Was there a landslide?
If so, the house fell up, as it ended up at a higher elevation than previously.
No, my folks had it picked up and moved 1/8 mile west, atop the lake bluff, making room for a new house (where I live now) on the shore of Lake Michigan. I can see my new house from my old house, and vice versa.
Age 53
6 Houses
5 Student housing units
2 apartments
Odd way to phrase that. Why exclude apartments? Some people live in them (not necessarily the same one) all of their lives.
Anyway the answer for me, a house I owned awhile back, is currently in the lead by a small margin at ~21%. Second longest was a house my folks rented when I was in 8th grade through my early college years (they never owned a place of their own until I was in my twenties, I grew up entirely in rentals). Third was a house I rented with a roommate after I got my first full-time job. My current place, a condo that started as a rental but I ended up buying recently when the option came up, is probably fourth. It hopefully should end up being the eventual leader.
If it doesn’t that means I died too young or financial/natural disaster struck 
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Of course! 
the stranger the better.
good point. I am trying to eliminate temporary living arrangements. As you point out, for many people apartments are anything but temporary. So let’s extend this to habitations you have lived in for a considerable amount of time AND aren’t stepping stones to another location. Not a perfect description since some people move from apartment to apartment for cost or other factors, but not as a temporary location on the way to a more permenant location. Perhaps that is a more inclusive definition.
I’ll suggest that for anyone much over the age of 20, each of their temporary living arrangements won’t be their longest anyhow, so you can freely count them among the runners up; they won’t be the winner that defines the numerator of your percentage.
Of course if what you really meant is they should not count in the denominator of “years lived anywhere more or less permanently”, then that changes the outcome.
My longest residence was a single family house I owned from 2001 to 2013. So 12-ish years. I’m pretty sure I will never surpass that number at any sort of address in the future. I’ve had three others that were ~10 years each.
12 of my 66 years on Earth (so far) is 18%. If we only want to count my adult post-college post-military years as “real” years of settled-down adulthood then I’ve only got 35 “real” years of adulthood residing anywhere and so 12 of 35 = 34%.
You (@rbroome) might want to rethink what you’re really trying to ask here and try again to explain it.
Over my 46 years, a total of 16 residences. 7 houses owned or rented by my parents during minorhood. 2 houses owned by my future in-laws during early adulthood. Then a string of 6 unit dwellings (1 condo owned, 1 duplex and 3 apartments rented, 1 apartment owned building and all). And finally, five years now in an owned, single-family house again. We don’t plan on moving again.
The longest I’ve lived in a single home was “the house I grew up in” ages 4-14.
I’ve lived in 25 different places, 29 if you count the dorm rooms that I lived in at college while officially living at my parents’ house(s).
Excluding the dorm rooms, the count goes like this:
0-21: 4 homes as my parents moved around.
21-25: 10 different places: 3 due to parents’ divorce and resulting moves, and 7 (one shared apartment and 6 rented rooms) that I lived in as I was trying to get out on my own.
25-45: 11 different places: 1 rented room while in grad school, 8 8 rented apartments or homes, and 2 homes that my wife and I owned. Including the one we live in now.
45-71: 0 new places. Still living in the place we moved into when I was 44.
12 places that I lived in <6 months.
6 places that I lived in for 1-2 years.
5 places that I lived in for 3-5 years.
2 that I lived in for 12 years or more: 1 childhood home, and the house my wife and I have lived in since 1998.
50 years old this year.
apartment 1 in Massachusetts
My family moved from that when I was 5 to small town New Hampshire:
Rented House for 6 years.
Apartment 2 for 4 years after that
Apartment 3 for 12 years
Live with my sister in her trailer for a few months
Move out of small town to a local small city into a dive apartment 4 with roommates for another few months.
Move out of local small city to apartment 5 (a one bedroom subsidized) located in a nearby town and been here for past 20 years
So that is
1 rented house
1 room in mobile home
5 apartments.
By the way my sister who I briefly lived with as lived in that trailer (mobile home) for 30 years at this point.
My other sister has lived in well over 20 different places over the same period.
I count 17, including 2 years in a college dormitory, and one year in a university home-stay situation in Japan. Over 20 years now in our current place, the only home I have ever (partially) owned. I’m 75, and I expect to die here, or perhaps there will be one more place after this one.
I’m 61 and I 've lived in three places - one apartment in a two-family house from birth until I got married at 24, an apartment for a year and ever since then the house that we bought at 25. I assume we are going to move in ten years or so and I’m kind of dreading it.
Three houses, three apartments, and three barracks.
As a courtesy I put in the NOTA option for pretty much any poll I’ve given, no matter how unlikely or even impossible a potential choice could arguably qualify there. Gotten some grief for omitting it over the years (and yes in some of those cases it was me having a brain fart).
So just wondering what the life circumstances have been for the person who voted that in the poll that they would choose it, since I did list the zero option.