Four:
Sydney
Canberra
Melbourne
Wellington
Only 16 -
Allentown, PA
Hanover, PA
Rochester, NY
Creve Coeur, MO
Timonium, MD
Bedford, NH
Wellesley, MA
Boston, MA
Arlington, VA
Cambridge, MA
Somerville, MA
Waltham, MA
Kolonia, Pohnpei, FSM
Jakarta, Indonesia
Maputo, Mozambique
Cairo, Egypt
I’ve had a lot more addresses than that, though. For example, I lived at two different places in Cairo and four in Jakarta.
Zanesville, OH
Duncan Falls, OH
Nashport, OH
Evanston, IL
Shoreline, WA
Seattle, WA
Columbus, OH
So, 7.
By metropolitan areas, 6.
By municipalities, 11
The first would count Newark, NJ and Stamford, CT are in the same NYC metro area. The second would count them as two.
The total number of “permanent” addresses I have had is 23. That doesn’t count the three occasions when I was relocating and had temporary housing provided by my employer for 2-3 months.
13:
Cleveland, OH
Warrensville Heights, OH
Cleveland Heights, OH
Columbus, OH
St. Louis, MO
New York, NY (Manhattan)
New York, NY (Brooklyn Heights)
Fort Lee, NJ
Middle Island, NY
Northport, NY
Huntington Station, NY
Lake Ronkonkoma, NY
Long Beach, NY
Going by a strict definition of actually living within the city limits of an incorporated city: 3.
Beacon, NY
Elmira, NY
Middletown, NY
We might be the only two Dopers to have lived in both Seattle and Evanston.
Houston, Tx
Austin, TX
Singapore
Jakarta, Indonesia
Sydney, Australia
Bronx, New York, NY
Ithaca, NY
Eugene, Oregon
Boulder, Colorado
Wellington, New Zealand
Auckland, New Zealand
Washington, DC
Panama City, Panama
Buffalo, NY
Williamsville, NY
Waltham, MA
Pittsburgh, PA
University City, MO
St. Louis, MO
La Jolla, CA
San Deigo, CA
Middletown, CT
Soon… One more!
Williamsville? Really? Me too!
ETA: I’m surprised how many of us have done time in the Rochester-Buffalo area.
Indeed, I am from Wapato - and very few people can make that claim.
I still have relatives living in the Tri-Cities area. About the only memory I really have of the Tri-Cities is when I was a kid, there was a Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor there. We loved that place.
Newcastle UK
Aberdeen
Lerwick Shetland Isles
York Uk
Baku Azerbaijan (2)
Zestaphoni (Georgia and the most polluted place in the FSU)
Moscow
Istanbul
Auckland NZ
Manila Philippinez
Algecerias Spain
Padova Italy
Dubai
Rio de Janeiro
Lagos Nigeria
Port Gentil Gabon
Ulsan Korea
If you count living with the parents, stretch what a city is, and count anywhere I had a mailing address:
Sandy Hook, KY
Galveston, TX
Graham Station, WV
Wheelersburg, OH (twice)
Waverly, OH (twice)
Portsmouth, OH (twice)
Pittsburgh, PA (twice)
Parris Island, SC
Jacksonville, NC
USS Sandavol (I was there for 6 months and it had a bigger population than some)
Washington, DC
Monterrey, CA
Vietnam
Athens, OH
McDermott, OH
Rock Springs, WY
Green River, WY
Laramie, WY
Dayton, NV
Carson City, NV
Joliet, IL (born, lived 2 years) 1 address
Atlanta, GA (moved in '69, stayed until 1999 (with interruptions))*
Statesboro, GA (college, met my (to-be) wife) 5+ addresses
Athens, GA (college, Laura transferred with me) 4+ addresses
Knoxville, TN ('99-'09) 2 addresses
San Antonio, TX ('09-???) 2 addresses
*In Atlanta I lived, and had mailing addresses in the following cities:
Tucker (lived in 2 homes in Tucker, next door to each other. Lost the lease in one, moved next door which was available.)
Decatur
Stone Mountain/Smoke Rise
Snellville
Lawrenceville (a home (with my parents) and an apartment (with Laura), separated by about 3 years)
Chamblee
Flowery Branch
So, 6 cities and 21 addresses. In addition I used to stay at my grandparents in Daytona Beach, FL every summer and I’m quite positive that the total time spent there totalled 18 months of my life, so that makes 7 cities and 22 addresses.
Sounds about right… 
:eek:
Absecon, NJ (since I was born, and still my permanent address)
Glassboro, NJ (four years of college)
Shenzhen, China (only for six weeks, but was my first apartment)
Tongliang, Chongqing, China (just over three months now, but leaving next week)
You think word choice was accidental?
Adelaide Australia
Melbourne Australia
Westport CT USA
Manilla Philippines
London UK
Westport CT USA
Hamburg Germany
Wellington New Zealand
London UK
Melbourne Australia
Define “city” and define “permanent address”.
According to most people, Madrid is a city. According to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, you must report an address of record if you’re staying in one place for 30 days or more. According to the above, I lived in Madrid.
But Madrid is legally a “village” (seriously) and while I stayed there for several months, my address for taxation purposes has been the same two for most of my life, including the years I was in college in Barcelona… for voting purposes, it was the same for 20 years and has only recently moved to a village. So if you ask the Spanish Voter’s Census, I’ve lived in the same Spanish town even the four years I was living in Miami and the year I was in Philadelphia and the year I was in Basel and the two years I was in Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh)…