Why we live where we do

I grew up in the welsh valleys, in a little estate a stones throw away from a small mining village. A tight community where everyone knows who you are and bringing over some spare mushrooms, apple pie or a pheasant is the norm and having a chat to everyone you pass in the street the done thing.
I couldnt wait to escape not realising how lucky I was to grow up in such a lovely place.
I moved to Manchester to go to college. Absolutely loved the buzz there and shared several houses with my friends. Textile/ fashion/graphic designers. Rented places that were walking distance into town, also student areas around fallowfield and Salford quays just as it started to get swanky. Lots of students worked in the Odeon but I loved pulling a pint of Bodies!
I eventually got a job in Sale as a kidswear designer and moved back to Fallowfield with a group of designers that all worked in the same place and stayed there for nearly 3 years.
One Christmas I went home and on Christmas eve went out to the local pub on top of a mountain. I drove up and on the way up we came across two lads walking and my Mam offered them a lift. I ended up marrying one of them and as he hated our 6 month stint of living in land locked Macclesfield we went to fuerteventura for 3 months to learn to windsurf .
When we got back I had missed the working life and I moved to London. OH came with me and we rented in Brixton with some friends, then Wembley and then bought a flat in Maida Vale.
After a few years I got pregnant with twins. When they were born I did freelance with the odd day in the office but as they started to grow moving was a must.
We looked in London and actually put on offer on a house but at the last minute decided it was no place for bringing up kids.
OH still needed work ( London or Bristol) - so we looked along the M4 corridor, I knew Bath well and we eventually found somewhere 10miles out that was close to a train station and also the M4.
We have been here 25 years, its not friendly like wales or Manchester but I love the house and garden. It has been a family home.
My boys have finally put an offer on a house of their own. To get onto the property ladder they will buy together OMG! Anyway, it may be the nudge we need to move. OH wants to live by the sea, the house is to big for us on our own. I will miss the garden. The decision hasnt been made yet, maybe we stay for a few more years but it's definitely something we need to consider.
Thats it - my life story