OT: Places you might have lived...but didn't.

[monty_rhodes]

Cam's memory of getting lost between Gringley and Drakeholes put me in mind of other abortive journeys that may have influenced my life. The first was in the mid-1950s when we gained a place on the Assisted Passage Scheme to Australia. At the last moment my mother refused to leave her parents and so we gave up Melbourne for East Herringthorpe - probably a wise choice. A couple of years later, by contrast, my parents got the Angel Hotel at Bolsover. For reasons never fully explained but possibly related to a skeleton in a cupboard this also fell through at the last minute. How different things might have been if either move had come off.

[frogmiller]

My parents devorsed when I was 7 and my siblings were 8 and 5 at the time. My mother had always dreamed of going to New Zealand and her cousin who lived there said that he would sponsor her.
My father who we didn't see much of wouldn't allow us to leave and it was up to judge Pickles to decide. My dad won the case thus we all stayed in Rotherham. We still didn't see much of him as we grew up.
My mother lost out more than anyone else really. I'm quite thankfull that at 18 I found my wife and we have 2 great kids and I wouldn't change a thing.

[monty_rhodes]

A man who wouldn't change a thing is blessed indeed, Frog. How did you end up in France?

[millertop]

My parents were going to move to New Zealand when I was a nipper but for some reason it never happened

[frogmiller]

A man who wouldn't change a thing is blessed indeed, Frog. How did you end up in France?

We saw a chance to have more money in our pockets than we'd ever likely to have again. With 2 young kids (2 & 6) we sold the house and bought a motorhome. The plan was to look round the areas that we found pleasing and if we ddn't like it we'd move on.

We had an adventure, we've rebuilt and redevopped a ruin. The kids have grown up in an enviroment that we'd have never been able to afford where we were. I must say though that if we hadn't have done it we'd have been happy still with what we had.

[CTMilller]

If my parents had stayed in Germany after the war instead of coming back to Rotherham, I'd be writing this on the Hannover 96 Mad Forum and spouting bile about Eintracht Braunschweig..

[CAMiller]

On a micro scale we moved to a new council estate in 63/64 and for some reason ended up in a house about 400 yds away from where my parents were originally allocated. That shift completely changed the friends I grew up with and the play opportunities as where we lived backed onto a playing field where eventually I'd spend many hours practicing sports, especially golf which was prohibited in the local park.

On a macro scale, having worked in Perth Australia for a while in 89 my wife and I considered moving there but that marriage fell apart as did the move.

In 2001 I had a chance to move to Dallas but declined having just 2 years earlier dragged the family to California. The guy who took the job eventually became my boss and laid me off, setting in motion a series of events that see me where I am today.

[frogmiller]

If my parents had stayed in Germany after the war instead of coming back to Rotherham, I'd be writing this on the Hannover 96 Mad Forum and spouting bile about Eintracht Braunschweig..

Wow! You could have been to blame for everything

[frogmiller]

On a micro scale we moved to a new council estate in 63/64 and for some reason ended up in a house about 400 yds away from where my parents were originally allocated. That shift completely changed the friends I grew up with and the play opportunities as where we lived backed onto a playing field where eventually I'd spend many hours practicing sports, especially golf which was prohibited in the local park.

On a macro scale, having worked in Perth Australia for a while in 89 my wife and I considered moving there but that marriage fell apart as did the move.

In 2001 I had a chance to move to Dallas but declined having just 2 years earlier dragged the family to California. The guy who took the job eventually became my boss and laid me off, setting in motion a series of events that see me where I am today.

I think that there's a Micro sale on or a sale of Micro sales

[hotun]

Born Scholes,job took me to Worcestershire 22 years,back to Thorpe Hesley,never happier back in South Yorkshire.