How long have you lived in one home?

So crazy paranoid me always find these questions phishy.



So I will answer, long enough.

I'm with you. We don't love where we are, but we keep choosing to stay here, so there you go. It's part not wanting to change, part not wanting to actually move, part wanting to spend our money on something other than a new house, and part not ever finding something (that we could afford) that we loved enough to change out minds about everything else.

I'm 40 and the longest I've ever lived in one home is 3.5 years. Because I moved so much as a child, I actually enjoy moving. Packing everything up, starting fresh... it's an adventure. I'll be hitting 4 years in the same home soon, and DH and I are already talking about moving, lol.

I lived in my parents' second house for 12 years (5 years for the first one). After that, it was dorms and then apartments for several years, moving every 1-2 years. DH and I have had three houses. We lived in the first for 8 years and the second for 7 years. Three years in the current place.

I lived in one house growing up. As an adult (not college student) I've lived in four houses in a similar area.

My parents have lived in the same house for 40 years

It was actually quite comical to watch us move.  First we got rid of the things that we were not going to move, so every morning we had a "following" of people that would pick up what we were "donating".  We were very happy to see it go to people who could use it, or sell to support their family.  One morning there was a fake sword fight between two people complete with sombreros...all of which they found in the donation pile.

The police would literally stop traffic for us while we took each dolly of household goods from one side of the street to the other

We've lived in our current home for the past 20 years. And it's the longest I've ever lived in one place in my life. I'm 57.  Before I lived here I moved every 2-3 years or more. So in 57 years I'd moved 28 different times. (I counted them up one time). Or to put it another way I've lived in 28 different places. 

It does feel totally weird to live here for so long and I've had the twitching feeling to move for a very long time but I think that's just old habits.  Luckily I love this town and this neighborhood. I wouldn't even mind staying in this house. I really like our house. DH also wants to stay here and wouldn't mind staying in this neighborhood. What he wants is a double lot and to be further away from the main road into the neighborhood. Our neighborhood is over 100 years old, has mature trees (which I love) and is on a peninsula that juts out into the Chesapeake Bay. I really love it here and we're fortunate to have found our house when we did. Basically it was just luck.  

We need to do a bit of fixing up to this house before we are ready to put it on the market. We plan to get it ready to sell in 2-3 years if the market is still good and we find a house we like. I don't mind moving at all. Like another Pea said I've done it so much it feels like an adventure to me. I wouldn't mind finding a different neighborhood either as long as it's water privileged which around here means a boat pier, a community beach or water access. 

Nope....I am a stay put person too!
My parents built their home in 1952, and I still own it. I live in another state now, but lived in my former home for 17 years, and our new home for 4 now. I tell my kids they'll have to roll my cold dead body out of here. 

We built our house the year our twins were born in 2002, so coming up on 16 years. (We barely beat them...we moved in on Father's Day weekend and they were born on July 4th!)

We moved a lot when I was growing up and I love that our boys have lived in the same house their whole lives. I can't wait to see them bring their wives/babies back home to visit some day.

The longest was my first and only apartment: from March 1987 to July 2006.

30 years in our current home. My Mom passed away in January at almost 93 years old in the house she lived in for 64 years.