General Chat

I now live in the next road to where I spent my first 18 years before fleeing home. I moved back here a few years ago and I have my parents, sister & niece, an aunt & uncle, first and second cousins all living within three neighbouring roads - I'm like something from the 1881 census lol

Im in the same place I was born....... Moved away a few times, once abroad Always come back, its definitely home!! Leanne x

Until I was 17 I only lived in two houses, the ends of their gardens met and shared a fence. Then I got wander lust and did the teenage independence thing and moved around the country a bit. I moved back to my home town and bought a house a few yards from where I started off!!!! Bit of a home bod really Mandy

Forty-one years ago I moved half a mile to the council house we had aspired to.I had been born in the cottage we were in previously.Eighty years before me my grandfather had been born in the same room.I think his grandparents had lived in the house across the road.Dad was born in a house another half mile down the road and moved to the cottage when he was seven. Sometimes strangers come with tales of other villages and towns up the road but we Greens runs indoors and hides when they comes by.

Glad I'm not the only one:) pmsl Sharron - I actually got out and lived in a big town where they had street lights and takeaway places and where the neighbours didn't tell you what time your living room light was on until the night before (just in case you'd forgotten)

i still live in the same village that my gt gt grandad lived in lol although its more like a blooming town now:( i live a stones throw from mum and dad,they are still in the same house i was born in every day i walk past a row of cottages where my gt gt grandad ,my nan and gramp and all my gramps brothers and sisters lived susie

I'm still living in the place where I grew up. The longest time I have spent away from my village was 2 years. My 2 youngest kids go to the same village that I went to, my eldest also went there until she started senior school Sarah, xxx

I was born at 71 moved to 73 when I got married lived there 37 years and moved last year to a bungalow not far away Linda

Yep, but only because I moved back in with the parents, having previously left and lived in Herts, Sussex & Germany. I'm on the lookout for renting somewhere soon.

I would miss it David.A couple from London took over the local pub.The wife got really upset because every time somebody left the bar all the others talked about them.Well we know it is going to happen,we have always done it.I think it must be some kind of bonding process.

Susie I like it I that I see so many places all the time where my ancestors lived too:) Sharron - I would have thought you were living in my village if it wasn't for the fact that I would know.

Yeh,my teacher was a student teacher when Dad was there.Grandfather also went to the same school.He had already been working for three years when they made him go.It didn't really suit him,funnily enough.It didn't suit me much either.

I live in the same area as I grew up in. I taught at the infant school I used to go to. And now I can legally drink in the pub. Gwynne

Nah - left there at 18 and never looked back.

I was born in the same house my Mum was born in and her Mum was born in....got married and moved about 15 min walk away in same Village.....moved about 5 mins away just in the next Village......seperated from my husband and moved back to the Village I was born in.....got divorced and moved to Grenada!!!!!! Jacquie xxx

I live quarter of a mile away from the house I lived in from the age of 3. Mum and dad still live there. In September my little girl starts at the primary school where I went as a child and used to work.(there is one teacher still there that I had at age 7!) I love being near my family and the friends I grew up with and wouldn't want to move far away. Sarah x

OH I hated that when I was a teenager ............... when you couldn't get away with something because there was always someone there who knew you or you parents. I live in a town but mum and dad were well known.............. I went to a pub tucked away in a back street over the other side of town and someone (never seen him before in my life) told the landlady 'thats Big Bri's daughter she's never 18'............. ha I got him that time it was 3 days after my eighteenth birthday! LOL

I still live in the same town I was born in, my rellies have lived here since the mid 1860's. Its lovely to walk past the houses my gg Grandparents lived in and the churches they were christened and married in. Spookily enough if some of my other gg Grandparents had stayed in the village they were born in me and David would be neighbours and his neighbours would be talking about me not him :-) Karen (known by her neigbours as 'the one who doesnt do any gardening')

I still live in the same town that I grew up in, I'm about 3 miles from where my parents live, I've never lived anywhere else (apart from a couple of months)

david its great isnt it lol i work with the elderly and so often i have been to a client and they end up telling me all about my nan and gramp i have learnt so much about them. susie