# Places You've Lived **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2008, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920 "2008-11-15T23:02:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/21 "2008-11-16T04:13:22Z")
1. Some street, Chicago 2. Boston 3. DeRidder, LA 4. Miami, FL 5. Tallman Street, Chicago 6. Palos Verdes Blvd, Torrance, CA 7. Ocean Ave, Torrance, CA 8. Newton Towers 4th Floor, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 9. Newton Towers 2nd Floor, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 10. Wilmette, IL 11. Silver Spring, MD 12. Montgomery Village, MD 13. Rockville, MD 14. Kensington, MD At this point I headed off to college 1. Frostburg, MD (on campus) 2. Frostburg, MD (off campus, Baptist Street House) 3. Vienna, VA 4. Iowa City, IA 5. Falls Church, VA 6. Kensington, MD (same house as #14, above. I bought it) 7. Purcellville, VA 8. Marietta, OH Not bad for 41 years. An average of 1.86 years per spot, apparently. Toss in 10 schools before I graduated high school and I feel like the wandering Jew sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/22 "2008-11-16T07:16:43Z")
Cleveland, Ohio (2 locations) Warrensville Heights, Ohio Cleveland Heights, Ohio Columbus, Ohio (2 locations) Cleveland Heights, Ohio New York, NY (2 locations) Cleveland Heights, Ohio St. Louis, MO Columbus, Ohio (6 locations) New York, NY (2 locations) Brooklyn Heights, NY Fort Lee, NJ (2 locations) Middle Island, NY Northport Harbor, NY Huntington Station, NY Lake Ronkonkoma, NY Long Beach, NY New York, NY (SoHo, East Village, Chelsea) Cleveland Heights, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/23 "2008-11-16T07:44:23Z")
## With my parents (as a child/adolescent/soldier): Cambridge MA Tel aviv, Israel (2 addresses, multiple times) Newton MA (2 addresses) College and adult: Rochester, NY Haifa, Israel (2 addresses) Ramat Gan, Israel Tel Aviv, Israel (3 addresses) Note: By far most of my life (~34 out of 45 years) have been spent at two of the T-A addresses, roughly split between living with parents and living in my own place (with my own wife and kids.) One other Parental address for 3 years, all the rest of the addresses, one year or so. ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/24 "2008-11-16T08:14:11Z")
Minneapolis Milwaukee (for 6 months) Rural Minnesota I love me some Minnesota ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/25 "2008-11-16T10:16:24Z")
Nairobi, Kenya New Forest, UK London, UK (at least 10 addresses) Oxford, UK Evia, Greece Cape Town, South Africa Swakopmund, Namibia Harare, Zimbabwe Cairo, Egypt Istanbul, Turkey Kalamata, Greece Mani, Greece ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/26 "2008-11-16T11:05:14Z")
Dallas, TX Hampden-Sydney, Virginia Vienna, Austria Washington, DC Arlington, VA Auburn, AL Beirut, Lebanon Hong Kong Norwood, MA Brockton, MA Doha, Qatar ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/27 "2008-11-16T11:13:00Z")
1. Allentown, Pennsylvania (multiple addresses) 2. Rochester, NY 3. Creve Coeur, MO 4. Timonium, MD 5. Bedford, NH 6. Wellesley, MA 7. Becket, MA 8. Middleton, CT 9. Boston, MA 10. Washington, DC 11. Cambridge, MA 12. Somerville, MA (3 addresses) 13. Arlington, VA 14. Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia 15. Ithaca, NY (2 addresses) 16. Waltham, MA 17. Jakarta, Indonesia (4 addresses) 18. Maputo, Mozambique 19. Cairo, Egypt (2 addresses) That’s what I can remember, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/28 "2008-11-16T11:55:27Z")
1. West Covina, CA, USA 2. Berkeley, CA, USA 3. Emeryville, CA, USA 4. Albany, CA, USA 5. Tokyo, Japan 6. Vancouver, BC, Canada 7. Seattle, WA, USA 8. London, England 9. Linkoping, Sweden 10. Berlin, Germany 11. Rome, Italy 12. Barcelona, Spain 13. Paris, France 14. Tokyo, Japan 15. Saitama, Japan ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/29 "2008-11-16T14:46:11Z")
[ol][li]Evansville, IN (3 years)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #1 (6 months)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #2 (7 years)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #3 (1 month)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #4 (4 years)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #5 (12 years)[/li][li]Pinellas Park, FL #4 again (4 years)[/ol][/li] The funny thing is that Pinellas Park isn’t very big. ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/30 "2008-11-16T14:58:20Z")
> [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](#): > > The funny thing is that Pinellas Park isn’t very big. Hence moving back into no.4 - there was no where else to go. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/31 "2008-11-16T15:40:11Z")
Ok- Buffalo, NY Williamsville, NY Waltham, MA (various addresses) Pittsburgh, PA (Shadyside, E. Liberty, Squirrel Hill) University City, MO St. Louis, MO La Jolla, CA San Deigo, CA New Haven, CT Middletown, CT **CairoCarol** - did you mean Middletown, CT at #8? ---
**Author:** ![Karyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Karyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karyn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/32 "2008-11-16T15:51:13Z")
Bronx, New York (3 different addresses) Albany, New York (4 different addresses) Rochester, New York (1 address) All over the place (A few years of traveling around, living on communes and never staying anywhere very long) Santa Cruz, CA (7 different addresses) Boulder Creek, CA (2 addresses) Bonny Doon, CA (2 addresses) ---
**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:** [November 16, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/33 "2008-11-16T16:03:44Z")
In chron order: Juneau, AK Anchorage, AK Fairbanks, AK San Diego, CA Red Beach, Republic of Vietnam Adak, AK Lemoore, CA Moscow, ID Camarillo, CA Misawa, Japan St. Thomas, VI Guatemala City, Guatemala Guam Whidbey Island, WA Port Hueneme, CA Rota, Spain Yokosuka, Japan South Weymouth, MA Washington, DC Cairo, Egypt Frankfurt, Germany Brussels, Belgium Arlington, VA Lisbon, Portugal Bamako, Mali Kampala, Uganda Back to Anchorage, AK ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/34 "2008-11-16T16:15:27Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Cleveland, Ohio (2 locations) > Warrensville Heights, Ohio > Cleveland Heights, Ohio > Columbus, Ohio (2 locations) > Cleveland Heights, Ohio > New York, NY (2 locations) > Cleveland Heights, Ohio > St. Louis, MO > Columbus, Ohio (6 locations) > New York, NY (2 locations) > Brooklyn Heights, NY > Fort Lee, NJ (2 locations) > Middle Island, NY > Northport Harbor, NY > Huntington Station, NY > Lake Ronkonkoma, NY > Long Beach, NY > New York, NY (SoHo, East Village, Chelsea) > Cleveland Heights, Ohio Wow - that’s a lot of moves to get from Cleveland to Cleveland Heights. 🙂 I didn’t have counts in my post, so I’ll tweak it here: Cleveland Heights, Ohio (Cedar-Lee neighborhood, **Panache45** ) Chagrin Falls, Ohio Danville, Kentucky Bloomington, Indiana (3 addresses) Laurinburg, North Carolina Laramie, Wyoming Centennial, Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming Gaithersburg, Maryland Golden, Colorado Pine, Colorado Aurora, Colorado Pontiac, Michigan Aurora, Colorado Pine, Colorado Pueblo, Colorado (3 addresses) San Leandro, California Lexington, Kentucky (2 addresses) Floyds Knobs, Indiana ---
**Author:** ![Grey\_area](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Grey\_area](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey_area)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/35 "2008-11-16T16:31:02Z")
Seoul, S. Korea Muscat, Oman Seoul, S. Korea Toronto ON, Canada Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Seoul, S. Korea Guatemala City, Guatemala State College PA, USA Seoul, S. Korea ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/36 "2008-11-16T16:38:05Z")
Jerusalem, Israel Teaneck, NJ Manhattan, New York, NY (in Washington Square Village) Haifa, Israel (3 addresses) Kibbutz Metzer, Israel (8 months away from my 2nd address in Haifa) Manhattan, New York, NY (first in the Lower East Side, then the Upper East Side) Tel Aviv, Israel (2 addresses). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/37 "2008-11-16T16:40:49Z")
In chronological order: Johnstown, PA (6 addresses) Houston, TX (a couple of months) Aurora, CO Oxnard, CA Houston, TX again (for a year this time) Aurora, CO again Johnstown, PA again (more or less, I was mostly working in Europe and Africa and living out of a suitcase) Paris, France (2 addresses) Spring City, PA Pottstown, PA The Woodlands, TX (2 addresses)…and here I am. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/38 "2008-11-16T16:43:21Z")
Cape Town, South Africa (2 addresses) Pompano Beach, Florida Atlanta, Georgia (2 addresses) Sacramento, California ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/39 "2008-11-16T17:31:09Z")
Sacramento, CA Citrus Heights, CA Los Angeles, CA Fair Oaks, CA New York, NY All 1 address, except for L.A., where I lived in dorms, then an apartment. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920/40 "2008-11-16T17:56:54Z")
Dearborn, MI (2 addresses) Ardmore, PA Philadelphia, PA San Diego, CA (3) Goleta, CA Washington, DC Isla Vista, CA (10 or so addresses) Madison, NJ (2) Tallahassee, FL Ames, IA (2) Oshkosh, WI Philadelphia, PA (2) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-youve-lived/472920.md?page=3)