How many homes have you had?

[aclivity]

In a conversation with a colleague last week, he expressed a bit of surprise that I had moved house so many times - he lived in the same street that he grew up in, a few doors from his parents, with no intention (or so I understand it) to move. The conversation went on and a few more people got involved, and most had (apart from university) lived in 2 or 3 places in their life.

How many is average though?

If you discount university / short term accomodation / periods of sofa surfing, how many homes have you had?

I have had 12 proper homes, at the age of nearly 42 that gives me an average of 3.5 years per home. I'm not planning on moving again, though, until the kids have left home and I have retired, so hopefully that average will go up a bit!

[anonymous-user]

6

[kmc1]

1 - bought 16 years ago



although the wife is finally starting to get itchy feet

[Lastinclass]

2 houses with my parents when I was a kid.

1st flat, half a mile from my folks in same town.
Rented 3 bed 500 miles from town I grew up in.
Bought 3 bed same location
Rented 2 bed 150 miles from town I grew up in
Bought 3 bed same location
Bought 4 bed back in town I grew up in

All in the space of 18 years since I bought my flat.

[pmanson]

1. Parents home - 18+ years
2. Uni houses - 3 in a 3 year period
3. 1st rental house (15 months)
4. 1st house (3 years, 8 months and still counting)

I'm 28.

[KaraK]

Discounting university I've had 4 so in 29 years that's 7.25 years per home, if you include uni then its 10.

[turbolucie]

About 10 so far - and that was as a kid. Only been in two houses so far that I've paid for myself, and I can imagine it being 15+ before I settle down. I love moving around though.

[NiceCupOfTea]

4 with my folks, 3 at University, 2 at College, 4 renters after that, then 2 bought since that.

ETA: Oh, I am 83.

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Monday 24th January 17:05

[North West Tom]

We've moved house once, and it was just two streets away.

[toxgobbler]

On my second in 10 years.

[Speed addicted]

5 houses with my folks.
Left home at 18 and had 2 rented flats, then bought 1 flat then two houses.

So 10 at 33.

I can't imagine staying somewhere for all of my life. The list above doesn't even include my time training or working abroad.

[Cyder]

Excluding Uni where I lived in 4 different places.

2, one with the parents and the current with 'er indoors.

[Cock Womble 7]

1. Kensington Avenue, Watford (parents)
2. Sheriff Way, Watford (parents)
3. Lemonfield Drive, Watford (parents)
4. RAF Swinderby, LIncs
5. RAF Newton, Notts
6. RAF Honington, Bury St. Edmunds
7. RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh
8. A rented cottage in Nairn
9. Back to the parent's place when I left the RAF
10. Rented a maisonette in Hemel with Jacqui
11. Left Jacqui and shacked up with Nadine in a shared house in Hemel
12. Moved into another shared house in Hemel with three other blokes
13. Met the subsequent first wife and bought a maisonette in Tring
14. We bought a proper house in Aylesbury
15. Divorced the first wife and moved into the spare room of a mate in Aylesbury
16. Moved into a bed-sit in Aylesbury
17. Met the subsequent second wife and move to a pub in Newport, South Wales
18. Split up with the second wife and moved into the spare room of a mate in Newport
19. Ran a pub with the ex for 6 months, sleeping on the floor of a couple of the pub's regulars - Fishponds, Bristol
20. Left the pub game and moved to a flat in the ex's home town of Northampton (this flat)
21. The ex and I buy a house together
22. We split up because I'm a dick and I move out to a mate's spare room
23. She moves out of the house, back to this flat and I move back in to the house until it's sold
24. The house gets sold, so I (temporarily) move in with the ex in this flat
25. The ex buys herself a house, I move into a posh apartment
26. The posh apartment is crippling me, financially, this flat becomes vacant again, I move back in and have been here ever since.


Definitely some Gypsy blood in me.

Edited by Cock Womble 7 on Monday 24th January 17:35

Edited by Cock Womble 7 on Monday 24th January 18:13

[digger_R]

At least twelve all rented, spread over five countries in the last eight years.

Shortest stay of four months, longest was 2.5 yrs.

[aclivity]

Interesting to see that a few posters have moved around with parents - that was how the conversation came up. I was talking about never really having had a home growing up, or rather, didn't have a place that I would consider as my home town, as I had lived in the north west, London and Glasgow before I was 14 years old.

It's this that has made me want to stay in one place until the children have left home, I went to 3 different primary schools and 2 secondary schools so I don't have any "old school friends", and I would rather my children to stay in the same schools and with their friends.

[Republik]

2, I love the house I'm in but I'm desperate to relocate.

[okgo]

about 6.

[Speedracer329]

I am up to 16 now, & just planning on moving in the spring!

[mattmurdock]

Only 1 house with my parents until 18, then a uni house, then moved in with my future wife and went through 4 different rental properties over 5 years, followed by 2 house purchases. Don't think we will move from the latest purchase for some time as we really like the area.

So that is 8 all told, or 9 if you count the motorhome we lived in for 6 months in the States...

[robbieduncan]

5 since birth (including 4 years at Uni). I'm 32. I hate moving.