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Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:36 am
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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
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:41 am
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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
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:45 am
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My travelling has been vast!!!!!

Newcastle upon Tyne (1981-2008)

Mississauga ON. (2008-Present)
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:53 am
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Originally Posted by Silverdragon102
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
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:54 am
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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)
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 2:55 am
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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

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Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:04 am
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West Derby (Liverpool)
Huyton
Edmonton AB
Hunts Cross (Liverpool)
Huyton
Edmonton AB
Ottawa
Fort St. John
Edmonton
Calgary
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:09 am
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Horfield
Keynsham
Brislington
Redland
Brislington
Totterdown
(all Bristol)
Longueuil
Moncton
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:16 am
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Essex> Effingham, Surrey> Caldy, Wirral> Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire>

Then

Leeds>Norwich>Quinte, Ont.

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Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:18 am
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Originally Posted by Souvy
Sloane Square (1998 'ish-2000)
OK, Yah!
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:19 am
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Horfield
Keynsham
Brislington
Redland
Brislington
Totterdown
(all Bristol)
Longueuil
Moncton
Longueuil?

My sympathies.
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:21 am
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
OK, Yah!
More OK, tabernac! It was her pad, not mine.
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:22 am
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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.
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:24 am
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Default Re: Where have you lived?

Originally Posted by purple80
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.
 
Old Feb 12th 2010 | 3:24 am
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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
 


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