To ask how many countries you've lived in?

[yorkshireteas]

Just that really. I'd love to live in France, Germany and USA

5 - Australia, UK, Ireland, NZ and Canada.

Finding this thread fascinating-

those of you who have lived so many places- was it military?

what has been behind so many moves?

Work? love? serendipity?

1. Love where I am now the most.

Apart from England, the other 6 are all work. 4 me and 2 dh.

Two, England & now Ireland.

South Africa, Scotland, Australia, England.

1. Not looking to move but, if I was, it would be somewhere warmer and drier!

1. Study and work in my case

UAE
UK
Germany
Peru
Brazil
Mexico
Honduras

Am not a reliable source on how long it takes to learn a language though - I was only a child in Germany and found it very easy, and my mother is Portuguese, so learning Spanish wasn't hard.

Two: USA (I'm American)
Scotland (for university)

Hmm, depends if you count the different countries in uk as separate countries too. I know it's all uk but my experience is that culturally they're very different.

Scotland, England, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.

So nowhere near as well travelled as some of you.

In my case yes military but we didn't live on base we lived in civilian addresses, language took about 6 months till I felt confident and lack of use since means I've lost much of what I learned especially from childhood.

6 plus UK. Am in UK now with very itchy feet!

It’s really easy to play spot the military families on this thread

Canada, USA, Ireland and Wales. Contemplating a move to Australia, hoping that one would be permanent.

4

England, Northern Ireland, France, and Hong Kong.

I spent two years in a Spanish speaking country and wouldn't say I was fluent at the end of that time despite studying Spanish for the whole time I was there and I don't think I was that unsual. I did build up good basic skills and buy the end could manage an evening of conversation in it but I wasn't fluent. My DC sounded like natives and accent wise still do years later. But I was shocked I ever got that far.

UK, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Cyprus, Belize, Ascension Island, Falkland Islands, USA.

2 in Africa, 2 in Europe, 3 in the Americas and one in the middle east. 5 of those were only for 6 months though while DH worked. Really lived for over a year, it's three.

what has been behind so many moves?
saudi - as a kid parents working there
Indonesia - I went to work there
Netherlands - married a dutch man went there for a while to learn dutch language and culture
Kazakhstan - went as a couple to do charity work

Poland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Canada, US, Switzerland and UK (not in order)

what has been behind so many moves?

Dad in the oil industry. We travelled with him to the US and Netherlands. We stayed at home for Saudi (didn’t see him for a year) and Aberdeen (he flew home at weekends).

Wales was for university.

mumsie I love many countries for various reasons, I spent a lot of time when I was younger fantasising about living in them, so whenever I had the opportunity to move to a place I liked, I did.

1. Although 5 in Europe and the other was USA.

Reason was academia.