Where was the best place you lived?

[Rick Y]

My fondest place is in southern Oregon. This was in the early fifties and my father owned a mine for chrome ore. It was out in the wilderness, accessible only by large trucks and they had to be able to ford a river and multiple creeks. We lived in a tent, our folks, two brothers and I, on the side of the river. The swimming was great and the rest of the time we could play with the local wildlife such as rattlesnakes and scorpions. It was really a boy's fantasy world. Mom home-schooled us and we were there for nearly three years until the market for the ore dried up. We were fortunate in that we had just sold our last load of ore just before the price plummeted.

[Peter Crowe]

I have lived various places and it is difficult to say which was the best:

Dowanhill, City of Glasgow, Scotland from November 1966 to April 1967 (parents temporary flat)*
Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland from November 1966 to April 1967 (grandparents home)* then my parents first house from 1967 to 1983
Commonside near Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland from 1983 to 1991
Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland from 1991 to 1996/98*
Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland from 1996 to 1998*
Maryhill, City of Glasgow, Scotland from 1998 to 2003
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA from 2003 to 2004
Lynn, Massachusetts, USA from 2004 to the present

* denotes living between two homes due to transitions in life.

My fondest memories are of my childhood and teenage years in Uddingston but that was because of the community and relationships I had there at the time. Having briefly returned to live there some years later for University term time I realised you can never go back to a community (after an absence of 13 years) and expect it to be like it was when you lived there previously.