Our First Abode
By Juliaacv
@Juliaacv (55208)
Canada
March 21, 2026 12:39pm CST
My husband and I married in the autumn of 1987.
We found an adorable little 2 bedroom home, with a detached carport and screened in porch to call home. It was in a historic neighbourhood in the city that I, at the time, worked for. It was on Buckingham Avenue actually.
We stayed there for a couple of years before moving to a home with the same basic floor plan but a finished basement and a third bedroom.
What was your first home like?
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@AmbiePam (115652)
• United States
3h
That’s such a charming house! I absolutely love it.
Well, the first home we lived in that I remember was a church parsonage. It had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. It wasn’t in a good neighborhood because the church wasn’t, and the house was right next to the church. The house itself was just fine. But it wasn’t until we moved to the home my dad’s in now that we moved somewhere that felt like a home. It is three bedrooms and two bathrooms as well. It has a backyard literally made to have a beautiful garden which Diana takes advantage of.
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
1h
Thank you.
The home had immense character inside, and we both just adored living there.
My hubby's sister and her family lived just 4 door away, we were the second house on the side street, and they were the second house on the big street beside the stop sign.
You've moved a bit by the sounds of things.
We both lived in the same home until we flew the nest and got married.
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@RasmaSandra (95573)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
53m
My family always lived in apartment and since I was born until I left the US I lived on the very same street except during my first marriage. I was born and brought home to 237 Ovington Ave and we lived on the 5th floor and changed to a bigger apartment across the hallway when I got bigger. From there we moved down the block to 267 Ovington Ave and from mom's apartment we movied to Latvia,
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
Just now
@RasmaSandra I do not think that the street address matters so much as the love that thrives within a family's home.
@RasmaSandra (95573)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
49m
@Juliaacv my parents saved their money and it was not in the cards for them to want to buy a house, My father was the editor for the Latvian newspaper and that was only a few blocks away, We all loved the neighborhood and i could walk to my schools,
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@wolfgirl569 (131479)
• Marion, Ohio
Just now
My first was a small 2 bedroom trailer. I sometimes miss it.
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
1h
This home was very small but done up very nicely.
The neighbours on that street were the absolute best.
I walked alot the summer before I had our son, and when we had him, my husband put a bunch of blue balloons out on the front door.
We were both truly amazed at the number of neighbours who walked over and gave us little baby gifts, sweaters and sleepers, some left them in the mailbox with congratulatory cards telling us that they didn't know us personally but used to see us walking around the block. Such kindness.
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@LindaOHio (217021)
• United States
1h
We rented 3 places before buying a home. The home we bought had 3 BR and 1 bath on an acre of land.
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
1h
You bought big when you did buy.
The back yard was nice and deep at this place.
But being in such the historical area of the city, our side of the street had smaller lots and the other side had larger lots and all of their homes were two or three times the size of ours and brick not sided.
@LooeyVille (48)
• United States
Just now
It was 1987 as well, a bi-level two-story home with a walk out basement and 4 bedrooms.
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@snowy22315 (204795)
• United States
2h
Cute cottage style. I lived in a townhouse with my first hubby for a time. That neighborhood was full of military people as there were two bases nearby, so people were constantly moving in and out it seems. I'll never forget when my son was little and he saw a guy walking around in fatigues he said "There goes GI Joe."
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
1h
That's hilarious, its funny what kids say and what sticks in our memory.
The inside that home had so much character, we both loved that about it.
It even had an old fashioned laundry chute to the basement.
But the neighbourhood was the in a very desirable area, it last sold a few years ago around $400,000.
@celticeagle (186946)
• Boise, Idaho
2h
It was a three bedroom older home. The neighbors were weird. The wife was awful but the husband was really nice.
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@Juliaacv (55208)
• Canada
1h
That's a great way to start out in life.
The people that moved in after we left Buckingham developed the unused space upstairs into a third bedroom and added a bedroom. We had no desire to do that work, we just loved the size of it for newlyweds it was perfect.
@DaddyEvil (170466)
• United States
3h
My first wife and I bought a three bedroom house in Mount Vernon, Missouri after we got married.
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@augusta123 (6787)
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1h
My first home was a one bedroom flat. I really didn't like it because it was a bit tight for the family. But we later move in to 2 bedroom flat which is better.
