Where are you from originally and what situation took you to where you are now ?

[travellingwest]

Raised in Nottingham , moved all of 5 miles over the border into Derbyshire when I bought my first house. Stayed there for just shy of 20 years and then moved to South Somerset. Didn't know it, had never been but I just wanted to get away from 'home' and bad/sad memories, of loss of parents and cruel ending to what I thought was a long term relationship.

Moved 11 years ago to West Somerset and been here ever since.

'Home' is actually Derbyshire where I had my own house, my daughter was born and many significant things happened. I also love the county of Derbyshire which raises many many happy memories through my whole life.
But when I think of leaving Somerset, I don't think of moving back to Derbyshire, rather Yorkshire which is where I wanted to move to when we left Derbyshire (long story as to why I ended up the other end of the country).

 

[yello]

and yet always think of it as 'home'
Why ? Because I was a teen there, so it includes your formative years, the times you remember best, the time when you (i) forged meaningful relationships and friendships...so it holds a special place i your heart, even if it was a relatively short time.

I like that - your home and why, lust laid out like that.

I guess home is different things to different people. Which is kinda obvious I suppose but I still like to think about it, and love to hear it articulated in peoples' stories.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I like that - your home and why, lust laid out like that.

I guess home is different things to different people. Which is kinda obvious I suppose but I still like to think about it, and love to hear it articulated in peoples' stories.

AT first I thought that was a mistype - but based on "formative years" and teens - it makes sense either way!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I lived in Llandudno for 3 and a bit years - after a rather traumatic series of events

I was not very well mentally and when I go back there it does fell like a light version of a Home

probably as I lived there while I recovered and put my life back together

 

[alicat]

Born in Leeds, moved to Essex when my mother got homesick

Leeds born and bred.Born Feb 1950.Mum and dad lived in a second floor flat in Harehills.Dad was a painter and decorator,he was working on a 'big' house in Alwoodley very posh then,still is.So he is passing the rent office of a new Council estate.On his way home he goes in and tells a member of staff,we have a three week old baby boy.We live in a flat,i need a house or i will put him up for adoption.They gave him some keys go take a look.they did and lived there till 2000.I got married in 1978 got divorced in 1987.Went back home for eighteen months,then i got a flat on the same estate,i met Mrs P at a local church.From first date to asking for her hand and other bits was only six weeks.Got married June 1990 and moved to Meanwood to live in the house she was buying.I am only a twenty min walk from where i grew up.After three awful jobs i joined Royal Mail in Jan 1972 a year or so after the Postal strike the year before.I was there thirty four years and made some great mates twenty yeas coming up retired early voluntary at fifty six,and we meet up once a month for a meal and drinks.This Christmas will be our twentieth i sort things out and lay a Christmas table with the great help of Wetherspoons.

Leeds born and bred too, 10 1/2 years after @postman and not far away in Crossgates then Halton from the age of 8 when we needed a bigger house because sibling no 4 was on the way.

After a stint at uni, I moved for work to London then Surrey. Happily, I got a job in Lichfield in my mid-30s if my current dodgy memory serves me right and I have been here ever since. I feel more contented living in a place in which it's more acceptable to omit the 'r' after 'a'. After all, if 'grass' is meant to be pronounced 'grarss', why isn't it spelled that way?!

I regard Lichfield as home; however I remain a very proud Yorkshirewoman and still have an accent known as 'educated Yorkshire'. I recently saw a memorial plaque to a couple that said 'A small piece of Yorkshire forever in Lichfield' and that sums me up perfectly.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I came from a Chemical Spillage and the sheer awfulness of life brings me to here, simple as! 🤦‍♂️😆

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Actually, I remember saying on here years ago and some ****ing wee snob called me 'Parochial'.

Well boo hoo to you! Not all of us have lived and travelled around the world! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

 

[wakemalcolm]

Actually, I remember saying on here years ago and some ****ing wee snob called me 'Parochial'.

Well boo hoo to you! Not all of us have lived and travelled around the world! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

That was nearly 10 year ago and Ozboz hasn't been seen on here for 2 and a half years 😉.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Weird thing to me is how my life sometimes seems to gravitate to place which had a previous significance

for example, for some years I was seeing a woman that I worked with - I rather fell for her in a way that she didn;t for me.
anyway, she lived on the far side of Liverpool and I lived on the Wirral - so it was rather a long way to go to see her

anyway - we stopped all that
then I met someone else and moved to North Wales and we split up after many years
and some years later I met my wife
who was living in the area she grew up in
only a mile from where that first lady was from!!

and now our grand kids are living near Aintree racecourse
less than a mile from the house that my Dad grew up in as boy
(on Melling Lane - the one the race crosses over - I pass the house when I pick the young ones up from school!)

so quite an area of where I have lived
but it all seems to have a gravitational sort of centre to places at times

there are other less obvious minor things


but it does seem weird at times

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That was nearly 10 year ago and Ozboz hasn't been seen on here for 2 and a half years 😉.

Odd that you should remember that? 🤔

 

[wakemalcolm]

Odd that you should remember that? 🤔

Just thought you needed to let go before the 10th anniversary.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just thought you needed to let go before the 10th anniversary.

NEVER!!

Actually, totally unconnected, but see my third last post in the 'What are you bad at?' thread? 😊🤦‍♂️😆

 

[wakemalcolm]

NEVER!!

Actually, totally unconnected, but see my second last post in the 'What are you bad at?' thread? 😊🤦‍♂️😆

Noted: for self preservation purposes.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just thought you needed to let go before the 10th anniversary.

I don't think I was really meant for this world, there must have been some sort of error and I was sent here by mistake. 😆

 

[Dave7]

Weird thing to me is how my life sometimes seems to gravitate to place which had a previous significance

for example, for some years I was seeing a woman that I worked with - I rather fell for her in a way that she didn;t for me.
anyway, she lived on the far side of Liverpool and I lived on the Wirral - so it was rather a long way to go to see her

anyway - we stopped all that
then I met someone else and moved to North Wales and we split up after many years
and some years later I met my wife
who was living in the area she grew up in
only a mile from where that first lady was from!!

and now our grand kids are living near Aintree racecourse
less than a mile from the house that my Dad grew up in as boy
(on Melling Lane - the one the race crosses over - I pass the house when I pick the young ones up from school!)

so quite an area of where I have lived
but it all seems to have a gravitational sort of centre to places at times

there are other less obvious minor things


but it does seem weird at times

My, you have had an interesting love life.
I hope this comes across right but, here goes. .. as you know, Sue and I were married 55 years and it was great, I really loved her.
However, prior to us getting together I was going out with her friend and I was absolutely madly in love with her. I have never felt so strong about anyone before or since.
But she ditched me to my face ie not by letter, without warning.....I was devastated.
She had at least 3 marriages to my knowledge.
Sue and I got together and I ended up in sunny Warrington.