How many homes have you lived in? Add your age and other details for perspective if you like. (bedroom, apartment)

[KathrynAragon]

I was watching a commercial recently that said that the average number of times a person moves into a new home is 11 times over a lifetime.

I decided to count up my moves and homes and I came up with 38 different homes. I am 57. I am also a former military brat/spouse and that accounts for a lot of moves.

Now that I am no longer tied to the military lifestyle, I have stayed in homes longer. Currently, I own this home and have lived here for five years with no plans to move anytime soon. Now that I am in my fifties, and own more "stuff," I find moving a lot more difficult and physically taxing, so that's part of it. Another part is that no one is TELLING me to move - LOL.

Even when I was no longer part of a military lifestyle, my career involved a lot of travel (I was a corporate trainer for many years). And I always got itchy feet and needed new work challenges regularly or I'd leave.

Another aspect of moving so often when I was a child is that I became more extroverted than I am naturally. I realize this now that I no longer "have" to move and now that I've had in person, face to face friendships that have lasted 10, 15 and even 20 years. Prior to settling into this area 25 years or so ago, we also didn't have social media so it was harder to keep up with people. I have been able to reconnect with "lost" friends over the years so that's been fun.

[Gemini1963]

I'm 55 and am now in my 11th living-place (not including college, one 6-month overseas stint, and one vacation apartment that I rented for one year and visited regularly). A few of those 11 were very short, 6 months or less, and of those short ones, two were 4-month periods of living with friends -- once in a mother-in-law apartment, and once just sharing a 2-bedroom/2-bath condo. All of those short and live-in arrangements were when I was a whole lot younger!


Thirty-eight places is a LOT!

[nobodysbusiness]

0-9 = 1
9-19 = 2
19-20 = 1
20-21 = 1
21-22 = 1
22-23 = 1
23-24 = 1
24-26 = 1
26-47 = 1
47- present = 1

11

[docwrangler]

I'm 45 and have lived in 31 homes, counting the present one. My dad was in the army, but only for 4 years and that only accounted for one move - I like to joke that we actually moved less when he was in the service.

Now that we're in a house we own and it's close to our kids' school, I think we'll stay for a while. My husband says we're never moving again, but we'll see!

[kjg1963]

I'm 55 and, if I am not forgetting anyplace, I am at 16 residences. Did most of my moving around when I was in my 20s.

[grampaTom]

I'm too lazy to do the math but since I enlisted in the Navy in 1968 I have never lived in any one house longer than 5 years and mostly it was 3 or 4.

[lauradrops]

49 and move to house #6 coming up this summer.

[kevxu]

17 and I am push eighty-one very hard.

This includes the two homes I lived in with my parents, but not college dorms nor one extended vacation.

[Tn_eddy]

Whole lot of them as a kid/young adult. Parents moved a lot, I was later in the Army.
Just 2 since I got out of the Army in 1975. Built both, current one 34 years ago....don't plan on another move.

[sas318]

Six times. I'm in my 6th home. I don't remember the first 2 homes as I was a baby and toddler.