How many houses have you lived in ?

[EatsQuorn]

So insomnia set me off pondering random things in the small hours . So as above , how many ?
I've got to late 30s and have lived in 8 , all in UK. Weirdly all most were xyz Avenue , one a Road , and this one xyz Lane.

18 and 1 yacht. 3 different countries.

A lot. Not sure I’ve counted them all but definitively counted 28. 3 continents, many different countries. In the U.K. I’ve lived in 9, but 1 of those was for 14 years, and I’m also counting a couple of long-term stays with family of 3-6 months.

Now settled into our forever home (even though it might not actually be our home forever IYSWIM).

My mum has a friend who is 70. She still lives in the house not only that she was born in, but that was her father’s, grandfather’s and great grandfather’s. But she doesn’t have children so it ends with her.

14 if you include university ones.

19. Funnily enough I couldn't sleep last night and I was counting them up!

22,I'm almost 46.
Dd16 is on 8.
Dd9 is on 4.

16 plus a caravan plus boarding school

0-2yo - 1st house
2-12yo - 2nd house
12-21yo - 3rd house
21-22 - 2 houses included in jobs
22-23 - back to 3rd house
23-33 - 4th house
33 - current day - 5th house

We will likely move again to downsize.

I am really suprised and interested at the amount of people who have ived in 20, 30 or more different homes with lots of very short stays. Obviously can understand uni halls/houses but how do people cope with the stress of constantly moving otherwise ?! Also I suppose it's specific to different people but why exactly would somebody needs to change homes 50 odd times? Surely that would mean literally living on the move so you couldn't really count that as living in different homes?

Exactly 20. That includes 5 years worth of uni.

I'm 53, love my house and don't intend to ever move again.

0-18 - 1 childhood family home
18-22 - 4 different rooms in university-owned accommodation
22-28 - 5 flat shares
28-33 - 1st house with DH (we got married a year after buying it)
33-47 (now) - current house with DH

So that's 12 - but only 3 for more than a year or so.

20...I'm almost 50... one of them I've lived in twice with a gap of 4 years between as was abroad.

15 not including uni.

Owed 4
Rented 9
Two childhood

Military family mid thirties

No, 21, forgot one I was in for a year...

20 different houses but lived in one twice.

5 as in actual homes, 7 or 8 more as a student nurse /student midwife moving between hospital sites.

5:
Parents house for 20 years
Rented house for 3.5 years
Rented house 8 months
Bought first house 7 years
Bought this house last summer

I hate moving so planning on being here at least until ds finishes school (starting in Sept!)

as child: 5-6 (not sure whether to count last one as barely there)
as undergrad/grad and inbetween: 8-9 (not including summer accommodation)
with husband and later kids: 3

I've been in same house now for nearly 17 years. Kids don't remember any other. Will most likely stay here for another 20 or so!

As an adult: 1 bedsit, 1 flat, 2 houses plus living with my in-laws for a few months. I'm hoping not to move again.

If it's including my childhood in the US, it get a lot more complicated.
With my parents: 4 where I'd say I properly lived, one only with my father, and an additional 2 (one for each) where I technically lived there, but the time I actually was there was less than a month combined. Oddly, as one of those two is the last known house for me in the US, that's the one that determines what district I vote in for US elections.

With my maternal grandparents: 1 - they lived in the same house since before my mother was born.
With my paternal grandparents - there were at least 2 that I lived for at least a few months in, but I stayed with them more when I was small and I don't remember that well. They moved a lot as my grandfather was a pastor.
I also did a lot of couch hopping as a teenager when my parents weren't safe to be with and my grandparents weren't available and/or safe, some there was that mix of feeling like I lived there, but also basically homeless.

@Bbq1

I am really suprised and interested at the amount of people who have ived in 20, 30 or more different homes with lots of very short stays. Obviously can understand uni halls/houses but how do people cope with the stress of constantly moving otherwise ?! Also I suppose it's specific to different people but why exactly would somebody needs to change homes 50 odd times? Surely that would mean literally living on the move so you couldn't really count that as living in different homes?

If you do it a lot it isn’t necessarily stressful, especially when you’re young and relatively carefree. I can still pack like a pro and run it all like clockwork, although it is much more of an upheaval these days. I’m happy to be settled in a forever home but by the same token if I needed to move again I could make it work.

My parents led a pretty nomadic lifestyle for much of my childhood and youth. I then continued that in my youth, with a small child too for some of that period. By the time I had two children we had settled down (ish) and when my youngest was still quite young we moved into the house that we stayed in for 14 years. My children stayed in the same schools throughout their entire primary and secondary education as I promised myself that they would have that stability and I delivered on it.

1. I'm 34 and we've been in this house 5 years.

2
First from birth to 2 yrs old
Second from then until now....55 years old
Same town same village lol

18. Last 3 I have owned. Almost 30 years in last 2 houses, 11 so far in current house.

2 x houses owned by parents
1 x uni halls of residence
2 x rented uni flatshares
3 x rented flatshares post uni
1 x rented flat with now DH
1 x owned flat with DH
1 x owned house with DH

So…. 11? Just putting the house on the market so hopefully 12 soon, and then I’m not moving ever ever ever again hopefully 🤞 at least not for a while!

I think the above is pretty average among my friends.