[Solved] Moving house........again

Don't know if this counts.
First lived in Essex with my parents(1 house), then they moved to wales (2 different houses), I went to college in Nottinghamshire(1 house), then went to college in London(4 houses), Then moved to Leytonstone(1 house), then Peckham (1 house), then Staines(2 different flats), then moved to Chertsey (married 1 house) and am now in Bedfordshire (1 house) so 14 different places in my life so far.

Only 4 of them have been truly homes though.

I've lived in 13, but worked out that my youngest (12 year old) daughter has lived in 7 houses, and since she's lived with me for the last 5 years, that means she lived in 6 houses inthe first 7 years of her life.

I moved 11 times while growing up (Dad in RAF) and then another 8 times as an adult. Luckily my children have only moved two or three times during their lives, the last time to a house in the same village, just around the corner from our old place!

Hi all

My dad worked for BHS so was moved around in the furtherance of his career - lived in many exotic places like Stockport, Preston, Lincoln, Southampton and Southend so making friends as a kid was tough! but spent my teenage years in Hertford then they moved to Reading when I was 19 and I decided to go with them but cam back 6 months later (had a girlfriend!) since then I have lived in Hitchin, Watford, Garston (near Watford) Sandy and St. Neots.

I would like to move again once the kids have grown up and still have designs on a cottage in France!

Did you see this news article on the site the other day about how regularly moving house could be bad for family life.

Any thoughts ?

Hi, interesting article. Moving so many times certainly affected my sister and myself. We were always the new kids at school and trying to break into established friendship groups wasn't always easy. Then there was the different accent, we lived in Wales and Scotland and then back in various parts of England. School work was always different, we were always either ahead or behind in certain subjects and had extra lessons during lunchbreaks to catch up 🙁 However, on the plus side, I think it made us more resilient, independent and having met so many different people, I find it relatively easy as an adult to make friends. I wouldn't want to put my kids through the same though.

Agreed, an interesting article Gooner. When the kids were small we moved around a bit but now they're settled in school, I wouldn't want to put them through the upheaval if I possbly could. I think there's a difference between living somewhere and 'moving' to different homes. I've lived in quite a few places (e.g. different digs when I was a student) but thankfully I've only had three or four places that I would call 'home'.

Chris