# How many different addresses have you had? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 5, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326 "2010-08-05T20:56:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/81 "2010-08-11T13:00:09Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Age 51 here. > [ol] > [li]18 years at my parents’ house[/li][li]Dorm 1 at college[/li][li]Dorm 2 at college[/li][li]Apartment at college[/li][li]Apartment after college[/li][li]Fiance’s apartment (not sure that counts, as it was a matter of crashing on the sofa for a few weeks while looking for longer-term)[/li][li]First shared house[/li][li]Second shared house[/li][li]Married-student apartment[/li][li]Condo[/li][li]Apartment in DC[/li][li]Townhouse[/li][li]Apartment 1 in NYC[/li][li]Apartment 2 in NYC (both simultaneous with townhouse, I commuted for 2 years)[/li][li]Detached house[/li][/ol] > > So that’s 15 places. Huh, I didn’t realize there were so many - this has been educational! Did you have different addresses on campus? We just had a PO Box - so I counted that as 1, because no matter what dorm I lived in, I had the same PO Box # the whole time I was there. Same thing with boarding school. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/82 "2010-08-11T15:12:15Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Did you have different addresses on campus? We just had a PO Box - so I counted that as 1, because no matter what dorm I lived in, I had the same PO Box # the whole time I was there. That’s rather clever. Though in the U.S. it could be problematical for packages–e.g., UPS won’t ship to P.O. boxes. At my dorms, our mail came straight to our buildings. Every room had its own mailbox, like an apartment building, attached to the mailroom, where you could pick up your packages. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/83 "2010-08-11T15:51:44Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@melodyharmonius](#): > > > > Did you have different addresses on campus? We just had a PO Box - so I counted that as 1, because no matter what dorm I lived in, I had the same PO Box # the whole time I was there. > > That’s rather clever. Though in the U.S. it could be problematical for packages–e.g., UPS won’t ship to P.O. boxes. > > At my dorms, our mail came straight to our buildings. Every room had its own mailbox, like an apartment building, attached to the mailroom, where you could pick up your packages. In both boarding school and college, it was standard that your room assignment could change at any time. In high school, they would do changes one a quarter. In college you usually stayed in the same room for 1 year, but sometimes people changed at the winter break. I’m actually in the US - and we solved UPS/Fedex Issues with a central receiving post office. Any packages were received there and you would get a package slip in your PO. There were 3 PO repositories: One for the women’s dorms, one for the men’s dorms, and the main was for faculty/staff/town students and had mailing services/package pick-up. Fedex and UPS knew to just bring the package to them. ---
**Author:** ![Cinebar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Cinebar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinebar)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/84 "2010-08-11T16:00:43Z")
Let’s see…as a kid, born in Hawaii but moved from there when I was a month old to the town I was to grow up in. We lived in a rental there until my parents bought a house. So, that makes three addresses. Then, when I was three or four, we moved back to Hawaii (fourth address) for a year or so (Dad was in the Navy), then back to the same house my parents had bought in Oregon. So, I lived at that address twice; not sure how to count that. We lived there until between my second and third grades when we moved to a different house (fifth address). I lived there until I graduated high school, moved to an apartment with a couple of friends (sixth address), then to a little house (seventh address). Moved into a duplex with my first husband (not married yet) - eighth address. We bought a house (ninth), then another one (tenth), then a little farm (eleventh). I stayed there until moving here almost five years ago. So, an even dozen. Weird, because I think I’ve really moved very little (compared to some people) but, adding it up, twelve sounds like quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/85 "2010-08-11T16:21:48Z")
11 w/ parents 6 in undergrad 5 during undergrad summers 6 in 20s 1 grad school 3 in 30s 3 since married 35 that I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/86 "2010-08-11T16:30:26Z")
I don’t know exactly, it depends on how you count them all. I’m going to go with 14. I’m 32. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/87 "2010-08-11T16:51:10Z")
–Some apartment in Dunkirk NY I was too little to remember. –A lakefront house outside of Dunkirk until I was 5 (we could go into Lake Erie from our back yard.) –A farmhouse outside of Fredonia until I was 11 –An apartment across from SUNY Fredonia for about a year –A tiny house that used to be a vacation cabin just outside of Fredonia for a few months until we moved to Florida, our old cat went to “a farm” because my Mom’s new boyfriend was allergic, of course a few months later we got cats anyway, but what the hey… –A condo her boyfriend’s law firm rented out for starting lawyers in Sarasota for a couple years. –For a couple months, A house in the artistic section south of downtown, huge and breezy with a fenced backyard, with random Buddhist/Hindu crafts/architecture found in various places due to the previous owners. –When they broke up we moved on short notice to a couple blocks from [del]The Ghetto[/del]Newtown until we find another place in a month or so. – Back to the artistic section, this time in an old apartment building in the spanish mission style with a nice inner courtyard. – Across the street from this into a rented house. – Cornell for two years – Two different dorms – Stayed at mom’s for a few months with her new boyfriend/fiance in her new rented house until I transferred to UCF – Rented a room in a duplex more than 5 miles from UCF and I biked to an from campus every day due to lack of car – Rented a room with friends closer to campus, still 2 or more miles but still closer. Friends may have thought me hypocritical because I refused to pay my share of the cable but watched it as much as them, but living on my own I indeed don’t purchase cable. – Moved back with mom after graduation, into a very tiny place in Sarasota. – Moved into a larger place after it was clear both myself and my brother who was going to college in Sarasota wanted to stay with her (we paid our share of the rent.) It was a medium sized ranch style house but with carpets in mottled shades of brown so stinging insects could hide in it. – An apartment in Palm Bay when I got a programming job – Another apartment in Orlando when I got a job there. – A luxury apartment closer to work when I realized I needed naptime. It was less than a mile from my 2nd UCF apartment since I worked near UCF at the time. – A condo on University when I realized it was much cheaper than renting. Was damaged in hurricane charlie 6 years ago and I still haven’t sold it. Thankfully, I haven’t lost much value since I bought before the market went crazy. – Another apartment in Palm Bay when I got a job back here again. So that’s 22 addresses, but only 5 cities if you count Dunkirk/Fredonia as 1. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/88 "2010-08-11T16:57:12Z")
1. I’m 24. All of my moving was in the past 6 years. Most of that time was during college, and two addresses were from dorm building because I didn’t have an apartment yet. I lived at the same address (technically) from when I was born until I was 18. My parents still live there. They have since the 1970s and will until probably after 2013 (best guess). Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/89 "2010-08-11T17:19:16Z")
Probably 30 or so in 41 years. The Neil Young lyric “Daddy always kept moving, so she did too” is sadly apt. In 2007 alone I had five different addresses in three cities due to grad school, dissatisfaction with a roommate and an internship. I’m thoroughly sick of it now but thanks to the economy it’s either relocate to where the jobs are or dig ourselves into a mountain of debt and unemployment. Goodbye, dream house in NC (where I thought I’d be until retirement and beyond), hello rental townhouse in NoVA. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/90 "2010-08-11T18:00:21Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > > [@AHunter3](#): > > > > One of the jobs I applied for required background check including every place I had lived since 1973. Yeah, that was fun. > > This is why I love our modern world. You know what I do when I need a list of everywhere I’ve lived? > > I go check _my account on Amazon_. They store _everything I’ve ever used as a shipping address_. It’s awesome. 😕 Amazon keeps our shipping addresses dating back to 19-freaking-73? Did they have a 300 baud BBS you could order books from back then or something? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/91 "2010-08-11T18:08:05Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > 😕 Amazon keeps our shipping addresses dating back to 19-freaking-73? “This modern world” being \*in contrast to \*1973. I, being a young ‘un of a mere 27 years of age, can look up via my Amazon account most of the places I’ve lived since moving out of my parents’ homes. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/92 "2010-08-12T00:35:35Z")
Ten, including all of my college dorms. I’m in my late twenties. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/93 "2010-08-12T03:38:44Z")
And I thought I’d moved around a lot. I’m 42 and have had 21 addresses. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/94 "2010-08-12T10:38:18Z")
At least 13 in my lifetime. (I started with 10, but reading some of the other comments reminded me of college dorms.) ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/95 "2010-08-12T22:26:10Z")
I’m somewhere in the range of 21-23. I have moved way more times than that but I frequently went back to an address I had already had. Three that I know of before my parents divorced (birth to age 4). Two with my mom and sisters (age 4-11). Six foster homes, one of which was a two-timer (including occasionally going back with my mom to the house I lived in until I was 11). That was from 11-18. Nine from 18-30 with a couple of repeats. I have been in this current house since November and I have no desire to ever leave, partly because I’m sick to death of moving, but also because it’s everything I have ever wanted in a house. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/96 "2010-08-13T05:51:38Z")
14, and we’re probably looking at one more move in the next year or two, but hopefully that will be the last one for a long, long time. ---
**Author:** ![Quintas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@Quintas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quintas)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/97 "2010-08-13T07:32:09Z")
17, will be moving to #18 before end of year. I’m 37. Longest at any address was 8yrs between the ages of 8 and 16. Strange how that 8 years of late childhood-mid teens seems like an eternity in memory. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/98 "2010-08-13T08:06:19Z")
Seven, if you count college addresses. A rowhouse in town from the time my parents brought me home from the hospital until my fourteenth birthday. A house in the suburbs of the same city from the time I was 14 until I moved out. One year in the dorms in college. The rest of college in an off-campus apartment. Married my husband, we lived in a small apartment in Trondheim. Found out we were going to have a baby, moved to a bigger place in the same city. Moved to suburban Oslo and here we are still. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/99 "2010-08-13T08:40:19Z")
I’m 35 years old. This’ll take some thought… 10 different addresses that I can remember, although one of them (my grandmother’s house) is one I lived in at three different points in my life. There may be one additional that I was born in that I don’t recall. All of these addresses have been within about 35 miles of one another in Los Angeles County. My next move, in January, will make the the spread more like 40 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Obsidian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326/100 "2010-08-13T09:05:00Z")
10 locations, 8 addresses, 6 towns, 4 counties, 2 states. I’m 31. My childhood house until 18, then my parents moved and I lived at the second house in the summers during college. Three dorms under one PO Box, then an apartment, in north & central New Jersey. Then one apartment and 3 houses in a in the mid-peninsula south of San Francisco. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-addresses-have-you-had/549326.md?page=6)