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In how many apartments/houses have you lived since college?
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TrooperBari
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Since leaving college:
1. Room in Bellevue, NE (6 months)
2. House in Elkhorn, NE (18 months)
3. 1-bed apartment in La Grande, OR (18 months)
4. Room in Hilo, HI (3 months)
5. House (with 3 housemates) in Papaikou, HI (1 year)
6. Upper half of duplex in Hilo, HI (6 months)
7. 2-bed apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia (2 years)
8. Communist Party-issue 1-bed apartment in Beijing (6 months)
9. 2-bed apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia (5 months and counting)
1. Room in Bellevue, NE (6 months)
2. House in Elkhorn, NE (18 months)
3. 1-bed apartment in La Grande, OR (18 months)
4. Room in Hilo, HI (3 months)
5. House (with 3 housemates) in Papaikou, HI (1 year)
6. Upper half of duplex in Hilo, HI (6 months)
7. 2-bed apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia (2 years)
8. Communist Party-issue 1-bed apartment in Beijing (6 months)
9. 2-bed apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia (5 months and counting)
Webster
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10 in 21 years.
3 different places in law school.
2 for my first job (3 months and then 4 years).
1 in Hoboken (1 year)
1 near the UN when I moved in with my now wife (2 years)
2 in the same building when we moved on up like the Jeffersons to the UES (5 years and 2 years)
My current house in NJ (4 years)
3 different places in law school.
2 for my first job (3 months and then 4 years).
1 in Hoboken (1 year)
1 near the UN when I moved in with my now wife (2 years)
2 in the same building when we moved on up like the Jeffersons to the UES (5 years and 2 years)
My current house in NJ (4 years)
spikechiquet
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Count along with me...going to see if I can do this from memory.
Technically graduated in May 2000 (still had a few classes to wrap up, but walked)
1) May 2000-Oct. 2002: My college house, an upstairs/downstairs duplex that I shared with a variety of roommates (I believe the final count was 13 roomies in that place with me as the constant with such hits as "the girlfriend", "the best friends brother", "the crazy hot chick I tried to bang, but she was so crazy I kicked her out", "the door-2-door knife salesman that my landlord made me take in", "the former co-worker who did nothing but listen to the the band Chicago and talk about the Cubs", "the death metal listening, Japanese wrestling watching guy", and "the man wart"). Lived there til I got married and quit my 2nd job (1 in TV and 1 in newspaper).
2) Oct 2002-May 2006: 1st duplex with my wife after I got my 3rd job (back in TV)
3) May 2006-Aug. 2008: rental home closer to 4th/5th job (1st pro job in radio, turned into 2nd newspaper gig as well)
4) Aug. 2008-Oct. 2008: 1-room apartment used to get me to next job while I waited for wife to find work. It was a former break room and was big enough to hold a blow-up mattress, a fridge and a lawn chair. Spent a lot of time at the bar for those 8 weeks.
5) Oct. 2008-March 2009: Rented a house close to where wife got job. I picked out the place...she hated it.
6) April 2009-present: Bought a house in same town.
7) Feb. 2011-present: I moved to new job (newspaper) 4 hours away, wife still is at house while looking for work. I have an apartment downtown
8) Coming soon: Looking for a place this week.
So 3.5 years seems to be my max in one place so far. Praying this is the last move!
Technically graduated in May 2000 (still had a few classes to wrap up, but walked)
1) May 2000-Oct. 2002: My college house, an upstairs/downstairs duplex that I shared with a variety of roommates (I believe the final count was 13 roomies in that place with me as the constant with such hits as "the girlfriend", "the best friends brother", "the crazy hot chick I tried to bang, but she was so crazy I kicked her out", "the door-2-door knife salesman that my landlord made me take in", "the former co-worker who did nothing but listen to the the band Chicago and talk about the Cubs", "the death metal listening, Japanese wrestling watching guy", and "the man wart"). Lived there til I got married and quit my 2nd job (1 in TV and 1 in newspaper).
2) Oct 2002-May 2006: 1st duplex with my wife after I got my 3rd job (back in TV)
3) May 2006-Aug. 2008: rental home closer to 4th/5th job (1st pro job in radio, turned into 2nd newspaper gig as well)
4) Aug. 2008-Oct. 2008: 1-room apartment used to get me to next job while I waited for wife to find work. It was a former break room and was big enough to hold a blow-up mattress, a fridge and a lawn chair. Spent a lot of time at the bar for those 8 weeks.
5) Oct. 2008-March 2009: Rented a house close to where wife got job. I picked out the place...she hated it.
6) April 2009-present: Bought a house in same town.
7) Feb. 2011-present: I moved to new job (newspaper) 4 hours away, wife still is at house while looking for work. I have an apartment downtown
8) Coming soon: Looking for a place this week.
So 3.5 years seems to be my max in one place so far. Praying this is the last move!
Since college:
1. Apartment with a roommate
2. Me and same roommate moved to a different apartment when they raised the rent.
3. Got my own apartment after roommate got married and kept our apartment.
4. Met future wife and moved into her condo that her family owned.
5. Bought a townhouse with fiancee. Got married and had a child.
6. Wife and I bought a house.
7. Moved 45 miles and bought different house.
From the beginning:
1. Parents' first house.
2. Moved with parents to different house, same city.
3. Apartment with roommate at college.
4. Different apartment with different roommate at college.
5. Back with parents at house No. 2 for about 6 months.
I guess you could say 11 in all.
1. Apartment with a roommate
2. Me and same roommate moved to a different apartment when they raised the rent.
3. Got my own apartment after roommate got married and kept our apartment.
4. Met future wife and moved into her condo that her family owned.
5. Bought a townhouse with fiancee. Got married and had a child.
6. Wife and I bought a house.
7. Moved 45 miles and bought different house.
From the beginning:
1. Parents' first house.
2. Moved with parents to different house, same city.
3. Apartment with roommate at college.
4. Different apartment with different roommate at college.
5. Back with parents at house No. 2 for about 6 months.
I guess you could say 11 in all.
Read this wrong before. Will try again.
College town/hometown:
Owed condo
Detroit
Apartment with roommate who should be happy I didn't kill her
House with best roommate I ever had
Long-term housesitting gig (about eight months)
Bought house (retrospect: BIG mistake)
Morocco
Temporary housing during training.
Host family during training
Host family at site
My house at site
Post-Morocco
Crash with parents (yeah, I know. Peace Corps doesn't pay much)
YMCA camp (two months)
Wyoming - log cabin for two months.
Back at parents.
Three weeks with aunt in SC on a catering gig
Back at parents
Back to Morocco for a month on a job - lived in hotel rooms.
Back at parents
Currently
On three-month lease in new apartment, but I will likely have to move when the lease expires.
College town/hometown:
Owed condo
Detroit
Apartment with roommate who should be happy I didn't kill her
House with best roommate I ever had
Long-term housesitting gig (about eight months)
Bought house (retrospect: BIG mistake)
Morocco
Temporary housing during training.
Host family during training
Host family at site
My house at site
Post-Morocco
Crash with parents (yeah, I know. Peace Corps doesn't pay much)
YMCA camp (two months)
Wyoming - log cabin for two months.
Back at parents.
Three weeks with aunt in SC on a catering gig
Back at parents
Back to Morocco for a month on a job - lived in hotel rooms.
Back at parents
Currently
On three-month lease in new apartment, but I will likely have to move when the lease expires.
Out of school 15 years this weekend:
1) Shared apartment
2) Roommate left, so took a studio in the same complex
3) Got married and moved in with wife's apartment in same complex
4) Stayed in that apartment after divorce until bought house while engaged to current wife
1) Shared apartment
2) Roommate left, so took a studio in the same complex
3) Got married and moved in with wife's apartment in same complex
4) Stayed in that apartment after divorce until bought house while engaged to current wife
Starman
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11 in 30 years.
1. Crappy 1 BDR in my hometown while I was working monkey jobs and stringing for the hometown daily.
2. Crappy 1 BDR in a house in the Hooterville burg where my first fulltime journalism job was as SE for a 6-day daily.
3. Crappy 1 BDR upstairs when I got promoted to ME of a 5-day daily in the same chain.
4. Nice 1 BDR on a beautiful lakeshore when I worked as an ASE at a bigger paper 30 miles away.
5. Modest 1 BDR when I got promoted to SE in the same chain across the state.
6. Back at parents for 4 months after mother died, and I got fired a couple weeks later by a new ME who replaced the guy who hired me. Dad needed some help straightening the place out anyway.
7. Crappy 1 BDR when i got another job, SE at a 6-day daily in the same region as (4 and 5).
8. Nice 2 BDR on the same beautiful lakeshore as (4) -- in the same building, in fact; I got married and we wanted to live in a nicer place.
9. VERY NICE 2 BDR in a spiffy complex in a metro area when we both got much better jobs.
10. Modest 1 BDR after divorce; couldn't afford/didn't need to live in a luxury complex any more.
11. Current 2 BDR house, now 8 years. Not a luxury pad, just a decent bungalow.
1. Crappy 1 BDR in my hometown while I was working monkey jobs and stringing for the hometown daily.
2. Crappy 1 BDR in a house in the Hooterville burg where my first fulltime journalism job was as SE for a 6-day daily.
3. Crappy 1 BDR upstairs when I got promoted to ME of a 5-day daily in the same chain.
4. Nice 1 BDR on a beautiful lakeshore when I worked as an ASE at a bigger paper 30 miles away.
5. Modest 1 BDR when I got promoted to SE in the same chain across the state.
6. Back at parents for 4 months after mother died, and I got fired a couple weeks later by a new ME who replaced the guy who hired me. Dad needed some help straightening the place out anyway.
7. Crappy 1 BDR when i got another job, SE at a 6-day daily in the same region as (4 and 5).
8. Nice 2 BDR on the same beautiful lakeshore as (4) -- in the same building, in fact; I got married and we wanted to live in a nicer place.
9. VERY NICE 2 BDR in a spiffy complex in a metro area when we both got much better jobs.
10. Modest 1 BDR after divorce; couldn't afford/didn't need to live in a luxury complex any more.
11. Current 2 BDR house, now 8 years. Not a luxury pad, just a decent bungalow.
Let's see...in the three years since I graduated college - 3. A two-room apartment that I took in a pinch because I needed a place to live and had no time to look. A two-bedroom apartment (for barely more than the two-room apartment) that I lived in for two and a half years. And now I'm downsized to an 11x11 room (and half the garage) at my parents' house.
In my 25 years on this planet...
Three places before I was six.
Moved to a temp house when we moved to Kansas, where we lived for five years while we built our house.
Moved into the house when I was 16.
Moved into the dorms and out of the dorms for three years.
Lived in an apartment while I had an internship after my junior year of college. (Which involved moving all of my stuff twice in two weeks.)
Lived in a house with four other girls my senior year of college.
And yes, I am a professional packer because during my senior year, I had to go home and pack up/throw away stuff from my old room so my parents could move to the teeny-ass house that I was never meant to occupy full-time in Texas.
Five cities, three states, and people think I'm an Army brat.
In my 25 years on this planet...
Three places before I was six.
Moved to a temp house when we moved to Kansas, where we lived for five years while we built our house.
Moved into the house when I was 16.
Moved into the dorms and out of the dorms for three years.
Lived in an apartment while I had an internship after my junior year of college. (Which involved moving all of my stuff twice in two weeks.)
Lived in a house with four other girls my senior year of college.
And yes, I am a professional packer because during my senior year, I had to go home and pack up/throw away stuff from my old room so my parents could move to the teeny-ass house that I was never meant to occupy full-time in Texas.
Five cities, three states, and people think I'm an Army brat.
HejiraHenry
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In 33 years, 18 residences:
Solo apartments: 9
Home with my wife (since 2004): 2
Rental house with friends: 4
Purchased condo: 1
Long-term residence hotel: 1
Back home (briefly) with parents: 1
Solo apartments: 9
Home with my wife (since 2004): 2
Rental house with friends: 4
Purchased condo: 1
Long-term residence hotel: 1
Back home (briefly) with parents: 1
