how many times have you moved in your life?
By pukaprat2
@pukaprat2 (442)
United States
August 10, 2008 2:54am CST
i was just calucaling how many times i have packed up my things and moved. i realized that i have moved 22 times in my 27 years of life. that averages about once every 9 months or so.
i just finished packing and i know with in the next few weeks i will be moving yet again and i find it a bit discouraging to be moving so much but in a way i really like not knowing where my life is headed. although now that i have a child i find myself trying to stay in one place as long as i can. but i just get so tired of looking at the same view and the same things day in and day out.
i think that might be why my mom moves her furniture around or redecorates. but it is still the same place. i just dont get it.
so how many times have you moved? where did you move to? what place did you move to that you liked the most and cried when you left? why did you leave? why do you move? is it the price of the place you are renting? or does it have something to do what makes me move- change of senery?
what do you like about moving? is it the excitement of going someplace new? or do you hate to move and loath packing everything.
for me moving gives me a good excuse to get rid of the things i no longer want but mom says that is what garage sales are for. but i think it is easier to move after cause then you got rid of everything that you dont want.
so what are your thoughts?
ever moved some place that you thought would be great but turned out to be a pain? i remember i moved from long beach california to a place called americus georgia and let me tell you. that was not the place i thought it was going to be. it was in the middle of no where. but at least i made the move and found out for myself instead of wondering whay if. i also meet my husband there so i guess it was the place i had to move to. either way what are your thoughts about moving?
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21 responses
@nickmarz333 (141)
• United States
11 Aug 08
I have moved around four times in my life and it has not been that far away so eveything has been pretty nice and has worked out just great.
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@kinghuss23 (11)
• United States
11 Aug 08
ive only moved once lol. i would hate to move a lot because then you will have to make new friends and go to diff schools
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@bbsr13 (4196)
• India
10 Aug 08
Hello,pukaprat! Up to end of my college life I had moved with my parents seven times and during my service career in 35 years I moved to 28 places.so i know the bitterness of moving from one place to other with bags and baggages.thanx.
@pukaprat2 (442)
• United States
10 Aug 08
so where have you been? what was the best place you moved to? what was the worst?
does it bother you to unload everything just to pack it again? and what was your service career? are or were you military? and if so what branch?
@fwangaa (3057)
• China
10 Aug 08
i have moved for several times.at first i lived with many people and the house was very old.but i like it.and like the persons in there.i often make a dream about that.then i moved to another place also with a lot of persons that in the some department ,the area is not very big.but it also give me a big impression to me.now i lived a big yard ,but i know i don't happy every day.
@joycepapas (95)
• Philippines
10 Aug 08
Hahahahahaha! This is indeed a funny discussion realizing
what i have been doing in my life. I have been moving a
lot of times since my kids were small. Funny to say, but
it's true. Now, that they've grown up and had their own lives,
living alone by myself still continues to go from one place
to another. I still don't know when will be my next place
to stay. I know, where i am now is not permanent yet coz'
i'm just renting a place to stay. I can relate with your
experiences. Sounds familiar to me...........LOL! Well,
now that i'm single, the next place to stay would be probably
my partner's home. Hopefully!
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@shana123 (2095)
• India
10 Aug 08
i have moved more than 4 times that too in the same area but to different houses, but one is my grandpa's home( dad's) another is another grandpa's home( mom) and obviously our home.. and now we have saled our house and living in a rented home i dont want to leave the place where im born and bought up.. i really like my place a lot.. You sound so intresting by now you must have learnt about different places,kinds of people climates,atomsphere,new friends etc etc..dont you?
@kellys3ps (3723)
• United States
10 Aug 08
When I was a child we moved a lot! Probably 20 to 30 times and we lived in 4 different states and 8 different cities, not to mention the different houses. As an adult, I have lived in the same house for the past 7 years.
@djoyce71 (2511)
• Philippines
10 Aug 08
In my 37 years of existence in this world, I recall that our family moved for seven times already. We moved every four or five years depending on where my father were to be destined. It was sad for us siblings since everytime we moved, we left the friends that we had for 4 or 5 years. It was also difficult for us because everytime we moved to another place, we needed to adjust not only to the new place but also to the new people around that we met. But when I got married, I stayed on this place. We own our house. Thank God I already and have this permanent address. I just don't know if time will come that we will be moving to another place. I hope not, because moving from one place to another is a sad experience and tiring.
@pukaprat2 (442)
• United States
10 Aug 08
you have too look at the bright side of it though. all those people that you meet influenced you in one way or another. and all those experiences that you had makes you apprechiate (i know i spelled that wrong sorry) what you have now. and have helped modivate you to settle down.
i just dont think i have it in me. not yet anyways.
@wolfewatcher (191)
• Canada
10 Aug 08
holy crap i just realized i have moved 14 times in my life. i never thought about it until i came to this discussion. and i know theres at least one more move in my life yet to come. i hated pack and unpacking and trying to settle into a new place and trying to make new friends and missing old friends when i was younger. from the time i was born til i moved outta my parents house at age 17-18 i had moved 4 times. between then and when i gave birth to my first child i had moved 4 times. after her birth til 5 yrs ago i had moved 6 times. 2 of them though were because i was getting away from a bad relationship.
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
11 Aug 08
I've moved 39 times in 56 years. [em}happy[/em]
There was a time when I was young and single and living where was a boom in housing. The apartment owners were competing, so they would give out free VCRs or microwaves when you moved in. Some would pay for moving and for changing your phone. Then, 6 months later the rents would go up. I think moved every 6 months - when those rents went up - for about 4 years. [em}happy[/em]
@StarChild517 (657)
• United States
11 Aug 08
Well I moved around 20 times in my life due to my parents it was hard to make friends for too long but it kept things exciting
@nut_nut (251)
•
10 Aug 08
we share something in common already, i think iv moved 22 times as well. all in 20 nearly 21 years. moving wasnt always by choice but i do get bored looking at the same things all the time, same surroundings. iv recently moved actually about 5 months ago and already starting to feel i could move again but thats because of the landlord who nobody likes lol. if it wernt for him i think i could be happy here for a little while longer
@mikeysmom (2088)
• United States
10 Aug 08
last count it was 17 times in my 47 years. i got to be so good at packing that i could have started my own business packing for people who are moving. if it were not such hassle and the house selling market were better i would sell my townhouse for a chance to own an unattached home so i could have a private back yard with a swimming pool even if the house were smaller than what i have now. it would be so worth the extra privacy and yard. but i just cannot go through the hassle right now. i think if the housing market were to really improve i would take the chance as i really feel it would be my last chance to obtain what i really want.
@swennerholm (664)
• Sweden
10 Aug 08
I just moved one time in my live,From Philippines to Sweden to live with my husband,I think it is not nice if you moved often.But some people they enjoy it coz they get friends all over the world.I have friend who is like that.They move every one year to another place.And my friend said that she is use to it and also she get friends every where.
@kane1980 (53)
• Netherlands
10 Aug 08
I just did move 3 times in my life and from the 3 times i moved 1 time to a other city and the last time i moved that was when i get married but still in the same city .
Next time that we are going to move is propably to another country.
Australia is beautiful but the Philippinens is beautiful too , so i dont know for sure what it will be
@izhuce13 (158)
• China
10 Aug 08
I want to moved to a place that have very beautiful landscape,and settle down for the res of my life. but this dream seems so far away. but i will do my beat to reach this goal.so it mean that i never move to a new place.
