UK people - where are you located?

apologies if this thread already exists or if it belongs on ILE but i thought it'd probably be alright here.

me and my partner just moved back to birmingham from reading. i've found myself dislocated from a lot of my friends after moving around the country for the last few years and i'm keen to meet some new people, and since music's just about my favourite thing to talk about i thought it'd be worth asking here. i also just thought it'd be interesting to find out where some of you guys are.

:)

I used to be a bit of a nomad in my younger days I went from Huddersfield>Sheffield>Plumstead>Woolwich>Manchester>...then finally Dewsbury aka the Detroit of The Heavy Woollen District.

I'm Liverpool -> Herefordshire -> Worcester-> Southampton (-> Czech Republic) -> Brighton (->Czech Republic ->China) -> Catford (->China) ->Ely ->Now Cambridge, but working in London

I’m also in Cambridge and have been for 4 decades, excepting 5 years in Brighton & a year or so in querétaro (but I was a baby then); will probably still be here when I die. Hell I’m in the fitzwilliam museum right now

the edge of the cotswolds near stroud.

been in birmingham for five years, after 20 in london.

London (Sidcup, New Cross, Palmers Green, Fulham, Acton) > Glasgow (Dennistoun, Braehead)

Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Not far from Bath/Bristol.

east london

Back in my home town of Nottingham. Lived in Brighton for almost a decade and can say that the Brighton & surrounding area ilx0rs are the greatest.

Birmingham's great for gigs and music stuff but I guess as you said "moved back" then you already know that.

born and raised in shropshire, not the marches but maybe the marches of the marches

40(!) years in hackney

and now updates from here: ambushed by unexpected friendliness (plymouth diary)

London (until I was 2) > Oxfordshire > Bristol (for uni) > Manchester > London for c. 25yrs and counting

London

Doncaster > North Notts > Loughton > Nottingham > Berlin > Nottingham > village between Ashbourne and Bakewell > Knaresborough

London (18 years)
Bristol (3 years, for uni)
Oxford (30 years)

Leicester->Oxford->SE London

Glasgow > Glasgow > still Glasgow

N Ayrshire > Finchley > Highgate > Marylebone > Highgate > Muswell Hill > Soho > Northolt > Pinner > S Norfolk/Brecklands

Paisley (West End > Gallowhill) > Glasgow (Langside > Pollokshields > Kelvinbridge) > London (Haringey > Tufnell Park > Holloway)

naked doxxing attempt. you think I'll tell you all where in south Camberwell I'm located?

same street in a village in sussex my entire life, moved 34 houses down the road when I was 4.

Syston til 4, Birstall til 22, west end of Leicester, Newfoundpool (all Leicester), then to Nottingham at 28, first Carrington/Mapperley Park area, then Lenton, then Sneinton. Then to Brighton at 33, initially city centre, then Hanover, then Montpelier, then Preston Park, then Brunswick area of Hove, now in Aldrington/Poet's Corner area of Hove at 48.

dammit craigo if we're doing precise Leicester origins I was Glenfield till 5, Humberstone - dead on the A47 - after that. School near Syston.

https://municipaldreams.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/orton-home-fayrhurst-road.jpg?w=768

I was just thinking does Joe Orton have a blue plaque in Leicester and found this, it's awkwardly placed on a bungalow that was built over the site of the Saffron estate council house he grew up in.

Reminds me that Joe Meek's plaque, which is 5 minutes away from where I live, was covered up by an estate agent's sign for years, it might still be. Also Orton & Halliwell's gaff is a short bus journey away.

yeah I visited that sometime in the mid 90's, probably after watching Prick Up Your Ears for the nth time.

... and Kenneth Williams' dad's barber shop, which Kenny lived above, is 5 minutes from where I work. Connections, connections...

my nearest one is 18th century priest and scientific dabbler Revd John Michell "he experimented on magnetism and astronomy, also making a torsion balance to weigh the world" !

But the true “father” of the black hole concept was a humble 18th century English rector named John Michell–a man so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later.

Oxford for life! (apart from 3 years at University in Aberystwyth)

Uranus

Going through a bit of a cold spell there just now I hear, it's lasted 4.5 billion years so far but fingers crossed things might brighten up.

Middlesex (I'm fighting the Surrey stain) and Hampshire. Have also lived in Australia, Switzerland and Finland.

Side q: how long does one have to have lived in a place for it to be considered part of yer narrative? Or does it involve, say, paying for lodgings, or having a job while you were there?

Bristol, used to live in North Hertfordshire.

mark e - we never met up! I'm very conscious of this. I'm actually putting on a night in Stroud in mid-January if it interests you at all