General Chat

My son has just moved back to central Manchester after working abroad, he chose an apartment just a few hundred yards from where his grt grt grt grt grandfather had an iron mongers shop almost two hundred years ago, what a small world we live in.

Nope I have been a bit of a gypsy i think. Born in Aberdare, South Wales, went to Cardiff University, then moved to Canada for three years. Back to the UK to Harlow, then back to Aberdare for ten years and have been in New ZEaland for the last 5 years

I live about 12 miles from where I was brought up and my Mum still lives there and I go up about 3 times per week,but it has changed so much in the 35 years since I left.The main change from me being a child is Belle Vue Zoo park is gone now,and I have very many memories of my childhood going in there,because I lived about 20 yards from the perimeter wall. Dave

I have been for the past two weeks. Having lived in scotland for 5 and a half years I just moved back home to teh house I grew up in My family were the first people to ever live in the house and it started being built the same month I was born we moved in six months later. In this street everyone moved in within 6 months of each other and at least 75% of the original househoulders are still here (just over 30 years now) it'll be a genealogists wet dream in 100 years the house my mum moved to when she was a year old is also still owned by the family and is a minutes drive from here. altho her mum passed away when she was seven the house was left to her and then my 'nan and grandad' (mums aunt and uncle) bought it off her and their daughter bought it from them

Hi David, I was brought up in the same street. On one side of the street, then, when me and my brother got bigger, on the other side of the street! Left home, married, moved away, divorced, went back to same city. now getting married to a man that used to live 2 streets away from me! The scary thing is, his dad still lives there and I bet we will inherit the house and live there as well when we are older!!! I can't seem to get away from my childhood, maybe i can convince my fiancee that we should retire in the sun!!!! I have quite a few years yet to persuade him!!!!!

Hi Karen You'd have been all right - I've given them more to talk round here about than my garden lol. Think I've broken too many of the rules for having an easy life in a village ;)

I don't, but like some other people I sometimes wish I did. I lived in the same house on the outskirts of Plymouth up until I left to get married. Then lived in London, Middlesex and Herts, and finally moved back to the westcountry. Fortunately, my parents moved up here when they retired and they have no other family, so it's nice to be near each other. I'm also far nearer my brother here than I would have been back in Plymouth so that's a bonus too. Just sometimes get a bit frustrated at having to travel a distance for big shops and concerts etc, and would be nice to bump into old school friends instead of having to use messenger all the time lol! Mandy :)

David, If you saw where I grew up, you'd realise there's no way ... I've lived in Hampshire, Chelsea, Surrey (3 different locations) and Herts. I don't think I'd want to go and live where my maternal ancestors lived, and I've never seen where my Dad's family hail from. Think I'll just drift on, rootless. CB >|<

I don't David, but I wish I did. I was born in Tel-Aviv, and I'm freezing just now. ;-0) Deanna

Hi David, I don't, but so often I wish I did. :-( Pat x

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

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)

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')

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 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

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

Nah - left there at 18 and never looked back.

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

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.

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.