Where you live/where you grew up

This is now the longest I've ever stayed in one place (4.5years)

I miss Brighton, I loved the chilled atmosphere and waking along the seafront

I miss Dubai as that's where my parents still are. Good night-life too

I miss my best mates in Oz and I loved the weather

I kind of like where I am now, I love my job but I haven't made many friends here and dont feel like its my forever town.

I live a 5 minute drive from where I grew up. It's the not the best of areas but I can't see us ever moving more than a 30 min drive away - H would live on the same road as his mum if I let him!

I've moved around a fair amount but moved out of my dads and into this town to live with OH.

It's an ok town but I don't want to be here forever.

The town where I spent most of my teenage years I do really miss. I miss my friends and I hate that all my college friends are now back from uni and all friends again but don't include me as I live 20 minutes away. I miss being by the river and the sense of community in that town, compared to here.

I don't miss that there was no train line (although the one here isn't that much better) which made it quite hard to get out and about.

I moved about 5 miles from where i grew up. I don't miss it, but i love the memories i have of it growing up. It really was a great place because it was in the middle of nowhere and we could play outside safely and not worry about cars in the street or anything. As i got older though, the lack of transport to town and stuff became quite irritating.

I live where i do now because it's where i went to high school and it's a good distance from everywhere and got a much better bus link than before. I am taking a bit to get used to the fact i don't live on a row of 10 houses in the middle of anymore, but in a busy village.

When i was looking to move, a friend suggested somewhere to me, but i honestly couldn't live in a town. I said to her that when the people outnumber the sheep in the fields, i start getting nervous!

Such a country bumpkin! (but a wonderful town driver!)

I moved this year to be with H as hes in the forces. My hometown isnt great but all my friends are there so i miss being able to pop in for a brew, or go out at the drop of a hat.

We're about 1 1/2 hours from home so not mega far. Its very quiet here though, which is good for bringing up children but not for shopping, nightlife etc.

I lived in my home town for 20 years before moving to Brum for 2 years, really didn't like city life and didn't help that I held down my job in Wales so commuted every day. Moved back to my little hometown for about a year then moved to North Wales where I stayed for 2 years.. I'm now back in my hometown again and have been for 8 months. I guess I'm a bit of a homing pigeon.. Always end up back here. My Dad still lives in the house I grew up in, just a few mins down the road. There's nothing spectacular about my town, it's not big but it's not tiny. There are no shopping centres, cinemas, starbucks etc but I love it because it's home and holds lots of memories.

I live 15min drive from where i grew up and prefer it!! I am clsoe enough to pop for a cuppa woth friends/family there, but most fo my friends live round here or further away (horu plsu) so makes no ends!!

i would NEVER move back to my home town, everyone knows everyones business!!

Currently living about 10 miles away from where I grew up... don't miss it, it's a big place NW London!

Most of my friends are all around the country so it doesn't bother me too much where we live.

Mum is currently 10 mins down the road but when we move to the Essex border this will still only be 30 mins away. But walking distance to the MIL and most of Mr C's friends which is important to him.

<cough> and closer to me <cough>

Yes!!! An hour away from cocktails in teapots!

Ahhh you know I agree on that point! The underground metal scene where I grew up was amazing. It's total bobbins round here.

I miss my friends mostly. Plus the familiarity of the place. Alright so it's mostly a dump, but at least it's home! And they have Staffs Oatcakes, mmmmm.

Flange, I saw this on fbook earlier and thought you'd appreciate it!

I really miss where I grew up as the majority of my friends are still there. I moved away when I was 18 to Glasgow uni and then eventually made my way down to Northampton due to OH getting a promotion through his work.

I was brought up in Middlesbrough in the North East and I have to say I loved it, my family were very close I had a tight knit group of friends, went to a good school, had a great job which I loved but I left it all 6 years ago to move down to the Midlands to be with H. Being 11 miles from the second biggest City certainly opened my eyes, I was so impressed with Birmngham, and what it had to offer, but I deperately miss home, especially in the summer, in Middlesbrough I was a stones throw from the beach and would spend many a weekends there, fish and chips on the pier, lemon top ice creams, long walks in the sand, our closest beach is Western which is 2 hours away and by all accounts a pretty rubbish Beach - I had Whitby up North! I think me and H will move back to the North East at some point, although I love Stourbridge and I love my job and I have met some great people my heart will always be in the North East.

I put a lot of it down to the Universities. the nightlife is so diverse and places like The Sugarmill, The Old Brown Jug and The Full Moon are still going strong as well as the likes of Reflex!

I love that!! Ha ha ha.

How come you moved CO? I don't blame you for wanting to move out of Abbey but I mean so completely far away?

Born and grew up in Nottingham, moved just before 18 to London with my parents as Dad got a new job. Before we knew about the job I was going to get a place of my own but decided to go with them and see what the bright lights big city thing was about.

7 years on now and I'm still in London but parents are now.

2 years after moving to London I got my own place and then 2 years after that my parents moved to Stafford. I've moved around within North & west london and am happy with where I am now.

After the wedding we want to move further out, to berkshire rather than greater london. I miss my friends but after moving when I was 18 I got used to not having them on my doorstep anymore, lost touch with a few but the ones that I still see are true friendships. Plus I've made new friends as I go. My family has always been pretty scattered over the country (& world) but OH's family is pretty close knit and all live pretty much within a 30/40mile radius!!

I live in the town where I grew up. When I moved away for uni, I said I'd never come back, but here I am. Only moved back to be with Mr Knees, otherwise I would have probably still been in London.

Good points:

It's safe

A nice place to bring up kids

It's close to the sea

Bad points:

Lack of opportunities

Lack of facilities

Everybody knows everybody else's business

I only lived in Abbey for a year, before that lived closer to Penkhull. I moved away entirely because of meeting H who lived in London and wanting to go to university. He actually went to Staffs Uni when he was younger, which is how we ended up with a crowd of mutual friends, but he hated Stoke and wouldn't ever want to move back there to raise a family.

I miss The Rigger so much though!

I grew up in Crawley, West Sussex and moved to London when I was 18 due to work.

Now live in Hampshire, when me and OH came to decide where to live he didn't want to move to Brixton so I moved down to Hampshire where he lived.

? I think Penkhull is lovely!

Bits of Penkhull are gorgeous, but I think the surrounding areas really put H off, and the fact that on the whole Stoke isn't really what you'd call a desirable area. I'd happily move back (on the proviso I could live in a nice bit of Newcastle!) but posh boy H wouldn't cope.

I grew up in the Isle of Man and lived there until I was 18, I couldn't wait to get away to a big city as I thought the IOM was awful.

Now I miss it, but that's getting older for you!

I now live in Manchester, which is ok I guess, for now at least. In between, I have lived in Birmingham, Sheffield, and Shrewsbury.

That place is scary!! ?

Born in Brighton and have lived here all my life.

Beginning to hate the place thanks to the invasion of all the middle class hippies....

I didn't realise you'd been! The first time I went, I was terrified but then I realised that the overall atmosphere in there is one of respect and tolerance for everyone, regardless of how you dress or what music you like. You get the obvious few d1ckheads floating about, but show me a pub that doesn't. Once I got over my initial terror, I felt so much more comfortable in there than any "trendy" bar anywhere else in the city.

PLUS they had GoGo Juice and sexy barmen in my day.

I grew up in West London which is clearly better than where I live now! I had the tube on my doorstep, regular buses, all my friends within 15 minutes of where I lived. I miss it.

We moved out to Berkshire when I was 16 as dad got a new job. It's a nice enough, but it isn't London. Thankfully it is still easy enough for me to go back whenever I need. But it isn't the same.

We live in the same city but different area to where we both grew up, I've upgraded and H has downgraded! ha ha. We live on a nice estate now in an ok area about 20 mins drive in opposite directions to both sets of parents.

I was born in London and moved to North Kent when I was 12, and missed all my primary school friends then. Then I had a bit of a move around all over the place, and now live about 20 mins from Sheffield, and I miss where I lived a lot...my family, my friends etc but luckily I do have an excellent network of friends up here who keep me sane(ish)

I've lived in the same town all my life. H, however, moved up to here from Pembrokeshire as, at the time, employment opportunities in South West Wales were limited and he had family up here. Good job he did, otherwise we wouldn't have met!

We're planning a move away from this town in a few years - it's started to deteriorate and not feel safe.

I was born in Northampton, and erm still live in Northampton. It is a hole, but it is home.

I grew up in Shropshire, spent 6 years at uni in Cambridge - and actually living there for the last three, rather than just in the University bubble - and then moved to London when I graduated to live with OH.

London is busier and has far more stuff to do than anywhere else, but tbh I would quite like to get back out to the countryside in a few years' time. I'd quite like to go back to Shropshire one day if we have kids, but there aren't so many of the right sort of jobs out there. Cambridge/East Anglia is far more likely, but we'll see what happens...

Born in Portsmouth- moved to Winchester for uni and then a brief stint in London which was sadly ended by boyfriend at the time- back to Portsmouth for me.

I now actually dont live in Portsmouth- in a small town outside but its just easier to say thats where I live IYKWIM?

This is actaully my benchmark for if I would want to live in a town or not (despite the fact I couldnt tell you the last time I actually bought something in Topshop)

Many moons ago when I was but a mere advsior on the phones I once asked a customer who lived in one of the remote Scottish Islands how they managed without a Topshop? They told me it was a 2 day round trip to Aberdeen to the nearest *shudders*