Where are the British people here?

Just curious about regional distribution.

[graeme_p]

There seem to be a fair number of British posters here (as far as I can see, more posts than anyone other than Americans).

I am curious about where people are. All in a few hotspots or scattered around?

I am in the North West of England - just outside Northwich, Cheshire.

[brotherhood of LAN]

I'm in Galashiels, Scottish Borders. Pretty small place of 15K people. I managed to get introduced to this place from another member who also lived in Galashiels, ciml. He was moderator of the Google forum for a good while 'back in the day'

[ronin]

When I joined WebmasterWorld in 2003 (several lifetimes ago!) I lived in Finsbury Park (the sixth part of London I'd lived in after Acton, Isle of Dogs, Kilburn, Stratford and East Finchley). I moved to Islington, Holloway and finally Canonbury before leaving London for Leeds in 2009.

Then moved again from Leeds to Huddersfield in 2014. Absolutely delightful place. Back when I lived in London, I'd never even heard of it.

I grew up in the New Forest (Hampshire), Exmoor (West Somerset) and Bristol before going to university in Sheffield. As an adult, I've lived and studied or worked (or both) in France, Russia, German, Japan, Turkey and Cyprus. My family are from South Yorkshire, Scotland, South Wales, London and Kent.

As you might imagine, I'm often at a loss where people ask: "Where are you from?"

[blend27]

@ronin
Where in Russia?

[ronin]

Where in Russia?

Voronezh.

[lucy24]

Where are the British people here?

The answer would seem to be: All over the world :) When I first read this site, graeme for example was in Sri Lanka. (And then came the long discussions about moving back to the UK. As I remember it, you were torn between England and Wales, and finally compromised on Cheshire.)

[blend27]

Voronezh...

Don't forget the third Saturday of September.

Been there in 89, some left over relatives still thrive!
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On a subject, We did the DNA thingy, apparently someone named Smith(Mr.) was a part of it that immigrated from London to Poland(not know from where though) to US, then back to London, then it is moot on a Great Great Grand Ma's side.... maybe too much info but there we were...

[Mark_A]

Started in Dorset, then Northampton, 6 months in Australia, then Huddersfield, Redditch, Wales, Germany, Wales again, a while in Essex/Herts, then Farnborough and now in the South West.

I figure a moving target is harder to hit :-/

[graeme_p]

@lucy24, we were torn between a whole lot of places! We eventually decided based on a mixture of livings costs and where our friends were. About 10% of British citizens live abroad (one of the places I lived in Sri Lanka was very popular with them) so its not surprising to see it reflected here.

@ronin, "where you are from" is even better for me. My mother's ancestors are from India (Kerala), my father's mostly Dutch and Portuguese with a few other things thrown in (I have a Scottish great grandmother, for example). I was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Wimbledon, have lived in London (Camden, Covent Garden, and the Barbican, and Bloomsbury as a student), Manchester and two towns/cities in Sri Lanka as an adult, and now live in Cheshire. We might move down south again next year.