Currently obsessed with house hunting shows, especially international and waterfront locations. It’s not that we’re thinking of moving any time soon, but you never know. Should we happen to win a lottery, I’ll be prepared.
Looking at real estate always reminds me of my parents, who moved house every two years. My mother said it was easier than Spring cleaning. I don’t know about that, but I sure feel the tug of those ancestral impulses.
Seven years is the longest I have lived in any home. How about you?
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I’m a mover too, and have moved numerous times. Beside my childhood home, the longest I lived anywhere is 12 years. Where we are now is a safe and comfortable place to live, but we still have a yearning to move to a city north of here.
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Keeping life fresh!
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Yes!
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Yes Iām a former military spouse. I think we were taught to be deracinated. I learned the term in the book the Exiles return. I didnāt know there were a word for. I guess it was a way of instilling loyalty in the troops. I still get restless at times even though itās been years.
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I hadn’t heard that term either. Thanks
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Me either reading expands my knowledge and vocabulary. š
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After moving every year-year and a half around Toronto growing up, I lived 38 years in the house I got married in and loved it until we moved here to the Island (so much unnecessary stuff to get rid of!) and can hardly believe I’ve been here 8 years already.
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What contrasts. Island life is a dream of ours.
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We have moved so many times when my husband was in civil service that I have no desire to move house again.
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I’m certainly there physically, but heart still wanders and wonders
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I agree. As we grow older, the space we need gets smaller. So personally, Iād like to shift to a two bedroom apartment, but my husband wonāt agree
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We moved from California to Oregon three years ago after living in the same house for 31 years. It was stressful because we had so much stuff in the house.
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I can imagine you’d accumulated a lot!
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Iām an Army brat and moved frequently until I landed in Durango. Lived a few places then bought a house. Moved in with my spouse and been here 28 years! We did a big remodel 10 years ago, so it felt almost new then. Iād be happy here til the end, I think.
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I can’t imagine how that feels, Eilene. It sounds idyllic
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I’m a mover too. I did live in the same building for 12 years but in three different apartments. Otherwise either one or two years, or around 6. My brothers have both moved a lot as well, following in my parents’ footsteps. (K)
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I like the excitement of settling into a new space.
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It’s a new perspective, which we can all use from time to time.
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I’ve lived in this house 25 years, the longest I’ve lived in any home. It’s really hard to believe it’s been that long!
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Amazing, Liz.
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with my parents, of course, till I was eighteen, then with my wife for another eighteen, then off on my own and with a new love —- and now on my Pat Malone again : things come and go : but there is always that place in yr heart š
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Life does teach us how to let go and move on, if we’re open to it.
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yes !
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Since I left my childhood home, the location I am living in now is the longest I have stayed in one place. I usually get itchy feet and want a change. I have lived here 16 years which is surprising considering it’s not my first choice in landscape, but it is the last place my husband and I lived together. I will eventually move to the same city my son lives in, but I am comfortable here. I can walk anytime day and night and feel safe.
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That is a comfort one cannot buy, Heather.
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