What's your average years per home over your lifetime?

[Perkino]

Birth to 11 months - Pulborough
11 months to 11 - Horsham
11 - 18 Partridge Green
18 - 19 Burgess Hill
19 - 21 Hastings
21 - 22 Burgess Hill
22 - 28 Henfield
28 - now Burgess Hill

8 in 28 years. Although some were due to my childhood. Now in the house I expect to spend the next 20 or so years in

 

[kevo]

10 for me in total (includes spells in halls at two unis, each counted as one 'home', and 8 actual proper residences).

Been considering selling and buying somewhere else to reduce the mortgage, but didn't realise that to do this would cost apx £18k in estate agents fees, solicitors fees, conveyancing, etc. So you basically write off almost £20k every time you move - several years worth of mortgage payments in my case! Decided to stay put...

 

[greyseagull]

As I prepare to move for the 2nd time within 6 months, and with another move expected within 2-3 months, it had me wondering how many homes I've had.

I think my homes have been something like...

Birth to 3
3 to 23 (I'm ignoring the various abodes I had through university days)
23 to 28
28 to 30
30 to 31
31 to 33
33 to 34
34 to 36
36 to 42
42 to 42 (current)
42 to 42 (home as of Saturday)

So, as of Saturday 11 homes in 42 years, which equates to moving every 3.8 years of my life to date.

What about you?

Where you moving to, Bozza?

I mean, what's your actual address going to be....

 

[somerset]

Birth to 3 ( Hangleton)
3-5 (Hove)
5-7 (Croydon)
7-8 ( Phalaborwa, Transvaal)
8-9 ( Waterfalls,Salisbury, Rhodesia )
9-10 ( Hatfield, Salisbury, Rhodesia)
10-11 ( Kumalo, Bulawayo, Rhodesia)
11-12 ( Islanda, Bulawayo, Rhodesia)
12-13 ( Muizenberg, Cape Town)
13-15 ( Wynberg, Capetown)
15-16 ( Shoreham Beach)
16-16 ( Upper Beeding)
16-17 ( Shoreham )
17-18 ( Lancing)
18-21 ( Peckham)
21-22 (Lancing)
22-22 ( Mile Oak)
22-24 (Hove)
24-28 ( Lancing)
28-51 ( Yatton, N Somerset)

20 in 51 years,...= 2.55 average

 

[Goldstone1976]

0-3 weeks London
3 weeks - 3 Leuchars
3-6 Singapore
6-7 Brize Norton
7-11 Thornton Heath
11-22 Ewell (plus boarding school in GOBTS)
22-23 Reigate
23-25 Banstead
25 Watford
25-28 Harrow on the Hill
28 Chalford on the Hill
28-32 Nag's Head
32 Holywell
33-35 Waterbeach
35-39 San Francisco
39 Hong Kong
40 Tokyo
40-42 Godalming
42-45 Teddington
45-47 Cambridge
47-49 London
49-51 Cambridge

51/22 (blimey, 22) = 2.3 years.

 

[Notters]

5 Years for me, ignoring uni homes.

 

[sully]

I'm on 15 or 16 (I'm on my second stint in my current house) in 52 years, so 3.25 years average in each place. Much higher average in my 40s, when I managed 9 homes in that decade.

 

[The Oldman]

9 in 72 years

 

[wunt be druv]

Goring-by-sea x 2
Brighton x 3
Peacehaven x 2
Averages out at 7.1 in each abode.

 

[BBassic]

Birth to 20
20-22
22-23
23-26
26-current

I moved in with a couple of girlfriends before finding out they were batcrackers insane hence the moving around in my early twenties.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Born in Lewes and I think we lived there for a year.
Moved to Shoreham and I lived at home til I was 24
Bought my first place and lived there for 6 years
Bought my second place and lived there 8 years
Bought my current house and so far been there 14 years

So, just 5 places in all, have never rented.

 

[tinycowboy]

Oh dear - the thread I'd been dreading, but also looking forward to:

Brighton - Hove - Shoreham Beach - Haywards Heath - Burgess Hill - Burgess Hill - Burgess Hill - Tunbridge Wells - [ignoring university now] - Toulouse - Cambridge - Hoddesdon - Putney - Chelsea - Kennington - New Cross - Brighton (hooray - back in triumph) - Brighton (hooray) - Sevenoaks (boo! Mistake. Big mistake) - Sevenoaks - Petham - Kingston.

That's 21 in 44 years. Next stop will either be Canterbury, Brighton, Hove or Lewes, I would guess.

 

[tinycowboy]

This is one of those threads where nobody reads anyone else's answer, and just posts their own.

I'm reading them all - I love this thread. It plays nicely to my inquisitive nature.

 

[grawhite]

3 places.
birth - 19 Brighton
19-25 armed forces
25-43 Brighton

 

[Mannie]

7 in 50 yrs

 

[tinycowboy]

Burgess Hill seems to be winning in the "different houses in the same town" stakes - people must move there and ruddy love it so much that when they want to move house, they can't bear to leave the place...

 

[Grombleton]

4 in 28 years for me.

0-2 Billingshurst
2-6 Billingshurst
6-26 Fittleworth
26- Littlehampton

 

[Igzilla]

8 in 45 years, so average 5.6 years, but skewed by moving three times in three years during the nineties.

 

[Albumen]

No including the one I'm currently in, or the one I left for university, it's 4 in 33 years.

18 years, 6 months, 4 years, 10 years.

 

[tinycowboy]

Not including the one I'm currently in, or the one I left for university, it's 4 in 33 years.

Eh?? What kind of crazy homemade rules are these, Albumen??