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06-23-2008, 01:10 AM
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Location: Upstate NY native, now living in Houston
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Originally Posted by suzie02
I eventually kind of feel settled. Now I don't really decorate. I do buy a piece of furniture here and there. My dh does hate doing blinds since we always buy new. No the job is not what keeps us moving. Only once it has been a job transfer. Just that things happen and we want to move.
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ah, ok. Good luck to you in your latest move!! |
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06-23-2008, 02:43 AM
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Location: Bradenton, Florida
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In the past two years, I moved into one trailer, and the landlords have moved us from that one, to another one, to this one.
This one has a termite problem, which MAY have fixed itself --at least as far as the swarming goes...but won't the same thing happen NEXT year? Really don't feel like moving again, since we always make some sort of improvement to the places we've lived.
For example, this one we repainted one room...because not only was it hot pink, it had some cuss words written on the walls with marker...and ripped up the carpet to put down tile...the carpet was stained and nasty. Spent $60 on the tile.
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06-25-2008, 11:53 PM
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Location: San Jose, CA
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I had an apartment fire last year, so I spent a grand total of 27 days living in an in-law studio in San Francisco. That experience was enough to turn me off from ever living in that city again, and I have absolutely no desire to return.
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06-26-2008, 03:02 AM
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Shortest: 2 days. The place turned out to have a common interior wall with another long term tenant whose many dogs pee'ed along the wall. The stench was overpowering with the windows closed up. I'd looked at the place during the daytime when the manager had opened it up to air it out and moved in with the place wide open. Fortunately, this was back in the days when everything I owned fit into my car in two trips ... and I located another apartment immediately. Cancelled my check to the landlord and left them a note on the mantlepiece as to why I'd left ... never heard back from them again. A shame, really ... it was a very nice 1880's Denver "square" house with beautiful woodwork, large rooms, a super kitchen, offstreet parking, and my own enclosed back porch with access to the backyard; all for the princely sum of $45/month in Capitol Hill, minutes away from my job at 9th/SantaFe Drive.
Longest: 16 years for a primary residence, 30 years for a second home in a mountain resort town.
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06-26-2008, 06:36 PM
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Location: Big Sky
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I might have you all beat lol. I get bored in one place plus my first husband was a real doozy  lol
1988-1991 13 dif apartments in WA state (I know...WOW huh?  )
1991-1993 3 dif houses/duplex in OR state
1993- Nov of 1995 3 dif Houses in MT
Nov of 1995 to March of 96 1 apt in WA state again
1996 (March) -1999 2 apts, 2 houses and a mobile home in MT again
1999-2000 1 apartment in TX
2000-2003 1 apartment & 1 mobile home in Idaho
2003-2007 1 house in MT for the 3rd try lol
2007-Present 1 house in AZ
I may very well have forgotten a few, lol but I think that paints a pretty accurate picture. At the point it slowed down considerably compared to the beginning was when I got married for the second time...but we still seem to move frequently.  |
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07-04-2008, 04:02 AM
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Location: Plano, TX
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Wow She_Dvl,
That is really unreal how much you have moved?! 
I think you are the winner here with numbers of moves, etc... |
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07-06-2008, 08:10 AM
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Wow I never realized so many moved so much. I hate moving but, on some level like it. As a kid moved a lot due to my father and mother
63-72 AZ
72-74 CA
74-75 CA CO
75-81 NH
81-86 MS
86-05 MS
05- Now NY
getting ready to move back to MS home from katrina back in order finally.
Really do not want to go but, cannot get rid of home, once down if I am able to market probably move back to NY or who knows where else.
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07-06-2008, 01:04 PM
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Longest is growing up in Mississippi 1975-1993
As far as own my own, longest would be the almost 13 years i've been here in Dallas.
My shortest span has been in California at 2 months and Kentucky at 3 months.
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07-06-2008, 06:05 PM
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Location: Arvada, CO
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From birth to present
Nov 1983-Apr 1985 Apt in Anaheim, CA
Apr 1985-Mar 1986 House in Santa Ana, CA
Mar 1986-Oct 1996 House in Corona, CA
Oct 1996-Nov 2003 Apt in Riverside, CA
Nov 2003-May 2004 Apt in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
May 2004-May 2007 House in Ridgecrest, CA
June 2007-Mar 2008 Apt in Aurora, CO
Mar 2008-present House in Aurora, CO
Note: Summers from 1989-1999 at Grandma's House in Everett, WA
Not very impressive after seeing some of the other posters' experiences. I guess that's pretty stable huh?
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07-24-2008, 12:50 PM
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Location: Illinois
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I once moved six times in ONE YEAR. Jan 1986 to Jan 1987
Move #1: Parents house in IL to a house in WI
Move #2: House to 2br apt
Move #3: apt to mobile home
Move #4: MH to apt
Move #5: apt to apt in another town
Move #6: apt to grandmother's in IL
I was 20 years old.
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