Where are we all from?

II'm amazed at how many people here say English isn't thier first language and presumably thier heritage isn't either. How fascinating, in my stunning and vast ignorance I'd assumed that most people here would be from the UK, how international are we as a group of users? By the way I think multinationalism and multiculturalism are great, so I'm not trying to make anyone uncomfortable or unwelcome.

I'm English and have the usual English problems with language, I can be dyslexic in as many languages as you want to try me with, including English. I recently had my DNA tested with an ancestry site as I was researching my family history and found that I'm 84% southern English, which is apparently quite rare, most British people are a mix of Saxon, Irish and Scandi genes, so it looks like my families have been knocking about the place for hundreds of years.

Parents
  • Hi, I’m living in South Lincolnshire, UK although I’m originally from Buckinghamshire. 

    My ancestry is mixed. Scottish, Southern English, Scandinavian and my maternal grandfather was American.

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  • Hi, I’m living in South Lincolnshire, UK although I’m originally from Buckinghamshire. 

    My ancestry is mixed. Scottish, Southern English, Scandinavian and my maternal grandfather was American.

Children
  • Where did you live in Bucks? I've lived in Aylesbury most of my life and seen so many changes - mostly not positive! 
    My wife and I keep talking about moving away and Lincs was one area as she has family there, but I think that it is too remote....and too flat!
    I know people who have moved from the Home Counties to Lincs and absolutely love it.