How many homes have you had?

Post by **stui magpie** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 3:30 pm

Another way to ask is, how many different places have you lived in? How many different addreses have you had?

I was talking to a young woman the other day and said I'd been living in my house for more than 30 years and she was shocked, as she moves around a lot. So it got me thinking, I've only lived in 4 different homes in 57 years.

Family home in Toc where I grew up
Flat where I lived when first moved to Melbourne
Then the house I moved to in Camberwell
Finally where I currently live.

That's really not many.

For the purposes of the exercise, you can't count holiday homes or investment properties cos while you may visit them, you don't live there. As an adult, your home would be your address on your drivers licence.

If you spent 12 months travelling around Australia in a caravan as a kid, the caravan was your home for that period, not each caravan you stayed at.

If you went to boarding school for a period, that counts as a home as you lived there, as do share houses and any other arrangement.

So who's lived in the most? Surely most of you can beat 4 if you're older than 30.

eddiesmith · Post by **eddiesmith** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:11 pm

Mum is still in the house I grew up in, she’s been there 40 years now.

I’ve lived in 6 different houses in 4 different towns with 5 in the last 5 years, not really settling down

KenH · Post by **KenH** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 4:27 pm

I have lived in 6 houses, 4 of them when living at home with my parents to the age of 20 and have been in 2 since then, I am 60 this year.

Post by **stui magpie** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:03 pm

wow Ken, 2 in 40 years. And I thought I was a nester.

Eddie, 5 in 5 years?

Post by **think positive** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:22 pm

Ilfracombe, Devon,
Somewhere near London.
Limmasol Cyprus
Nicosia Cyprus
Cotton end Bedford, England ,
Wiltona immigration centre
Altona
Laverton -unit
Cheltenham
Altona
Werribee - sisters house
Werribee -renting
Altona bay
Altona meadows.

14 and counting!

I hate moving!

KenH · Post by **KenH** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:37 pm

stui magpie wrote:wow Ken, 2 in 40 years. And I thought I was a nester.

Eddie, 5 in 5 years?

I will be staying in this one until I die or put in a nursing home.
Love where I live!

eddiesmith · Post by **eddiesmith** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 7:01 pm

stui magpie wrote:wow Ken, 2 in 40 years. And I thought I was a nester.

Eddie, 5 in 5 years?

Possibly moving again but that will back to a previous place with no rent!!!

Moved out 2017
2019 moved for Uni
2020 Dans **** up
2021 Moved for work
2022 Moved for work

If not for Dans **** up I’d still be in the second place.

Bruce Gonsalves · Post by **Bruce Gonsalves** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:24 pm

Never counted before, until now.
Here goes:
Ashgrove - QLD.
Bondi -NSW
Armadale - Vic
Malvern - Vic

First home-
East Bentleigh
Oakleigh x2
Hughesdale
Nobbly Park
Current house on the coast.

10, should just about see me out.

blackmissionary · Post by **blackmissionary** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:15 pm

Before I was four
- Thornbury flat
- Thomastown house
- Altona North flat

The next 28 odd years
- Altona North house

Last eight years
- Sunshine house

blackmissionary · Post by **blackmissionary** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:16 pm

Before I was four
- Thornbury flat
- Thomastown house
- Altona North flat

The next 28 odd years
- Altona North house

Last eight years
- Sunshine house

Post by **stui magpie** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:56 pm

TP is the clubhouse leader so far

Post by **think positive** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:02 pm

stui magpie wrote:TP is the clubhouse leader so far

Cos she’s a RAF brat!

blackmissionary · Post by **blackmissionary** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:42 pm

think positive wrote:Wiltona immigration centre

Did you hang around the remains of the old Williamstown Racecourse grandstand?

https://www.facebook.com/altonahomestea ... 297164892/

Larry · Post by **Larry** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:32 pm

I had never really thought about it seems I have had 16 which seems a lot.
I travelled Australia for a few years so only count places we stayed at more than 6 months. Not sure of the rules but I Have count 2 if same suburb different house?
E Doncaster first 19 years
Gold Coast
E Doncaster different house
Donvale
Woodvale WA
Os park WA
Scarborough WA
Tuart Hill WA
Bedford WA
Broome
Darwin
Donvale again
Doncaster
Box Hill
Craige WA
Mindarie WA
Mindarie WA different house

Post by **think positive** » Tue Apr 18, 2023 12:46 am

blackmissionary wrote:
think positive wrote:Wiltona immigration centre
Did you hang around the remains of the old Williamstown Racecourse grandstand?

https://www.facebook.com/altonahomestea ... 297164892/

Oh wow,what a page!

I don’t remember a grandstand, and there us a map showing the new hostel in 1970, we must have been amongst the first residents (inmates??!) we arrived in November 1970, after the Westgate fell down. The pic of the buildings from the car park with one car is how I remember it, but I’m sure the food hall was the same or similar.

The curved sheds were gone, I didn’t see them.

Looking at the footy teams, oh my god, I know so many of them! In fact our own Pa Marmo is listed in a prelim team!

Thanks for the link, wow just wow!

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How many homes have you had?

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