How many homes have you had?

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:30 pm

Another way to ask is, how many different places have you lived in? How many different addreses have you had?

I was talking to a young woman the other day and said I'd been living in my house for more than 30 years and she was shocked, as she moves around a lot. So it got me thinking, I've only lived in 4 different homes in 57 years.

Family home in Toc where I grew up
Flat where I lived when first moved to Melbourne
Then the house I moved to in Camberwell
Finally where I currently live.

That's really not many.

For the purposes of the exercise, you can't count holiday homes or investment properties cos while you may visit them, you don't live there. As an adult, your home would be your address on your drivers licence.

If you spent 12 months travelling around Australia in a caravan as a kid, the caravan was your home for that period, not each caravan you stayed at.

If you went to boarding school for a period, that counts as a home as you lived there, as do share houses and any other arrangement.

So who's lived in the most? Surely most of you can beat 4 if you're older than 30.

eddiesmith · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:11 pm

Mum is still in the house I grew up in, she’s been there 40 years now.

I’ve lived in 6 different houses in 4 different towns with 5 in the last 5 years, not really settling down 😂😂

KenH · Joined: 24 Jan 2010

I have lived in 6 houses, 4 of them when living at home with my parents to the age of 20 and have been in 2 since then, I am 60 this year.

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 7:03 pm

wow Ken, 2 in 40 years. And I thought I was a nester.

Eddie, 5 in 5 years? Shocked

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Ilfracombe, Devon,
Somewhere near London.
Limmasol Cyprus
Nicosia Cyprus
Cotton end Bedford, England ,
Wiltona immigration centre
Altona
Laverton -unit
Cheltenham
Altona
Werribee - sisters house
Werribee -renting
Altona bay
Altona meadows.

14 and counting!

I hate moving!

KenH · Joined: 24 Jan 2010

eddiesmith · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:01 pm

Bruce Gonsalves · Joined: 05 Jul 2012

Never counted before, until now.
Here goes:
Ashgrove - QLD.
Bondi -NSW
Armadale - Vic
Malvern - Vic

First home-
East Bentleigh
Oakleigh x2
Hughesdale
Nobbly Park
Current house on the coast.

10, should just about see me out.

blackmissionary · Lurker King Joined: 26 Jul 2002

Before I was four
- Thornbury flat
- Thomastown house
- Altona North flat

The next 28 odd years
- Altona North house

Last eight years
- Sunshine house

blackmissionary · Lurker King Joined: 26 Jul 2002

Before I was four
- Thornbury flat
- Thomastown house
- Altona North flat

The next 28 odd years
- Altona North house

Last eight years
- Sunshine house

stui magpie · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:56 pm

TP is the clubhouse leader so far

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

blackmissionary · Lurker King Joined: 26 Jul 2002

Larry · Joined: 01 Apr 2006

I had never really thought about it seems I have had 16 which seems a lot.
I travelled Australia for a few years so only count places we stayed at more than 6 months. Not sure of the rules but I Have count 2 if same suburb different house?
E Doncaster first 19 years
Gold Coast
E Doncaster different house
Donvale
Woodvale WA
Os park WA
Scarborough WA
Tuart Hill WA
Bedford WA
Broome
Darwin
Donvale again
Doncaster
Box Hill
Craige WA
Mindarie WA
Mindarie WA different house

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere