Moving to a new home...for the nth time

I am such a stable person and I can't imagine so much moving. However, if it means for the betterment of your family and child go for it as it can only get better. You just bought your house, Congrats, and I do hope this all works out for you and your family. Best of luck and many blessings with your new home.

Sweet :) It's feel nice to finally get a move on in your life to a new place. I see this as another adventure where you can made a lot of new friends and everything. It's a great chance to meet someone you like :) happy mylotting!

I got to experience that once when I got married. We rented an apartment with a great view of a golf course. We weren't actually inside one of those posh villages. It just so happened that the apartment was just outside the wall of the golf course. So, when we look out our bedroom window, we're greeted with a nice, peaceful sight :) Well, we moved after two years when my son was born. We went back to my old house since only my parents live there. My other siblings have already moved out so there were lots of vacant rooms in the house. I chose my old room when I was single. In a sense, I like moving out. It gives you the opportunity to clean up your stuff. You have a reason to dispose some old ones and a reason to buy new ones :)

We moved for 4 times.. all of this was within this city.. the first 3 was a rental that the reasons for moving was for a bigger space... Considering to buy a house & lot then was out of our mind because my husband don't want to settle in this town... it's just, the place of work is here and for 15 years we're still here ( *funny ). But in the process of 3 years, we realized that it's impractical to continue renting while we can owned a house that can be more beneficial to us. That's the reason of our 4th move. And for 7 years we are here. And now, we're in the process of finding to buy another property with requirements ( you knew it )... The 4 times we moved, it's not a sad story but thinking to move for the 5th time will surely make me sad in a way... but i know it will be a quick-fix co'z i'm open to improvements...

My family just rent a house. We have a permanent home but it was in the province. I'm just 23 years old, and me and my family have moved houses 14 times. This Saturday, we'll be moving to a new house for the 15th time.

I think that moving to a new home is a waste of time and effort.I think that you should buy a permanent house and that will settle Ito myself when I was young moved 2 times from a house to an apartment and then I decided that I should stop moving and find myself a new home.

I bought a little cottage when I was 19 years old. It was part of a Victorian Workhouse made into individual small cottages. I loved living there in that peaceful village. I hadn't learned to drive and had to cycle my bike a lot and put up with awful bus service. I liked it because it was so quiet there and although small I felt a sense of space. It was double aspect and at the back of me I had a quiet close. I let it out when I traveled around the world at age 20 to 21 years old. I left it again in my university days. In all I owned it for 14 years. My family was going to move because of my brother-in-laws work was moving. I was sad to leave my cottage but I was happy to be having a new adventure. I went for a house hunting trip. I looked at some cottages but they were far from where my sister and her family were living. I looked at a modern house in the same area and amazingly due to it having country views I wanted it. I put in an offer and it was accepted. I lived in that house for 5 years. I had my disabled son and baby daughter born there. I was sad to leave but was desperate to move to a bungalow. So I sold my house and bought my bungalow that makes caring for my disabled son much easier. It was quite an adventure buying a new kitchen, flooring, curtain rails, curtains light shades and an electric fire for my lounge. I am very happy in my bungalow which is situated in a quiet close away from passing traffic. I have more plans for it once I have saved up enough money like loft insulation and a storing area up in my loft. I am surprised that you managed at all well with 5 hours commuting time. I hope that you will be happier in your new house. It is lovely that it is only 1 hour to travel to work. Good luck with your move.

hi sweetpea I hate moving and went through it from one apt to ano ther the past ten years, we were just settled when first I broke my shoulder and my son lost his job at the same time.but he got a new one a week later. we liked El Dorado gardens but the rent was much higher than we wre used to.at first we were okay as my son was making 41 thousand a year but three months later his boss told him he had to cut his wages down to 17 dollars an hour and then is when he should have got a new job. anyway long story short the new co. went bankrupt, economy dropped into the garbage can, we were evicted and are just now trying to pick up the pieces he is in gov. housing. As for me, I am in this dismal retirement center paid for out of most of my social security and SSI checks. My son now has a part time job not good but better than no job .

Oh my God! 5 hours a day to come and go to the office! And I thought the 40 minutes I am supposed to use for coming and going to work from the place where we're going to build our house were much! I think you must be so glad you're moving to the new house! Not only that's a place of your own, but it is also much more close to your work place. I can't say I was ever sad to leave the old living place when I moved. I was always glad, because each time I moved to a better place.

It is another adventure for me. A new place to stay, new arrangement of furnitures and decorations... As long as the neighborhood is safe I am fine with moving.

Yes, we have experienced that too. In a span of 1 year we have moved to 2 different apartments. It was in the same area though. We transferred because the vacated apartment offers a bigger space. We weren't that close to our neighbors though, because most of us are all working and gets to be home on evenings and early morning, Saturdays and Sundays.

Fortunately, our home when I was born is still our home today. That is a relief. hehehe... No need to adjust from one place to another. But if I were alone, I wouldn't care if I move from one place to another place because it seems I was born a nomad. hahaha... However if I have a family like you, I will think twice or thrice before I change home especially if you have toddlers. Somehow it will have an effect on them emotionally. Always to have them say good bye to their friends all the time at their age. That I think may affect their social skills.

Hi, I tried moving from one house to another for two times. First is when I find my self independent enough to leave my immediate family and leave alone. I find it adventurous as Ive learned a lot of things, especially being responsible and saving enough money for rents and utilities. The second one was, when I got married. My husband and I finally bought a house of our own and we were really happy because this is where we started a family. And it is worth our investment, esp when the kids grow up they will have something to call their own.

I don't like moving, not even a bit I haven't moved much though, just a couple times. I loved the house i grew up in. I had all my memories and friends there. I really didn't wanna leave but we had to and i had to leave all my friends behind. It was sad. I knew everyone living in the whole society there but after we moved I never knew who my neighbors were and i still don't. Whenever I'm home i just stay inside the house. The house I'm living is alright though but I miss my old house.

Since I moved out of my parents' house I've moved to two apartments, and three houses. Only the last house was far from the other ones. i still get homesick...

I read a survey sometime ago, that the most stressful thing to do is moving. I've only moved a couple times as a grown up. The first was when I moved my family half way around the world. The stress from that move was not so much the move itself, but more on the adventure of moving to an unfamiliar place. The second move was similar to yours. From the big city with all its pollution to the suburb for our own house. Goodluck with the move!

Hi Sweet_pea, We've been moving from one place to another since I was a kid. Thinking now, I guess we moved for 4x now and I'm still planning to move to a new place maybe by the end of this year. My parents weren't able to invest on putting up a house which is sad because renting a house right now is a bit expensive specially I chose to be closer to my work place. I'm just 5mins away from my work. Our apartment right now is OK but I wanted to look for a place which has space for my dogs to roam around outside. Our apartment right now is located along the main road side so its a bit noisy and my dogs can't roam outside since there are vehicles passing by. My older dog got ran over the last december which is a bit my fault because we were playing and he ran towards the road and got hit by a vehicle. Luckly, he's alright now. Our old place is a lot bigger and with parking space too. My dogs would have love that kind of place. Right now, I've been wanting to get a house and I will pursue it.