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In this article, we analyse the changes in mobility behaviors that are taking place in periurban and rural areas. To this end, we propose the notion of the mobility trajectory as a way to study, from a qualitative, individual and longitudinal perspective, changes in the practice of day-to-day mobilities during the lives of individuals by re-situating them within the long duration of biographical trajectories and the different socialization processes that take place in them. We explore in particular the interactions between the mobility trajectory of individuals and a particular instance of socialization: the residential space. Drawing on some 60 interviews, we highlight the role of socialization to mobility associated with childhood residential history, the effects of changes of residents on the acquisition of new dispositions or the processes of appropriation of local mobility options, which bring in to play a wide spectrum of factors. The trajectories also reveal a feedback effect when the negative experience associated with mobility practices influences the residential trajectory and triggers a move to an area with better mobility provision.