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29 homes my hubby was in the Air Force we moved a lot. I am 62 We also lived in Spain, Germany and England. My father also liked to move. Until I married my husband we lived in 7 homes before I turned 18.
My dad was in the AF - and my parents also liked to move (they moved and moved and moved so much that I truly didn't know where they wanted to be buried so I had them cremated). Anyway, by the time I was in the 8th grade I had attended 9 different schools - in various states. Thankfully my parents settled down long enough for me to attend ONE high school - from grades 10 through 12. It like to have killed them but they did it. (And to make matters worse, it was a pretty crappy high school!)
The last few years of their lives they moved at least five times - expecting me to help them move every time. Finally, in their last house, I went over there one day and they said, "Oh, we found the coolest house - and it's just down the street!" I looked at them like they were crazy and I said, "You do whatever you want to do, but understand it will be without my help." They didn't move - till my dad died about a year later and my mom had to move TWICE again - first into assisted living and finally into a memory care center. OMG! I was so sick and tired of looking at all their STUFF that I wanted to scream!
When my dad died, he had property in two states, three furnished houses (not including a furnished guest house), a business, and over 100 acres. And then my mom moved (rather, I moved my mom) into a small apartment, and then into a memory care center, and had to liquidate all that STUFF STUFF STUFF.
My husband will have to get me out of our current house (been here five years - the longest I think I've ever lived in one place) with a freaking crow bar!
With my parents to age 18 (that I recall) would be about 6 homes, all in one state.
After that time to now, and counting 3 different Air Force barracks in two states, I count 16. This includes 3 for the military barracks, 5 different apartments in four states, 1 rental house and 7 homes we've owned in three states.
So counting my early years, it would be 22 homes. I'm 69.
Reading through more of these replies, I didn't count living in summer tents in the Chihuahuan Desert of SE New Mexico as a grad student. As I recall we had two different campsites over the three year period so that puts my count at 24.
3 houses - parents' house from birth to college, the house we owned for the 18 years that my spouse and I lived in a different state, and the house we have now, which we've owned for 19 years.
5 apartments either after college or during the first few months after moving to a different state.
Plus dorm rooms, but I don't really consider those "homes."
I'm old, lived in 15 homes, getting ready for the final one, assisted living. Welcome to aging.
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