Yeah, my first house was 1/4 mile away, but in the same village, then my second house was 1/4 a mile away, but in the same village, and now this house, that I've lived in for... 13/14 years, is right in the middle of the village, never moved out of it, lol...
And there's lots of places I haven't been in England, it's not so strange really, there's just places I don't want to go because I don't get the fascination with them...