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I think it is particularly poignant really because like you Shimms it was the longest I had ever lived anywhere, and the first home i owned... also because it was the last place mum was with me...she did a lot of pottering in that garden :)

Hi Rambling Rose, Fulham and chiswick, know them well,
i am from Paddington, not nice there now.

Hi George, was down in London myself week before last...my ancestors are from Chiswick, and other side Fulham...have always loved London . It would depend on where you could afford to live lol, I stood outside Carlisle Mansions in Victoria where my grandfather was once the hall porter. It is just by Westminster Cathedral, lovely quiet road... google informs me I could have a 3 bedroom flat there for 1.48 million :)...lol

Stella, I will have the memories yes :) it was a nicer place to live for the first 9 years I was there, I don't want to be back there...just wish I could have lifted it all up and plonked it down somewhere else lol

xx

I used to go visit Dad in London where I was born, then he moved, did miss it so.

I never want to leave where I am yet I don't return, miss it then it becomes a happy memory.

Where I lived last was the longest I'd been anywhere, I was the last of my friends to leave ... still see them.

Rose you have lovely memories, no-one can take those away, you have your friends too. xxx

I often walk past my childhood home and feel a little sad, I have so many happy memories of my life there.................it has changed, but the daffodils Mum planted in the grass opposite are still there:)

The thread title reminds me of my own Mum who, like almost every other Alzheimer sufferer, frequently asked to go "home" even though she was in her own home at the time.

In Mum's case I imagine the "home" she wanted deperately was a place where she felt safe as a child.

xx

aw Rose, but you have your memories of how it was ..no one can take them away xx

Hello Rambling Rose,

I went back to London, where I was born and lived for most of my life, all I can say is I am glad i decided to move away.
I really dont think i would like to live there now.

George

I moved in September...and went today to visit my old next door neighbour ..... friend's OH is working on my old bungalow for new owners who aren't moving in till next year... so he let me go in for a nosey around...sad, all that I liked about it they have ruined, and in the garden all my daffs and primroses were blooming as if to remind me what I had lost...

It was the right thing to do, moving...but still sad...have you been back and wished you hadn't? or did you feel like me today sad, but the fact that it was 'changed' meant that you felt a more final seperation...?

Rose xx