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.
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.
Seven.
Including my parents homes.
Lived in three apartments before I bought a house in 1989 and never moved.
Oh, and ten of those were in foreign countries.
21 and counting. I’m 68. And I loathe moving.
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)
This is really a challenge!
Let’s see:
- The apt in Morningside Heights where my parents lived when I was born
- The guestinitsa (sort of a hybrid hotel/apartment building for people temporarily relocating-- about 1/2 were foreigners) we lived in, in Moscow
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- dorm at Gallaudet UNiversity
- apt in Bloomington Indiana
- apt in Indianapolis (Nora)
- various army barracks, longest single stay was about 3 months
- a little over a year back at my aunt & uncle’s house helping care for her then rehab after a serious illness
- rented house in Bloomington that I eventually bought
- apt in Indy (Wash Twnship)
- apt in Indy (Speedway)
- 2nd apt Speedway
- 3rd apt Speedway
- 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.
12, counting various dorm rooms in college. Been in this house for 28 years and counting.
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.
I’m 73, and my count is 15
- 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 - Dorm at MIT, all four years
- Dorm at Illinois, 1 year
- Apartment in Champaign I rented
- Crappy room in Lafayette, Louisiana for a week
- Apartment in Laffayette until I got married
- Rented house in Lafayette after I got married
- Home we bought in Lafayette
- 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.
I’m 65 in April and will be moving to a new residence in a few weeks — 21 for me.
Mid-50s. 13 apartments and houses as well as one converted bus for about a year as a child.
Come on, get happy! 
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.
- House built by my grandfather on the shore of Lake Michigan 6.5 years
- House in a northern suburb of Milwaukee 1.5 years
- Rented house in Flint, MI 1 year
- a different house in Flint, MI 1 year
- House just outside of Detroit, MI 4 years
- House in Indianapolis northern suburb 2 years
- Apartment in northern Chicago suburb 1 year
- Condominium in different northern Chicago Suburb 0.5 years
- Dorm in Baltimore MD with 4 other guys 1 year
- Apartment in Baltimore MD with those 4 other guys 3 years
- Row house flat in Baltimore MD with 3 of those guys and future wife 2 years
- Apartment in Baltimore MD with wife 2 years
- Apartment in northwest Milwaukee with wife 1 year
- Rented half a duplex in NW Milwaukee 2 years
- Back to house 1) but now it’s been moved 1/8 mile west from where it was before 1 year
- Rented house in western Milwaukee suburb 2 years
- House in southern Milwaukee suburb 6.5 years
- 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.
You mean like the sun coming in the wrong windows at the wrong time of day? I hear you, my friend.
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.
What about your time in the Big House?
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.
Happy belated birthday!