Having researched my family I think people moved around more than I thought they would. Some lived all their life in the same street others moved to the otherside of the world.
I have families of miners who moved from Dudley and Walsall areas to Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border then onto parts of Yorkshire and into Durham and Stockton areas.
One family (head an engineer) went to Barrow in Furness, leaving older sons there, moved to Leeds then Middlesbrough, where his wife died. He then returned to Dudley with his 2 daughters, in their late teens, leaving some children in Middlesbrough although one son went back from there to Barrow.
Many of my ancestors moved into the Black Country late 1700s early 1800s but mostly from adjoining counties, changing from agriculture to heavy industry. Have lots of miners and puddlers then the engineering jobs start. Lots of nail and chain makers plus leather workers also.
Servants for the very rich would move about as there might be several homes. Service men and their families moved about. I was surprised how many ancestors emigrated throughout Victorian times.
Moving from Scotland to the south coast and back again, although taking a long time to us, would be a probability I would say.