My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.
My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.
My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years, and then we'd move again. That was just for my dad's work.
I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.
Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.