I’ve lived in 3 countries during my life. My dad was in the Air Force so we moved every 2 years. Most of the time was within Canada but we did one year in Australia when I was in Grade 7 and then the US when Dad was posted to Colorado Springs immediately after (half of grade 8, grade 9, and grade10 for me).
Two: born in South Africa, moved to the United States in my 20s.
Six. Military brat, then active duty myself.
US
England
Italy
Japan
South Korea
Philippines
3 - US, Korea and Japan
Lived in the USA (36 years in Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, andNevada), Australia (4 years; Melbourne and Adelaide), and Chile (1 year; Santiago) with a couple of open-ended stays in Ecuador (Quito and Guayaquil) and Guatemala (Antigua).
Germany, Iraq and Alabama.
United States and United Arab Emirates (1999-2003)
I didn’t count a three-month stay in Italy under the terms of the OP, though I usually do consider it a country I’ve lived in. Otherwise Wales (3 years), Canada (6 years and currently), US (30-some years).
Three years in Scotland while I was in the Navy. Other than that, the US. (Seven different states, though.)
Five. I’ve lived in the United States, Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia, Mozambique, and Egypt.
I said three, some may argue two since Scotland and Northern Ireland are members of the UK.
Anyway, born in Scotland and left at three years old, then lived in Northern Ireland for another three years and the rest in Canada.
I put down three, although it’s a little ambiguous.
Number one is USA, of course.
Number two is Budapest for about 5 1/2 years.
The third is the UK, split between England and Scotland. I was on a work exchange visa there in '96. Set up shop; worked in Scotland; opened up a local bank account, all that jazz. I’m just counting this as one under the general UK banner.
At the end of that same year, I also lived in Croatia a bit over three months working on a post-war volunteer project. I didn’t count that one.
Canada, the US and the UK. We moved a LOT of junk a LOT of times… I’m done with moving…
But that would still leave most never having lived abroad.
Three. Born in Norway, lived in Italy for a couple of years, now living in The Netherlands.
Of course, to maintain consistency of naming countries, that should read “Hungary.”
For the sake of argument, I limited it to countries I’ve lived in for more than a year, which comes out to six:
US (citizen)
Germany: 4 years
Belgium: 2 years
Portugal: 2 years
Mali: 2 years
Uganda: just over a year
If I included deployments, which were typically 6-9 months, then Vietnam, Spain, Guatemala and Japan would be in the mix, but I wouldn’t call that actually ‘living’ in a country.
I would have loved to go to college in a foreign country, but that was impractical, so I went to Louisiana instead. In the 1950s, that was a foreign country, so can I count that?
I would have loved to go to college in a foreign country, but that was impractical, so I went to Louisiana instead. In the 1950s, that was a foreign country, so can I count that? It was actually more foreign than Ontario.
Two for me - U.S. and Iran.