How long have you lived anywhere without moving? (A poll about modern life)

15 years from when my family moved back to England up until I left home at 18.

I passed the 25 year mark at this house in 2012.

Dang, I knew I should have extended the options to 30.

either close to 8 years up to now or I think 11 years from moving into the house my mother still lives in and moving out on my own.

I may be the only the vote for >25, so I wouldn't worry.

Ten years from 8 to 18. After that it's two-and-a-half-years in my former appartment, which I just moved out of in April - and up one floor. Best move ever!

4 yrs, council estate, 82- 86

I think this flat (nearly 9 years now, though I will have to sell soon if I don't find a job) might be the longest I've lived anywhere.

I thought I'd spent 10 years at one of my parents' houses, I'm not sure if that house, 13 - 22 counts because there were several months-long periods where I was kicked out and had to live elsewhere. It wasn't continuous, so it probably doesn't count.

20 years -21 years in same London flat.

Whenever I get an urge to tidy up, I put it off and decide I'll just have a major renovation when I retire.

age 5-18. currently at 8 years, my longest streak otherwise

Whenever I wander round London - as I did today through Clerkenwell, Angel, Barnsbury, Islingtonetc - I am always regretful that I can't experience living in lots of different places and environments. It should be much easier to move around than it is.

12 years. We bought this house in mid-2002, one of the worst mistakes of my life.

my parents have had the same place since 1991, and i moved in and out of there over the years, so i don't know how to quantify my time there. as an adult, my longest stay in an apartment of my own has been three years.

8 years, would have been 13 from birth to family moving across the country but we lived for a few months in the Marshall Islands when I was 5.

14 years, 1st grade until hs graduation
a companion poll at some pt could be total number of places you've lived. until recently i was on about one a year . curious to know others' rate

Lived in the same house from birth to almost age 20, when I moved out into a flat in the same city because I felt that being 20 and still living at home was embarrassing.

Technically I 'left' this house at age 6 when my dad went overseas for work, but that was only for a year and we didn't *move* - all our stuff was still in the house and after that year we came back to the house and picked up where we left off with school, etc.

This house is now about to go up for sale and I am stupidly emotional about it.

I've moved 23 times iirc but I mean

I think I've gotten to the 7-year mark twice. My parents' house from 6th grade to high school graduation, and my previous apartment in NYC, 2006-13.

oh whoops as a little kid the earlier house we lived in I guess I was there from age 2-11. now I've corrupted the data.

The same home? Three years. The same city? Six.

I've never thought about this before, and am surprised the answer is only 6 years.

That's for house, not city.

put 18 yrs, birth-college, was home for some summers and two separate post-graduation stints through age 23

When I was a kid, we lived in the same apartment for something like 12 or 13 years. As an adult, the longest I've lived in one apartment is 4 years. I've lived in the same city (Helsinki) my whole life though, never seriously considered moving somewhere else.

I've been in my current flat for nearly seven years, having moved in right at the end of 2007. Before that, the longest I'd lived in any London accommodation was about three years (and the shortest - not counting sofa-surfing - tied between a summer in a housing association flat behind Butler's Wharf, a chaotic shared house in Primrose Hill or a rented room in a crazy divorcée's Hampstead house, probably about three months each).

Our family moved into the house where my mother still lives when I was nearly 11, and I moved out for good when I was 22. Her parents lived in the same street and her sister lived four houses away, across the back yards. This house was in the same neighbourhood as the house we moved into when I was four, and is in the same Minneapolis suburb where I lived from birth to leaving for college.

31 years here (Aimless, you piker).

17 years at our current address.

We used to move around a lot, and not just 'up the road' either. From South Shields to Portsmouth region in 1966 or thereabouts, then to Windsor (1967), then to Reading area (1972)...

I've missed out a few (like, Germany in 1964)...

Was going to say I doubt my childhood qualifies as 'modern' life :(

OK, it was in black and white. And that Dream Academy song was prety much how I remember it as well.

9 years twice; first in Oakville, Ontario, during secondary/post-secondary school and a little beyond, and 9 years in Toronto, pretty much all the 90s in a house in the East End.

Lived in the same house in Worcester from ages 1-17.

Current flat is by far the longest I've lived anywhere as an adult (7 years).

19 years, from birth til I moved out of my parents place. They still live in the same house, so for them its been something like 45 years there now.

I'm actually astonished at how common<10 years is for y'all. I guess I assumed everyone just lived in the same house all the time as a kid.

;-;

Indeed, what a trauma for me at 8 years old when we moved, not sure I've ever recovered.

no those are my fangs

Explain yourself, lad.

lived in Transylvania summer of 87

I'm actually astonished at how common<10 years is for y'all. I guess I assumed everyone just lived in the same house all the time as a kid.

I wish. Twelve different homes in eight different cities by the time I was eighteen.

I more than made up for it after moving out - Ive moved 0 times til 19, but ive moved 11 times since.

7.5 years at the house my wife and I own now is the longest I've ever had a fixed address. (Thanks to a father in the military, from birth to age 17 I had 10 different addresses in 2 countries and 5 states. In total, to the best of my recollection, I've had 21 different addresses in 45 years.)

we've had the same family home for over forty years though now it's just my mum there. so my nineteen years there was my longest. longest since then is six years

Thanks to a father in the military

This. I believe I'm on address number thirty at this point. I'd love to put down roots somewhere, sometime, but it never seems to take.

only moved once during my childhood and it was just to a bigger house in the same neighborhood so it wasn't really a big deal, but it happened about halfway through so i clock in at 9 years despite feeling like it should be much longer

my parents moved into their current house when i was 4 and they haven't moved or replaced the carpet or furniture since
they got some stuff done to the house in the mid-late '80s and that was the last time
they also moved the fridge

I love moving

5 years, age 12 to 17, and maybe we lived in our second Chicago apartment five years, or it could have been four. I can't remember. We'll probably top that in our current place, unless our landlord sells it. I don't think we'll live here for a long time, though, because the house is old and the apartment hasn't been properly rehabbed in over 20 years and shit falls apart and breaks all the time plus it's on a very busy street near a terrifying intersection but it would be great, super great if our next apartment was one where we could stay for many, many years. I am tired of moving.

I'm in my 10th year of living in Chicago, which is the longest consecutive time I've lived in any town or city.

4 years. and i've moved 21 times in my 34 years.

we bought this house 13 years ago, very almost to the day. wish we hadn't remortgaged.

13 years in youth, followed by 11 in a Park Slope apartment that three of me couldn't currently afford.

10 years - expect to be in current place at least as long

Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly. What is a house but a sedes, a seat? — better if a country seat. I discovered many a site for a house not likely to be soon improved, which some might have thought too far from the village, but to my eyes the village was too far from it. Well, there I might live, I said; and there I did live, for an hour, a summer and a winter life; saw how I could let the years run off, buffet the winter through, and see the spring come in.

I've been in my current place for about a year and a half. I've only lately become semi-okay with the idea of putting books on the shelves instead of leaving them in boxes. And it still feels foolish. I have no plans to move anytime soon but that's half as long as I've ever been in one place and some part of brain tells me not to plant my feet.

seven years from 7 - 14 in a house my parents bought

Four years, though if you count two apartments in the same building it would jump up to six.

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Thinking about my kids, my 10-yr-old had three addresses in two states by the time he was 5. Post-divorce, his mom and I have both moved a few times, so I don't even know how to count that. But he's yet to go more than three years without moving. Hoping to change that with this move.

18 years, same house from birth to university.

Same as Matt - 18 years from birth until university.

My mother still lives in that house, as she has done since my parents got married in 1968.

7 years from age 5-12 before moving across country, then 4 hellish years of high school in suburban texas, and since then maybe 2 or 3 years max at any given apartment. planning to ditch the current pad next summer at around the 2 year mark.

Longest was from ages 2 - 19 at the same place, where my parents still live. I just moved across town this summer, I'd lived at the previous place for 7 years which was number two.

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2 years 1

poor vagabond : (

A sizable plurality for 10-13 years. Stable childhoods (at least address-wise).

Weird that so many voted '13'. I'm one of them (from the age of 3 to 16).