Irving, TX
Sherman, TX
Denton, TX
Fort Worth, TX
Grand Prairie, TX
Vacaville, CA
Bossier City, LA
Incirlik Air Base, Turkey
Atlanta, GA
Flower Mound, TX
Dallas, TX
Richardson, TX
These are all places where I had all my own stuff. ( Other places to add if you count living in an area for 1-2 months.-temporary assignments for medical school, residency, military)
Foreign aid worker.
Ah, ok. That explains it.
If I list individual cities, it’s too many to count. So I’ll just list the metropolitan areas, of which there are only four:
Philadelphia
Montreal
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Ed
Here’s some of mine:
Seattle, Washington
Pensacola, Florida
Coupeville, Washington
Lynnwood, Washington
Denver, Colorado
Fairfield, California
Alderwood Manor, Washington
Clark Air Force Base, Luzon, Republic of the Philippines
Tacoma, Washington
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
Topeka, Kansas
Mountain Home, Idaho
University Place, Washington
4 small(ish) towns in upstate(ish) New York
3 sketchy cities in New Jersey
San Francisco
Austin, Texas
New York, NY
& my suburban homeland in a pear tree
equals 11
As I define “lived”, it is where I have had a “permanent” mailing address, not just mail forwarded from somehwere I was REALLY living. Chronologically, from before I started getting mail to my name:
Kailua, HI
Parris Island, SC
Beaufort, SC
Durham, NC
Quantico, VA
Fort Bliss (El Paso) TX
New Bern, NC
Morehead City, NC
New Bern, NC (again)
Durham, NC (again)
Williamsville, NY
Amherst, NY
Yarmouth, ME
Beaufort, SC (again)
Savannah, GA
Coconut Grove, FL
Miami, FL
West Kendall, FL
Lithonia, GA
19 places, counting repeats.
I feel so inadequate:
Calgary, AB
Mississauga, ON
Kitchener, ON
Three. Big whoop. And I was only 3-4 years old when we were in Mississauga, so I barely remember it. I guess it’s a good thing that I like staying in one place and just visiting other places…
San Leandro, CA
Hayward, CA
Concord, CA
Seattle, WA
Potomac, MD
Atlanta, GA (might have technically been Decatur then)
Largo, FL
Gainesville, FL
Tampa, FL
Clearwater, FL
Fairfield, OH
Cincinnati, OH
Columbia, MD
Baltimore, MD
Carouge, Switzerland
Bad Soden, Germany
Wiesbaden/Rambach, Germany
Bangkok, Thailand
Bang Plii, Thailand
Blue Ash, OH
Palm Harbor, FL
Westchase, FL
Some of those may not technically be cities. I didn’t count any place twice, although there are a few I moved back and forth to. Also, we lived in some place in Germany for about a month and I have no recollection what the little town name was.
Do you live in Kitchener now? I was there a lot last summer.
In very loose chronological order, ignoring twofers:
Ithaca, NY
Washington, D.C.
Boston, Mass.
New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Ferndale, Mich.
Alameda, CA
El Cerrito, CA
Berkeley, CA
So, nine. Huh - I would’ve figured more, but I then lived in two of those ( SF and Alameda ) twice, at different points in my life. Export, PA where I spent a few full summers would be the next closest thing to an actual “lived in” city, but I wouldn’t really count it.
Zanesville, OH
Duncan Falls, OH
Nashport, OH
Evanston, IL
Shoreline, WA
Seattle, WA
Columbus, OH
I lived in 13 different houses before the age of ten, but some were in the same cities.
City-wise, in no discernible order until I was 10:
Jackson, MI
Parma, MI
Lansing, MI
East Lansing, MI
Hudson, MI
Adrian, MI
Hanover Horton, MI
There may have been others but I don’t remember.
then from 10 to 17
Brooklyn, MI
then from 17 to present (in order)
Jackson, MI (again)
Ann Arbor, MI
Ypsilanti, MI
New Brunswick, NJ
Where to next? No idea. Probably north of here.
FWIW I consider Ann Arbor my hometown.
Kennewick, WA 0-18
Pullman, WA 18-21
Kennewick, WA 21-25 (Present)
Yeah, pretty boring.
Six:
Durham, NC
Columbus, OH
Charlottesville, VA
Ashburn, VA
Reston, VA
Philadelphia, PA
This thread has Washoe up the wazoo.
Oakland, CA
Alameda, CA
San Leandro, CA
Moraga, CA
Hayward, CA
Castro Valley, CA
El Cerrito, CA
Reno, NV
Four here, not counting places I’ve lived in more than once:
Raleigh, NC
Oak Island, NC
Chillicothe, OH
Athens, OH
I’m back in Chillicothe now.
Chattanooga, TN
Waterville, ME
(back to Chattanooga)
Murfreesboro, TN
Nashville, TN
Jackson, MS
Atlanta, GA
Knoxville, TN
Youngstown, OH
Tucson, AZ
So, 9 cities.
Marysville, CA
Sacramento, CA (several different houses/areas)
Rancho Cordova, CA
Antelope, CA
Corte Madera, CA
Two towns in Japan, don’t know the name of the first one but it’s near Zama AFB, second place’s train station was Yomiurirando, Kanagawa Ken.
Portland, OR
14 houses that I consider to be permanent addresses.
Rosamond, CA
Lancaster, CA
Durango, CO
Grand Junction, CO
Santa Clarita, CA
And I’m back in Lancaster. I was born here; hopefully I manage to die elsewhere. Like, somewhere farther away than Palmdale. 