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purple80 Feb 12th 2010 2:36 am

Where have you lived?
 
I had moved around the UK a lot before deciding to move to Canada, I initially wanted to go to France which is where my parents, sister and her husband where heading to. We decided that France was not for us, having had the Canada discussion years previously, we looked at Canada again.

My OH had moved around a fair bit with work, promotions to other areas, did this make us more likely or open to the idea of relocation to a foreign country?

So where have you lived?

Mine
Coventry (Born 1968)
Balsall Common (Raised left in 1986)
Leamington Spa
Southam
Chiswick
Dagenham
Ilford
East Ham
Hunningham
Ellesmere Port
New Ferry
Bidston
Birkenhead
Lunt
Tel Aviv
Banbury
Candy
Oswestry
Bolton (Ontario) 2008

Silverdragon102 Feb 12th 2010 2:41 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Me

Somerset
Singapore
Lincolnshire
Germany (2 different places)
Lincolnshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Hampshire
Nova Scotia

Father was in the military so moved a lot and still get the I want to move every couple of years itch

city4 Feb 12th 2010 2:45 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
My travelling has been vast!!!!!:lol::lol:

Newcastle upon Tyne:) (1981-2008)

Mississauga ON.:thumbsup: (2008-Present)

Oakvillian Feb 12th 2010 2:53 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Silverdragon102 (Post 8336031)
Me

Somerset
Singapore
Lincolnshire
Germany (2 different places)
Lincolnshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
Hampshire
Nova Scotia

Father was in the military so moved a lot and still get the I want to move every couple of years itch

I could almost have written that!

Mine are:
Bulford, Wilts
Camberley, Surrey
Minden, Germany
Camberley again
Hong Kong
West Byfleet, Surrey
Ballykelly, Co Londonderry
Muenster, Germany
West Byfleet again
Alton, Hants
Camberley again
Chester
rural Hants/Wilts border
and, after leaving home
Oxford
Loughborough
Aberdeen
Winchester
Walthamstow
Fulham
Chiswick
Oakville

Souvy Feb 12th 2010 2:54 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Brighton (1963-1982)
Reims, France (1982-1984)
Various bits of London (1984-1997)
Epsom, Surrey (1997-1998 'ish)
Sloane Square (1998 'ish-2000)
Oakville, Ontario (2000-2004)
The Dark Side (2004 to date)

fledermaus Feb 12th 2010 2:55 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Co. Durham
Bedford
Leicester- very briefly but not briefly enough
Bedford
London
Belsize Park
Grays Inn Road
Hanwell
Belsize Park
Bedford
London
Swiss Cottage
Er Kilburn/St John's Wood
Harrow
Leighton Buzzard
Ontario

I feel at home in NW6/3/8

Steve_P Feb 12th 2010 3:04 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
West Derby (Liverpool)
Huyton
Edmonton AB
Hunts Cross (Liverpool)
Huyton
Edmonton AB
Ottawa
Fort St. John
Edmonton
Calgary

BristolUK Feb 12th 2010 3:09 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Horfield
Keynsham
Brislington
Redland
Brislington
Totterdown
(all Bristol)
Longueuil
Moncton

iaink Feb 12th 2010 3:16 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Essex> Effingham, Surrey> Caldy, Wirral> Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire>

Then

Leeds>Norwich>Quinte, Ont.

Atlantic Xpat Feb 12th 2010 3:18 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8336069)
Sloane Square (1998 'ish-2000)

OK, Yah!

Souvy Feb 12th 2010 3:19 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 8336095)
Horfield
Keynsham
Brislington
Redland
Brislington
Totterdown
(all Bristol)
Longueuil
Moncton

Longueuil?

My sympathies.

Souvy Feb 12th 2010 3:21 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 8336117)
OK, Yah!

More OK, tabernac! It was her pad, not mine.

Atlantic Xpat Feb 12th 2010 3:22 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Wokingham, Berks (til age 4)
Beccles, Suffolk, (til age 19)
Plymouth, Devon
Upminster>Billericay>Maldon, Essex (with 18 months spent living M-F in Leamington Spa)
St John's, NL.

boo meringue Feb 12th 2010 3:24 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by purple80 (Post 8336020)
I had moved around the UK a lot before deciding to move to Canada, I initially wanted to go to France which is where my parents, sister and her husband where heading to. We decided that France was not for us, having had the Canada discussion years previously, we looked at Canada again.

My OH had moved around a fair bit with work, promotions to other areas, did this make us more likely or open to the idea of relocation to a foreign country?

So where have you lived?

Mine
Coventry (Born 1968)
Balsall Common (Raised left in 1986)
Leamington Spa
Southam
Chiswick
Dagenham
Ilford
East Ham
Hunningham
Ellesmere Port
New Ferry
Bidston
Birkenhead
Lunt
Tel Aviv
Banbury
Candy
Oswestry
Bolton (Ontario) 2008

Penrith Cumbria (born)
Norham (Northumbria bordering Scotland)
Kelso (Roxburghshire Scottish borders)
Preston (Lancashire - parents divorced)
Brookhouse (Lancashire - I got married)
Longton (Lancashire)
Ontario (Canada)
Husband of 22 years and 17 yr old and 13 yr old returning to Cumbria this summer - near my birth place yeah

I think perhaps that the more we've moved house as children the more we may feel like a gypsie, but I know when we go back, it will be in the border region where I am originally from. Full circle.

R I C H Feb 12th 2010 3:24 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Parkgate, Merseyside
Buckley, Clwyd
Ayr, Scotland
Bolton Le Sands, Lancs
Burton in Lonsdale, N.Yorks
Evesham, Worcs
Cairns, Qld.
Brant Lake, NY
Sydney, NSW
Le Breuil, France
Fitzhead, Somerset
North Littleton, Worcs
Ullington, Worcs
Abberton, Worcs
Kamloops, BC

Lorna_D Feb 12th 2010 3:25 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Ynyshir, Wales
Regina Beach, Saskatchewan

We were also looking at France but my OH had a job offer out of the blue so here we are.

dthomas Feb 12th 2010 3:27 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Bootle
Cumbria
Sydney
Perth
Toronto
Vancouver
Lower Canada
KRAP (The Kleptocratic Republican Anarchy of Bwana)

Piff Poff Feb 12th 2010 3:33 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
OK here's mine:

Sorry changed my mind.

Seedubs Feb 12th 2010 3:42 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Some good ones, here are mine (although some places I only 'lived' for 6 months!):

London
Middlesbrough
Nuneaton
Kirton in Lindsey (Lincs)
York
Rheindahlen (Germany)
Monchengladbach (Germany)
Mount Pleasant (Falkland Is)
Minden (Germany)
Split (Croatia)
Tomislavgrad (Bosnia)
Krefeld (Germany)
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Sandhurst
Abingdon
Kupres (Bosnia)
Haverfordwest (West Wales)
Winchester
Hope (North Wales)
Newport (South Wales)

Hopefully in the next few years or so Fredericton or Halifax (thereabouts)!

mandymoochops Feb 12th 2010 5:03 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Wow some of you are veritible wanderers!!!!

Mine

Leicester
Kewstoke (W-S-M)
Leicester
Wells-Next-The-Sea
Drumheller AB
Stettler AB (my forever home!)

Almost Canadian Feb 12th 2010 5:15 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
As a former member of HM Armed Forces, all over:p

DandNHill Feb 12th 2010 5:16 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8336069)
Brighton (1963-1982)
Reims, France (1982-1984)
Various bits of London (1984-1997)
Epsom, Surrey (1997-1998 'ish)
Sloane Square (1998 'ish-2000)
Oakville, Ontario (2000-2004)
The Dark Side (2004 to date)

Oh my goodness, I think I've been following you around Souvy!!

Dorking to 1976
Algiers from 1976 to 1977
Luxeuil les bains France 1977 to 1986
Reims 1986 to 1989
Guildford 1989
Woking 1989 to 2000
Worthing (10 miles from Brighton) 2000 to 2007
Storrington 2007 to now
Nova Scotia hopefully late this year of latest next year!!
:fingerscrossed::fingerscrossed:

Alberta_Rose Feb 12th 2010 5:21 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
worthing
calgary.

wow i should go lie down after that list! :p

oh can you count being 3 years in Cardiff for my training?

Worthing
Cardiff
Worthing
Calgary. ;)

iaink Feb 12th 2010 5:31 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 8336166)
OK here's mine:

Sorry changed my mind.

Chicken!:rofl:

I know, I know, the witness protection people have warned you in the past about this sort of thing!

Jingsamichty Feb 12th 2010 5:34 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
As a kid:

Oxford, England
Berlin, Germany
Boddam, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Dundee, Scotland

As an adult:

London - Shepherd's Bush, Hammersmith, Kilburn, Camden, Fulham, Putney, Wimbledon
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Supsa, Republic of Georgia
Den Haag, Netherlands
Kenninghall, Norfolk, England
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Goeje-do, South Korea
Singapore
Calgary, Canada

then...??? (because we're not staying here!)

DandNHill Feb 12th 2010 5:36 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Alberta_Rose (Post 8336478)
worthing
calgary.

wow i should go lie down after that list! :p

oh can you count being 3 years in Cardiff for my training?

Worthing
Cardiff
Worthing
Calgary. ;)

I new you were from West Sussex but hadn't realised you had been that close to me...:D

boo meringue Feb 12th 2010 5:39 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Alberta_Rose (Post 8336478)
worthing
calgary.

wow i should go lie down after that list! :p

oh can you count being 3 years in Cardiff for my training?

Worthing
Cardiff
Worthing
Calgary. ;)

you keep going from wc to wc lol (now Canadians won't get that)

DandNHill Feb 12th 2010 5:41 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by boo meringue (Post 8336525)
you keep going from wc to wc lol (now Canadians won't get that)

:rofl: I'm not canadian :rofl::rofl:

dboy Feb 12th 2010 5:42 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
- manchester (Dukinfield, Newton, Hyde, Ashton, Ardwick Cheetamhill)

- Lancaster

- Portsmouth

- Plymouth

- Rosyth (Scotland)

- Moscow, Russia

- Miami

- Vancouver

- Regina

- Vancouver

Best one..... VANCOUVER!

Lorna_D Feb 12th 2010 5:59 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
:frown:

Originally Posted by dboy (Post 8336530)
- manchester (Dukinfield, Newton, Hyde, Ashton, Ardwick Cheetamhill)

- Lancaster

- Portsmouth

- Plymouth

- Rosyth (Scotland)

- Moscow, Russia

- Miami

- Vancouver

- Regina

- Vancouver

Best one..... VANCOUVER!

:ohmy: how can you compare Vancouver to Regina :frown: :rofl:

dboy Feb 12th 2010 7:40 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Lorna_D (Post 8336567)
:frown:

:ohmy: how can you compare Vancouver to Regina :frown: :rofl:

you cant! or Manchester for that matter

jamesmc Feb 12th 2010 7:55 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
lockerbie ,,sw scotland
all over europe in a truck cab.
mouswald ,,sw scotland
somerset ,,manitoba..
not a lot lol..:rofl:

JamesM Feb 12th 2010 8:16 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Salisbury (Rhodesia) became Harare (Zimbabwe)
Guildford, Surrey
Brisbane (Australia)
Farnham, Surrey
Manchester
Farnham, Surrey
Toronto
Reading, Berkshire
London
Toronto

Bali2010 Feb 12th 2010 8:22 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Not so many:

Halifax, W Yorks
Newcastle upon Tyne
Yppari, Finland - briefly
Newcastle upon Tyne
Whitstable
Canterbury
Halifax again

Hopefully BC:fingerscrossed:

Oink Feb 12th 2010 8:25 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Maidstone
Chatham
Gravesend
Rotherhithe
Isle of Dogs
Crawley
New York City
Washington DC
Oregon
Vancouver

JonboyE Feb 12th 2010 8:28 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Sacriston, Co. Durham
Durham City
Bude
Kilburn
Battersea
West Norwood
Hanwell
Berkhamsted
Surrey, BC
White Rock

fledermaus Feb 12th 2010 8:31 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by JonboyE (Post 8336952)
Sacriston, Co. Durham
Durham City
Bude
Kilburn
Battersea
West Norwood
Hanwell
Berkhamsted
Surrey, BC
White Rock

Stopped stalking me now have you? ;)

BristolUK Feb 12th 2010 8:45 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 

Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8336119)
Longueuil?

My sympathies.

:rofl:

What was your problem with the place?

Mizz Teapot Feb 12th 2010 8:54 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Born in South Africa (1966 - 2000)
Christiana (1966 - 1969)
Migdol (1969 - 1975)
Boksburg (1975 - 1983)
Messina (1983 - 1985)
Nylstroom (1985 -1987)
Pretoria (1987 - 1994)
Centurion (1994 - 2000)

then Canada from 2000
Peterborough (2000 - ?????????? and still here)

Partially discharged Feb 12th 2010 9:11 am

Re: Where have you lived?
 
Stockport
Disley
Sandy Hill (613)
Birch Vale
Irlam
Don Mills
Toronto (various places)
Waterloo
Brampton
Etobicoke
Outaouais Sud


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