How Many TImes In Your Life Have You Moved To A New Home?

Canada
June 28, 2009 10:32pm CST
I have only ever moved once. I moved from the home where I was raised, to an apartment downtown. I did live in Arizona for the better part of a year, but I don't really count that as moving, because I still had the apartment at home in Canada, and 98% of my stuff was there. When my husband's job was done in AZ, we moved in here together. How many times have you moved, in your lifetime? Where do, and whhy?
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• United States
30 Jun 09
I moved the first time I was about 2 and then lived in my parents house till I was 15 after that I can not stop to count the amount of times I have had to move and start over I am 38 now and the longest i have ever stayed in one place was almost 3 years quite depressing I could write the book on moving by now soon I am trying to move into my own place with the correct luck hopefully I am done with it otherwise I may have to do at least one more move before i get to move into my home which would really suck for real but I think over time I have moved at least 40 times
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• United States
29 Jun 09
I just moved here in February. I was living in Lufkin, only to realize that i had been the victim of a real estate scam. So naturally, i had to move. There was little chance of staying there, knowing that i would never own the place that i had been paying for month after month. My sister found this land for me and i have been here ever since.
@patgalca (18174)
• Orangeville, Ontario
29 Jun 09
We moved into our family home when I was 3 years old. My mother lived there for 42 years selling it just last year. When I moved in with my first husband we moved 3 times before we got married. We lived in a total of 7 homes in our 7 years of living together. Geesh! That guy couldn't hold down a job and even got us kicked out of a few homes. Jerk! And I moved into 5 different homes since he left in 1992. Gosh, that puts me in 14 homes in 46 years. No wonder I don't want to ever move again!
@patgalca (18174)
• Orangeville, Ontario
29 Jun 09
Oops I forgot one. In between homes during my first marriage, we did move into my parents' house while we waited to move into our own home that we owned. Does that make it 15 when I already lived there before?
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Jun 09
Well, when I was younger, I moved a because of my dad's job. We still had our "base"/our home in Portugal, but we lived in many other countries. After, we kind of staying in Portugal for quite some time and then I came to Canada. Ever since I'm here - a bit over 25 years - I moved 3 times.The first from hubby's aunt house to an apartment( Oh it felt good. I love hubby's aunt to pieces, but I always had had privacy, and that was nonexistent when we were living with her ( one house. One older( hubby's aunt and uncle) couple as owners. One older couple - hubby's parents - living on the second floor. Us living in a small room on the 3rd floor. Hubby's sister, hubby's cousin, hubby's grandmother.... way too many people in one house LOL. Then from our apartment we moved here. And the rest is history LOL
29 Jun 09
7 times since 3 yrs old.
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
5 Jul 09
Are you kidding? I've moved so many times that I couldn't tell you all of where I've lived!! I'm serious!! I've lived in I know of at least 50 different places! Not kidding in the least bit. I've lived in Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, New York, and now North Carolina. However, in Texas, New York and Virginia, I've moved to several different places but we're hoping we've found our retirement home once and for all BUT, if we do move, it'll only be one more time and that'll be it and it'll have to be something that we're really looking for. A one floor house with a basement and lots and lots of land for our fur babies to roam. Till we find that place, we're staying right where we are.
@Muelitz (1592)
• Canada
5 Jul 09
I have moved twice only. The first time was when I got married and the second time was when I migrated here to Canada. I guess we have to move because we are looking for a convenient and better place to live in. Cheers
@mykunna (121)
• India
29 Jun 09
thats a wonderful discussion... till date i have moved 10 places.. including the places where i live for more than 1 year..
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
30 Jun 09
Probably 10 times to be exact and I'm glad because otherwise I would find my life very boring.
• Vietnam
30 Jun 09
I moved twice . The first one from countryside to the city and the second from a building to another one . these moving make our life more convenient and easy . As you know ,it's very difficult to drive 20km from city to countryside in bad traffic condition in vietnam
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
30 Jun 09
If I am counting right, I have lived in 18 different houses in my lifetime. I have lived in a couple of them several times. I plan to have only one more move in my lifetime though and that will be when my husband and I find or build a home that we intend to spend the rest of our lives.
@ckyera (17332)
• Philippines
30 Jun 09
hello danish... i think i have moved to new house for the third time now. the first i live in my hometown with my parents...(i move to a boarding house then where i work but that just for about two months and i still go home every weekeneds, so that's not counted) * i moved from my hometown in Laguna to another province here in the Philippines Cebu, because my husband was assigned here. the second and third are just from one town to another also here on Cebu and i think this number will still count because my husband's line of work requires constant moving coz they are always reshuffled... the longest that we stay in a certain town is 2 years and the least is 1 year... moving out is not easy with all those packing of things and so on...but i come to live on it and i think i am better now in packing our things! hehehe and its nice that i come to know new people and new friends as we moved...
@jshekhar (1562)
• India
29 Jun 09
Hello mate, We've moved to a new home quite a few times. By the time I completed my tenth grade, I had already seen 4 homes. And after that, 8 years have passed and I've seen 3 more homes, in a different city!
• Switzerland
29 Jun 09
I moved many many times. First I was in Philippines, then I moved to Malaysia but after a year, I moved to Singapore. Still i am not satisfied with my life, I entered Europe started in Germany and now ended in Switzerland. I think this will be the last. But I might be moving locally from one place to another. I am in Thun now but I will be moving next month to Basel because it is better to get more jobs in the City.
• Canada
29 Jun 09
ive moved 4 times i hate it like seriously packing and un packing is so tedious and tiring. but once your all moved in its normally happy ahhaah
@heathcliff (1415)
• United States
29 Jun 09
We are moving again next month (or maybe the month after) and this will be 14 moves. To colleges, first apartment, first house, renting, buying: we've been through alot, but we really want to stay at this next place for a LONG time. To stay in one place, sometimes it takes luck, sometimes it is just determination.
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
29 Jun 09
When moved once when I was little. Then I lived in the same house with my mom until I got married. My husband and I bought a little house and lived there for 5 yrs. Then we had saved enough money to build a brand new log home. It was wonderful! We lived there for 13 yrs and then decided that we needed a bigger home, so we ended up building this new home that we live in now. I hope to live here for the rest of my life. My husband says that eventually this house will be too big for us and we will want to downsize. We'll see what happens.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
29 Jun 09
NOt always a home, and only twice mine.. but I just did my 28th move in 32 years. Actually just shy 32 years. ALways looking for a better place to raise the kids, moved to follow better paying jobs or cause rent was raised to high, things like that were the reasons for the moves. I have the whole process down to a designated science! Hate it tho!
@koalatbs (2229)
• United States
29 Jun 09
Hi danishcanadian - About 15... so far! LoL! Born in Philadelphia and also lived in Michigan, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Norfolk & Virginia Beach, VA; San Mateo, CA; and now Midlothian, VA again. Several places in between in the same states too. It's been fun & hard at the same time through the years but it has been very interesting seeing new places & traveling. Now, my goal is to travel to other countries. Can't wait! :) Jill
@GemmaR (8517)
29 Jun 09
I have only ever moved home once when I was younger, and that was so that I would be able to get into a good public school, as my parents couldn't afford to send me to private school. I am thinking about moving house again now. I am thinking about getting a flat so that I can get myself onto the property ladder. I think that now is a really good time to be buying a property seen as the prices are so low at the moment, so that is why I am seriously considering it.
• Philippines
29 Jun 09
I moved 4 times in my life.First was when i was 3 years old when our house was still under construction we rented an apartment.When it was finished we moved in.Second was when I got married. My husband worked for coke in a plant in aprovince so i have to go with him.Third was when my husband's job was transferred to another province,again i went with him. then the last was when we returned to the city because my husband was transferred in the city.