# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/81 "2009-01-04T01:55:17Z")
In chronological order: Des Moines, IA Timonium, MD Towson, MD Buckhannon, WV Philadelphia, PA West Palm Beach, FL Towson, MD (again) Cockeysville, MD Parkville, MD Nottingham, MD Ten in all. All of the MD locations are suburbs of Baltimore, so if we’re getting picky on the definition of ‘city,’ those would all be rolled into one. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/82 "2009-01-04T01:58:57Z")
La Jolla, Ca. El Cajon, Ca. Wahiawā, Hawai’i. San Diego, Ca. Sunnyvale, Ca. San Jose, Ca. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/83 "2009-01-04T02:29:23Z")
Evanston, IL (0-17) – still my USA ‘permanent residence’ Ithaca, NY (17-21) (with 2mos. in Berlin, Germany) Oxford, UK (22-present). I’ll be living in Princeton, NJ for about five months soon… ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/84 "2009-01-04T05:45:03Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Do you live in Kitchener now? I was there a lot last summer. No. That was way back in the 80s. The actual sequence was Calgary, Mississauga, Calgary again, Kitchener (for my teens), and back home to Calgary. Kitchener was a pretty nice town when I was there – good German food! Too bad it’s in… yeccch… Ontario. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/85 "2009-01-04T06:05:26Z")
Just 3. Redlands, CA Sauk Rapids, MN St Cloud, MN ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/86 "2009-01-04T09:57:19Z")
Port Jefferson & Port Jefferson Station, NY somewhere in Connecticut Pittsfield, MA somewhere in Florida somewhere in Texas Austin, Texas Seaside, Oregon Rutland, Vermont Queens, NY ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/87 "2009-01-04T10:54:29Z")
When you live in a city as awesome as London, it doesn’t matter that you’ve never lived anywhere else. That’s my defence and I’m sticking with it. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/88 "2009-01-04T10:59:06Z")
In chronological order: Burnley, UK (Kassel, Germany) Cambridge, UK Birmingham, UK Paris, France Poona, India. ---
**Author:** ![czarcaztic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@czarcaztic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/czarcaztic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/89 "2009-01-04T14:58:42Z")
Seattle WA Danville VA Richmond VA San Antonio TX Denver CO Shreveport LA Riverside CA Agana Guam Omaha NE Danville VA Goldsboro NC Richmond VA Wilkesboro NC Martinsville VA Lynchburg VA ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/90 "2009-01-04T18:09:46Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > What did you think of Henniker (“The only Henniker on Earth!”)? I lived 10 miles north of there, near the Market Basket. It was nice enough (still is; my mother still lives there and I was just up there over the holidays). We lived on the same hill as Pat’s Peak (the ski area) which made it hell in winter (the trip down the hill this past Thursday was less than enchanting). Which Market Basket? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/91 "2009-01-04T18:26:30Z")
In roughly north-south order, not including my present location in the Maryland exurbs of DC: Lincoln, NH Hartford, CT Garden City, NY Bethesda, MD Washington, DC Alexandria, VA Charlottesville, VA Blacksburg, VA Newport News, VA Bristol, VA Florence, SC Columbia, SC Los Angeles, CA More places than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/92 "2009-01-04T23:46:28Z")
> [@Illuminatiprimus](#): > > When you live in a city as awesome as London, it doesn’t matter that you’ve never lived anywhere else. It only counts if you live in Neil Gaiman’s London. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/93 "2009-01-05T00:27:05Z")
1 for all practical purposes Decatur, IL (and Mt. Zion, IL, but they adjoin) I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/94 "2009-01-05T01:13:16Z")
Logansport, Louisiana (grew up there) New Orleans, Louisiana Hartford Four Corners, Vermont Hanover, New Hampshire Woburn, Massachusetts Brighton, Massachusetts Holliston, Massachusetts ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/95 "2009-01-05T01:21:13Z")
Santa Monica, California Providence, Rhode Island Edinburgh, Scotland Bloomington, Indiana ---
**Author:** ![Abraca\_Deborah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Abraca\_Deborah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abraca_Deborah)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/96 "2009-01-05T01:36:48Z")
Hmmm… Orlando, FL (born in Winter Park area) Tarpon Springs, FL Clear, AK Anchorage, AK Kodiak Island, AK Seattle, WA Bremerton, WA Bellevue, WA Kirkland, WA Redmond, WA Portland, OR San Diego, CA Phoenix, AZ Denver, CO Pueblo, CO Colorado Springs, CO Greeley, CO Orillia, ON West Palm Beach, FL Bethesda, ON Stouffville, ON Calgary, AB Lethbridge, AB Not from a military family- just raised by a certifiably crazy mother who thought nothing of pulling us out of school to drive to the next “great place”. She had enrolled us in 22 different schools by grade 10. I moved far less once she kicked me out at age 16. The past 18 years have been quite stable, really. Just moved one month ago as my husband got a job that required we relocate, and I hope to never move again. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/97 "2009-01-05T01:38:16Z")
Sydney, Australia Canberra, Australia Melbourne, Australia Wellington, New Zealand ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/98 "2009-01-05T03:36:09Z")
I consider living in a city spending at least 60 consecutive days there. With that in mind, I have lived in, in order: Houston, TX Austin, TX Houston, TX Jakarta, Indonesia Houston, TX Angleton, TX Singapore Sydney, Australia Singapore Angleton, TX Houston, TX ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/99 "2009-01-05T03:57:47Z")
**10** that I can remember Leominster, MA Marlborough, MA Stow, MA Worcester, MA Bangor, ME Clearwater, FL Hernando Beach, FL Largo, FL Spring Hill, FL St Petersburg, FL ---
**Author:** ![InterestedObserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@InterestedObserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InterestedObserver)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660/100 "2009-01-05T04:09:56Z")
“Cities”: Houston, Tx Austin, Tx Portland, Or Smaller towns/areas: San Angelo, Tx Onalaska/Livingston, Tx Mosier, Or The Dalles, Or [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-different-cities-have-you-lived-in/479660.md?page=6)