I've always found this an awkward question to answer, not just because I am a Yorkshireman who's lived more of his life down South than in God's Own Country, but also because it touches on much of what caused me to end up as a lawyer living in London. For me, a lot of the awkwardness stems from the fact that where I am from represents something I've been trying to escape since I was 18, when I left home to go to university. It's only relatively recently that I've come to accept that where I am from forms a large part of what makes me who I am, with the realisation that in my eagerness to escape, I turned my back on much of my past and in a sense forgot who I was.