My parents live in a different home, but we moved a lot growing up.
I would love to have a forever home, but we won't for at least a couple more years.
Do your parents still live in the house you grew up in? Are you in your forever home?
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Yes, my parents still live in the same house that they brought me home to --- 27+ years later. They bought a house to renovate this year (it's a much better fit for them - one story house, renovated to their taste, a definite downsize), but the pregnant lady in me feels pretty emotional about it. We were watching old home videos and it was so neat to watch me take me first steps in the same room we were sitting in.
I'm not sure if we are in our forever home. Since I lived in my house my entire life, I definitely told my husband when we were house shopping that I needed the house to have a long-term ability. It definitely does!
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Nope, they built a house when I was in 3rd grade and sold it and moved when I graduated from college. I'm glad they did because I don't want to live in my hometown. But I sure loved that house, especially because we were so involved in the building of it. Also, the value has more than doubled since they built it... crazy.
I asked my dad to build a dollhouse for LMW some day when he retires, and we both had the same idea... to build one that looks just like that house... haha. He's probably already looking into custom kits now that I've mentioned it.
I am dying to be in our forever home. Not yet.. but hopefully soon... very soon...
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We are in our forever home, and it was also Eric's home and his grandpa's home; so his family has lived in this house for many generations.
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No I've lived in 3 houses growing up. They are in the one we moved to when I was 11.
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No. Lived in three houses growing up. One in korea, two here. They sold our house when they moved out of state for a few years!
DH and I bought them the home they live in currently.
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My parents bought their house when I was one and they are still living in it. We are in our forever home. It needs a lot of work but we will do it all slowly.
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Yep! They've lived there for almost 30 years.
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No, we moved a lot growing up and my parents bought the rental they lived in the longest. Unfortunately, they lost the house a few years ago after the tsunami.
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I grew up in a few different homes so nope! I've moved 4 times with my family before I got married.
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No. I didn't live in one house growing up.
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No. We moved houses when I was 16. My family had been living in the old house for over 50 years.
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Yes, but they are moving in a couple weeks.
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My parents still live in the house that they bought when I was 1. We're not in our forever house yet, but I would love to be soon!
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Nope, I lived in 2 different states and 5 different houses growing up (and they bought a 6th before they divorced). We like to move
DH's parents still live in the house they brought him home to, and I wish they would move. They did not maintain the property, and it is now in very poor condition and in a really sketchy part of town. We've been pushing them to leave for years, but they are very attached to it.
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Yep! We moved there when I was 4
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Nope! I was a little sad when they sold it because they'd lived in it from before I was born through when I was in law school, but their new house is so much nicer and easier for them to manage (the old place had 5 acres to take care of and they spent every weekend dealing with the property. The new place is on a golf course with an HOA and they don't have to do any yard work).
Also now they are talking about moving to my city which will be fantastic!
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We moved to their current house when I was about 9, so yes.
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yes, my parents are still at the same house. we are not in our forever home.
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My parents are divorced but my dad still lives in the house I grew up in.
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Yes, although they have been talking about downgrading to a smaller house now that we are all out of it. They live on an acerage and it's a lot of mowing/upkeep. My sister and BIL would like to buy it but can't afford it right now, so I think they will eventually move in once they can afford it and mom and dad will move into town.
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My mom does! And I am the only one who has their room just as they left it - the other bedrooms were made into a sewing room and a guest room
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Yup. My parents bought their house when I was a month old. They'll live there until they die...and then I'll have decades of junk to go through. :\
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Yup! They will stay there until they're old and decrepit. We are in our forever home for now, unless DH changes his mind to build a new house in the future.
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Sort of. My brother and I were born in a different state from where my parents were born. We lived in one of my childhood homes from 4-10 years old. I may have the dates wrong on that, but that's the house I remembered a lot before we moved. Next weekend, I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of it when we were in my hometown for a wedding in that city.
Then, my parents moved back to where they're from when my dad was offered a job there. The house they bought when I was 10 years old is the house they're in now. It's dramatically different from when we first moved there 24 years ago since they've done a ton of renovations on it.
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We moved a ton growing up, but our last move was when I was just shy of 12, and my parents are still in that house now.
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My mom still lives there, but now that my dad is gone she will probably sell in the next five years. We moved in when I was two months old.
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My parents still live in the home we grew up in (we moved there when I was in 5th grade). The house still has my room and my brother's room just the way we left it!
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Nope, we moved about 7-8 times growing up.
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Yes! My parents bought that house when I was 2-3 and they will be there forever! And Hubs and I are living our forever home!
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My parents moved right after I (the youngest) went to college. The summer after my freshman year, I just came back to a different house with no appointed bedroom for me or my sister! We are living in our transitional house before we move to the suburbs. That will probably be in a few years and will most likely be our forever home.
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I live in the house I grew up in from age 1-14. My parents still live in the house I grew up in from 14-18 when I moved out.
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My dad moved out and moved in with his now wife, but they're remodeling and moving back in!
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they live in the house we moved to when i was 11
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Same house from birth- 14, then we moved to the house my parents still live in. They're currently building a new house. It's going to be weird when they move and I visit them at a house I never lived at!
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nope! we moved a few times growing up. my parents are currently in a house they moved to when i was in college. i love their house. i will be sad in a few years when they downsize.
we just bought our first home in the fall and i think it is our forever home...or at least we can see staying there until our kids finish school barring any major life changes.
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no, my brother and his family just moved into it last year! my parents moved into an apartment. it's pretty weird for me, but at least it's still in the family, and my brother is okay with storing some of my stuff since we're in a small apartment
we're not in our forever home at all, and will be most like moving cities in a few years.
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We lived all over and it wasn't good but not because of the moving, because my mom kept ripping our family apart.
I don't believe in or want a "forever home." I want my life to be filled with striving, moving forward, new challenges, places, adventure. Our family is our forever home if that makes sense.
(I hope I didn't make anyone barf in their mouth. I just mean that the stability of the family unit is my value and preference over an actual place.)
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My parents live in the home that we moved into when I was 8. They're not going anywhere for a while!
We don't live in a forever home, and I honestly have no idea when we'll even get to that point. My job will most likely take us to a number of different places at first, so I suspect we're probably at least 5-10 years away from being in our forever *city,* let alone our forever home
@nana87: jinx
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@Greentea: I like new things, too! I get antsy when we're in one place too long. Not to mention, there is so much junk that builds up-I need the forced purging
But I will admit, I get nostalgic for the places we've lived sometimes. We just finished completely moving out of our old apartment yesterday, and I did have a bit of a hard time leaving. But then we went to the new place, which is home now, and it made me very happy. Home is where we are 
(I hope I didn't make anyone barf in their mouth. I just mean that the stability of the family unit is my value and preference over an actual place.)
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