# How many houses have you lived in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286 "2025-01-23T09:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/81 "2025-01-23T23:38:40Z")
I’m 53, and I counted 26. And I’ve been in my current place for 20 years, so lots of moving in my 25-35 years. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/82 "2025-01-23T23:43:07Z")
Counting dormitory rooms in college: 17. I’m 59 years old. - Six houses (four owned by my parents, one rented by me with roommates, one owned by my wife and me) - Six apartments - Five different dorm rooms We’re coming up on 29 years in our current house. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/83 "2025-01-23T23:46:38Z")
Seven. Including my parents homes. Lived in three apartments before I bought a house in 1989 and never moved. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/84 "2025-01-24T00:05:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Okay, I came up with 36 as a mental exercise. Oh, and ten of those were in foreign countries. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/85 "2025-01-24T01:01:05Z")
21 and counting. I’m 68. And I loathe moving. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/86 "2025-01-24T10:59:28Z")
As a young adult I moved quite a bit but much less so when the householder was older House 1 3 years House 2 full time for 15 years, for next 3 years was there in university vacations Room 4 to 6, At uni 3 different rooms in same hall of residence, same address but concensus seems to be this counts as 3. House 7. 1 year House 8 3 years House 9 2 years House 10, 1 year House 11, 1 year House 12, 1 year House 13, 27 years and counting (age 57) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/87 "2025-01-24T11:21:41Z")
This is really a challenge! Let’s see: 1. The apt in Morningside Heights where my parents lived when I was born 2. The guestinitsa (sort of a hybrid hotel/apartment building for people temporarily relocating-- about 1/2 were foreigners) we lived in, in Moscow 3. The house in Queens that my parents actually bought before we went to Moscow, and we put all our stuff in, but then rented out, and didn’t live in until we got back. 4. My grandmother’s in Westchester where we stayed a little over a month after we got back from the USSR, before we moved into the house in Queens-- I was 10, and told at the time is was because our renters wanted to stay, but found out later my parents were hoping the Son of Sam would be caught before the school year started, and didn’t want to move back until then 5. My aunt and uncle’s house where I went to live in Indiana the summer before high school, and stayed through my sophomore year of college 6. different aunt and uncle in Chicago I spent a summer with when I was 16, when I had cousins who were a baby and a toddler 7. dorm at Gallaudet UNiversity 8. apt in Bloomington Indiana 9. apt in Indianapolis (Nora) 10. various army barracks, longest single stay was about 3 months 11. a little over a year back at my aunt & uncle’s house helping care for her then rehab after a serious illness 12. rented house in Bloomington that I eventually bought 13. apt in Indy (Wash Twnship) 14. apt in Indy (Speedway) 15. 2nd apt Speedway 16. 3rd apt Speedway 17. apt Noblesville, IN Wow. FWIW, the longest places were the house in Queens, & the 2 houses in Bloomington. Those 3 together were 6 + 8 + 17 years, so 31 of my 58 years. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/88 "2025-01-24T16:59:51Z")
12, counting various dorm rooms in college. Been in this house for 28 years and counting. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/89 "2025-01-24T17:36:07Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > 1. 12 altogether. 7 houses, 5 apartments. One apartment I was too young for any clear memory. I didn’t count brief periods where I stayed with someone else for 1-2 weeks. > > ETA: Forgot about another house, so 13, 8 houses, 5 apartments. Just remembered another apartment. It was in the same building, just moved into a larger unit along with more roommates. So 14 total, 8 houses, 6 apartments. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/90 "2025-01-24T19:50:35Z")
I’m 73, and my count is 15 1. Where I grew up. We never moved 2, 3 - two places we lived in the Congo, a temporary apartment while they got rid of the squatter in the house we wanted to rent and then the house 2. Dorm at MIT, all four years 3. Dorm at Illinois, 1 year 4. Apartment in Champaign I rented 5. Crappy room in Lafayette, Louisiana for a week 6. Apartment in Laffayette until I got married 7. Rented house in Lafayette after I got married 8. Home we bought in Lafayette 9. Apartment in Princeton 12, 13 - two sides of a house we rented 14 - house we bought in NJ 15 - house we bought in California 10 years for the house in NJ, 28 years for the house I’m living in now so we’re moving less. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/91 "2025-01-24T22:41:37Z")
I’m 65 in April and will be moving to a new residence in a few weeks — 21 for me. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/92 "2025-01-24T22:44:46Z")
Mid-50s. 13 apartments and houses as well as one converted bus for about a year as a child. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/93 "2025-01-24T22:46:05Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > one converted bus 🎶 Come on, get happy! 🎵 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/94 "2025-01-24T22:47:23Z")
Ha…it was a bit like that! I have fond memories of that year, except for the freezing our asses off during the winter portion of it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/95 "2025-01-24T22:50:11Z")
1. House built by my grandfather on the shore of Lake Michigan 6.5 years 2. House in a northern suburb of Milwaukee 1.5 years 3. Rented house in Flint, MI 1 year 4. a different house in Flint, MI 1 year 5. House just outside of Detroit, MI 4 years 6. House in Indianapolis northern suburb 2 years 7. Apartment in northern Chicago suburb 1 year 8. Condominium in different northern Chicago Suburb 0.5 years 9. Dorm in Baltimore MD with 4 other guys 1 year 10. Apartment in Baltimore MD with those 4 other guys 3 years 11. Row house flat in Baltimore MD with 3 of those guys and future wife 2 years 12. Apartment in Baltimore MD with wife 2 years 13. Apartment in northwest Milwaukee with wife 1 year 14. Rented half a duplex in NW Milwaukee 2 years 15. Back to house 1) but now it’s been moved 1/8 mile west from where it was before 1 year 16. Rented house in western Milwaukee suburb 2 years 17. House in southern Milwaukee suburb 6.5 years 18. House that’s on the land that house 1) was originally on 30 years All the time I was moving around, whatever house was sitting on the land on the shore of Lake Michigan in 1) was my summer and vacation home. It was weird living in 15) because it was my very first home, looked pretty much the same inside, but since the house had been moved, it had different views out of the windows. That was some cognitive dissonance for a while. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/96 "2025-01-24T22:52:16Z")
You mean like the sun coming in the wrong windows at the wrong time of day? I hear you, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/97 "2025-01-24T22:53:09Z")
Not quite, it still faced east like the old house did, but Lake Michigan was now 1/8 mile off in the distance rather than right outside. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/98 "2025-01-25T00:34:50Z")
What about your time in the Big House? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/99 "2025-01-25T01:13:21Z")
I estimate I spent at least 1.5 years inside different prisons, but I never actually slept in one. So IMHO it doesn’t count as living there. Sleeping there is actually a firing offense. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286/100 "2025-01-25T03:02:01Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I’m 88 (as of yesterday). Happy belated birthday! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-houses-have-you-lived-in/1013286.md?page=6)