Who lives nearest to their childhood home? (and who is furthest?)

BigMonka

thumpingrug said:

richardhomer said:

thumpingrug said:

Born and spent first 25 years in Hull, East Yorks and now live in Dorset.  Approx 300 miles away.

Or as the joke goes:

”Where do you live?”

”Poole”

”In Dorset?”

”I can - it’s a lovely place”

Sorry dude, but that one goes over my head.  Lived and worked in Poole for 20 years, now working in Weymouth and living in the rural bit in between.

As in "endorse it?".
I found it very funny, well done @richardhomer (specially considering I'd never heard it despite spending >15years living in Dorset)

Nitefly

In the first 15 years of their married life, my parents lived in 16 different places, including 3 in Chicago, before they finally settled back where they started.  That included various spells staying with their in-laws whilst looking for somewhere of their own. 

Practically all of these were rented; they actually bought one house in Blackpool, only to sell it 2 years later to go to Chicago.

I was born in Blackpool while they were living with my paternal grandparents, a time my mother describes as the worst time of her life - she absolutely hated having to live with her in-laws. 

She now has a little flat in Lytham St Annes, and we live about 40 miles away, so not too far from my roots, such as they are!

Nitefly

LOL @richardhomer - it took me a while, but I got there in the end...

Sporky

[edit] And they called me slow...

fields5069

1.8 miles. Though I was 1072 miles away for 2 years.

bingefeller

Real men stay at home and live in the box room.  All this moving out stuff is a load of rubbish.  

Nitefly

Sporky said:

[edit] And they called me slow...

I know - I had to say it out loud before the penny dropped...

Tone71

My mother at 82 lives 2 doors from where she was born, I have however managed to get 12 miles away (which is a long way in London terms), one day I`ll make it to the coast.

scrumhalf

Now I come to think of it I may only be less than three miles away from my childhood home, but if I go the other way it's thousands and thousands of miles.

thumpingrug

BigMonka said:

thumpingrug said:

richardhomer said:

thumpingrug said:

Born and spent first 25 years in Hull, East Yorks and now live in Dorset.  Approx 300 miles away.

Or as the joke goes:

”Where do you live?”

”Poole”

”In Dorset?”

”I can - it’s a lovely place”

Sorry dude, but that one goes over my head.  Lived and worked in Poole for 20 years, now working in Weymouth and living in the rural bit in between.

As in "endorse it?".
I found it very funny, well done @richardhomer (specially considering I'd never heard it despite spending >15years living in Dorset)

ah!   I see.  

Deadman

240 miles from my birthplace in the North East. I now live in Oxfordshire, the most boring place on the planet.

spark240

I live about 5 miles from it, parents passed away and now I own the house...

boogieman

My mum still lives in the house we moved to when I was 9. Currently doing some work on it for her, lots of memories there for me as I’m going into rooms I don’t normally see. Some of the memories are good, but a lot are shit. For instance there’s still a distinctive mark on one bedroom wall where my mum smashed my dad’s beloved watch against the wall in a fit of rage. (She’d found out he was having an affair, they divorced not long after.) 

strtdv

Born and spent the first 6 years of life 1700 miles as the crow flies from where I live now

thing

About 60 miles away from where I was born. All of my Dads family lived in the same small village, I lived in the next house to my Gran and Grandad. The ones who are still alive are still there whereas I had incurable wanderlust and spent half of my adult life wandering round the globe. There is no way I could live in the same place all of my life no matter how wonderful it is.

Luckily I passed this on to my son who now lives 10398 miles away.