So where are you from?

[polly50]

Grew up in the Westcountry now live in the south east, but have never felt at home or comfortable here.

[cassie18]

West Yorks born and bred.

[Treetotal]

East Yorkshire born and bred.
Carol

[jettejjane]

West Sussex born and bred, still here!  My paternal sides have been here since the year dot. They didnt move far if at all. Kent was the limit.  This makes for easy research.  My maternal side is from Southern   Ireland, that's not easy for research, although I am also proud of my Irish roots, I belong in Sussex.  No desire to live anywhere else.  I have coast and country within 5 minutes of each other.

Jane

[sleepybarb]

Born in the Midlands,lived in Kidderminster, moved to The West Country where I am home.
Barb

[Luath]

Born in Clapham, moved to Galloway when I was 6.  After school, travelled around to college/university/working, met my now ex-husband in the Outer Hebrides and moved south to Dorset for 27 years. Never settled, never felt accepted, told I was too wild and feisty lol
Divorced in 2014, and have come home to the village I was brought up in - can see my old house from the bottom of my garden 
Grandparents on one side were Scottish,  and moved about due to the nature of their work - shepherds, agricultural labourers, domestic service, gardeners - ancestors as far north as Rannoch Moor, Applecross, Assynt, as well as Dumfries and Galloway.  Other side were Cornish and Irish, settled in Woolwich, London eventually, via India where my father was born.
I never gave up hope I'd get back here one day - I'm from Scotland, although I wasn't born here. It's my home, it's where my heart is; feisty Celt 

[barryd]

Born in County Durham. Live in USA. Traveled the world from Singapore to San Francisco the long way (but not the short way). Worked in England, South Africa, USA and if you won't tell Harold Wilson, in Rhodesia. Hopefully will make it over to the Mother Country at some time but lost my wife and  I would  not be able work out how to use the London and South Western Railway's ticket machine to head me from Southampton and all points north. Give me the Booking Office and the clunk of the machine putting the date on the ticket. Never lived in Clapham but from time to time I travelled on the Clapham Omnibus. That has given me a great perspective on life.

[coombs]

Somehow I feel there is something good about people being born in London. I was not born there but I feel anyone born there has this uniqueness, maybe it is because London is the capital city. Dont know if anyone agrees with this. My great gran was born in Islington, near Pentonville Road. Her paternal gran was born in Shoreditch so I have ancestors from the East End.

[Gillg]

Born in Lancashire, so was a bit miffed to discover that one set of maternal gt-gt-grandparents were Yorkshire folk who had crossed the Pennines looking for work. (The Wars of the Roses lingers on in people's memories, and not just in those of cricket lovers! And how dare Tony Blair and his cronies hi-jack our red rose for his party? ) My paternal ancestors came from Huntingdonshire, but moved to Lancashire, also looking for work in the 19th century.  I have a tiny bit of Scot in me - a gt-gt-gt-grandfather who came from a hop, skip and a jump over the border in Gretna.

I certainly don't feel Scottish, unlike my cousin who moved from Lancs to Scotland and wore the kilt on formal occasions.  I would never even admit to being slightly Yorkshire, despite my ancestors, and am a proud Lancastrian through and through, though I haven't lived there for over 30 years.  Both my children were also born in Lancashire, so my husband, a West Londoner, sometimes feels a bit left out.

A return visit to my old home town a few years ago was depressing - the town had gone downhill and the places in my childhood memory had changed, and not for the better.  Recent unpleasant history makes me reluctant to mention the town's name and I certainly don't want to return.  However, I'm still a lassie from Lancashire at heart. Eee, by gum, I'm a champion!