Places where I owned property, had a driver’s license, and registered a car:
- Maryland
- Florida
- Virginia
Places where the US Navy sent me for more than a couple of weeks:
- Tennessee
- California
- Indiana
- Rhode Island
- Sicily
- Spain
Saskatchewan
Ontario
Alabama (for 1 year, as a child)
I was born in MA, we went to AZ for a time I don’t remember, I was all of 1 year old. After that it was:
MA
ME A couple of different times in MA and ME.
NC
CA
NY
Oregon for about 16 years
California for about 20 years
Washington for the last 10 years and hopefully much longer. Moving sucks.
- Idaho
Two: MI & IL.
2: Oregon and Montana, although I only lived in Montana for ~9 months when I was in grade school.
I believe you have the palm so far for the greatest number of locales. I’d guess you were in the Foreign Service or something similar?
At the other end of the scale we’ve had quite a few respondents who only had one state, more than I would have expected.
Ohio for the last 57 years. With the exception of my co-op gig during college, where I worked in Maryland for three years.
Not to hijack, but quickly… Did you see the total eclipse back in August 2017? I drove up to Idaho for it. We were in the tiny town of Midvale, ID, just north of Weiser. It was excellent!
I was in the military, then worked for a contractor overseas, then was in the Foreign Service.
- Wisconsin born there in 1957, left in 1964 (save for summer vacations) returned 1983
- Michigan
- Indiana
- Illinois
- Maryland
Connecticut
Paris, France
Maine
Michigan
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
South Carolina
Just five:
New York (born in Ithaca, later NYC 1rst - 2nd grade)
District of Columbia (as a baby)
Massachusetts (nursery school - kindergarten)
Michigan (5th-7th grades)
California (3rd-4th grade, 8th grade to present)
California
British Columbia
Wales
Tuscany
(Edit: these are ranked in order of time spent, longest to shortest. I was only in Tuscany for a summer but I had my own apartment and was working there, so I think it counts.)
I’ll live in a country, but I’m not doing more than one region within it.
Two, California and New York; although when I lived in New York I was so young that only a few fragments of unreliable childhood memories are left.
Those are the best.
Six US states and one foreign country (well it wasn’t foreign to me at the time, I was born and raised there)
Not counting work/academic assignments where I was living somewhere for a few months but maintained my address in my “home” state.
Utah - my past life
Pennsylvania, New York State, Connecticut - because of my past life
Indiana - getting away from my past life
North Carolina - sort of. Work put me up at an apartment for a few months. I spent about 75 percent of my time there.
Tennessee
New Jersey
Vermont
Colorado (x2 and most of my time in life)
Montana
I was also interested to see how many people are sticking close to home.