QOTD - First/Most Memorable Move - 10.22.15

LeeAndra

LeeAndra

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As of last night, we are officially moving back to Indiana (but up north where I grew up vs. Indianapolis) in two weeks, so that's kind of on my mind for QOTD. :p

What was your first big and/or memorable move? You can count moving out of your parents' house or you can tell us abt a cross-country move or some other move that sticks out in your mind.

At the time, were you ready to move out/on? Where did you move to or who did you move in with? Looking back, was it a good move for you to make or do you wish you had waited/moved at some other time/moved to somewhere else? What was most memorable abt the move?
 
I've lived in the same city my whole life. I guess the most memorable move would be when my hubby and I moved into our own home. We've been in our home for 13 years now. :)
 
I have only really lived in three towns in the same state my whole life. I was born in one and lived there until I was 5, then we moved 100 miles away to where my extended family lived until I was 15 when we moved back to the town I was born in. Then when I graduated from high school, I moved to the other side of the state to live in the biggest city for college and I stayed here. I have spent a good amount of time in San Antonio, TX for training, but never officially lived there.
 
I've only moved twice. The first time when I moved out of my parents home at 23, I only moved 3 blocks away. And the second time, at 27, I moved to a different town, where I still live now. But that's still only a 20 minute drive away from my birth home. So nothing very impressive or memorable.
 
Maybe I am just a gypsy and didn't realize it?! :D

I was born in Atlanta and lived in 3-4 cities near it until my mother left my biological father and moved us up to Indiana when I was 2. We lived in 4 different houses in the area from ages 2-20. I moved three times in college (2 different dorms & then a townhouse). I lived with my ex in Indy for 4 years, moved back in with my parents for a couple of months when we split, lived in my own place for 15 months, moved back to Indy for a year, moved in with my now husband and lived in that apartment 2 years, moved to Indy and lived in that house for 4 years, moved in with friends here in Wyoming for the last 3 months, and now moving back to Indiana where we will have to rent for a year or two until we can FINALLY buy a house!

So that's... working on 19 moves! :o

Hopefully, someone else will chime in and not make me feel like such a vagrant. :p
 
Sorry... not me! haha!

I lived in the same house my entire childhood/teen years and then moved into an apartment with Darcy when I was 19. We bought our first home (manufactured home) a few months after that because I could not stand apartment living with all the noise. We lived there for a few years until we moved into the town we are now. We'll have been here/in our home 10 years next month.

My dream is to somehow someway be able to find a place where I have no neighbours and I can be outside enjoying everything without hearing other peoples music or dogs barking or "insert other annoyance here"
 
Well I haven't moved 19 times..... ;)

but DH is military so we've moved a bit. (He's been stationed at 12 bases, I've been along for 5 of them.)

My first 'big' move was after college, we'd been married three months and I moved from MO (where I grew up) to FL (where he was stationed). We were there almost 6 years before we were transferred to AK. (It was because of the pictures from the three week trip up there that I finally decided to take the plunge into scrapbooking...)

Three and a half years later we moved to VA, did two and a half years there, then DH went to Korea so the kids and I moved to WA State. 13 months later we moved here to AZ. And next summer we will move back up to WA as DH will retire.

We'll probably do an in-town move down the road as we want to build, but nothing big... Can't wait to finally put down some roots!
 
Hmmm, I just tried to remember all my moves since birth and it's around 23 times I believe :D I grew up in the same town and only moved once within that town when I was 5 into the house that I grew up until until leaving for college. Then I got married and moved all over the place (Marines).

Every one of them was memorable for one reason or another but my favorite place to live was definitely San Diego, although I liked most of the places we lived. I'll always have a soft spot for the places where my kids were born and so many memories of everywhere else. Coming back to Maine was the most emotional move (losing DH, coming back after 20 years of being away with a 15-yo and 2-yo to start a new life) and now it feels like home again.
 
My DH is in the army and I've been with him since we both graduated college so we have moved 9 times since I've left the house and gone away to college. I'd have to say the biggest move was moving overseas because it just takes so much out of you logistically (it is amazing how much stuff you use in your everyday life that you want to try to stick in a duffle bag to take with you).

Most memorable was probably this last one because it is still fresh in my mind. We moved (hopefully for the last time as hubby is ready to retire) from VA to TX and I had to follow a Penske truck with 'rental' misspelled for 4 days. My OCD was kicking in hard on that trip!!
 
The move to Japan was probably the biggest adjustment/most memorable. We didn't move really when I was a kid, only once that I remember, and it was just like 10 miles.

I joined the Air Force at 18. Moved from Florida to Texas (for basic training), then Arizona (6 months), then back to Florida (6 months), then to Misawa, Japan for 3 years, California for almost 3 years, Alaska for 3 years 2 months, then to Michigan when I got out of the Air Force, we've been her since 2009, in this house since 2010.

I'm hoping for one more move to a bigger house, then I don't want to move anymore. LOL!
 
I'm a homebody... I lived 30min from home my whole life... went to college - didn't really move there, lived in the dorms... my first time moving into my own apartment was after graduation. We moved in end of December - it was so cold - like windchills was in the -30's... we rented a uhaul. However because of the cold weather, most of them didn't start and we ended up getting one of the largest ones you can get... I had like 5 pieces of furniture and like 10 boxes of stuff. My mom ended up having to drive this mini-semi... not sure why my dad (drove truck for a living) had to stay home... so it's me, my mom, and my stuff that filled up like 1/8 of this huge truck.
 
tx-nana-scraps said:
in 1987 my hubby got a promotion with a pharmaceutical company and we moved from CA to NJ. Our 20 yo daughter went with us and our 18 yo son stayed in CA.

Moving from CA to NJ was very different because everyone in CA was friendly, people smiled at strangers and talked to them, but in NJ people didn't make eye contact, you didn't talk to strangers. The state is beautiful and so green compared to CA.

When we moved to TX in '04 it was like being back in CA. People talked to strangers, smiled at strangers, so much more friendly than NJ.
Sorry if I offended anyone from NJ, not my intension. Just how we felt.
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When we first moved to TX from VA (the last time back in 2007), I was at the grocery store and the cashier was talking with me. I answered her question and noticed she had stopped ringing up my stuff and was staring at me. She suddenly remembered herself and said to me really slowly, "You must be from the north because you talk really fast!". I took that to heart and learned to live in the much more laid back lifestyle of Texas!!
 
I've lived in 10 different houses/apartments... the most memorable moves would be when I left home at 18 to go to Uni/start work, from a small country town of about 4,000 people to Sydney with about 4,000,000 where I didn't know a soul. Later I moved to Canada for work by myself, again not knowing a soul over there...
 
I've lived in the same city my entire life but have moved 6 times all with family. Hopefully come next Jan/Feb I'll be moving to a different city to do my masters degree (was dealt a bit of a blow today when I didn't get accepted for student housing)
 
Oh, gosh, I only counted towns, but if you are counting houses/apartments I have lived in 22 places. I grew up renting and only just bought my first house 3 years ago. You move a lot when renting.
 
My first move was when I was 10. We were living on one of my grandparents farms and my parents told me we were moving to another village. It was only a 15min drive but for me it felt like moving so far away.

The next most memorable move was moving out to go to uni in a city about 2,5 hours away from home.

Then the first apartment with my hubby (then boyfriend) and finally our move from The Netherlands to Australia. That was pretty big ;)
 
My first move was when I was 4, We (my family) were moving across the sea to another island, which is 10 hours away by drive. Then in the new island, we moved 3 times; 2 rented houses and then finally a house that my dad bought himself.

My biggest move would be when I decided to study in Australia when I was 15. I didn't know anyone there. There, I moved once because of some problem with my first home stay family.
After 2.5 years & finished high school, I went home for a few months to wait for uni to start. I flew across a bigger pond to Liverpool - UK, studied and lived for 10 years and met my hubby there. Then, we after hubby graduated from PhD, we moved back to his hometown, Beijing - China, which is where we are now for 4 years already...

And now, we are planning to move to another country again... hopefully by the end of next year.
 
I've moved away for college, but now live four miles from the house I grew up in! My parents no longer live there though. lol

Colby and I have ZERO plans to ever move again. I absolutely hate it and have no idea how some people do it frequently without loosing their minds.
 
Aside from when I moved to FL from NY at 6 years old, my most memorable move was when we moved into this house last year.

It's the first time we've moved as a family, and our first single family home... our last house (a townhouse) is where the kids were born and we lived there for about 11 years, so it was a big change for us moving here. We are still adjusting.
 
Oh gosh. I could write a book about moves. We've had plenty in my lifetime (nothing like a military family but definitely more than enough for a homebody like me!).

When I was 18, a few weeks after I graduated high school, my grandma, two younger brothers and I picked up and moved from Arizona to Kansas. We shipped 4 big boxes full of stuff and the rest of what we moved was what we could put in our luggage. Southwest allowed like 3 checked bags a person back then so we took advantage of that. Think of the faces of the security people as they saw fishing poles and jars of peanut butter in luggage. LOL - Anyway, that was a pretty scary move as we were leaving our family in AZ, all our friends, etc. behind. Everything I knew was there. - I've been in Kansas since though, it has been 23 years now, so I've lived here longer than I lived there.

I lived with my grandma until I was almost 21. After being in KS for a few years I traveled back to AZ to go to a friend's wedding. At the wedding I ran into an old friend of mine from high school and the rest is history. He moved to KS a month later and 1 month after that we moved in to our own place together. That was a huge eye opener for sure. Not a 'big' move as we had very little and didn't move far from my grandma, but huge in the sense that I grew up right then.

My grandma used to say that it was in her blood to roam (she was part native Indian). Every few years she would say she had 'itchy' feet and that she just had to move. We'd pick up and move to a different house. Sometimes it was in the same neighborhood that we already lived in, other times it was a different side of town, or in a different town entirely. I always thought that my friends who had lived in one house their entire lives had it made. I mean, how cool is that? - Well, I kind of wonder if I inherited Grandma's itchy feet. I, too, start to get restless after a few years living somewhere. - Next Friday will be our 7th anniversary in this house. I'm ready to move. I swore I'd never move again when we moved in here, but the hubby and I are looking at houses all the time...
 
I don't really remember the first big move my family did as I was only 4, but then I lived in the same house until a week after I graduated from high school. Since then we've moved constantly, the longest in one house being 34.5 months.

Probably the most memorable was the move to italy, just because it was a huge shock culture wise and so different. And then our last move back to GA, because it was (and still is) such a nightmare of a move. We are less than 500 days from moving again too :P
 
I would say my most memorable, exciting, stressful, whatever adjective you want to use to describe would be the one we are getting ready to make. We are going on faith that God will have us at least three years at one duty station. With that faith, we are blindly buying a home at said duty station--a place where neither of us have ever visited or been in that state before! Not only dealing with the stress of moving, we are trying to deal with staying under our allotted weight that the military gives us, calculating in to what we placed in to storage for the year, what we've accumulated here in the past year that he's been deployed as well as the weight that he is shipping to our final destination. Then there is the long car ride, across country to our new home (that we still don't know where it is, much less what it looks like), in 91-days the movers are coming and we are leaving! Eep. I'd say this move is the most (replace whatever adjective you can) out of 12 moves in our 17 years of marriage!
 
We moved a few times when I was very little, then when I was 5 my family moved into the house that my parents still live in now, in CT. So I'd say my first big/memorable move was when I left home to go to college outside Boston (3 hours away). It was my first time living on my own, and I was more than ready! I guess technically I moved between the dorms and my parents' house a bunch of times, but I don't count each one as a separate move.

A month after graduation was my second big move. Dan and I left the northeast to come down to VA, to a suburb of Washington, DC. That was in '97 and we've lived in a few different places here, but the moves have all been within 15 miles of each other and didn't feel life changing.

We bought our current house about 10.5 years ago. Dan would love to move to a bigger/nicer house nearby. I'm so NOT interested right now. There are things I'd like to change, but I'd much rather do some remodeling here than move. Jury's still out on which one we'll do, but if we do move it wouldn't be for a few years. Right now we'd need to stay in our current elementary school district, and if we wait 3 years we'll probably be able to look in a much bigger area without making the kids change schools. (By then I think DD will be in the magnet school that my oldest is in now, and the boys will both be in middle or high school.)
 
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