Where in the UK are you?
 

Just wondered where everyone was from. ;)

im in cambridgeshire, in the fens :carrot: :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

I'm in Leeds.

im in plymouth, though originally from the north west/wales. mad

I'm in Balloch - about 30 mins outside of Glasgow

I'm in the middle of nowhere but my nearest large town is Doncaster.

That sounds like heaven! I live in Birmingham which isn't great for a country girl.

I'm a transplanted Londoner - we've been in Yorkshire for about 10 years and I'm still getting used to village life which is much, much slower and can be really frustrating. On the other hand I don't think I could ever go back to city living, just visiting cities makes my head spin nowadays - even Sheffield which is dinky.

I'm up in the North East, but moving to London this summer for a year :D

I nearly said *In a village* but we're between two villages, a few miles from York. North Yorkshire born and bred!

I lived in Birmingham for 20 years. Now I'm home I'll ever leave Yorkshire ever again! I hated living in a city!

I've done the opposite Birmingham to york then back! Which bits of birmingham Phat and doughnut?

Ooh - I lived in York once too but only for a year. I loved it - that's my idea of a city if you have to live in one.

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I'm a fen girl too ( but then imworthit knew that as she's my mum).

Norf London - Finchley,

However I used to live in Gainford in County Durham, which is between Darlington and Barnard Castle.

THEN my inconsiderate parents moved to Goathland (where they film Heartbeat dontcha know) and I kinda used that as a base for the end of school/Uni years. I can't ever say I really "lived" there as I was always somewhere else during term time!

I used to live in South Ken for Uni, then Egham in Surrey, then Hounslow, mighty Hounslow (I really liked it there) and now Norf London. :p

I went there as a student, and lived in Moseley - then after uni, stayed and lived in Bartley Green for years, then Kings Heath. Our house in Bartley Green was a council house, but it was an old Victorian terrace, not on an estate and had a massive garden with a field behind and the country park opposite so it didn't feel so much like living in a city. We later lived in Kings Heath. Handy for the shops but we didn't want our kids to grow up there - they couldn't go out and play, etc and we had a tiny garden in our last house (and an alcoholic living next door screaming 'Danny Boy' and swear words at 3am!)

Where's you in Brum?

hey phatphoenix thats sounds like our latest house weve only been here 4 months and talk about children out destroying things late at night and the language,we hate it and will be moving again,we decided after 2 months it wasnt for us,my children dont go out and play and havnt been bought up to be streetwise like the children round here,we feel like we are in prison,its a brand new estate but its the children from all the surrounding areas use this new area as their playground late at night and they are like animals let loose.Im so unhappy at the mo,we all our savings into this and it hasnt worked out,its awful,we will loose so much money by moving and will have to go into renting but Iv gone past caring I just want to be happy again and my family be happy.ok rant over by the way im from HEREFORD born and bred.

flowerfairy - we sold our house (just before the big upturn in house prices!) but then my husband had to take early retirement through ill health and so we lived off the money from the house for a couple of years. At first we had an expensive housing association house in the village where I was born, 10 miles or so from here... but I got on the council list and this house was offered us within 6 months. If I'd known it, I'd have moved back home YEARS ago! Our house is one of only 4 in the middle of nowhere and we have huge gardens front and back. We're hoping to buy it in the next year or so with the full discount. Our house is about 100 yards from the river and right opposite a very beautiful pond, so we can't ever be overlooked and we have the most stunning view. The view at the back is just as good - nothing but fields for 20 miles and the Yorkshire Wolds in the distance. Ironic that it's a council house because it is in the sort of situation people would pay a million or more to live in. We could never have afforded to live here, normally. We have a long drive, parking for numerous cars, we have a caravan out the back and a big chalet style shed - on their own bigger than the garden we had in the city . In the city we had to get the council to give us a disabled space on the road outside our house... Then the drunk neighbour's family got abusive because they wanted to park in it when they visited him, as he was 'disabled'... Sometimes took us half an hour to find a parking spot and we'd end up parking a ten min walk from our own house... No fun with two toddlers in pushchairs and other kids....

My kids go to an idyllic village church school and are in classes of 12 or 15 (35 in B'ham). Although we had to lose every penny from our house, if we hadn't we wouldn't be here now. And I was a bit put off home ownership by the fact we had a private house but a violent drunk next door. Whenever we lived in council houses, we always had lovely neighbours. Our neighbours here are fantastic too, although all the houses except our's are bought now. If I could never buy this house, I'd rather be a council tenant here than own my own house where we were (off Kings Heath High St). The week we moved into our 'own' home, there was a girl abducted and raped from the top of our street. The week we moved in there was a policeman chasing through our garden - and all the neighbour's - chasing a scally. I used to teach in B'ham too and had such bad experiences in the schools, I didn't want my kids to be there when the eldest hit 11. In the end, we decided to 'lose it all' to get out. It was the best thing we ever did. (We couldn't buy a house up here because by that time, my husband was no longer working and I was at home with our disabled son).

Although if we buy this, we could sell it on for a massive profit, we don't want to ever move, we love it so much. None of the neighbours want to move, either so there's a lot of stability here.

I was in exactly your position, and although it was a tough thing to do - and it was our first home of our own as before that we'd rented well into our 30s - we were glad we did it.

imworhtit- so you are a fen tiger, huh? I love those books about the fens.

Sarahann - transplanted londoner indeed! You are always thinking about planting now, aren't you??!

I was born in Kent (not the garden of England bit - but near the Rochester way, in Welling - infamous only for the BNP or was it NF HQ?? Now in Hammersmith, West London - famous for -ooh! Riverside studios, errr the Jill Dando case (though in Fulham it was only up the road), BBC up the road in Shepherds Bush - I pass it on the way to my friend. Lots of nice parks too! Barnes is not far away with it's Wetlands centre full of ducks from all over the world - and loads of croaking frogs!

Hey bit on the chubbyside - where in London will you be moving to? I sit for work or study?

hi.peacock2,

i was born in st.neots, cambridgeshire and moved here just over 20 years ago, and i love it..
we brought the children out to the fens when they were 5 and 7 we live in a very small village with a little school...
we brought a "do it up" in 1986 and we are still "doing it up"...

but i love the open space and country life. :hug:

2frustrated - I know Gainford, I'm a Darlingtonian (is that a word?!)!

peacock_2 - I'm not sure yet! Got a placement year (as part of uni course) in Canary Wharf, so hopefully will be living somewhere near there. One of my friends has a house about 10 mins walk away, so that area would be perfect! Need to find somewhere affordable though, haha :p

I'm not far from Bartley Green and very close to the Woodgate Valley park.
I used to live in the Groves in York (and briefly by the Knavesmire)

I'm a Brummie born and bred, lived in Northumberland, Norfolk, Hereford and now live in Essex in a little village!

I was born in Hillingdon but moved around with a RAF Dad and did most of my growing up in Suffolk...now live in the US but love coming home to Blighty :)

wow phatphoenix you sound so happy now,wish I could speak to you off here and explain our situation,you sound like you have your head screwed on,not sure if I can PM you on here i will go off and see.

I'm just outside of Rochdale, moved down to Leighton Buzzard for about 4 years and then moved back again for a job. Should be moving in with my bf in Burnley later in the year!

I feel like I should chip in with more details. I was born in Warwickshire (Leamington), and grew up there - moving around in the Warwick/Stratford type area. I went to school in Stratford although I never actually lived there. Moved up to North Yorkshire when I was 16 and went to school in Ripon for a while.

I went to uni in Manchester and stayed there for 4 years (apart from a brief spell in the US - North Carolina), then back to Knaresborough for 3 years, and I've now been in Leeds for 4.

I live between Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland, in a small village on the lake, but I'm Cumbrian (near Ambleside to be precise) born and bred. I went to university for 3 years in Chester and then lived in Oxford until I left the country nearly 20 years ago. Since then I've lived in Iceland for 2 years and Switzerland for 17.

But I'm British to my core :) And a northerner forever :)

Oooh hello Darlingtonian! :lol: :wave:

I am from Greenock, west of Glasgow.

Currently living in Illinois. We're about 20 miles east of St.Louis.

Ooh, I'm Glasgwegian too, currently in Stirling but moving back to Glasvegas in a few weeks if all goes well. I'm sure Illinois can only be a million times better than Greenock! I'm feeling quite jealous, especially faced with the prospect of moving to Maryhill or Easterhouse....

hi ppl. i havnt been on for ages cause ive started working and dont get in till 7pm.
i live in stoke on trent.

I live about 16 miles south of Darlington in Northallerton. I worked in Darlington for about 5 years. Born in York, and lived in Newport, South Wales for about 7 years when I was a lot younger. Now I travel around the country so much that I sometimes forget where I live ;)

Ambleside is so beautiful, I went there for a week and stayed in a YMCA with the school in my early teens and have never forgotten how beautiful it was...

As for being British to the core, that's me too :) And proud of it... and it's well known over here amoungst my American counterparts :devil:

I'm in Cambridge... but go to uni in Leicester

York,currently at university in Durham though.

Ex-London resident also(Surbiton,yay).

I live just outside Folkestone in Kent - now known as Earthquake country!

Earthquake central! How are things in Folkestone?

I always used to say one of reasons I am happy staying in the UK is we don't have the natural disasters and bad weather that they everywhere else. I guess I will shut up about that now.

Folkestone's ok thanks - just the odd chimney pot damaged really, it was more the "what the heck's going on?" of it all. I know what you mean about the UK being not too bad on the natural disasters front - I've always liked it that we don't have killer spiders and snakes and stuff! Now that I couldn't handle!

Oh.... we have snakes alright. I live right close to some moorland here in Yorkshire and we get lots of adders - the UK's only poisonous snake. They mostly hang around on the Moor but just occasionally in the middle of summer we get the odd one or two in the garden which is why we've replaced our old fence (which got blown away) with a proper wall this time.

I am always on the lookout for adders doing their 'dance' in the new forest but haven't seen any. Mum has a grass snake in her garden though!