Nope. Well, we were near enough to Earth, but not attached. Needed a space shuttle and everything to get between the colonies and Earth. [He leaned on the main trunk of the tree, getting comfortable on the branch he was on.]
See... there's these five... gravity wells, I guess you could call 'em, and they're in different spots around Earth and the Moon. When built properly inside the gravity well and with a few engines to maintain position, a colony will pretty much stay put there relative to Earth, the Moon, and the sun. [Gesturing here to sort of illustrate the positions, though not amazingly perfect or necessarily to scale.]
So, when I take off from, say, Singapore, I know that if I follow a certain trajectory, I can get to the same gravity spot. Luckily, the gravity spots are pretty big, and there's actually several colonies in each one. They're called LaGrange points, and the colony I grew up on is at LaGrange 2. It's on the far side of the Moon from Earth.