Inspired by recent posts in "Post yer pics" thread ... and one or two others.

So ... DO you? and if you DO still live there, just what is it that makes you stay?

If you no longer live there ... why? ... what inspired you to move? ... do you miss 'home'? (and IS it still 'home' in your heart?) ... do you prefer it where you are now?

:)

Ummm...that would be a big "NO" for me. LOL. I was born in Leeds and since then have moved somewhere different approximately every 4 years. This was mainly 'cos of my dad's job but once I was 18 and independent I was so used to changing scenery every 4 years that I carried on moving (this time because of college or my own career).

I have lived in:
Garforth, W Yorks 1971 - 1975
Bridgwater, Somerset 1975 - 1976
Southwell, Notts 1976 - 1980
Aylesbury, Bucks 1980 - 1988
Taunton, Somerset 1988 - 1990
Southampton, Hants 1990 - 1992
Bridgwater, Somerset 1992 - 1995
Bristol, Avon 1995 - 1996
Leeds, W Yorks 1996 - 1997
Bristol, Avon 1997 - 1999
Edinburgh, Scotland 1999 - 2000
Knaresborough, N Yorks 2000 - 2003
Annecy, France 2003 - Present

The end result was that I dont get too attached to anywhere and I only have a handful of friends that I stayed in contact through the years (but they are very close and despite the distant we speak every week). But a good life experience none-the-less, don't regret it.

Growing up as a kid, me and my brother and sister used to get pretty upset having to leave our friends, but my Dad said "You know each place we moved from, do you miss it?" the answer was, "not that much"...then he said "And the place we moved to was always better than the last? and you never had trouble making new friends?" and again we had to answer in the positive.

As the mighty Paul Young once said..."Wherever I lay my hat....

Moved away for work as most do. 1986 in Stockton and work was scarce. I moved on a Tuesday and got a job on the Wednesday in Bromley. Kent. Then moved and lived in a friends hotel for free in Kensington...great times. No bills and out in London most nights.

From South Kensington to Chiswick, W4...still London but a bit leafier. My neighbours included Bruce Dickinson, John Thaw and Kate Beckinsdale!!! Was in Chiswick for 9 years but it got too expensive so we sold up and moved out to the country...still only 25 miles from Central London in one direction and Oxford in the other. Sam came along two years later so we moved to a bigger house. Then Ellie came along nearly 4 years ago. The last two house moves and this next one have been about 1/4 of a mile from each other...the removal van only got into 2nd gear once!

High Wycombe is ok...just got a great big new shopping centre and the schools are good. Good local band scene as well...many good blues players. It'll do. When I go home I notice how cold it is!

Oh and I lived in Clifton, Bristol for a few years when I was a young un before coming back to Billingham. Nearly moved to Aberdeen when I was a teenager but my Dad went away to work on the rigs and commuted instead.

No, moved about way to much over the years, it averages out about once for every year in my life (yes, thats 25 odd times), not really any long term friends, anywhere i call home, or attachments to the world really, my closest friends i keep intouch with through the magic of modern communications.
Do i regret leaving my home town? , nope, don't even remember living there, moving about can be a pain, but i can't complain really, the case in favour is it made me the person i am today, the case against, it made me the person i am today :lol:

I will say there are times i wish i hadn't, but the past is the past, i've done and seen alot of things that id probably not of have, if i'd not moved about, but for me atleast, its impossible to know which way or life i'd of prefered.

No, moved about way to much over the years, it averages out about once for every year in my life (yes, thats 25 odd times), not really any long term friends, anywhere i call home, or attachments to the world really, my closest friends i keep intouch with through the magic of modern communications.
Do i regret leaving my home town? , nope, don't even remember living there, moving about can be a pain, but i can't complain really, the case in favour is it made me the person i am today, the case against, it made me the person i am today :lol:

I will say there are times i wish i hadn't, but the past is the past, i've done and seen alot of things that id probably not of have, if i'd not moved about, but for me atleast, its impossible to know which way or life i'd of prefered.

FFS jam! your on the move more than bonnie & clyde!..every year jeezus..you on the run or summit lol?..ive only moved about 4 times in me life, and i still have to think of my street name some times :tard:

regards,
jim.

Lol Jim :lol:
Well being Jam's bro means ive moved that many times to but abit more with being abit older , i dunno it was hard moving around alot and as Hans said its hard making friends then having to leave , in the end for me i just stopped trying to make them, cos i knew we would be moving again soon .
I think you get to see alot of great things while moving around alot, but you do miss out on alot aswell in some cases :)

As for me, I waited for far too long in one place ... waiting for 'life', whatever that is, to come along and whisk me away with it. D'ya know what? ... it didn't come for me (shock! horror!)

I lived and worked in the town of my birth ... Stockton on Tees ... and nowhere else ... until the ripe old age of 42.

I watched most of my old friends move away in that time & lost touch with them. I became a sad, reclusive and boring old git for most of the time between being 21 and 42 years old.

It took re-connecting out of the blue with one old friend, after twenty years of no contact (and now gone again ... but that's another story), three years ago, for me to finally see what I'd been missing out on all that time ... and shortly after that, I managed to find Wahwah (one of those old friends) via email, almost purely by chance. The rest, since joining up on G101 at his suggestion ... as they say ... is history.

I was already disillusioned by then with the job I'd hidden myself away in for eighteen years, but simply didn't see the plain truth in front of my eyes, that I just wasn't happy there, until it was almost too late to do anything about it.

It was bloody painful to tear myself away from the hometown, even though the main reasons for me staying had melted away years ago ... Staying put was just a hard-to-break habit by then.

Still ... I managed to make the jump ... and yeh, it was scary and difficult at first ... and I had personal, ancient demons to exorcise that were tearing me to pieces at the same time ... but here I am now, slightly more than a year on from making the change ... and I'm wondering "f**k me! ... why the hell didn't I do this years ago??!!"

I suppose the answer to that is I just wasn't ready before ... or that I hadn't sunk low enough till then. I had to want to leave for my OWN reasons ... and not someone else's.

Life is completely different here and now, North of the border ... and it feels like home ... for the present.

Will I stay here? or move on again? .... ask me in another couple of years.

I was born In Thornaby 1962 in Derby terrace which was my nan's house. I still live in Thornaby, Apart from a couple of years in Billingham when I got married in 84'. Probably die in Thornaby as I can't see myself leaving unless I win the lottery then I will move into the country with no nearby neighbours. its handy as I only work less than 1/2 mile away.

Derby Terrace? I know that street,wasn't it round the corner from Millers place(now gone ,replaced by the british legion club) I used to live there from 66 until 71.:)
As a few of you know I was born in Middlesborough and lived for 23 years in Thornaby.Met Liz (my present wife) who is from Whitby but was living in York.Decided that I had enough of the lack of jobs in the north east , the fact that she lived so far away and I missed her too much , so I took the plunge and moved to York. Have never regreted it for one instance,it's such a beautiful place to live specially at this time of year as I live in a nice green belt area that it's almost rural.
Don't really miss the north east much but I really missed my old friends, a lot of whom I have got back in contact with,thanks to Chris putting me onto this site.(cheers mate:bowdown: )So I suppose thats why we like remembering the old times and talking about them on this site.It's like our local pub:lol:

[QUOTE=Lippy;93752]Derby Terrace? I know that street,QUOTE]
It run along side Teesdale St and Short st, both of which were demolited in the late 70,s, its near mansfield ave if I remember rightly and Teesdale terrace which is still there also.

FFS jam! your on the move more than bonnie & clyde!..every year jeezus..you on the run or summit lol?..ive only moved about 4 times in me life, and i still have to think of my street name some times :tard:

regards,
jim.

lmao, well it averages once a year, but sometimes it been 3 or 4 times in a year or so, then in one place for a while, bringing the average back down abit, but yeah it has almost felt like it at times, although not as much on the run, as following the work, its worn very thin lately though i can tell you, and i got no plans to be moving again anytime soon.

Most of this will only mean anything to the people know me personally.
I was born in Middlesbrough, lived my first 28 years in and around central Stockton, met Karen in '88, we moved into a flat in Yarm in '89 quickly decided we needed a house, got one in Eaglescliffe in '90 just doors away from my old drummer Owen. I love it in Eaglescliffe and I have no want to move away! I'm on a little housing estate that consists of three roads, my immediate neighbours are good people, Schools, shops etc are all close at hand. I'm in walking distance of my work, I live with my 3 kids and wife though we are no longer together, still friends though. On the subject of friends, there's Kelly, I've known her around 10 years, she's brilliant and a great laugh. She is not the cause of my marriage breakdown! Sky1962 is the only true old friend I see these days, I see Owen on the odd occasion, usually when he wants something, Owen is still Owen! :) There a lot of people from the old days I don't consider as ever being friends, Wah, Lippy & Cap't aren't on that list, but some of their long time friends are! Which makes any home coming reunion nights out with any of the trio a no no, cos after a few bevvies the fists would surely fly. Sad, but true! I've made two big mistakes in my life, one is drugs, the crowd I got in with because of them, the good friends I turned my back on because of them, the paranoid arsehole I became while doing them and acid casualty I very nearly became. The other....Liz.

i was born in a lil house in peckham SE london in '53 [none of that poofy hospital stuff then just "push..push" [bonk!] i was on the floor]
moved out of there into a brand new flat when i was 18 months [glorius estate..happy chilhood days] moved out when i got married in '74.
daughter 26 lives in west end, 20 mins from me...son [best m8 n drinking partner] 28, lives 2 mins away.

only moved twice since married, and this is all in a 5 mile radius. :(

if i have it off in the lottery, it will be bollox to london....and bollox to england!!

regards,
jim.

Born and bred in Blackburn Lancashire.

Always been a bright little spark and my parents always pushed me through my schooling. Of the four kids in my family, I was the first one to go to University. I wished they'd encouraged my enthusiasm in music, but then again, my older brother is in a band and the first time they saw us both play was at his wedding only a few years ago. Even then it was only when I got up that my Mum managed to pull her fingers out of her ears long enough to wander over to watch us. My Dad and grandparents sat grumbling in the corner throughout.

This prompted other family members to state, "I never knew David played guitar", which pretty much sums it up to be honest.

My little brother has a natural aptitude for the piano, but yet again, it's talent wasted.

Anyway, getting back on topic.

Yes, I went through school at a church of England school in Blackburn, where I also stayed for my A levels. These A levels got me to University where I spent 3 years at Loughborough with a placement year at Cosham (near Portsmouth) with IBM. Managed to get a job there on condition of a certain degree before I left, and walked straight into the job after graduating.

Moved down to Southampton with the then girlfriend. We moved to Portsmouth, but after many failed attempts and her buggering off back up North to shag half of Blackburn on a regular basis, we split up.

I moved in with some friends in Winchester where great times were had and I played a lot of guitar both in the house and in various pubs in Winchester for free beer.

They eventually wanted to move to a bigger house, but I couldn't afford it. Despite us all working for the same company doing the same jobs, they were all on 10 grand more than me as they worked for the american sector of IBM, and I worked for the UK sector and was contracted out to the US, meaning the department I worked for pocketed the 10 grand difference.

So I moved in with my then girlfriend in Bracknell and she didn't charge me rent so I could put that to the commute back down to Winchester.

Eventually left IBM and got a job just down the street from where I lived. Redundancies were in the air after a year, so I left and joined a smaller company and was made redundant after 3 months when a bigger company bought them out. Got a great redundancy package and that paid for my Peavey Wolfgang, my first proper guitar.

Found a job where I am now, where I will have been working for 7 years this month. Married the girlfriend, and child arrived just over 2 years ago. More than happy with life, although another job move is on the horizon.

Don't get back to Blackburn much. Mum and Dad moved when they retired, older brother moved as soon as he was old enough to leave the family, sister emigrated to Australia, but since came back after she missed Blackburn too much (why ?), and little brother is down here near me.

When I do go back, it is to see Blackburn Rovers play. I usually go to the old pubs and I love soaking up the Northern life in those pubs and usually bump into a few old old friends who I have a few jars with. But that's enough of it for me.

I love the scenery, and there are many tugs on the heart when I do go back up there and drive down roads that I spent my childhood on, but there are also the many bad memories of people who are no longer with us too.

All in all, I know I am better off down here as I can provide a better life for my wife and child than I could up North. I earn more money than my parents did, own a bigger house than they did, and drive a better car. And that's my Northern benchmark I guess.

Just got to remember to encourage the little 'un in whatever she is interested in, which, at the moment, is proving to be quite musical.

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I have moved so many times that I cant remember all the places, let alone the people! My Dad had a habit of falling out with his boss, and the next job would always be miles away. I have been here longer than anywhere else in my life. Longest time in the same job too (4 years), guess I got that off the old man :lol: Got a few more of his bad points too, hopefully some of his many good ones. Cant see us moving from here, kids are doing really well in the local school. Would like to get away from our asshole neighbors, but they are going to die in a few years, so what the hell. I have lived all over South Wales. London, several places in Medway, Kent, and in Colchester, Essex. Worst thing about being back in Wales, where I am anyway, is the total lack of a live music scene, apart from fat old guys strumming along to backing tracks ... most times I want to take the damm thing off them and show them how to do it properly :eek: Overall nice to be (nearly as it is not the valley's) back home.

Found a job where I am now, where I will have been working for 7 years this month. :thumb:

Where are you now Dave? You never said.:) :slap:

Near Reading mate. Football Team is nowhere near as good as the Blue and White halves, but then I wouldn't defect for anything !

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As for your comment about the Leeds support, well, I remember when I went to watch Blackburn v. Man U in at Ewood (where we were subsequently relegated at the end of the match), and my mate, who was a Man U fan, kept taking the piss out of the Blackburn players and standing up to join in the Man U chants.

Fortunately, we were in the family stand and not the hardcore Blackburn end, otherwise he'd have got twatted ! I kept grabbing him and wrenching him down into his seat, but that didn't stop him yelling, "Darren Peacock - you're shiiiiiiiit!", over and over again.

He was right, he is shit, but you don't go shouting that in a Man U accent in the middle of a bunch of Blackburn supporters !

Also, in the same stand at a game with my brother, we watched Blackburn v Newcastle. Cracking game with the likes of Shearer and Andi Cole in the teams. Ended up 2-2 with players scoring goals against there former clubs. One of our player swung in a cross that hit a defender shortly after the ball had left the guy's foot. Smacked the Newcastle player right in the chin and knocked him out cold and he hit the floor unconscious and collapsed in a heap.

Everyone went silent and drew in a sharp breath as it looked so bad.

Everyone that is, apart from my little brother who yelled, "Har har har, what a twat, he fell down like a sack of shit !" and proceeded to laugh his head off at it.

His yell and subsequent laughter was the only thing to be heard around the ground whilst we waited for the guy to come round. In the end I dragged him out of the ground until he calmed down as we were in danger of getting twatted by our own supporters, it was in such bad taste.

Mind you, this is from a lad who walked down the canal in York one day and saw a duck asleep on the canal bank with it's head tucked in over it's wings. In his drunken state, he thought that the duck resembled a rugby ball and so ran up and booted the poor bird. It awoke mid flight, half way across the canal and apparently let out a massive quack and panickedly flapped it's wings to gain height and manoueverability just in time before it splashed down into the canal.

So you can understand the mindset.

:tard:

well i can't live in my birthplace because it was a 1957 chevy stationwagon on the way to the hospital.

lived on our family farm till i graduated from highschool and my parents moved to town after selling the farm. i worked for my father untill i was 35 and moved 30 miles west to bloomington where i work in a power plant on the mississippi river in southwest wisconsin. i have never wanted to move out of the area because it is one of the most beautifull areas in the united states. i never wanted to love in a big city either. love the small town in a rural area close to the mississippi river. i love it here.

I've lived in the same town all my life. I've had thoughts of moving every now and then, but after my last move to a third floor apartment without an elevator I'm thinking I won't move again for a few years, haha. Damn I'm lazy. :o

I was born and brought up in a small place called Caerphilly in South Wales (probably about 15 miles away from SteveG). Lived there until I went to University in Luton (godawful place). When i left i got a job in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire then moved to Waterlooville in Hampshire, then lived in Leeds for 3 years. Moved back to Wales for 2 years, then met my missus who is from Leicester when she was on a road trip to Cardiff. I moved up here and here i am.

I get back to Wales as often as possible though, still have the same friends who do the same thing week in week out, probably would move back to retire, but theres hardly any decent jobs in my field there so thats a long long way off!

I don't live in my home town anymore(Moved for my job), but thinking about it I have lived within five miles of the same freeway in california all my life.

I have lived all up and down calif. but always within reach of the same road?

Inspired by recent posts in "Post yer pics" thread ... and one or two others.

So ... DO you? and if you DO still live there, just what is it that makes you stay?

If you no longer live there ... why? ... what inspired you to move? ... do you miss 'home'? (and IS it still 'home' in your heart?) ... do you prefer it where you are now?

:)

Close enough. Was born in Tacoma, lived in Shelton a few years, moved to Little Rock for kidnergarten, moved to Yelm where I spend most of my life, and now have a little house in Lacey on a 1/4 acre.

Reasons for staying? Family and:

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looks beautiful there nroberts..wish i had the money to get outa this shithole london. :(

regards,
jim.

looks beautiful there nroberts..



:bowdown: Absolutely! Answering to Captain´s question, may I have a big :lol:????
Obviously I do not live where I was born at. If I recall well I´ve lived at 10 different countries. But I´m fairly happy where I´m living at right now. Do I miss my home place? I guess in some sense I do. It would be nice to go fishing some catfish at whatever lost pond in the woods, hit the road to Myrtle Beach for some fun, go watch some venue to Charlotte at whatever club, etc. But I feel that was ages ago, no big deal though. I´m fine where I am living at the present.

:bowdown: Absolutely! Answering to Captain´s question, may I have a big :lol:????
Obviously I do not live where I was born at. If I recall well I´ve lived at 10 different countries. But I´m fairly happy where I´m living at right now. Do I miss my home place? I guess in some sense I do. It would be nice to go fishing some catfish at whatever lost pond in the woods, hit the road to Myrtle Beach for some fun, go watch some venue to Charlotte at whatever club, etc. But I feel that was ages ago, no big deal though. I´m fine where I am living at the present.

So your originally a Carolina boy eh??..... that would explain it!!! LOL!!!:lol: :lol:

I was born in Gosford street,St Hilda's,Middlesbrough (Over the border as some might know it) in 1959.....Moved to a "lovely"...LOL.... council housing estate called "Pallister park" when i was about 11yrs old.Stayed there for about 16yrs..moved to Brambles farm estate for about 1 yr...Got married..Lived in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough for a few years & for the past 16-18yrs i have lived in Ingleby barwick moving twice on the estate & now live near the river Tees just like when i was born Over the border!...I must have a thing about that river (like paul Rodgers of Free/bad Company he 's a Boro lad like Chris rea)..I really like where i live now although my youngest son has vowed "never to return!"..he's at Sussex Uni in Brighton & hopefully will be a Barrister in the next 4 yrs...From where i'm from I can keep him in "Clients" for the rest of his days!..heheheee....really speaking..I have been working on oil rigs on a 2 week on/off basis for the past 22 yrs!..so really i've lived on the "Brae Alpha" in the north sea for 11 of those years!..god!

My House for the past 11 of the last 22yrs! :mad:

So your originally a Carolina boy eh??..... that would explain it!!! LOL!!!:lol: :lol:

:lol: Oh yeah, Smithfield, Johnston county, qué pasa coño? :lol: LOL!

My House for the past 11 of the last 22yrs! :mad:

Noah's is definitely prettier :D

Born and raised in New Orleans proper until about 20 yrs old....now live about 30 miles North in a wooded small town area... Except for the 5 yrs at college in Baton Rouge...(about 70 miles away), this is all I know.

I have also moved around way too much.

I was born in a very old hospital in Mile End London in '70 . Was raised in a flat in the East End until I was 12 that makes you tough I can tell ya. Then my dad got on the North Sea Oil Rig projects and we moved to Norway in 1982, stayed there in Oslo Norway till 1986. Then come back to London in 1986 and HATED it, I found it so hard to fit back into life in England and the people seemed so horrible.

Anyways stayed in London graduated in 1992 stayed working in London till 1994 then moved to Nottingham for 4 years (liked it there). Then moved back to London until 1999 then after one year of applying and applying landed a job and moved to USA. I lived in Delaware USA from 1999 to 2004. Then Austin TX from 2004 to 2007 and from 2007 to present am in Houston TX.

Life is an adventure and so far I am enjoying the ride I am on :)