FabSwingers.com forum: Does anybody still live in the same TOWN they were born in?

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

Seems many people are not in their native town/city or even country anymore.

Are you happy where you live or would you prefer to return to your birth place,or have you lived in the same town since born and would never move

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I live between 2 places and one is close to my town of birth/childhood. I lived most of my life away and after my teenage years of being bullied, I vowed never to go back.

But I did.

I smile now at the people who helped shape me to the man I am. Bullies don’t win.

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

I don’t, I do work in my hometown though which is over an hour commute. I am home sick despite moving away on my 19th birthday, I’d like to move back. My friends and family are there and the town I live in is very unwelcoming and dirty.

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

"I live between 2 places and one is close to my town of birth/childhood. I lived most of my life away and after my teenage years of being bullied, I vowed never to go back.

But I did.

I smile now at the people who helped shape me to the man I am. Bullies don’t win."

great point, they may think they win at the time... but they end up going nowhere in life.

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

I live about 10 minutes from my Birth town. Would I go there to live? No.

My son lived in the village he was born in for the first 18 years of his life. Now lives in Scotland

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By *anB451Man
over a year ago

Reading

Yeah I do. I moved away for the best part of 15 years living in a few different places but in the end there's no place like home

*closes eyes and clicks red shoes*

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

Live in one place, play in another! Neither of them are where we were born. One place is distinctly mediocre, the other is truly beautiful. No desire to return where we were both born.

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

Unfortunately I still do but planning to move away someday soon!

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

Not exactly the same town, but I have never lived more than 20 miles from where I was born

I now live a 15-20 minute drive away from where I was born & raised

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

I couldn't wait to leave the small minded, insular place I was brought up in. I left at 19 for Uni and have never gone back to live. I sometimes go back to visit family and it's life there has stood still

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

As soon as I could, I fled. I doubt I'll ever return.

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

Decades ago my auntie lived in the same estate, until she was aged 50, she then started living for around 1 year each in different mainly southern coastal towns..she never looked back. I always remember she said she never knew why she waited 50 years.. comfort zone I suppose

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

I don't, but it's only twenty minutes down the road and I regularly go back to see my family. I'd like to move back once my kids have grown up.

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

I moved out of my home town as soon as I could, I wouldn't say I'm totally happy in the town I live now but we are playing the long game!

Eve. X

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

Yes same place

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Yeah, I've never lived more than 4 miles from where I was born (apart from 10 years at Boarding School), and about 6 years ago I moved to a flat which is about 400 yards down the road from the Nightingale Maternity Home in Derby, although it's now a home for handicapped children

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

Nope I was born south and I'm now North

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Yes, worked in London, New York (New Jersey really) and Holland.

When I got remarried and started a new family I brought them to a place where values still mattered.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Yeah, I've never lived more than 4 miles from where I was born (apart from 10 years at Boarding School), and about 6 years ago I moved to a flat which is about 400 yards down the road from the Nightingale Maternity Home in Derby, although it's now a home for handicapped children

Also I spent 48 years in the bungalow that ma Dad built and left to me until I sold up 8 years ago. I sold it to ma mate who has now built another storey onto it and converted it into a house

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

I only lived where I was born for 6 months when I was 5

I don’t class it as my home town. The only place I can class as that is London as been here 33+ years in various locations

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

Oh gosh...my own town in italy...was...1000 people?!? Everyone knew everyone and everything...no fab needed there...was like a big orgy...

ahahh...btw no. XD but wouldnt say too happy to live here in UK...weather is a big thing

but ehy, sunbeds are there for a reason, tan and hot...xD

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

I live where i want im a hobo

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

Moved around many times due to work but very settled here in safe Norfolk

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

ive lived all over the UK

not sure where i should call my hometown

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

I live about a mile from where I was born. Hubby was born while parents were in the forces ...but they are both from here and he moved back when he was 18months old

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By *callycatMan
over a year ago

Mid Wales

"I live where i want im a hobo"

..anyone who tries to stop you is hobophobic

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

"I live where i want im a hobo

..anyone who tries to stop you is hobophobic

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

"Oh gosh...my own town in italy...was...1000 people?!? Everyone knew everyone and everything...no fab needed there...was like a big orgy...

ahahh...btw no. XD but wouldnt say too happy to live here in UK...weather is a big thing

but ehy, sunbeds are there for a reason, tan and hot...xD "
its moaning about the weather that keeps us happy..and anyway didnt Britain invent pizza and export it to Italy (a fact I just made up coz thats what we do )!

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Never lived outside the county and only lived in two houses the present one for nearly 50 years.

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

Visited where I was born a couple of months ago for the first time in 49 years and the first time I've really ever seen it! It was absolutely brilliant! Loved it all

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

"Visited where I was born a couple of months ago for the first time in 49 years and the first time I've really ever seen it! It was absolutely brilliant! Loved it all

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are you tempted to live there

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

I don’t, we moved when I was very young I do live very close to where I grew up though

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

"Visited where I was born a couple of months ago for the first time in 49 years and the first time I've really ever seen it! It was absolutely brilliant! Loved it all

are you tempted to live there"

It's the other end of the country! Never lived there in my living memory so have absolutely no ties at all!! Lived all over the place but settled to bring my kids up here and it is seriously lush!

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

I left the city I was born in aged 16, when my parents sold up and moved north east to a market town about half an hour's drive away. Five years later, I moved to a village 6 miles south of the market town and was there 29 years. I have spent the last 5 years in a hamlet about 12 miles south from the village I lived in, but am still only half an hour's drive from my birth city.

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By *adeiteWoman
over a year ago

Stafford

No, but after a few countries and many houses I've landed only 50 mins away from where I was born

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By *ily Con CarneTV/TS
over a year ago

Cornwall

Been all over the world but would love to "go Home" even though I like it where I am now

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

Born in derbyshire lived until 20

moved to london for 3 years,

wales for 9 month,

Edinburgh for 3 months

Back to london for 4 years

And came back to rural derbyshire

I live in the same quaint derbyshire village i grew up in. Home os where the heart is as they say. I loved london and visit regular still

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

Both born in London moved to Hertfordshire when the oldest started school. Loved Hertfordshire but now in Derbyshire.

None of our family still live in London and NO would never go back to live.

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

I love my hometown! Still here, never moved away though the thought occasionally croses my mind! It's a lovely place to live

Peach x

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By *ohnboy691Man
over a year ago

livingston

Split my time between where I was born and costa Blanca

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By *ilk_TrayMan
over a year ago

South

Born in another country far far away.

Grew up in London for the majority of my life since a toddler.

Now in Pompey.

I have family and friends up there so still go back

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By *BWarksCouple
over a year ago

warwick

Yep lived and worked in the same parish all my live ...

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I was born in Beds, grew up in Herts and spent 7 years of my life in Scotland before moving to G London. And now I live up here. I quite like it but I would love to move back to where I grew up. If I win the lottery I will.

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

I don't even live in the same county lol

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

Yes I do and I love it

Mrscxxx

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

Yes and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else

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

Well yes ish grew up in the area moved away came back....don't worry I won't bore you with the details

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

"Never lived outside the county and only lived in two houses the present one for nearly 50 years. "

longest I've lived in one house in my life is 9 years.. and that felt like an eternity

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

I do in fact. I live in the housing development that was built on the grounds of the Maternity Hospital that I was born in.

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

I still live in the town I was born

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

Yes

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

No, was born in Germany, moved around various army camps down south, moved to Doncaster for a couple of years then moved to Scotland when I was 7, moved to Newcastle when I was 30 and moved to London when I was 34

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

Same borough, but not the same town.

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

"Same borough, but not the same town. "

Probably not for too much longer though.

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

"No, was born in Germany, moved around various army camps down south, moved to Doncaster for a couple of years then moved to Scotland when I was 7, moved to Newcastle when I was 30 and moved to London when I was 34"

just pay the bloody parking ticket

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

Neither of us do, P is originally an Essex girl that upped sticks to the west midlands, B is originally a Teessider that moved "down south" to Yorkshire...

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

I've often thought having a strong accent in a totally different area helps to get employment as the accent stands out. a London accent up north or Yorkshire accent in Cornwall etc

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

10 miles from it, but have lived in a few places., but came back in 2006

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

Nowhere near. And I wouldn't go back. I moved away for a reason.

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Yes live in the town of my birth but not where I grew up

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

I live in 6th of October City Cairo, came to Egypt when I was 18, 31yrs ago.

Was raised in the UK, but never had a home though, or a place that I could call home, and I would never move back to the uk.

Love this country, it has its problems like all Middle Eastern countries.

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Yes I do. I work in the uk mon to fri but still live in the same town and same area where I was born and I’d never leave it

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

I grew up in a middle class suburban part of Birmingham, left that part of brum over 20 years ago and then moved south 12 years ago. Wish I'd done it sooner. Been back once on the last 5 years and in no rush to go back again

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

I've recently returned to my hometown after 21 years away, so yeah. I do. I was so desperate to leave the place behind when I was 16, but now I like it actually.

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By *ay4realstr8TV/TS
over a year ago

hoyland

Yes! It’s a beautiful village

wouldn’t ever want too move

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By *adylydfordWoman
over a year ago

altinkum

Yeh me .. for the next few months any way then im moving to cornwall

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

We do.

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

"Yeh me .. for the next few months any way then im moving to cornwall"

you must be dead keen on pasties

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

No but after travelling around a fair bit over the years I recently bought a place 5 min from there.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Nowhere near it.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

I was only ever in the town that I was born in... to be born.

Although I made a random trip back there earlier this year.

Cal

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

Nope I'm over 120 miles away and happy with that. Though I do visit my home town often for family

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

No. I go home 1-2x a year.

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

No. I don’t even live in the same continent!

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By *innerdateMan
over a year ago

Leigh

Not me but I’m only 4 miles away if this counts.

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

Yes,I live about 5 mins from where I was born

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

"Yeh me .. for the next few months any way then im moving to cornwall

you must be dead keen on pasties"
Pasties and sea air..

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

yes I,ve always lived here born In derby more new people moveing in from south and elsewhere whenever they get chance..but It will always be home for me..

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Well I was born in one Manchester suburb and now live in another. There's a distance between them though and not just geographically.

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

My "home town" is a village where I grew up on my parents farm, it's a beautiful place but as a teenager I hated being so isolated when all my town friends from school were socialising through the holidays and I was stuck with no means of going beyond the village. I wouldn't go back to live there now, no jobs anywhere in the area and despite not being a big fan of cities I do love living in York.

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