# How many different "cities" have you lived in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660 "2009-01-03T01:57:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/41 "2009-01-03T05:55:20Z")
Pamplona (Spain) Tudela (Spain) Barcelona (Spain) South Miami (USA) North Miami (yes, they are different townships) (USA) Philadelphia (USA) Liberia (Costa Rica) Basel (Switzerland) Saint Louis (France) Vitoria (Spain) Glasgow (UK) Aoiz (Spain) I think I’m not forgetting any… this count doesn’t include places where I stayed in a hotel, even if it was for more than a month, or where I was as part of an exchange (that is, places where the stay was clearly defined as “very temporary”). Adding those yields: Göttingen (Germany) Toluca (Mexico) Apizaco (Mexico) Romano d’Ezzelino (Italy) Mozzate (Italy) Houston (USA) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/42 "2009-01-03T06:05:04Z")
5 locales (not all of them cities) by the age of 8. If you don’t count college as a place I lived, no new locales through age 20. 4 in adulthood thus far. 3 have been in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/43 "2009-01-03T06:12:34Z")
Madrid, Spain Pinehurst, North Carolina Naples, Italy Charleston, South Carolina Toronto, Canada Oakville, Canada ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/44 "2009-01-03T06:44:37Z")
Bristol, TN Knoxville, TN Mobile, AL Knoxville, TN Orangeburg, SC Milwaukee, WI St. Louis, MO Beloit, WI Greenville, SC St. Cloud, MN Janesville, WI Austin, MN Kaukauna, WI Little Chute, WI Charleston, SC Minneapolis, MN Freedom, WI Kaukauna, WI Chillicothe, IL Houston, TX 20 (including the multiple times I lived in a couple of cities) ---
**Author:** ![Crimmsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Crimmsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crimmsy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/45 "2009-01-03T06:50:37Z")
Kelowna, BC Sudbury, ON Kingston, ON Trenton, ON Moose Jaw, SK Cold Lake, AB Moose Jaw, SK, again So, six with a bit of repetition. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/46 "2009-01-03T07:03:02Z")
If we’re counting the incorporated and unincorporated suburbs of larger main cities: Spokane Valley, WA (however, it was an unincorporated part of Spokane County until 2003) Whittier, CA Sacramento, CA Citrus Heights, CA Cupertino, CA Carmichael, CA Fair Oaks, CA Seattle, WA Washington, DC Walla Walla, WA (sort of) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/47 "2009-01-03T07:10:11Z")
New Smyrna, Fla West Carollton, Oh Los Angeles, Ca (in many of its wonderful suburbs) Long Beach, Ca ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/48 "2009-01-03T07:33:17Z")
Enschede (Netherlands) Soest (Netherlands) Laren (Netherlands) Delft (Netherlands) Castricum (Netherlands) Singapore (Singapore) Rouen (France) Almere (Netherlands) Only 8, but in 3 countries and 2 continents… to be expanded with Shanghai (China) in the (near?) future. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/49 "2009-01-03T08:45:54Z")
In order: Amesbury, MA Lawrence, MA (both north and south) Plaistow, NH Raymond, NH Taunton, MA Durham, NH and currently in NH in _yet another_ town ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/50 "2009-01-03T08:57:27Z")
1, or 2, depending on how you count it: Lacey, WA (Birth through age 18, afterward when UM is not in session) Missoula, MT (when university is in session fall 2006-spring 2009) I’ll come back to Lacey after graduation, but someday will probably end up in Missoula again. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/51 "2009-01-03T09:31:30Z")
NYC-born and bred, where I live today. In between Liberty NY Uzes France Boston MA Washington DC Silver Spring MD Denver CO Syracuse NY (actually DeWitt but I could spit into Syracuse) Schenectady NY Probably forgetting one or two. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/52 "2009-01-03T11:09:14Z")
Grew up in SLC, UT and lived there until I was 20, when I first came to Japan. Isahaya Nagasaki Miyakonojo Yatsushiro Kagoshima Back home to SLC Then back to Japan Hino Chofu Tokyo Yokohama I’m back to Tokyo now. 10 cities. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/53 "2009-01-03T11:44:59Z")
Changchun, China Brisbane, Australia Armidale, Australia Amherst, MA, USA London, England Geelong, Australia Sydney, Australia Hong Kong, SAR Seattle, WA, USA 9 cities, 5 countries. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/54 "2009-01-03T12:37:34Z")
I was in the Navy, so some of these places were home for a few months if they were training sites: San Diego, CA Baltimore, MD Parkville, MD Orlando, FL Millington, TN (twice) Vallejo, CA Coronado, CA Newport, RI (3 different times) Lafayette, IN Pensacola, FL Glen Burnie, MD Athens, GA Jacksonville, FL Sigonella, Sicily Orange Park, FL (twice) Rota, Spain Middleburg, FL Green Cove Springs, FL (twice) King George, VA Solomons, MD Mechanicsville, MD And I sincerely hope I can stay put till they wheel me to The Home. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/55 "2009-01-03T13:59:13Z")
Pasadena, CA West Covina, CA Berkeley, CA Emeryville, CA Albany, CA Tokyo, Japan (2 locations) Vancouver, BC Seattle, WA London, England Linkoping, Sweden Amsterdam, Netherlands Berlin, Germany Barcelona, Spain Tokyo, Japan (3 locations) Saitama, Japan (current) ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/56 "2009-01-03T14:19:51Z")
Dunno how many of these I would consider cities, but let’s go over the whole thing. Not counting moves back to places, chronologically we have: Merrimack, NH Hudson, NH Juneau, AK Iowa City, IA Nashua, NH Washington, DC St. Petersburg, Russia (junior year abroad, but 9 months isn’t insignificant) Arlington, VA Silver Spring, MD Ankara, Turkey Stockholm, Sweden 11 all told. ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/57 "2009-01-03T14:36:59Z")
My list is shorter than many others here. Albano Laziale, Italy Liverpool, UK Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/58 "2009-01-03T15:04:59Z")
In roughly chronological order: Cleveland Heights, OH Chagrin Falls, OH Danville, KY Bloomington, IN Laurinburg, NC Laramie, WY Centennial, WY Gaithersburg, MD Golden, CO Pine, CO Aurora, CO Pontiac, MI Pueblo, CO San Leandro, CA Lexington, KY Floyds Knobs, IN ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/59 "2009-01-03T15:18:32Z")
Griswold, CT 0-18 No one lives there voluntarily Waterbury, CT Bridgeport, CT Unknown to me at the time, 2 doors down from where my father was born with aid from a mid-wife in '39 Valhalla, NY Groton, CT Old Saybrook, CT New London, CT Tokyo, Japan 3 months but my junk was in a storage unit in FL Port Charlotte, FL Tampa, FL ---
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Do different areas of NYC count? They were completely different types of neighborhoods. Manhattan (Washington Heights) Bronx (2 areas) Queens Louisville, KY Small town in Oldham County, KY Manchester, NH Small town outside Concord, NH Medium Cincinnati suburb, but in KY (current home) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660.md?page=4)