all german and half naked. there is some fun riding to be found along the river. there isn't loads of dog poo lying around like in other german cities (Berlin!). i don't feel bad if the GF is walking home late at night on her own, whereas i couldn't say the same if she was walking home at night in Chelmsford ( :?). the GF found a proper job here relatively quickly and i've found a niche for myself as a scenic technician (chippy/screwer of things wooden) in the colder months and i work as a guide in summer when the other work dries up.
life's alright.