How many times have you moved in adult/settled life?

This is our 6th house in 54 years of marriage. This house we have lived in for 32 years . This house I thought was ideal at the time we bought it, but have since learned it is not perfect for our lifestyle now. However, we like the house and garden and my husband has done so much to the garden as we were the first people to buy the property. I came up with the ideas for the garden and he carried them out ...with a few disagreements in between lol. Years ago I would have preferred to move again but circumstances mean we stay here. My family live reasonably close

I have lived in a total of 4 houses and one Nurse’s home during my lifetime, including the one that l live in now!
The surprising fact is though that I’m a born Roamer, and have always had a passion for travel, including spending quite a lot of time afloat, either as a skipper in the U.K., or onboard a ship, sometimes going away for several weeks at a time.
I have also been into the Camping lifestyle for over 40 years, but always in the U.K., and since retirement, in our Touring Caravan from March to October every year, except of course not during the Covid crisis which has seen us well and truly Grounded!

Never moved first time around, never moved second time around (yet). Must be a creature of habit!

11 times since my marriage, each time in England.

Four times since being married (49years ago)all within the same area. How boring is that! But it does mean I know a lot of people locally and that is a bonus.

We've just moved! after 20 years in our previous house and over 35 years in the same area.

This is my 11th house. Grew up in Surrey, where we moved 3 times, the second time was to a larger house when my maternal grandfather died and my grandmother didn't like being on her own, she sold her house, we sold ours and bought a bigger house to accommodate her, she had her own part of that. A couple of years after she died, we downsized because we didn't need the extra space. Then aged 21 or so I moved out to Shepherds Bush, West London to live with my boyfriend who eventually became my first husband husband, That place was a bit cramped, I don't count it, was only there for weeks rather than months. We moved to a rented a flat in Croydon, which is allegedly is a dodgy area now, but we didn't have any problems back then in the 1970s We had the ground floor of a big Victorian house, our landlords lived upstairs in the rest of the house, it was pretty big, we became good friends with them, baby sat their children, looked after various animals when they went away. We also had a lovely West Indian family next door, three generations the matriarch of the family was very traditional and dressed up in all her Sunday best to go to the Pentecostal church on the corner of the street . If they were having a barb b cue and we were in the garden, they passed us Jerk Chicken and other lovely spicy things over the fence. Then we managed to buy our own house moved back to Surrey, we felt very grown up! God knows how we did it, we didn't have any savings and we were still only mid twenties, but husband was climbing the greasy pole working for an American bank by then who gave employees mortgages with a 3 per cent interest rate which was a big deal at the time, not anymore We went out to Australia soon after for a while, because he got the offer of transferring out there plus a lot of his family were already in Oz, we also managed to get resident visas, but then for various reasons decided against moving to Australia and soon after that we split up. Mid 80s, I married again and moved to what is now West London, Middlesex having disappeared some time ago. We had two quick moves during our first three years there, both Victorian cottages, one much larger than the other. First son was born during that period. Then we moved to one of my favourite houses an Edwardian semi, the house grew with our family when we extended up into the loft. We were there about 13 years or so. Moved a mile or so nearer the kids schools, this time a 3 storey town house with communal gardens that went down to the River Thames. We always knew that this house had one storey too many and it was never going to be our forever house, and we knew the stairs would get to us in the end Plans were afoot to move when my second son went to university we were already scouting various towns in Surrey. A couple of abortive attempts, we finally moved just into West Sussex, a detached 20 year old 4 bedroomed house not really a down size more a sideways move, to accommodate the various children and grandchildren when they eventually get to visit us. Still only 30 miles from where we moved from, I really like this area, we are 2 miles outside a lovely market town with loads of amenities including a John Lewis, yet the surrounding area has a rural feel about it, I like the fact that I can see the Surrey Hills in the distance, it's quieter than West London far less manic.

Thank you all for your replies, Notspaghetti, I don't recall a similar previous thread, mind you I'm a mere one year old (or less) newbie!

I've moved 5 times since I was 18. First expensive private flat. Second council flat. Third council house. Fourth private house with lovely landlord which we only left but we were unexpectedly offered fifth... council flat in lovely village.

4 Homes in almost 46 years .Hated this house for a long while ,nothing wrong with it it was a nice house but I didn't pick it ,my OH put a deposit on it while out for a run one Sunday .It wasn't built but fitted what we wanted ,giving us the extra space for our new baby and near primary and secondary schools ..so he thought it was ideal.
Turns out after extensions and .changes its almost perfect ,just too big now for us .Been here 32 years now and I 'm happy in it but would like to downsize to a 3 bedroom bungalow,they're hard to come by in my area

This is our 3rd house since we got married. We’ve been here 33 years. I have no desire to move.

We have lived in this house since we got married 53 years ago , it’s too big for us, we know we should move to something smaller , but it’s too much of a wrench to leave. Our children were born here, all got married from here. There are so many memories in this house , I can’t see us ever leaving until,,,,,,,

In the last 45 years, I have moved 8 times. I thought that was quite a few times but, looking at the above posts, I realise I have hardly moved at all. I have always moved within the same county but not the same town.

3 countries..18 houses....hotels in between moves...(also..early days 1974..hostel for homeless people...me,H..and two babies)...

I think there is another thread like this?

6 countries, 19 ( i think)houses and a new one on the horizon

We've moved 20 times since we married 50 years ago.