We’ve tended to move house every year or so, through choice, to see different parts of the cities we’ve lived in. And we’ve moved countries every 2-3 years. I guess we just get bored easily!
So cal resident near the ocean. Same house 40 years, same neighborhood entire life. I regret not having lived in areas more rural and closer to nature. I always have some excuse why I can’t move. Very hard to leave this weather and family.
I just turned 38, and excluding my dorm in college, I’ve lived in 7 different homes. I want to buy house, in this town, and call it done.
I have worked at the same company fro 36 years. We have lived in the same house for 29 years. WE are happy here, and comfortable. There is no need to move on.
Don’t shoehorn me 
Slightly towards mover but none of the other options fit.
I hate the packing and unpacking so within the immediate area I’m more of a stayer. Long term I don’t see myself that constrained though. I’m in my 40s and have never owned a house because I never felt like I was committing to being in that one area for long enough (under the whole don’t buy for less than 5 years rule of thumb.) It’s been a long time since I knew where I was going to be much more than a year out. I’d like some more stability for a while after that period.
I am fundamentally lazy, and will never again willingly subject myself to the PITA that is moving to a new residence.
I am also fundamentally cheap, and barring a lottery jackpot that leaves me with more money than I could plausibly spend in fifty years, I will never hire someone to handle the PITA aspects of a move on my own nickel.
For me, it’s inertia.
My answer to “are you willing to relocate?” is and has always been “yeah, sure. Say the word.” But so far, no one’s ever taken me up on it. And since I like where I am and moving would require effort, I’ve not gone out of my way to move. Should I have a reason to move (job, family, etc.), I’d go with no problem. But I do need the reason first and right now, I’m not really seeking the reason.
From 1996-1999 I moved to a new city ~ 1/year. Since then it’s been about once every 3 years until now. I’ve been in my current workplace/city for coming up on 5 years. Every day is the longest I’ve lived/worked anywhere since my college graduation.
I like my job, really I do, a lot. But I’m currently very antsy about the whole “still in the same city” thing.
I think I’m a stayer, but right now I want to move. I HATE the Bay Area. I lived here for almost 20 years, before moving up to Oregon in 2007. We moved to Missouri about 3 years later. Then back to the Bay Area almost 2 years ago.
I miss Oregon. That’s home to me. Small town about 80 miles south of Portland. Climate, people, everything.
Wasn’t a box for me. Don’t shoehorn me! 
I’ve moved 13 times in my 16 years of adulthood, so I guess that makes me a mover.
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Until 1995, at the age of 50, I moved about 30 times. Since then, I haven’t moved once, nor do I intend to.
Seeing as I’m moving in just under two weeks for a career jump - the moving part wouldn’t have been my choice but I am seizing the opportunity - I’m a mover. This will be the third time I’ve jumped to a new city more or less blind. It’s a bit lonely but also exciting to have another new start.
My wife and I have lived in the house we’re in now for the past 17 years. But during the previous 17 years (ages 27-44), I/we moved 10 times.
Through age 44, I’d never held the same job or been in the same school for more than 5 years. I’ve now been in the same job for over a decade. Sometimes it’s just a matter of finding a situation that fits you reasonably well.
I can’t say I’ve got no desire to live anywhere else, because there are other places I’d like to live. But I’ve got family and friends here, and being less than an hour from two major airports (DCA and BWI) means we can visit my wife’s family as often as she wants, and it’s easy to travel to other places for vacations.
In the first 7 years of our marriage, we had 5 different addresses within the same geographic area. At the 14 year mark, we moved out of state, 3 years later, moved out of state again, and 4 years after that, moved to yet another state. That’s where we are now and that’s where we’ve been for almost 11 years.
We intend to stay in this house till they wheel us to The Home. If my husband dies before I do, I might consider moving to a smaller place with less property, but I like our 3 acres, so who knows? Meanwhile, this is it!
Huh, I’m a bit surprised tha there are so few vagabonds among us. I honestly expected the pure mover/stayer split to be close to 50/50. As of now, there are 4 times more stayers.
The “would rathers” split is more like what I expected.
And we have an awful lot of shoehorn avoiders!
I’ve lived in 7 different states in the US and 3 different counties in the UK. I’ve been in the same house now for around 7 years. I’ve recently started working from home full time so I could move wherever I want (as long as it has good broadband) but laziness is keeping me from getting started.
I’ve gone wherever the school or job took me. So far (40 years since HS) that’s about 6 different regions of the country or world, not counting temporary stays in other regions or relos within a single metro area.
I think I did my final work-related move last year, but might move again once I retire for real.
I have no attachment to any place for its own sake; if somebody else is paying for it I could move annually without complaint. New and different is much more interesting and desirable than old and familiar.
By my standards of what’s desirable in a location my current location is far more desirable than anywhere I’ve lived since I was a kid. And that area has priced itself out of my reach. So odds are I’ll stay here after retirement. Not because I want to stay per se, but only because I can’t think of someplace I’d like even better. Though if I do think of one, I’m gone.
Having an almost total lack of family and long-time friends certainly helps one to be portable.
I’ve moved about a dozen times, but all within a 25-mile radius of where I was born, so I think I’m more of a stayer- all my moves have been to improve my living situation, not to get a change of scenery or because I got the urge to ramble on. I really like the home and area where my family and I live now, and can see myself staying here for the duration unless circumstances change somehow. But I wouldn’t move out of state for a job.
My sister moved to Florida with her husband years ago. When I was younger, single and rootless she tried to talk me into moving down there, which was awfully tempting, especially when I paid them a visit in the wintertime. But I never pulled the trigger on that, so maybe I have something genetic like the OP.
When somebody chooses the name **solost ** despite living in one tiny area their whole life, yeah, I’d say it’s genetic. Or at least *real *deep-seated. 