Good evening, Glibs!
I’m still here. We’re running into all kinds of weather-related problems that are seriously messing with our timing…and everything else. Hard enough to do this relocation thing anytime. How to make it even more challenging? Let’s bring on snowstorm after snowstorm! We barely dig out of one and the next one hits. And the temperature keeps dropping.
Poor OMWC has been having to go out (over and over) to drop off donated items and acquire more boxes…and packing paper…and tape…and bubble wrap (and not because I’m popping it all, I swear). Since we have a large roll-off container taking up the entire driveway (the image on the site front page is our actual front yard this morning), and there is no street parking in our neighborhood, this entails hiking through the snow drifts up to a neighborhood park’s parking lot, digging the car out of where it’s been plowed in, and finally bringing the car to the house to load, carrying everything down our snowy, icy, sloping driveway. Gee, I don’t know why he has bruises the size of a dinner plate. (It wasn’t me, Officer!)
One of the biggest concerns? Yep, that’s going to be loading and moving the wine in subzero temps next week. Oh, yeah, and loading and moving everything else we own, too…although that’s the problem of the big moving company with a very similar name to an airline. As of right now, they don’t plan on postponing.
So, tonight’s question.
How many times have you moved residences as an adult? How many times have you relocated?
I don’t ever seem to just move. I always relocate. This will be cross country relocation number nine. I don’t mind telling you, I’m a little sick of it.
Your turn!
Well I’m movin’ on up!
To the east side!
First.
Pocatello?
I spent a month in Pocatello doing testing at that G_d-foresaken FMC phosphorus plant….
Well, you could be in New Jersey. But, in all honesty, I have no idea where Innophos manufactures.
That place is a pit.
There are a few ski areas in that area that I have had projects at. So luckily my times there have been short.
Moving dwellings is obnoxious as hell.
So, I’m moving the conversation.
Keep on relocating?
Their cult leaders ie professors make sure they don’t engage with anyone who might possibly open their minds and convert them to sanity. Just tell them you don’t engage with racist. If they try to speak shout them down.
I’m always struck by how crappy my stuff is when I pack it in boxes to move. I’ve pared my belongings down to a single suitcase twice since I was 30. Can’t ever do it again due to having a family. Miss doing that.
Lets see, counting only moves after law school: 7, maybe 8.
I have moving. My sympathies. Although, you are now primed to enjoy Arizona winter weather.
Wisconsin summers and Arizona winters FTW.
Adult life: 1) from Iowa to Atlanta; 2) From Atlanta back to Iowa; 3) from Iowa to Phoenix; 4) from Phoenix back to Iowa; 5) from a rental house to the house we built. There was a bunch of apartment hopping in the early days in Iowa and Arizona.
Hey SP. I mailed you another article.
Indeed. I needed some time to sit and think about something this afternoon, so it is drafted and scheduled!
I am impressed.
Take care of yourself and the wine. Good luck on the move.
Poor OMWC has been having to go out (over and over) to drop off donated items and acquire more boxes
LIES! He is going out to say good bye at all his grade school fence-side viewing stands.
As a (drunk) adult, I count 7 moves.
You shouldn’t move when you’re drunk. You might regret it.
But what about moving ranks in the Aztec Army?
Since graduating from college I have moved AZ to WY, WY to GA, GA to WA (one additional move in WA). WA to AZ (drop off family) to GA, GA to Germany (one additional move in Germany), Germany to AZ, AZ to MT (one additional move), MT to South CA (two moves due to home defect), South CA to NC (six months in a tent then into a house), NC to PA, PA to MO (plus one year in Iraq), MO to NYC (plus one year in Iraq and two additional moves), NYC to Rural CA, Rural CA to HI (one year rental till purchase).
A few moves but only one in the deep snow so I offer OMWC and SP my condolences.
Not far behind you. Starting with college graduation, Baltimore to Utah. Then Utah to Philly. Then Philly to Madison, WI. Then Madison to Valencia, CA. Valencia to Palmdale. Palmdale to Ventura (with a 6 month break to Luxemburg). Ventura to the Napa area (but I was living half time in Europe, mostly in Austria). Then to Montana, then Austin, then here to IL. And now off to AZ.
All my life in Columbus, probably all places within 10 miles of one another. Will move when I retire, hopefully in 6 years although not sure the stock market is going to cooperate with that timeline. Somewhere with hills and trees and elbow room.
Only 5 times since college — to College Station, then Bryan, then Austin, then up here (Saratoga Springs) and then across to Milton.
6 moves, and 2 solid relocations, all involving ex Ms Tres. Generally all around SW Ohio.
How far does a move have to be for it to be a relocation? or is distance not the differentiating factor?
I’m pretty sure I’m still under 100 Miles from birth, homes, etc. I think that only qualifies as moves.
According to google maps, the longest distance between any two of my permanent residences (where I slept and kept all my shit for at least a month) is 62.61 miles as the crow flies.
I’m at eight moves per your definition but I’ll be the crow only has to fly 35 miles.
I have no idea how many times I have moved. A lot. Some short hops across town, some cross country. I have been here (officially, full time) since June 2006. I hope like hell I don’t have to try to move all the crap I have accumulated since then.
1) Indy to Dallas
2) different apt in the same complex
3) house in Dallas
4) 3 month stint in Palo Alto*
5) back to house in Dallas
6) house in NoVa
* does this one actually count? Or is it more of an extended business trip? I consider it as me living there because I had to pay CA taxes that year.
Moved ten times starting with moving out of my parents house, all within the SF Bay Area. One final relocation to Idaho.
..I didnt count the times the military moved me around.
I can’t remember but I suppose 15 but never in the winter snow. The good news is that I’ve been in the same house for 27 years and my next move will be by 6 strong men. Someone else is gonna have to carry out that last bag of garbage.
Moved seven times around Albuquerque. Haven’t had to relocate (yet!).
After college – just the military really. We’ll see what happens in about 18 months or so. This isn’t an awful place, but I miss the PacNW so much and I want some mountain land (Blue Ridge do NOT count as mountains).
Heck – since DB listed his.
(not counting pre-college moves with my folks overseas, etc). Chapel Hill NC to Greensboro NC. NC to Ft. Drum (Army), Ft Drum to S. Korea, S. Korea to Falls Church, VA. Falls Church, VA to Everett, WA (DITY move). Everett to Hawaii. Hawaii to Dahlgren, VA. Dahlgren to Cville (current).
Thanks for reminding me. From South Cali a 7 month move to Korea and return. I’m leaving Desert Storm out since it was only a few months.
Yeah, I was in Iraq for a year, but didn’t count that as a move – only a couple duffels and a footlocker.
Once. NH to Spokane Wa. It looks more and more likely I will soon move to North Idaho.
So you’re taking an executive position with the Aryan Nation in Sandpoint?
Well, someone has to.
They actually got pretty wiped out in the ‘90s. There’s a lot of retired cops, firefighters and military up there now but it’s still purple.
Yup, I’ve been up here since ’89. Butler lost their “compound” after a civil suit.
Maybe I’ll move my operation up near Ruby Ridge.
Starting in college? Maybe a dozen moves in Buffalo. Relocated from Buffalo to SF. Relocated to NYC 11 months later. Moved 3 times within NYC in the following 20 years. It gets easier every time as I can now afford to pay people to do the moving.
I used to move a lot (just in the TC). Then I got married. Two apartments before our first house (1993?) and our current house in 2007.
We are seriously considering an actual relocation. Spawn 1 is probably never coming back and Spawn 2 wants to go West as well.
I hate moving, but I gotta admit the prospect of a new place turns me on.
North Dakota, here we come!
/Tundra
Lol.
SoDak has a better tax environment!
This is true. And big stone heads!
The Black Hills are a draw, too.
Except for fucking Sturgis.
“Spawn 1 is probably never coming back”
What did YOU do?
Relocations: Albuquerque -> Tucson -> Miami -> Denver -> Monument.
Moves: 14 (various apartments, couches, houses).
Albuquerque: Home. Would consider going back.
Tucson: Good college town. Though I <3 AZ, I would not live in Tucson again. Maybe Phoenix, but not Tucson.
Miami: Great place for a vacation, terrible place to live.
Denver: Used to be great, now it's expensive, crowded, trafficky and ultra-prog. No bueno.
Monument: Suburbia. Pretty views of Pikes Peak, lots of snow and lots of lonely, hot young moms in yoga pants.
If and when my ship ever comes in, I'm moving to Alaska and not looking back. So long suckers!
http://archive.li/8zELQ
Quick snapshots from accuweather.com using their RealFeel temperature for tomorrow at noon (local)
DFW 52°FDB 36%RH 7MPH => 55°F
MEM 42°FDB 55%RH 7MPH => 43°F
MSP 9°FDB 59%RH 15MPH => -3°F
SAN 71°FDB 31%RH 6MPH => 74°F
TUS 63°FDB 22%RH 5MPH => 69°F
My backyard NoDak -10°F 58%RH 15MPH => -33°F
MSP 9°FDB 59%RH 15MPH => -3°F
There we go!
I moved a lot before I bought a house. Now if I ever finish the god forsaken remodel, I’ll never move again.
What are you doing in the remodel?
Remodel 3 baths, fireplace, kitchen, new flooring in 4 bedrooms, paint the entire house, new laundry. That’s all. The contractor said “good news! 1/3 of your floors came in.” I can’t wait for these clowns to be out of my house.
Oh yeah, converting sliding doors to French doors, that’s getting done in April.
Closet organizers… it never ends.
New window treatments.
all over north MS > west TN > TYS > MEM > DFW > MEM
How can you say you escaped Texas when you’ve never lived any closer than DFW?
Spent a week in august in Dallas and when I left, I felt like I escaped.
When I was a kid we moved every 6-9 mos, because my parents did a lot of running from the law. Mostly around town, but once to Santa Maria and once to SF and the Russian River. On my own, I’ve moved a bunch when I was younger, but now I like to stay put pretty good. I’ve been in Toluca Lake for 10 years now and in Burbank for 8 years before that. Never lived in a blizzard prone region and never will. Did live in Pheonix for a year in the early nineties, I hope you guys like it more than I did. At least there won’t be any snow, so there’s that.
Technically i’ve moved 14 times since becoming an adult. About once every 8 months. But some of the moves were very “Short-term”, and so they skew it a bit.
I’ve lived a pathetic sheltered life. Lived in Kansas my whole life. Went to college 3 hours away from home. Moved back home after college. I figure I’ll make up for it by traveling the world later in life.
That’s the right attitude. Live a comfortable life and travel for excitement.
After all my craziness, I actually live about 12 miles from the hospital I was born in.
6 miles. Providence LCM in Torrance.
Valley Pres. Van Nuys, 1966.
Outstanding. All 4 of my beloved grandparents died in the valley, none at that hospital.
625 feet.
Save the wine, SP! Lose that and you lose half of OMWC’s redeeming qualities.
Drink the wine! Don’t take a chance on losing it!
It’s harder to spill when frozen.
you lose half of OMWC’s redeeming qualities
Yes, but the other half, The Jewcock, will still be there.
Actually, I was thinking of your reasonably decent, fair to middling cooking ability.
I did a little improv tonight which seemed to be well received. And we have one less wine bottle to move.
“Whaaat is the deal with airline food?”
Only relocated once after college; AUS ==> ABQ, then moved only once while here. I guess I’m a homebody. But not sure what the future holds, may have to move to a red state sometimes in the not too distant future.
AUS = Austin or Australia?
Nothing exotic, just Austin, for some reason I was thinking in airport codes.
ABQ = Albuquerque if that wasn’t obvious.
I didn’t know you were a “local”. We would have invited you to our Glibfest a few weeks ago.
Dunno about this one… seems like a Tulpa.
A fair bit of both. In early childhood in NY, we moved around Long Island frequently – Massapequa, Seaford, and Levittown by age 7, when we moved down south to Richmond. Lived in Richmond, spending my college years in Charlottesville, with the exception of my freshman year when I went to Pepperdine. After college, moved to California for a year and a half or so, first in Reseda and then Long Beach. Joined the Marines, went to Parris Island (and stayed for a while after graduation as a grad hold due to a fracture), Camp Lejeune, Pensacola, Okinawa, Yuma, with sojourns to Uzbekistan and Iraq. Then Orange Beach AL after the Marines, back to Penaacola, then back to the Richmond area where we rented a house in Glen Allen for a awhile before buying one in the same neighborhood. You’d think moving three streets over would be less stressful, but no – all the stress is the packing up and then unpacking. The length of the trip between homes is irrelevant.
Lotta good times when I lived in Reseda. Mid 1980s.
Before my time. I was there in 1999.
blackjack is the Karate Kid?
At 27, I landed in Bangkok with 3 suitcases. From those 3 suitcases, I built an empire of ladyboy hookers and opium. In the 5 years I was there, I moved about once a year. After a bad deal went down with the Russkaya Mafiya in Pattaya, I elected returned to the United States. At this point, my belongings filled a 1/3 of a transoceanic shipping container. After settling into my redoubt, I haven’t had to move in a decade.
So you sold yourself on the streets of Bangkok to pay for your fix and eventually found your way to East Oakland where you live behind a dumpster and collect cans to pay for cheap black tar from Mexico?
20 dollars is 20 dollars.
Same as downtown.
Hmm, been drinking so will have to do this one at a time:
(1) moved out of parents house when I finished college to MacGregor; (2) MacGregor to Holland Park; (3) Holland Park to Tarragindi; (4) Tarragindi to Holland Park West; (5) Holland Park West to Upper Mt. Gravatt; (then non-counting, brief stay back at parents); (6) parents to Elizabeth, New Jersey; (7) NJ to Lakeside, Montana; (then non-counting, couple of months in friends’ house); (8) to Prairie Village, KS; (9) PV to Olathe, KS; (10) Olathe to Virginia; (11); Virginia to friends’s house in current state (one year stay so counting it): (12) friends’ house to apartment; (13) different apartment in same complex (after 3 years); (14) apartment to first house. 14 moves in 30+ years. Plus, most summers, my wife and I live in her home town in a different state.
Yeah, I’m done moving.
Nothing before (6) sounds real.
I was urged to do more by stroking the stray cat with a cat
Pet the pussy until you hit the spot.
I turned 18 in NH. I slept various places in Durham and Newmarket. I had so few belongings, that I don’t consider the changes of where I was sleeping as moving.
After that stint in NH, I moved to NM, lived in the family house and got my degree. After that, I returned to NH and moved around a little (Dover, Nashua, Hudson). By then I had some stuff, but not much, so the moving was trivial.
My mom had a health issue that brought me back to NM, so about forty years ago (i.e., when I was 26), I bought the house that I currently live in. I haven’t moved since.
Oops… about thirty years ago I bought my house. Time flies, but not quite that quickly.
For the last 18 years I’ve always lived within at most a 15-min walk from the Red Line in Boston.
Federal drone here
I moved from Fl to Virginia to start federal work
Moved from apartment to apartment to home
Rif from Virginia to Florida (relocation)
RIF from Florida to Oklahoma (relocation)
Moved from apartment to rental to house to drborce to new house to country farmhouse
Shit gets old
From college in OH to a rental in Columbus, then to the house I bought in Columbus.
I’m ready for a move while I’m still young.
I had a magical time in Tampa, so that area is on my short list. But I also always saw myself in a city in KY, WV, or most likely; TN. I like the midwest, but just a little but more south would be better.
Top headline at the NY Post. The rest is their usual mix of white people behaving badly and kid suicide bits. And something about AOC.
Who reads this shit?
Ummm…you?
*larf*
Less and less often. It’s a pit there. Yeah it always has been but it’s even worse lately.
https://pagesix.com/2019/01/23/alex-trebek-gets-hit-on-by-80-year-olds/
You think you’re pretty smart, don’t you, Trebek? What, with your dego mustache and your greasy hair…
OMG. I just spent 10 minutes laughing my ass off.
The “In your mother’s handwriting” is the best part.
Outstanding.
Sorry: OT
Never apologize.
Don’t tell him what to do.
I do what I want!
Look who’s going all Tulpa up in here.
Fuck off Tulpa slavers.
About 6 moves over the last 8 years. 3 times during my college years and 3 times post-college. Lived 2 years at different dorms in FSU then lived off-campus for the last two years. Moved to Japan back in early 2015 then moved to a bigger place (ended up renting a house) until this year. As for the future, I got another move coming up this August, then I got the hopefully last and final move next year. Good luck on the move SP and OMWC and hope y’all get to finally settle.
I moved from Roseau to Fargo-Moorhead, within Fargo-Moorhead I moved 4 or 5 times. Then I moved to a motel in Nebraska. Then to San Antonio, 1 move within San Antonio. Th e n, back to Fargo. 3 moves within Fargo. Only 2 moves there (over 5 years). Then to D.C. area, 5 moves in 5 years, then I bought a house. Done for now.
Were you a Ram??
Yes
So you lived in every house in Fargo? Or is it bigger than I imagine?
120k. 250k in the metro area.
I’m surprised the five houses go for that much. Do they at least have a good chunk of land too?
Post college? 6 moves and 1 relocation. Including 2 moves and the relocation in the last 5.5 years.
Been in the Bay Area all my life save about 6 years, 3 in South America, mostly Brazil, and 3 in the Netherlands. Started in the Sunset in SF and am back here now. 1.5 years in fabulous Oakland. Hope to flee this place, but will likely wait until the kids are grown.
45 years there. Sunnyvale, Napa, Fairfield. CoCo County for the last 30 years. Every trip back to see the kids is more and more depressing.
It really is a shame, this place was once a paradise on earth. I’ve been on the planet since the mid 70’s and have seen it fall mightily in that time, with a noticeable decline in the last decade. Too many people with the same infrastructure, progressively more insane politics, much higher costs and far more entitled assholes.
Have you been to San Tung in the Richmond? Best Chinese food I’ve had outside of China.
No, I haven’t and I am not that far away. I see a line outside that place all the time. I gotta get over my line aversion and give that place a try. Thanks.
I just looked it up. It was listed on Yelp under “Chicken Wings”.
Go, man! Go now!
Boner inducing dry fried calamari.
Yup, it’s famous for wings. I’m going to put it on the list for the next week.
I was more-or-less apolitical when I spent a year there 20 years ago – and even I couldn’t take it. So I escaped TO New York.
Ha! Escape from SF. It’s gone wayyy further down the rabbit hole since then.
I used to ride up there about 2-3 times a year. One of our “things” was to get a hippy breakfast in the Haight. ‘Round about 2k or so, the goddamn hippies started to get all plexed because we were rowdy and fun as we ate organic whole grain pancakes with honey and butter. That’s when I stopped having fun up there. I must say, though, Wop food on Columbus st. is still a treat.
Speaking of relocating: Jamestown Settlers and Spanish Pirates
Speaking of moving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZCzl6qhZ70
Even better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynZGU5ZgAM
OT: AFAICT, “aromantic” means you like casual sex.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a9644122/aromantic-definition-meaning/
Of course now, in our ridiculous Weimar culture it’s now considered an orientation.
I was about to write that it’s just a kinder word for “sociopath”, and then I read the article:
Well, there you go.
Part of me wants to believe that Woman B is a composite of other people, or a Glass-style creation, because it feels good to think Cosmo is that mendacious. However, there’s no apparent reason for this to not be an actual person.
A broken, vile, whore of a person.
Can one’s gender be aromatic? Because some people smell. Like the Amish. They done stink. Am I right?! *Audience Applause*
7 times. I’ve been at my current house for 16 years. Wifey is getting antsy so probably moving again some time.
Antsy for a new town/state or a new house?
New husband?
OOF.
Maybe some of that too. Though just on the tired of current husband’s crap, not someone else lined up.
Oh, is that what she told you?
Always check her texts.
New house. I think.
I’m feeling the new state part. I love the woods but the progs are ruining this state in so many ways. And the job future prospects are poor.
From the pics you posted before, looks like where you’re at already is pretty nice.
Born and raised in OK.
Grad school in Stockholm; then crashed with the parents in OK while job hunting.
OK to MN, hopping among twin cities suburbs: Brooklyn Park, Coon Rapids, Blaine, and Fridley. (Yes those are actual suburb names in Minnesota.) After 12 years in the Fridley house, relocated to San Diego.
I never want to move again. This “final” relocation, I got lucky and the new company paid for the packing, moving, storage and an apartment in San Diego while we house hunted, and finally unloading all the boxes into to new house. I don’t think I’d have survived it otherwise.
So really just 2 relocations, though several in-town moves when I had less stuff.
San Diego is a pretty good place to stop moving. I love going down there.
Can’t remember his name, but that extremely obese guy from OK that sings and plays the guitar is awesome. He just came up on my YT feed yesterday. He has O.K.L.A. tattooed on his knuckles. Wears a Dekalb hat. Anyone know his name？
John Popper?
That would be a harmonica.
We’re talking over 400lbs Obese.
Fun video/song
GENESIS – I Can’t Dance (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYIbUakguIE
Since I got married? We went from a small, shitty apartment to a somewhat larger apartment to your stardard 3/2 ranch in the suburbs. We’ll have been in the house 22 years next week.
11 moves as an adult. Kinda over it, but willing to go one more if this country goes to shit.
Even if we all were white, and I know we aren’t, there’s way more real, useful diversity in this group than there is in a “diverse” group of Asian-, African-, Native-, and Euro-Americans who all went to prep school and the Ivies, live on the Upper East Side and summer in the Hamptons.
Harrumph!
If you ever don’t vote for the Democrat, you are white.
My wife and I have a great opportunity to relocate to Seattle. Raises for everybody and a real opportunity to grow. Plus, the wife will be in charge of the operation. She’s a little freaked out. We’re going to Seattle in three weeks to see if it will be our new adventure.
We get antsy and move every 4 or 5 years. So far it’s been all around LA. Venice to Koreatown to Redondo Beach to Long Beach. I want to try a new neighborhood, new bars/restaurants, coffee shops, hipster shit.
Hopefully some decent musicians that want to play some guitar based punky jangly noisy powerpop. A man can dream….
EG, you’re the musician so give a guy a hand and help me figure out who is the OK I mentioned upthread.
I got nothing.
Just started watching “Enter the Dragon”, and am wailing away on my acoustic guitar. I’m sure the neighbors are thrilled.
Hey man, you should try a local bar called the Park, in Burbank. They have bands on Friday night. It’s a little dive bar, but some of the bands are pretty good. It ranges from punk to blues to pop and hippy music. It’s basically free (or maybe 5 buck cover, IDK because I get there before the band starts) I have a blast there. Last time they had an AC/DC cover band with a crazy Chick singer. They were pretty good.
Do you like expensive housing, horrible traffic and gun hating commies?
I live in SoCal. Bring it, bro.
SoCal with rain
But the beach babes are awesome, right?
There is a hottie behind every palm tree
“How many times have you moved residences as an adult? How many times have you relocated?”
Short answer: Too many times, and too many times.
Longer answer: Depends on what age you consider adult, and for what duration of a stay in one place you define moving residences. Like the time I shipped my car to the Mainland from Hawaii, stayed a few weeks in San Diego, drove all around the country, stayed a few months in Salt Lake City area, had to move out of the apartment there for a week, moved back in the apartment for a month, and then moved to Austin, and stayed in a residence suite for a month, then got an apartment.
How many moves and relocations is all that? One and one?
Counting post-school life, relocated 3 times: WI to IA to FLA to IA, followed by a two moves within town (due to getting married, then buying a house a year later). Been in the same house now for almost 25 years. The longest I had been in any single place before this was my first 10 years as a child.
In college, I lived in 3 places as an undergrad in MO and 7 places as a grad in WI.
And after living in this house for so long, and collecting more stuff from combining households in a second marriage, and collecting stuff when my mom died, I dread having to ever move again. But the recent snows (and those to come) do provide some encouragement.
Manhattan Beach 17> Berkeley 5> Hermosa Beach 5> Manhattan Beach 11.
There’s some stuff in the middle that I’m not going to get into. I’m just talking about places where I receive mail.
The house I grew up in was actually built by my grandparents. They sold it to my parents shortly after I was born.
I found out from a scan of a platbook from 1902, that the land the house is on has been in my mother’s family for at least 116 years, though of course back then it was 80+ acres.
Moved from my parents home to school.
From the time I went to school till the time I got married I lived in five different apartments, all within the same metro area.
Each of these moves I did with a small car. Which was fine because up to then, the largest thing I owned was a computer desk. Usually it only took two trips in a coupe.
When I got married we moved into a house in that metro area. Still didn’t really have any furniture of my own, except for a bed, so I think I just borrowed my father-in-laws pickup, or I might have just tied the bed on my car roof…don’t remember which. We lived there for ten years.
We then relocated from Illinois to Iowa, moving costs covered by wife’s company. Movers brought a 53ft trailer and surprisingly our stuff filled a good bit of it.
Apparently, you’re the only one of us who’s still going to have a security clearance after the shutdown ends.
Been in Illinois my whole life. Sucker for punishment I guess. Growing up, my parents moved us 7 times. All around Calhoun, Madison, Jersey and Greene counties. On my own and with my own family, I’ve also moved 7 times. Mostly the same places but also Peoria and Champaign. Living in Calhoun now the last 20 years. This whole area would be so much better if it were not in Illinois. We have so much more in common with Kentucky and Missouri than the northern part of the state but this place, and everything outside of Chicago-land, is only a fiefdom to the Chicago machine so we are ignored, at best, by our betters in Springfield.
Doubt this is surprising to anyone here
I can’t tell what’s more amazing… this guy’s mouth, his eyes, or his hairline. It’s all spread so thin.
Agent Smith
Hey look over there, there’s a Russian!
As an adult? Moved out of state three times, four if you count being in TX for nearly a year of training. In total? I’ve lived in AZ, FL, TX, SC, and CO. Changed residences about once every 2-3 years because my parents flipped houses growing up.
When you’ve lost The Atlantic…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/
The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it.
LOL
The money shot at the end:
I am prompted to issue my own ethics reminders for The New York Times. Here they are: You were partly responsible for the election of Trump because you are the most influential newspaper in the country, and you are not fair or impartial. Millions of Americans believe you hate them and that you will causally harm them. Two years ago, they fought back against you, and they won. If Trump wins again, you will once again have played a small but important role in that victory.
When I was 18 I packed everything I needed in my coupe and headed to the southwest. Went back an forth with my stuff for summers coming home from college. At the end of ot 3 I had to end my adventure and have been in the same place ever since. Now not only can I not fit all my shit in a coupe, I can’t fit it in a 3 bedroom house.
And Sir Digby, if you see this, I was just kidding last night, I’m very hard to offend.
No probs. There was never any intent on my part, btw–we’re all good up in here (I would think).
Up in here?
Well, why not?
The house I live in now was a two room shack when my grand parents bought it. It’s now 7 rooms, all literally built by my family. The wood walls in the living room were old saw mill logs dredged by grandfather and his sons, milled by his brother, and built by them. It’s the nexus of libertopia with no permits and and 3 separate fuse boxes. I helped build the basement and sidewalk. If I ever have a son I want him to help me rebuild that sidewalk, because grandpa wasn’t great at masonry and it needs to be redone.
The only thing that would make that more awesome is if you have an oubliette hidden in the basement.
Since graduating HS–six times, all within the Metroplex. Now, with a mortgage over us, I think we’re staying put for a looong time.
Want to relocate at retirement, but not sure that’s even likely, much less, where we originally wanted to move.
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Since high school? Not much telling if I include the college/grad school years.
As an actual adult, probably 4 times.
I grew up on a sailboat (the 32′ schooner Colleen, my stepdad and his brothers built her on the bones of an old lifeboat), bouncing around the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of Florida and the Caribbean. Settled ashore on a barrier island between Tampa and Naples. Army sent me to OK, TX, CA. Spent a year in Cripple Creek, CO. Went to college in Tallahassee, FL where I had (IIRC) 10 different shitty rentals. Off to New Orleans: house in Irish Chanel, slave-quarter apt. in Upper French Quarter, a house in Lower French Quarter. Now, NYC, 1st Crown Heights, Brooklyn; then, after kids are born, we were priced out of the neighborhood so we fled to Rockaway Beach, Queens. We are quite happy here and plan to stay until wifey retires from the City and we can get back to Florida.
Define Adult. Where’s the dividing line between a ‘move’ and a ‘relocation’ in your mind, as I regard these as synonyms. I might relocate just across the street, or move across the state.
West Des Moines Iowa to Altoona IA
Back to West Des Moines
West Des Moines Iowa to Goose Creek South Carolina
Goose Creek SC to Chesapeake Virginia
Chesapeake VA to Norfolk VA
Since college? Six times, three of those were rental houses, three were mortgages. Each was a step up in neighborhood quality and well-worth the effort.
Kalamazoo -> Standale
Standale to Grand Rapids
GR to GR
Gr to East GR
EGR to EGR
and here we stay, planning on house additions, fences, landscaping, etc to make this weird little bi-level our “permanent” home. There may be one more move in our future, either retirement home or even better and bigger digs in EGR, provided we can find the right mid century house.
In college: lots of apartments, most of them rather shitty.
First apartment, which was great but crime-ridden area. And then to the student ghetto for the remaining year. And then moved to Boulder to a large apartment complex, and then back to Kalamazoo, in a really junky top floor apartment in Kalamazoo. With huge bugs infesting the house. That place burned down, so – with very little belongings left – we moved to a really nice apartment in a mediocre area. And then, to save money, back to the student ghetto. And then a move within the same apartment building to a bigger place. And then a final Kalamazoo move to an apartment flat that we shared with my brother. Very nice digs but a horrible neighbor downstairs.
All that apartment living made me say – no more!! Houses ever since.
Thats a lot of Kalamazoo….
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I….got a gal in Kalamazoo
I tested the medical waste incinerator at Borgess once.
As a post-school adult:
Move, move, move, relocate, move.
Only one relocation as an adult, back in early 1996 I moved from Aurora, IL to Los Angeles.
I’ve moved three times since then (an apartment in Hollywood to an apartment in Los Feliz, from the Los Feliz apartment to my fiance’s house in Lancaster, and then from Lancaster to our current home in Canyon Country).