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By *ofakind OP Couple
over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

do people who move away from where they grow up remember where they come from and keep that with them? or a case of im better than that now?

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

dark brown , with blonde highlights near the tip.

but seriously, yes, i doubt many will ever forget.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

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By *ofakind OP Couple
over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

well we were both brought up in yorkshire too where i was brought up in not a nice place she was brought up in a better part x

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

a little off track but remind me why Grimsby got its name?

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

well we were both brought up in yorkshire too where i was brought up in not a nice place she was brought up in a better part x"

Some good bits and some bad in all i guess. One of my best mates was brought up at Buttershaw in Bradford which was ruff as. But saying that the people were great so bad area doesn't always mean bad experience

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

well we were both brought up in yorkshire too where i was brought up in not a nice place she was brought up in a better part x

Buttershaw, as made (in)famous by the classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too, unforgettable.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

well we were both brought up in yorkshire too where i was brought up in not a nice place she was brought up in a better part x

Buttershaw, as made (in)famous by the classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too, unforgettable."

Yep there and Thorpe Edge. My mates mum was an extra in that. The sad part was they used the estate as it was crap in gardens and all

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By *ofakind OP Couple
over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

a little off track but remind me why Grimsby got its name?"

well not bein from grimsby i dont know... but living in grimsby i do believe that fish and the fishing industry got grimsby its name... more recently the murder of a 20 something yo mum to be murder

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By *ofakind OP Couple
over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

well i grew up in rotherham and not been back in years it was bad then so god knows what its like now although i do miss it and my mates there but now i live on the 'worst' estate in grimsby which is not actually that bad

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Yep there and Thorpe Edge. My mates mum was an extra in that. The sad part was they used the estate as it was crap in gardens and all

Can you beleive, they did up some council flats in Thorpe Edge and people were queuing to get in em.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't know where I should fit in- Dad's from Walthamstow, but with a Glasgow accent, Mum's Scottish, but has a Buxton accent. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and am now officially a Weegie :o)

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Proud of where I come from, don't miss the place so much as the people though...

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Yep there and Thorpe Edge. My mates mum was an extra in that. The sad part was they used the estate as it was crap in gardens and all

Can you beleive, they did up some council flats in Thorpe Edge and people were queuing to get in em."

Well it beggars belief! I spent many a night out in Bradford in my teens and if i pulled and she lived in Thorpe Edge i would piss her goodbye as she got in the taxi

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By *ofakind OP Couple
over a year ago

Running with Monkeys

"Proud of where I come from, don't miss the place so much as the people though..."

see im a bit umm/aah about that it was really nice but some people really let it down it was a very 'multi-cultural' area... im not racist 1 bit but theres always bad people out of a group that puts a bad name on every1 else ie single guys

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

i was born in newcastle upon tyne and now live in stoke-on-trent,but home will always be geordieland.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Moved from Manchester when I was 4 so cant really remember much if anything at all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always remember where I came from, however, home is where the heart is, and it is firmly in Wiltshire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've only moved away from 'home' for 5 years however I'm sure I'll never forget it or think badly of where I grew up - even if it is thought locally to be twinned with beiruit!

I still travel back up there regularly to visit friends and family anyway so will never really lose touch completely.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

i was born in newcastle upon tyne and now live in stoke-on-trent,but home will always be geordieland."

commiserations

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kate and I are both Black Country born and bred. We moved south in '95 with my job.

We are settled now just outside Truro, and wouldn't move again.

Although we both love Yorkshire and South Wales

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's cos Yorkshires fantastic! :o)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hell no i wouldn't forget but i was brought up in Yorkshire so it doesn't get any better

i was born in newcastle upon tyne and now live in stoke-on-trent,but home will always be geordieland.

commiserations"

cheeky sod.lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The first 4 years of my life are pretty vague, all I know is we lived in Hammersmith. I do have some memories of living in London but I couldn't put a date or a specific place to them, and having been back there as an adult I find there is nothing there now that triggers any recollections from my past. I wouldn't live in London now even if you paid me to.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I grew up in Scunthorpe. Never really moved far. Went to uni in Sheffield, then back to Scunthorpe.

Last year I moved down to Southend, and I love it. In reality, its not much different to Scunthorpe. The accent is just a bit dodgier!!!

I'll never forget where I grew up. But I did just that, grew up. Scunthorpe doesn't fit me anymore. Especially now my Gran has died. Yeah, I still have family there, but its not the tie it used to be.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never forgetting one's roots - it is also people who make a particular time in your life special - I have moved many times in my life, lived in a number of different countries and would probably be able to live almost anywhere - but even my roots are not so much about the location but about the family, relatives and friends I had.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

peterborough born and bred. My daughter goes to the same school I used to go how sads that.

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By *ustyWoman
over a year ago

inverclyde

i grew up in a small village near greeock in scotland been away since 1983 but am back again to stay with my daughet feel happier being back home where i belong with my family

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Actually, the house i was born in has been replaced by a Morrisons supermarket.

I use Morrisons occasionally so its like going back home. I get funny feelings too whenever i buy milk.

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By *ig badMan
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Actually, the house i was born in has been replaced by a Morrisons supermarket.

I use Morrisons occasionally so its like going back home. I get funny feelings too whenever i buy milk. "

You a Bradford boy born and bread then Mushroom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually, the house i was born in has been replaced by a Morrisons supermarket.

I use Morrisons occasionally so its like going back home. I get funny feelings too whenever i buy milk. "

I find when I do go back to what used to be home, even for a short while - it does bring back memories quite instantly

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Actually, the house i was born in has been replaced by a Morrisons supermarket.

I use Morrisons occasionally so its like going back home. I get funny feelings too whenever i buy milk.

You a Bradford boy born and bread then Mushroom

extra thick (sliced) too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oooooh don't you just love it when people feel the need to declare they're not racist!

Born in south London still live and work in south London.

The area has totally transformed! Gone is the market now gastro pubs, coffee shops and organic food shops, along with the Zephyrs and Hillman Hunters: now 4x4 and Mercs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

a little off track but remind me why Grimsby got its name?"

It was founded by the Danes.

By is the old Danish word for village and Grim or Grimm is a Danish name,as in The Brothers Grimm,so it was probably Grims village.

Hence Grims-by, Grimsby.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have been thinking about this since it was first posted, and still cant make up my mind how I feel about where I have lived my life.

I was born in a large town in Fife (Kirkcaldy), moved aged 3 to the counrtyside (Puddledub and yes its really a place) then aged 8 moved into a town (Kelty) a wee bit away, aged 12 moved again closer to the Forth(Rosyth), aged 16 moved out of the parents home.

Moved back to the place I was born, moved around a couple times still in the same town, aged 18 moved to a different town(Dunfermline), then over to Edinburgh.

Met Steven had my family, moved back to Fife aged 25.

Moved from a larger town(Glenrothes) to a small (very small) town - well is Kennoway a town?? population less than 1000 I think if you exclude the animals lol

So really other than Fife I cant say where Im from, cos my family moved a lot for work, in fact since I moved out my parents moved at least a dozen times more than I have

always cos one or other got a better paying job somewhere else.

Shona

x x x

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

a little off track but remind me why Grimsby got its name?

It was founded by the Danes.

By is the old Danish word for village and Grim or Grimm is a Danish name,as in The Brothers Grimm,so it was probably Grims village.

Hence Grims-by, Grimsby.

many thanks, i wasnt being serious, just a play on the word Grim

i'd swap you for Bradford any day.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

"Oooooh don't you just love it when people feel the need to declare they're not racist!

have we missed something? where did the racist bit appear?

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

interesting....I have lived in many places... I believe I am a mix of Atlanta "coolness".... New York "toughness" and East End "street smarts".....

scary!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oooooh don't you just love it when people feel the need to declare they're not racist!

They do it so that all those ethnic people with chips on their shoulders feel justified about a misconceived sense of persecution they've felt all theur lives.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"interesting....I have lived in many places... I believe I am a mix of Atlanta "coolness".... New York "toughness" and East End "street smarts".....

scary!!!!

Having lived in a number of places kind of opens your eyes.. and heart to other people's different life styles and ways, dont you think?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oooooh don't you just love it when people feel the need to declare they're not racist!

They do it so that all those ethnic people with chips on their shoulders feel justified about a misconceived sense of persecution they've felt all theur lives.

Oh thanks for clearing that up: now I know!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

who let the cod-heads in?!

where's the standards gone around here??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i cant forget my roots... just cause iv went blonde and know they be back shortly...

im proud of my working class roots and the place i was born may always be home, but i would never stay in it again!

im also proud of my family pikey heritage and also the mix of irish, scottish and polish that i have and the influence of both the catholic side and protestant side, even if i won the lottery i would still be me and i would never change it!! you can never buy class but you can have a damn good time pretending you have it!! xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i cant forget my roots... just cause iv went blonde and know they be back shortly...

im proud of my working class roots and the place i was born may always be home, but i would never stay in it again!

I KNEW you would mention the blonde bit... now how did I know that lol

xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i cant forget my roots... just cause iv went blonde and know they be back shortly...

im proud of my working class roots and the place i was born may always be home, but i would never stay in it again!

I KNEW you would mention the blonde bit... now how did I know that lol

xxx"

he he!! u know me too well!!! x

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