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laurainlimbo at 08:47am on 26/05/2009 under writer's block
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I've lived in 2 countries (U.S. and Japan), 6 states (in the U.S.), 10 different cities in the U.S. and 2 different cities in Japan, and altogether I've had 20 residences (including apartments and houses). That's the equivalent of moving once every two years.
The longest I've lived any one place was both Colorado (where I spent 9 years from age 7 to age 16), and Sacramento, California where I spent 11 years (from age 16 to age 26 and again for another year before I went to Japan in 1998).
my shortest stay anywhere was Portland, Oregon where we stayed for maybe 2 months. we got a great apartment in a suburb of Portland, but couldn't find jobs, and didn't have the patience to stay without any income.
When I was young, we moved around because of my father's job - he was with the U.S. Geological Survey, so we moved whenever he had a promotion or project. It was hard as a kid, but for some reason, once I became an adult, moving just became second nature. I get bored if I stay in one place for too long - I've been in the Chicago area since 2006, and I'm already anxious to move somewhere else. There are good and bad points about moving a lot. The best thing is that I've experienced many different places, and seen a lot of things. It's exciting to move and start over. But it's also expensive to move, and you have to always get rid of lots of stuff. The worst thing about my nomadic childhood, though, is that I have no nostalgic childhood home that I can always return to. My parents have lived in their current home in Washington for just 10 years - it feels like home when I go there only because they are there. But the childhood homes I remember, especially the one in Colorado, are only in my memories. I can no longer to back to the home where I played and enjoyed my formative years. That has always been sad for me, and I've envied people who grew up in just one home, and can still go back to that home for holidays and feel all warm and cozy and sentimental.
My favorite residences have all been near the water: Port Angeles, Washington; Arcata, California; and Kambara, in Shizuoka prefecture in Japan - where I also had a view of Mt. Fuji from my apartment. I don't remember much of my birthplace, which was Falls Church, Virginia, but I loved the homes of my childhood, which were in Sunnyvale, California and Lakewood, Colorado (a suburb of Denver). My least favorite place to live, especially as far as the weather and location, has been the Chicago area. I really want to get back to the coast again, and to milder weather.
I've lived in 2 countries (U.S. and Japan), 6 states (in the U.S.), 10 different cities in the U.S. and 2 different cities in Japan, and altogether I've had 20 residences (including apartments and houses). That's the equivalent of moving once every two years.
The longest I've lived any one place was both Colorado (where I spent 9 years from age 7 to age 16), and Sacramento, California where I spent 11 years (from age 16 to age 26 and again for another year before I went to Japan in 1998).
my shortest stay anywhere was Portland, Oregon where we stayed for maybe 2 months. we got a great apartment in a suburb of Portland, but couldn't find jobs, and didn't have the patience to stay without any income.
When I was young, we moved around because of my father's job - he was with the U.S. Geological Survey, so we moved whenever he had a promotion or project. It was hard as a kid, but for some reason, once I became an adult, moving just became second nature. I get bored if I stay in one place for too long - I've been in the Chicago area since 2006, and I'm already anxious to move somewhere else. There are good and bad points about moving a lot. The best thing is that I've experienced many different places, and seen a lot of things. It's exciting to move and start over. But it's also expensive to move, and you have to always get rid of lots of stuff. The worst thing about my nomadic childhood, though, is that I have no nostalgic childhood home that I can always return to. My parents have lived in their current home in Washington for just 10 years - it feels like home when I go there only because they are there. But the childhood homes I remember, especially the one in Colorado, are only in my memories. I can no longer to back to the home where I played and enjoyed my formative years. That has always been sad for me, and I've envied people who grew up in just one home, and can still go back to that home for holidays and feel all warm and cozy and sentimental.
My favorite residences have all been near the water: Port Angeles, Washington; Arcata, California; and Kambara, in Shizuoka prefecture in Japan - where I also had a view of Mt. Fuji from my apartment. I don't remember much of my birthplace, which was Falls Church, Virginia, but I loved the homes of my childhood, which were in Sunnyvale, California and Lakewood, Colorado (a suburb of Denver). My least favorite place to live, especially as far as the weather and location, has been the Chicago area. I really want to get back to the coast again, and to milder weather.
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I've lived in 7 houses, 2 dorms, 3 towns, and 2 counties. My favourite home was where we lived with Mum and our step dad from 1998 till 2004, we were able to remodel the kitchen and decorate the rooms exactly as we wanted, I was quite upset when we had to leave there! The place I've lived the longest is my Dad's current home, we moved there in 1988, left with Mum in 1996 and I still return every other weekend. Least favourite was the hall of residence I stayed during my first year of uni, I shudder still just thinking of it!
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I haven't moved much - home, to college in Swansea, for work in Oxford, then to my sleepy village just south of Oxford. I hate moving. I really don't like the upheaval.
My Mum still lives in the house I grew up in. My bedroom still has "Alison's Room" on a plaque on the door. :-)
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that's so neat that your mum still lives in the same house, and your bedroom is the same. I had one of those plaques too, that said "Laura's Room" - but that house has long since belonged to someone else. I don't like the process of moving, as in packing and unpacking, but usually once I'm in a new place, I like the change. what i've hated since I got together with my husband has been the always getting rid of stuff and starting over. not that I care so much about "stuff" or material things, but I feel like I'm always having to get new furniture - it's weird.
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