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  • I am from everywhere.
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    well just fuck off back there then you boring tool

  • Pluton > Jupiter > Mars

    planning to move on Earth soon but not sure yet.... quite afraid!

  • York Way > Chalk Farm > Russell Square > Angel > Russell Square

  • How can people who've lived in so many places even remember them all?

    Mine: Mannheim, Mainz, Tübingen (all Germany), London SW10, NW3, E14, E5.

  • Exeter, Liverpool, Paris, Liverpool, SW20, SW1, Paris. Very tame compared to some of you crazy kids.

  • That's an impressive list Andy. But what has been the continued attraction of Dundee?

    A quote from The Sunday Times in 1993, "Dundee looks like it was built by Stalin".

  • That's an impressive list Andy. But what has been the continued attraction of Dundee?

    I'd say it's had a bit of a bungee effect on Andy.

  • Im moving to glamorous Streatham Hill - can't wait!

    Anyone know of good spots i should hit - let me know

  • born in algeria , live and married in england

  • Mine: Mannheim(..)

    By the way, I've read somewhere that in Mannheim there's a scheme similar to the car scrappage in the UK - you get money towards a new bike if you give up your old one.

    I'm not really sure it's as eco friendly as advertised. Do you know anything more?

  • who actually cares?

    I'm from my mother.

  • Im moving to glamorous Streatham Hill - can't wait!

    Anyone know of good spots i should hit - let me know

    No recommendations, but think yourself lucky - when you fall asleep on the night bus (a favourite past time of mine), you'll at least wake up at the end of the line which, in your case (not mine) is home - win.
    Other than that you'll want to be hanging down the hill - in Brixtonia.

  • How can people who've lived in so many places even remember them all?

    Just a good memory.

    When I was applying for work with the FCO I had to fill in a vetting form that listed all of my addresses for ten years. Having been somewhat nomadic for a while I had a lot of addresses to write down. One of the people overseeing the process commented that there were a lot of addresses on my application form and asked if I was sure that they were all accurate including postcodes. I just responded "I don't think you'll find any mistakes here". He then asked why I had moved house so often and I ran through the list giving a brief reason for my move. He just said "oh right, you know that all makes sense, thanks".

    Didn't get the job though.

  • Me Julie:

    Brunei>Eastbourne>SE1>SE4>SE14>SE8

    Where in Brunei? I was born in Seria ...

    Brunei > Sarawak > Aberdeen > Stonehaven > Gabon > Hertfordshire > Nottingham > Devizes > Glasgow > St Albans > London ...

  • aveiro (portugal) > brussels > aveiro > lisbon > aveiro > barcelona > aveiro/lisbon

  • A very scattered childhood?

  • ormskirk > burscough > hong kong > singapore > bangkok > st helens > manchester > salford > manchester > crawley > paris

    unsurprisingly st helens was a low point

  • Fazakerley

    You lived in Fazakerley? I used to teach there, fun place!

  • I was born in dear Uncle Willy's country seat in Shropshire, and brought up by Nanny. Oh Nanny, how fondly do I remember thee! All those long perambulations round the estate, the games of cup and ball by the south pergola, the summers spent escaping the scarily amorous attentions of Great Aunt Matilda. At the age of 11 I was packed off to Eton, where I excelled at the house sports of Fives and holding toast between by buttocks for the senior boys. Eventually I was elected to Pop, which gave me the right to wear a brightly coloured waistcoat and to have my own toast-fags at my beck and call.

    After that it was three uneventful years at Oxford reading Greats and falling out of punts, before joining the Foreign Office and being sent off aboard a rickety Handley-Page flying boat to Poona to quell a small rebellion which had risen up amongst some of the bolder elephants. After the independence of India I toured the empire, shooting both the natives and the indigenous endangered species, and amassing an impressive collection of hunting trophies. Well, not all impressive; there is one Zebra's head in a big cheesy grin. I think he believed I was taking his picture.

    Eventually, as doubtlessly happens for everyone, I inherited the titles, money and houses and set about my new responsibility with gusto, sitting in the House of Lords purely to claim the expenses, shooting the local wildlife, and the odd visitor (it was a while before I realised the country house was open to the public at the weekends).

    Nowadays I sit alone at East Drinks and complain about riding up hills.

  • Born in Italy but just moved to Turku, Finland...

  • Born in Oxford England, but both parents from the Netherlands. Moved back to NL (The Hague) when I was 6 then when I was 16 to Spain (Barcelona) 19 back to NL to go to University (as is seriously so much cheaper than in the UK and the gov helps by giving you money every month to live which you only have to pay back if you don't finish the course) after Uni to France (Paris were I worked for a while) and since a few months after many many years abroad back to the UK (London).

    UK has changed allot since I left! But its good to be back all though Health & Safety is just nuts here!?!

  • Wagga Wagga>Oswestrey>Sydney>Newcastle AU>Sydney>Newcastle>N6>WC1>W12>NW10
    I miss Wagga

  • Bumfuck Idaho

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