How many times have you moved house?

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 !

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!

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.

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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!]

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!

From being born, we lived with my maternal grandma, as my father had been killed 6 months earlier. Then when I was 3 my mother remarried and we lived in my stepfathers house. Aged nearly 13, I ran off to my paternal grandma in Lancashire, and lived there till I married, aged 20. Then we lived a few doors away from my grandma for 2 and a half years, then moved to the next town into a brand new house, where we lived for nearly 12 years, before moving across the country to Lincolnshire, where we still are, but have had several addresses whilst here. Firstly, we lived, all 7 of us and a cat, in a 12` touring caravan on a campsite for 15 months, then a council house 9 miles out or town for just over 3 years, then after our car was written off by an idiot, we lived with some friends in town until we got another council house just 4 miles from town and on a bus route. We lived there for just over 3 years till we bought our present house, in town, where we`ve been for just over 26 years now. So I make that 10 addresses I`ve had in my lifetime.

Lived in the same house from birth until I married at 22 and have had six moves since then. This last move should have been a down-size - didn't happen .......next time for definite....

I was born under a wandering star. So far, I have lived in Salford, Bolton, Preston, Surrey, North Wales, the Wirral, Chester, Monaco, Maidstone, Rainham (Kent), Brussels, Hammersmith, Chelsea, Ash (Kent), St. Margaret's Bay (Dover), Nafferton, (E. Yorks), several different departments of France (Aude, Pyrenees Orientales, the Dordogne, Lot, Haute Garonne), and I am currently very happy in Haute Savoie, but in a few years I will move to New Zealand to join my daughter and her family.
My sister has lived in the same house for 28 years and would be distraught if she had to leave. She has enjoyed visiting me, but does not share my wanderlust.
I travel widely for holidays, too, in search of pristine coral or lovely scenery. I am 'collecting' Islands and have visited seven in the Caribbean and five around Malaysia, four in Greece, the Maldives, Madeira, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Skye, Corsica, Majorca, Minorca, and will be in Phuket in four weeks time.
I live close to both the Italian and Swiss borders, so it is easy to have a few days holiday in either country, and when I lived in the Pyrenees I was able to cross into Northern Spain for days out.
I have used some of my homes for house-swapping, which gave me holidays in the Dolomites, the Caribbean, Provence, and Almeria.
When I move to New Zealand, I plan to visit Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Fiji, and many other Pacific Islands.
I did not leave Britain until I was divorced at 39 as my ex-husband was afraid of flying and just wanted to tow his boat to Scotland, Wales or the West Country. All very beautiful, but I longed to see more of the world, so in the last 32 years I have deliberately lived in several different countries and spend all my income, other than the basic cost of living and helping my family, on travel.

We are busy psyching ourselves up for our first move since 1966 - not looking forward to it at all, and I can guarantee the next time will definitely be in a box.

Do what I did nanapug and just reinvent your house. I have changed the look of all my rooms. Swapped ducted hot air system for brushed steel radiators with some tall vertical feature ones.
Removed all wallpaper and returned to neutral walls. My house is so totally different I feel as if I have moved

I am at the other end of the scale and have moved very few times. As a consequence I would give anything to go house hunting and move house. Am thoroughly bored with my house and where we live. Need a good chuck out. Think moving house may be the answer!!

By the time I was 21, I had lived in 36 different homes, and many of those we stayed in for over three years, so I am not wuite sure how my mother managed it. Since 21 (a period of 27 years), I've had 6, but 3 of those have been in the past six years (private rented when we first moved to Cornwall, for just under 4 years, then temp accommodation for two years, finally moving to this house in June this year). And unless something VERY SPECIAL (such as overlooking the sea) comes up, I intend to stay for a long time. I loathe moving.

Twice as a child and 3 times in my married life ---- all within an 8 mile radius of my present Hampshire home . Boring to some I suppose but not to me !! Incidentally I have traced my family tree ( on my Father's side ) and since 1582 father to son and down have all lived within the same radius and followed the same profession . Is that a record of some kind ?

I've moved house 18 times - and spent longer in my present home than anywhere else. I really don't want to leave the town I'm in now as I'm really settled here and I think it's an absolutely wonderful place to live. It's by the sea in a rural area and I feel blessed to be part of a warm, welcoming and vibrant community.

Only four times for me, lived here in the same house since we got married (33 years ago). I don't like change .

12 in my whole life, not planning on any more