We moved into our house when I was 2 and my parents still live there!
We moved into our house when I was 2 and my parents still live there!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
By the time I graduated from HS I'd lived in 6 different houses and 2 states.
pomegranate / 3516 posts
When I was really little, yes. We lived in a few houses in Michigan before moving to South Carolina when I was around 3 or 4. We lived in an apartment at first and then moved into the house that my mom still lives in.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
We moved from the house I was born in when I was 6, then to another house when I was 12 and my parents still live there.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
My parents moved into their house before my older sister was born. They won't ever move.
pomegranate / 3516 posts
@Bao: I believe I mostly lived in Rochester Hills, around Detroit. I'm not super familiar with the areas up there since I was so young but my brother has lived in multiple areas around Detroit (Farmington Hills, Livonia, etc) and I have family out near Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids I believe.
My mom grew up out near Kalamazoo in a small town. From what I remember, I was born in Wyandotte.
kiwi / 629 posts
I moved 9 times by the time I graduated high school. (11 if you count the year long exchange to England that my family did when I was in grade 5)
My parents liked to build houses so we would live in a rental for a while, then move into the new house, then sell it and move into another rental while they built another house.
My parents have since moved a bunch more times, and so have I.
pomegranate / 3516 posts
@Bao: Being from Michigan, you might appreciate the weirdness in the fact that I've had a couple of people tell me they didn't know Kalamazoo was a real place (although, I think any normal person could appreciate the weirdness that people don't know that).
honeydew / 7687 posts
@BelugaBean: I partially grew up in Farmington hills!
We moved a few times and I think it helped me transition easily into college and be more independent.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
I had lived in 7 places (6 states) by the time I was a sophomore in high school. I moved away for college and then lived in 3 places before settling in my current house.
cantaloupe / 6206 posts
My parents still live in the same house they moved to when I was 2. So that would be a no.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
yes many many times. i don't want charlie and olive to have the same experience.
pear / 1664 posts
Yep. We moved from another country to the US before I was 2, across the US when I was 5, across the US again when I was 8, and across town when I was 11. After I graduated high school, my folks moved across the country again. I went to college across the country (in the opposite direction) and moved several times locally during that stretch, then moved cross-country again (but not close to my folks) for grad school (and moved 3 times locally before moving in to our house. When my husband completes his grad school, we'll likely move (across country) again..
I remember as a kid, I couldn't believe that most of my friends never lived anywhere else! And so 'weird' for them to have their grandparents or aunts/uncles in the same town. Turns out I was the weird one!
I think it made me more independent and eager for change and adventure. When people say they don't want to move to a new city because they're afraid, I never understand why - sure it's different, but hey. New experiences are.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Nope-- my parents moved into their house before my oldest sibling was born, and are still there. I've moved a few times post college but never out of the Northeast.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
We moved from a house in OKC to a duplex in the burbs then to another house that my parents still live in.
grapefruit / 4110 posts
Born in AZ, moved to FL at 4, moved to NM at 5, moved to AZ at 8, moved to CA at 9, moved to norcal at 10, moved to socal at 12, moved to norcal (different place) at 13. Stayed there until I went to college. My parents left after my brother graduated a few years ago.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
My parents moved into our house when my mom was in the hospital after my older sister was born (talk about bad timing!). They just sold that house 2 years ago and moved into their second house ever after almost 30 years.
nectarine / 2127 posts
Yes, 6 times before I was 18. Where DH and I live now is the longest I've ever been in one spot.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I lived in the same town until I was 14 and then moved an hour away.
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
Yes, too much moving. I don't want my kids to have that same experience. I want them to feel like they have roots and have the ability to maintain friendships from early childhood.
pomegranate / 3580 posts
Yes, way too much. Only one big move to another city, but there were a lot of moves within each town. I hated it (moving schools, etc.) and hope to never make my kids go through it. When I buy a house - it's going to be a forever house!
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