All things Becky15 Higgins/beggy Higgins

There's typically more than one living space in a home. The family room or great room tends to get the most traffic.

sleepingbooty - it's a little too modern for my personal tastes but a really nice house and the windows really showcase the views

I’ll be 55 this weekend and I’ve lived in 8 houses with my parents. My dad was transferred often - the longest being one town for 10 years. Then I did 9 years as a student/single working person with roommates, so another 5 houses plus dorms, then my military husband and I lived in 5 houses over 20 years (including 1 house for 10 years), once kids came along they just moved with us lol. and now I’ve been in my own home for 8 years but will likely move at least once more. Since I’ve moved my entire life I’m used to it and actually like it but all my moves with my parents and exDH have been covered and organized by the company or military so I will certainly say that has been helpful.

I haven't moved much at all but my grandparents moved constantly throughout their lives. They were restless people. They lived in a converted bus for a while (before it was cool). Even when my grandfather was unable to look after himself because he became blind in his 70s or 80s he still barely stayed anywhere for more than about a year. He got blacklisted from several rest homes because he would leave and then want to come back when the new place didn't turn out better. I think all the moving is why my dad was keen to stay still. And my husband moved enough in his college years to never want to do it again. I have the restlessness but I am overruled for now.

Before I was married I had moved four and a half times. After marriage, when I had actual control over moving decisions, once. We had a small house when we got married. We moved to a bigger house thirteen years ago after Elizabeth was born. This house has enough space for another child but that doesn’t appear to be in the cards for us.

I can see us moving once, maybe twice more depending on if his mother needs to move in (she can’t do stairs and there are no bedrooms on the first floor). At some point, I see us moving somewhere a bit further out from in the country. I can hear the hum of the interstate in my bedroom as I type this. I’d love to be far enough away to not hear it. I want a big porch with a swing, dammit! Dreams…I’ve got them.

We are packing up to leave our current apartment after 13 years, and that is the longest I have ever lived in one house.
Before I married, I lived with my parents in 5 or 6 houses, in 4 cities. Since DH and I have been married, we've lived in 8 houses in 6 cities (two countries!). Most of the moves - both as a child and since I've been married - have been work related.
We had a couple of  short rental periods - when we were first married, before we bought our first house, and later on when we did extensive renovations, so we moved to a rental for 6 months while that happened. We expect to move once more - we will return to Australia from Germany when DH retires, sometime in the next 5-8 years. I hope that will be our last home. 

I'm 45 and I've only moved four times (one of which was an on campus apartment in college). Having just recently moved I don't really want to again anytime soon.

We moved from a pretty busy residential street (thruway for an army base) about 7 minutes away up a mountain and it can be an hour in between vehicles. Since we live towards the top of the street, it is kind of where the sidewalk ends!  Much better than a busy or loud street.

I don't feel like Becky moves a lot. She just happened to get to her dream forever home and then leave it for another one in just a few years, that's about it.

I moved 30-ish times from birth to 18. I'm not even sure how many times before the age of 4. My mother thinks it's 34 times in total for me. Eh, doesn't matter. It was a lot. I turned out fine although I cannot stand the idea of accumulating many things and loads of furniture because of what a hassle it is to move it all (we did it all ourselves, no movers).

2 moves in 4 or so years is not much in the grand scheme of things. I doubt they'll move soon again except if the climate shock and long snowy winters are too much to handle. SAD is no joke.

I moved 7 times with my family when growing up. My father had corporate moves/job promotions. I married an Air Force pilot and moved 6 times while he was in the Air Force. After he got out of the service we bought a home and stayed there until recently—after our children were grown and on their own we downsized to a lovely condo in the city.

All of these moves were planned—not a surprise. Even the Air Force moves were planned—we had a few month warning so we could plan. We always were transferred to a new location and knew no one though the Air Force has a structure to get acclimated.

Becky’s recent move is puzzling for a few reasons—

The seemingly rapid relocation.

Moving to a completely unknown town/city/area seemingly out of the blue. Perhaps David had a job opportunity but who knows.

Selling their dream home after a couple of years. She said they’d purchased the lot years ago and saved/panned to build their home. They seemed to choose everything, without the benefit of an architect or designer because she said they knew what they wanted. It seemed odd that their first Christmas in the dream Homs B hired a couple of designers to decorate for the holidays. Personally, I’d have spent $$ on the designer while planning/building the home and decorated for the holidays myself.

One of the best parts of moving for me is using our furniture/stuff in a different or new way. Until we bought our home we always lived in unremarkable government rental housing. But it was always fun to make it our home. We also loved living in a new area of the country, meeting new people, etc. We always knew WHERE we were moving well before our move.

The sudden move is what I find curious. I suppose we’ll learn that this was an “intentional” move and divinely guided. To Eden! !

Given how many times she's posted/emailed about her very unexpected, unplanned, and deeply inspired call to move, it feels like she's convincing herself of her own narrative...but also provides no substance of any of her ramblings.

I love that French home, but I do like modern. I love big windows and the views are beautiful. The only thing I don't like is that bookshelf goes all the way up through the second floor and so you can only put decor there and it will get dusty and you will see the dust from the second floor. The rest is wonderful.

My first 18 years I lived in one house. My parents didn't move until my sister and I were in college. I then lived in the dorms in college the whole 6 years (2 different dorms). I moved to Toledo for two (very long) years. And since I've moved to my current city I've lived in 3 apartments, 1 house, and a condo. So I've lived 7 places, not counting college.

Fun fact: this condo is the only place I've ever lived that had central air. I've sweated most of my life. 

It's the cringey toxic positivity. Not everything that happens is intentional, destined, inspired. Sometimes things suck but that's not acceptable in some cultures to admit. Especially when your all-controlling God made this happen.

10000% agree. There's a youtuber I hate watch who's mormon and all about living her day ~a little bit brighter~ and she just had a video this week where she's really down on herself for a handful of reasons and kept reiterating "but I'm not depressed you guys, I'm not depressed" while I'm internally screaming YES YOU ARE AND THATS OKAY.

But they've gotta keep sweet and all that. Nah dude, life sucks sometimes! A lot of the time if we're being honest lmao and it can still suck when you have a good day or when you're thankful for things in your life.