Britons live an average of 100 miles from where they were born, with many moving for a job or better quality of life, new research has revealed.
From Somerset, a radius of 100 miles (as crow flies) covers most parts of Kent and Wales. It includes London and takes you as far as Liverpool and Cambridge.
Scotland and Wales are among the top places people move away from, while London is the leading city for "internal migrants".
The capital also has one of the highest numbers of people moving away, highlighting the transient nature of its population, said family history site Ancestry. Its survey of 2,000 adults showed a huge shift in people prepared to leave their home area compared with 25 years ago.
The generation of our grandparents lived just five miles from where they were born and often stayed in the same town or village or moved to a neighbouring one.
Now people leave their home town for university and often stay in their university area for a few years after graduation.
From those who leave home - that is about half of Britain's population - more than two-thirds of those who move say they will not return. Most of those who stay say they want to be close to their family.
SOURCE: Somerset Live
