Moving on Up (I'm so tempted to sing that entire theme song)
By Amber
@AmbiePam (92711)
United States
September 11, 2011 4:39pm CST
I rarely meet someone who has lived in the same place for their entire life. Unless of course you are counting a five year old child. I've lived in two different states, but mainly Oklahoma. I've lived in several different homes, but two homes in particular were long term. I named a couple of my family's houses. I was a big reader, so I guess my imagination was at work. One house I called Amoretta, and another house I called the Sunshine Cottage. That house was small, but painted yellow on the upper half, above the brick. And it was so quaint. Where looks are concerned on the exterior I liked that house the best.
I live in an apartment now. Just me and Annabelle. I'd like a house just because I want a backyard so I can have more than just one dog. And I'd like to get a big dog as well, but there is a weight limit in my apartment complex. It's of course to prevent people from getting big dogs, although I saw one person with a pit bull. I think they got in trouble because owning a pit bull is illegal in the city I live in.
Do you have a favorite place you lived? If you could pick and choose, would you take one house you lived in that you liked, and put it on say, a differnet piece of land you used to live on? You might have liked one house better, but you like the neighborhood you live in now more than where the other house was located...
I'm actually trying to move, hopefully about 2 hours from where I live now. I can't remember if I told anyone that. I think the worst thing about moving is when people help you, but you get that one person who drops everything they pick up and bless their heart they always drop the breakable items!
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15 responses
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
11 Sep 11
Hi Amber,
When I was growing up and also a young adult, the only houses we moved to were houses that my dad built by himself. My dad worked for a lumber company, and he was able to work after hours and pre-cut the lumber and put all the partitions together at work and bring them home on a trailer.. my dad built prefab houses with good materials. He worked for Northern Homes back then and knew how to build. My last home that I lived in that dad built was in Kingsbury, New York.. it was a ranch style home and very nice. I saw it when I went on vacation to see my brother in Lake George, NY... it was just the same as back then.. and just beautiful.
As far as moving... my family and I moved to here and one of our friends helped us move and somehow my frying pans (thick cast iron) came up missing and they weren't left in the apartment... our friends said they didn't see them... well.. i guess they grew legs then....lol
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
12 Sep 11
Hey, girl, where are you moving and why? I do not remember being really fond of any house but this one. It has, at least for now, lost some of its charm, but it could regain it with some effort on my part. I have not lived in many apartments, two, to be exact. I lived in a trailer once as well. My current house is a falling down around my head Victorian money pit, that needs lots of work. You sound like my daughter, both in the reading and the Sunshine Cottage sounds like something she would choose. She loved Ann of Green Gables. I have owned two houses in this town, and I would have liked this house on the other property, it was bigger and had better area for gardening.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
13 Sep 11
I hope it all works out. Is there something special there?
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@Mirita (2668)
• United States
12 Sep 11
Well, I live in the country now and I have a big country home ,but I would love to move to the city because I love noise and coffee shops. I don't like big houses and I prefer small and cozy. Hopefully soon I'm going to be able to move to Florida ,so is going to be fun to be in St.Agustine, Fl. where I can be closer to the ocean.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Sep 11
i only had one house of my own i lived in for 5 yrs. it was the first real house of my own. my late hubby got it and let me design it and have it done my way from the first brick, etc. i watched it built. i had to give it up because i could no longer work and the only one that could take care of me when i was deathly sick, was my daughter who lived thousands of miles away with her kids. 
i had to get her to come and pack up everything and help me sell it and move to florida. she packed everything perfect nothing got broken. 
@kaylachan (69671)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Sep 11
i haven't moved all that often in my lifetime. In reality, I've only moved three four times, and I'm twenty-eight-years-old. Yes, I'm young, but I'm not rich. I have to usually stay in one place. Though I love where I am now. I recently moved to an apartment a gated complex to be exact. It's quite nice actually. Not sure how to discribe the outer part of it, but I couldn't ask for a more perfect layout.
I'm disabled, and there aren't many places that are for the disabled. So many twists and turns, ins and outs it's quite sad actually. but this place, is the most wheelchair accessable place there is. And it's not that difficult to walk around in either. No tunnles to speak of, no tight turns. Large bathroom. I honestly couldn't ask for more. The layout is like something out of a dream. I can fuction, and that's the most important.
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@RitterSport (2451)
• Lippstadt, Germany
22 Oct 11
hi dear AmbiePam, I would sure like to get back to my first rented apartment in my old hometown which was directly under the roof. I loved it, maybe cause that was my first rented place. It was just big enough for one person, with a small bedroom and small living room, a fairly big kitchen where even table and two chairs fit in and small bathroom where also the washing machine fit in.
How as I am married I really would need to about triple the size of it and please move it to my new hometown here.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
12 Sep 11
untill I was 15 had lived in 2 houses that I rmemeber the last house was the family home we just sold lately for neither of us 3 kids wanted it had outr own homes.
THen when I was about 23 met my 2nd hubby and we moved 700 times in 35 years for his job I had some fvotie places in tht time but we settled her in NEvada love the weather here even if it gets real hot in the summer time. I know what ya mean with poeple helping when we moved into this house the helpers packed evr thing and brought over here was so much stuff that should have never been brought lololol
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
12 Sep 11
I lived in a one story with my ex husband and I like the fact that it was a one story. Was it my favorite house? No....I have lived in the same house here for over 30 years...my kids grew up here...and now that they are gone I have all the memories...if walls could talk! I have fixed up one bedroom for my craft room...the only thing I don't like is that the laundry is in the basement and my knees are getting bad...so it's scary sometimes going down two flights of stairs. The kids want me to sell and get a one story....but my heart says....this is my home. I understand about the moving thing. Both my daughters are in the military and move often...sometimes overseas..and you would be amazed at what gets broken. And almost sick when you think of it...
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@williamjisir (22819)
• China
12 Sep 11
I have moved three times strictly speaking. The first time was to move from the old house to a new house where my parents live after having lived for thirty five years, where I was born and brought up and got married, because the old house was planned to be pulled down for new buildings. The second time was when I moved on to work in another province. The third time was when I got a new house of my own, so we don't have to live together with my parents in the city center. Moving from one place to another, we part with our familiar neighbors and ever since then it has not been that easy to meet each other. Yet I still miss my old neighbors and even dream about them quite often. Have a good day, AmbiePam.
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@mommyboo (13174)
• United States
12 Sep 11
Ehhh... moving is a hassle 
. I lived in a lot of different places before I was 5, and after that, I lived in one house until I moved out when I was 20. Then I lived in two apartments until I moved in with my ex husband, and we bought a new house and moved once. I have since gotten divorced and moved again, out of state... so my current place of residence is my 5th large move.
I can't count anything prior to being 5 because I don't remember those. My dad was in the army so it's not like we really put down roots anywhere. I did live in multiple states plus Germany for a bit.
Oddly enough, where I am now is home, not where I lived for 23 years. I think I would pick this as my favorite place, although I expect wherever we move to retire may finally have the few things I'm missing here - an inside laundry (as opposed to in the garage), a sep tub and shower, and a walk in pantry. The moving itself when it happens will be long distance so I think it will be a moving company that does it, not my friends lol. Even if they break things, they will have to pay for them - so even if they can't be replaced, we'll at least receive some sort of compensation - which doesn't happen as often if it's your friend that dropped your antique vase from your great grandmother...
. I lived in a lot of different places before I was 5, and after that, I lived in one house until I moved out when I was 20. Then I lived in two apartments until I moved in with my ex husband, and we bought a new house and moved once. I have since gotten divorced and moved again, out of state... so my current place of residence is my 5th large move.
I can't count anything prior to being 5 because I don't remember those. My dad was in the army so it's not like we really put down roots anywhere. I did live in multiple states plus Germany for a bit.
Oddly enough, where I am now is home, not where I lived for 23 years. I think I would pick this as my favorite place, although I expect wherever we move to retire may finally have the few things I'm missing here - an inside laundry (as opposed to in the garage), a sep tub and shower, and a walk in pantry. The moving itself when it happens will be long distance so I think it will be a moving company that does it, not my friends lol. Even if they break things, they will have to pay for them - so even if they can't be replaced, we'll at least receive some sort of compensation - which doesn't happen as often if it's your friend that dropped your antique vase from your great grandmother...1 person likes this
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
12 Sep 11
The house we are currently living in would have to be the best I have ever lived in although we discussed moving a couple of days ago. We’ve been talking about going to the other side of the country in my husband’s home state where we could buy a house and some land for the price of our property here. We would love to purchase a block of land and build a home and cattery on it providing my husband finds work over there first. It would mean leaving friends and family here but something in me tells me this may just be the right thing for us to do.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
12 Sep 11
i have done a quick count and to my amazement I counted 12 homes. Not sure of I have missed out on a few My happiest was obviously the house on our farm as this is where my children were raised and to them all it is still home. The house is there but in a bad condition as no one has lived there. When I go there I cry as I had a lovely patio and masses of flowers in hanging baskets and massive flower pots. I lived there for 31 years.
I do love my little home and it is little. Just two bedrooms with bathrooms en suite. On large room and a little extension that is my dining room. I am happy here and , please God, I will have finished paying for it on December 31st or end of January at the latest.
Oops - just remembered living in another house that I rented in the same complaex where I now live.
During my last move my oak dining table was broken into 9 pieces 
Could not be repaired
My happiest was obviously the house on our farm as this is where my children were raised and to them all it is still home. The house is there but in a bad condition as no one has lived there. When I go there I cry as I had a lovely patio and masses of flowers in hanging baskets and massive flower pots. I lived there for 31 years.
I do love my little home and it is little. Just two bedrooms with bathrooms en suite. On large room and a little extension that is my dining room. I am happy here and , please God, I will have finished paying for it on December 31st or end of January at the latest.
Oops - just remembered living in another house that I rented in the same complaex where I now live.
During my last move my oak dining table was broken into 9 pieces Could not be repaired1 person likes this
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Sep 11
You know, in my lifetime I've only lived in two different states/cities and only in three different homes. I was born and lived for the first three and a half years of my life in Atlanta, GA, then when my father got a promotion for his job, he moved our family from Atlanta to Lexington, KY and that is what I really consider to be my hometown. I lived with my mother until I was 27 years old and that is when my husband and I bought our house still in Lexington where we are raising our family.
As far as my favorite place, I really like my house because it is mine and I can make my own memories with my children here.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
12 Sep 11
Speaking of my adult life I have only lived in two homes. One was my very own home which I loved and adored, ( long story but I no longer own it). I currently live in an apartment for which I am very unhappy with.
I would love to sing along with you someday too as moving out of here would be a step up for me.
It is not a really bad place it is that I am such a stable person and I have never adjusted well here.
It is not a really bad place it is that I am such a stable person and I have never adjusted well here. 
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
11 Sep 11
You know, there is a house I like, but because it was in the middle of the city and my sister in law owned it, I couldn't appreciate it as much..But if I could own that house and move it to the lot I am sitting on right now, I would be a happy camper..
This house was a three bedroom, 1 1/2 bath with a basement and a garage. Talk about throwing my husband's crap out of sight and the way.. Yet I can hear him now, "where's my______?" Me: "In the garage" Him: "In that mess? I'll never find it!"
Yep, he thinks having a garage will solve all his problems, when all it would do is make another place for his problems..
This house was a three bedroom, 1 1/2 bath with a basement and a garage. Talk about throwing my husband's crap out of sight and the way.. Yet I can hear him now, "where's my______?" Me: "In the garage" Him: "In that mess? I'll never find it!"
Yep, he thinks having a garage will solve all his problems, when all it would do is make another place for his problems..1 person likes this
