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What's the longest you've lived in one house?

74 replies

JeremyCorbynsBeard · 11/08/2018 19:57

We're thinking of moving in a year or so, and it suddenly occurred to me that it will be quite a shock to live in a different house after being in the same one for 17 years.

Previously I'd only lived somewhere for a maximum of 3 years, so didn't get quite so attached.

Got me thinking, and being nosy about other people, and what it's like to move after being in one particular home for so long.

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Babdoc · 11/08/2018 19:58

Well, I’ve been in this house for 35 years...!

ChishandFips33 · 11/08/2018 19:59

17

DramaAlpaca · 11/08/2018 20:00

We've been in our current one for almost 17 years too, which is the longest I've lived anywhere. I don't think we'll be moving again, we love our home and it would be too much of a wrench to move.

BlueberryPud · 11/08/2018 20:02

35 years also

AlonsoTigerHeart · 11/08/2018 20:03

Aged 1-16 I lived in 11+ different houses. I hated it.
17-32 I lived In one, my little flat I had my two kids in that flat and would of stayed there forever but my eldest became disabled so we got a move to a house via the council.
Been here just over 1 year and hope never to move again.
My kids are 16 and 8 and adjusted well to the move. We moved to the next road so their lives are exactly the same, I think that’s helped.

sonlypuppyfat · 11/08/2018 20:04

26 years

YeTalkShiteHen · 11/08/2018 20:05

6 since leaving home.

MiddlingMum · 11/08/2018 20:08

27 years in current house.

I know someone who lives in the house he was born in 74 years ago.

rudeycrudey · 11/08/2018 20:09

Almost 20 years

AdventuresRUs · 11/08/2018 20:11

6 years.

Lived in 13 places between 18 and 28.
Really would love forever home. This isnt a particularly nice one :(

greencatbluecat · 11/08/2018 20:11

16 years (the House I live in now).

Knittedfairies · 11/08/2018 20:15

37 years.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 11/08/2018 20:17

I've been in this house for 16 years. Longest I've ever lived anywhere forces brat as a child

FissionChips · 11/08/2018 20:18

5 years. I like moving.

Meanderthal · 11/08/2018 20:18

The one I currently live in! 18 years, all of my adult life.

MountainPeakGeek · 11/08/2018 20:20

Since leaving home the longest is 10 years, but it was 13 years in the same house while I was a kid.

Mum2jenny · 11/08/2018 20:22

31 years

Blankiefan · 11/08/2018 20:23

5 years in this house . Longest so far and no intention of moving for at least 15 more.

This is my 21st home since leaving my parents house at 18. I'm done moving for a long time.

JeremyCorbynsBeard · 11/08/2018 20:25

Wow some interesting posts there! I think it will probably do me good to move, before I get more too set in my ways Grin

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NapQueen · 11/08/2018 20:25

H1 - 2 years (aged 0 to 2),
H2 - 10 years
H3 - 11 years
H4 (first not with my parents and about to move out) z 10 years.

Hoping next one will last me to 60yo making it 27 years there.

WhentheDealGoesDown · 11/08/2018 20:28

21 years, last house was 12 years, before that renting or with parents

CantankerousCamel · 11/08/2018 20:29

12 years between 2 and 14

In adult life lived in a house from 18 to 27 so 9 years

Have been in this house 6 years and hope to stay for a good while

LeftRightCentre · 11/08/2018 20:31

17 years

Pinkprincess1978 · 11/08/2018 20:34

Nearly 15 years the last house. My husband lived in his childhood home his whole life (before moving in with me excluding uni). We moved around a lot of before our last house probably 5 years was the max in any house

sdaisy26 · 11/08/2018 20:36

15 years as a child.

As an adult, 7. But intending to be in current house for 10 years +