• Question: Where do you originate from?

    Asked by case1raw on 13 Mar 2024. This question was also asked by them1rev.
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      Martin McCoustra answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I’m from a little village in Central Scotland called Carronshore. Just outside a town called Falkirk. Carronshore was the port for the Carron Ironworks Company… one of the places where the industrial revolution began in Scotland in the 1700s.

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      Ashleigh Johnstone answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I grew up on the Isle of Man! 🇮🇲
      I’ve been based in Wales for over 10 years now though 😊

    • Photo: Lauren Graham

      Lauren Graham answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I am originally from Canada! I grew up in a city near the Rocky Mountains in Alberta. I have lived in England now for about 6 years.

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      Zoe Vance answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I’m from Ireland originally! Born in a place called Monaghan near the border with Northern Ireland, lived in Dublin for almost 9 years after moving for college and then moved to Edinburgh October 2022.

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      Eileen Xu answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in Birmingham and Glasgow mostly – my family is from China though so I spent some time there too.

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      Ryan Durnall answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      A lovely town called Shrewsbury. I left when I was 19 to join the air force. Now I work in Lincolnshire during the week but these days I call Newcastle my home as that’s where I live with my girlfriend.

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      Amy Stockwell answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in Brighton. But 20 years ago I moved to a small town near Oxford for my job.

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      Christie Waddington answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I was actually born in the US, but Im really British as have lived here since I was 2. I went to school in Kent, but moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne for University and loved it so much I stayed!

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      Caroline Roche answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I am originally from Ireland, but moved to the UK when I graduated to work in the nuclear industry.

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      Ravindu Ranaweera answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I am originally from a small town called Kandy in Sri Lanka. I schooled in 2 countries and then came to UK for my higher education.

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      Jen Antrobus answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in Manchester, England. I moved to Leicester for my undergraduate degree, and moved back to Manchester after that, where I still live.

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      Mark Ridgill answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      Doncaster in South Yorks

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      Erin Pallott answered on 13 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in a village near Ripon, North Yorkshire. Lived in several other places during my school years, primarily Cornwall.

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      Priscilla Tng answered on 14 Mar 2024:


      I am originally from Singapore. It is a little island in the tropics.

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      Kirsty Ross answered on 14 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in Havant, near Portsmouth on the south coast of England. I moved to Scotland in 2001 and never went back! I now consider myself Scottish, having lived here longer than in England 🙂

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      Alexander De Bruin answered on 14 Mar 2024:


      I’m from a small village in East Sussex, then went to secondary school in Kent. I now live near Reading

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      Michael Schubert answered on 14 Mar 2024:


      I was born in Canada, but I grew up all over. I’ve lived in Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, France, and the United States, and I’ve spent time in a lot more places than that! Right now, I live in Canada again (and it’s winter here, so it’s very cold and snowy!).

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      Blair Johnston answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I was born in Kent but moved up to Fife in Scotland when I was 5

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      Sharron Kenny answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      i am originally from a little mining village near the sea in the north east of england. i havent moved very far as i work nearby on Teesside and live in Tyneside on the weekends near Hexham.

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      Marianne Morris answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in a tiny village roughly half way between Bristol and Bath.
      My mum is Scottish and my dad is from Yorkshire so we spent all our school holidays travelling up and down the country to see family.

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      Festus Ejikemeuwa answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I grew up in Nigeria. I completed my primary, secondary and university education back in Nigeria before moving to the UK. I completed my higher degree here in the UK.

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      Isabelle Luk Hang answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I’m from Mauritius Island and relocated to London 5 years ago.

    • Photo: Carlos Rivera

      Carlos Rivera answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I am from Puerto Rico, a beautiful Spanish-speaking Caribbean Island 🥰 that’s a colony of the US 👎🏽.

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      Srujani Kolli answered on 15 Mar 2024:


      I was born and brought up in India. I studied there and came to UK when I was 22.

    • Photo: Richard Caines

      Richard Caines answered on 18 Mar 2024:


      I was born in Dagenham, East London.

    • Photo: Pam Harrison

      Pam Harrison answered on 19 Mar 2024:


      I’m from Greater Manchester

    • Photo: Katie Spencer

      Katie Spencer answered on 20 Mar 2024:


      I’m from a small town just outside Birmingham in the West Midlands, UK. I’m not based between Essex and Kent 🙂

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      Hayley Pincott answered on 22 Mar 2024:


      I was born in Bangor and lived in Caernarfon when I was little, I was a Welsh speaker and went to a Welsh medium primary school. I then moved to Gloucestershire and had to get used to an English speaking school. I’m now back in Wales but live in Cardiff, I moved back about 20 years ago for work.

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