Home town or nomad?

[AdamW]

in 22 years i have lived in one house then moved to one in its back garden...! We have some land about 3 miles away that one day i aspire to build myself a small holding on but thats along way in the future, i am a country lad born and bred, hate visiting cities but often do so to see friends at uni or those who moved away.

Give me a long grassy field on a summer evening any day!

[yugogypsy]

Hometown girl, born in the local hospital, spent my first 5 years 5 miles away and the last 38 here.

Been to the North of the Province, south as far as Portland Oregon USA and east as far as Toronto Canada.

Thats enough and now I'll stay home and work on my garden

Lois

[secrets]

i just love moving house,even if its in the same area.
but i,ve lived in Frome,Warminster,near Bath,and now Clevedon,but i would like to move to Bristol which is very unlikely because we live in my partners family home which has been in his family for 80 years.

[yugogypsy]

Hey Secrets, my maternal grandmum came from Frome, and yes I know its pronounced FROOME. And Grandpa was from Bath-a Doswell if you met any.

Lois

[secrets]

Hey Secrets, my maternal grandmum came from Frome, and yes I know its pronounced FROOME. And Grandpa was from Bath-a Doswell if you met any.

Lois

hi Lois,glad to know you.
yes tis Froome,i actually never liked the place though.
but i did like Bath.

[yugogypsy]

I hear Frome is very small, my aunt visited in the late 1970's.

And I know there are still MANY Doswell's in Bath because I checked a Bath phone directory online.

So someday I shall have to save my pennies and come over-take my longest trip away yet and look up the maternal family connections.

Have a great day

Lois

[Masco&Bongo]

Born in Yorkshire, lived there until I was 9, when my parents moved over to Lancashire

Moved in with partner and lived with his mum for a bit, got our own place in Preston.

Moved house due to the area and neighbours, moved house again last year to current place

Counting move to and from uni accomodation, thats 6 places in 27 years.

Not bad really, and the majority of the moves have been in a fairly close area.

[multiveg]

Have moved around a bit - from Bromley to Catford back to Bromley to Ilford back to Bromley to Wood Green to Bristol to Belfast (2 addresses) and then settled in Caernarfon (3rd address though).

[fenwoman]

total nomad here. 23 homes in my 52 years and if it weren't for the fact that I am unable to get another mortgage, I would have moved again. I have no family in any one place, they are scattered all over the world.

[camillitech]

found my home at last

never felt attached to anywhere until 18 years ago. born in lancashire, italian father with a bit of argentine, english mum (bless her) lived on the tuscan border for a couple of years then back to lancashire. accrington to be precise did the school, marriage,mortgage,work treadmill thing till i was 29 in 1985 then upped sticks packed in the job i'd done for 14years since leaving school. sold everything and moved with my then wife to a tiny cottage on a wee island to manage a scallop farm!!!!!!

did that for 4 years then decided to get a place of our own and do the selfsufficient bit. bought a 7.5 acre croft with a couple of hundred acres of hill 10 miles from anywhere on another island no phone, no electric, no nieghbours and no money. read all the books (apart from one on hens) got sheep, goats, ducks cut hay (by hand) and became a proper crofter.

however this did not pay any bills for that i used to fish for lobster and dive for clams. the thing was i was very good at it so gradualy became more of a fisherman and less of a crofter the wife went as did the goats and i swapped the sheep for a fishing boat (at the bottom of the sea)
lived on my own for about 5 years did allot of reading (just not about hens) smoked allot of dope so forgot most of what i'd read ( do not try this guys ) gave up the diving shortly after 2nd marriage and son arrived

now i have a great wee job where i work week on week off so for the past couple of years we have been treading the greener path and trying to get back on the selfsufficient road.

the next time i move it will be in a wooden box


lol from paul, barbara, ross and our extended family of dooks, chooks, piggies and cats. had the poor wee dog put down last year

[Millymollymandy]

Well now that everything is hunky dory and you have a bit of time to spare, read that bloody book on hens!

[camillitech]

Well now that everything is hunky dory and you have a bit of time to spare, read that bloody book on hens!

time to spare!!!!!! that'll be the day. this weeks to do list :- fit new engine to our 21 year old land rover, fit new bath (that's been sat in shed for 2 years), repair rutland wind turbine (again) put electric fence up to stop 4 week old weaners getting in with 2 year old boar (quite honestly i think the boar would come off worse!) go for hearing test on skye (full day ) and that's before i start cutting wood, clearing drains, etc. but i will honest one day honest

[Nikki]

Nomad through and through (or gypsy as my father called me)

Spanish ancestors from father, Italian ancestors from mother.
Uruguya, S. America - 4 years
Sydney, Austalia - 21 years
Travelling round world - 4 months
Midlands, UK - 12 years
Heading to Montenegro within 6 months - hopefully for good

Must be in the genes. My parents emmigrated, but my great-great-grand-father was said to have gone out for cigars, in Spain, and ended up in Uruguay. I hope the cigars were good.