We’re all migrants of some sort. From their accent, I’d guess the family renting the house down at the bottom of our garden are northern migrants too.
That’s no great surprise, for most of us graduates migrated south for work. Indeed, most of my work colleagues are northerners. If not, then they’re Irish, or from even further afield.
I felt tempted to move back a few years ago to be closer to my parents, but then they too moved to the south-west to be closer to my sister.
We no longer have any connection to our roots. Only our accent now reveals that we’re from elsewhere.
Last modified: 17 May 2023
