How many times have you moved house?

19 times good grief didn't realise it was so many my dad was in the forces and we moved a lot until i was 10 then we settled down. i have moved at least 13 times in my adult life!

I've done it 19 times too! Twice we had to move house to another in the same place. Last move I hope will be the last; I moved house whilst DH was in hospital - he went in to hospital from one house, that was starting to be ready for a move and came out from hospital to the new one which was all sorted [well almost!]

Can I claim the least

Lived in the same house from birth until I married at 21. And just the once since marriage.

Hubby and I plan to down size to somewhere with a view but at the moment we are tied to the area because of my mum.

Greatnan, I love how you live!
Having been back in the UK for 15 months now, I am really hoping that the next year will see things take a turn for the better so that I can 'cover the basics' as you say, and travel again. I am also drawn to islands

Thanks, NannaAnna. I spent today walking with my daughter and her family (well, her husband and four of her six children) at the beautiful Nelson Lakes in New Zealand. Tomorrow, we are kayaking at Abel Tasman National Park. Yes, not a bad life, all in all!

Hi there, Greatnan!

We've moved about 15 times, but that was Army life - every two years or so. We've been here for over 20 years and are now working on moving one more time, to Devon, where our daughter lives. Yippee!

I can understand how you feel, Ariadne. It is so lovely to be able to chat to my daughter, help her cook a meal, and go for walks with her. I have enjoyed the freedom of living alone but I think we will have the ideal situation when I have a little 'cottage' in their very large garden.

Sounds perfect! We want to move from this fairly urban area, and to be near the sea, but also to be near DD. In some ways it's a planned move so that we don't end up making a crisis move, but we've never lived near our DC and to meet DD say, by chance, for coffee in town, would be such a treat.

And it's all quite exciting too!

Well, my dad was in the army and tended to get called in whenever a unit got its admin in a mess. As a result we were always on the move and on my 21 birthday, just after he retired I reckoned I had had one permanent address for every year of my life.

So it goes
Childhood: lived in 21 different homes, went to 8 primary schools and 2 secondary (like most peripetetic(?) army brats I was sent to boarding school at 11)
University to marriage: 3
Marriage: 7

We lived in our last house 14 1/2 years and have been in this one 15 years to the day.

Total: 31 homes and 10 schools

DH was born in and lived in the same house throughout his childhood and went to 1 primary and 1 secondary school. They say that opposites attract!

I am in my 12th house since a child. This is our third house here in France.

Only 9 moves since birth for me but met a lovely old (older than me!) lady this week who had been married to an RAF pilot and had moved 48 times!

Well, that 30th-or-there-abouts move is upon me at last! I move tomorrow (Wednesday)
It's a funny thing. I have moved so much in my life, and always taken it in my stride. I have never really put down roots (either in places or with people).
This time however, I have really grown attached to the area in which I have been living, and have realised that if 'the big finger in the sky' had pointed at me and said "This is where you will end your days" I would have felt very happy about it.
Pragmatic as ever, I know I can't afford to live in this area at the moment, and know it's an opportunity to explore and get to know yet another town, but for the first time ever I move with a heavy heart. And it means I am now mortgage-free. Yippee!! Oh yes, I'm closer to baby grand daughter too :-)
Just a little sad that circumstances force me to leave a place I really love. I do believe that one day I will be back though - somehow, someday.

Mmmm. I've just got back from a big gathering of many friends and acquaintances from round here, (and had a or two, and realised that I will miss them when we move; we have become part of this set up. Just hope (and know, really) that we will join a similar group "down there" (Devon) but, pause for thought..in vino veritas!

NannaAnna I wish all the best for your move tomorrow I hope it all goes well and sending you (((((hugs))))) and love to you in your new home.
Keep the kettle handy for a few tomorrow.
We are still mid-move as it were, still waiting for a moving date and I am fed up of sleeping in a bed room of half packed boxes !

Was so busy having a moan I forgot to say we have only moved 3 times in nearly 39 years of being married.
We have been here now 35 years so will be a big change for us as we are moving from a big house to a bungalow

This is something I have been thinking about lately. Moved when 5 then again at 11, my Dad was in self build group, then again for parents to move to business at 15, just before I took my exams, then I went to live in London for two years, then married and lived in a caravan for 6 months then back at parents, own house for 6 years then brought a house to renovate and stayed there for 15 years. I left that home and had a spell of moves 4 in two years including sharing with a friend for a while. I have live in present home for 10 years....thats 13 ?
The hardest where the moves when young as lost out on long time friends, lucky to find some now.

Not enough! If we'd moved more often perhaps we shouldn't have accumulated so much clobber

Hope the move went well NanaAnna and that you will be happy in your new home.
Expecting to be on our way in two or three weeks' time now so also living amongst the bubblewrap - but attic almost clear! Have had 26 years in this house but I'm feeling quite detached from it now; it's a family house and it's time there were children in it again

isnt it strange! where ever we move to, we can "always" get gransnet

unless its in the deepest jungle of course and even there im sure with tech, these days we could mange it

As someone once said to me, "Bloom where you are planted". Good advice wherever you live and however often you move - or don't!

So sad we will not be moving to the bungalow we had our heart set on, its all fallen through

annika I am so sorry it is devastating when you have set your heart on a property and it all just falls down around you like a house of cards. But they do say when one door closes another one opens, you will find something which will tick all the boxes. [thanks]

keep forgetting it has changed and of course I am too impatient to preview

glass Thanks for your kind thoughts. My DD has just sent me a video of our 17th month GS running around in her local park so that has cheered me up
You are right something will turn up sooner or later, at least we have sorted through loads of rubbish that we seem to have collected over the years, so less to do next time we try to move

What a shame, Annika - so disappointing for you.