How long have you lived at your current residence?

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Posted: 2/14/2017 10:08:24 AM EDT

Just curious as to how long you've been where you call home.
Do you get the urge to to see some different walls/yard from time to time if you've been there a long time?

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:09:47 AM EDT

[#1]

Oct. 2015. First time homowner.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:11:10 AM EDT

[#2]

Bought my current home in 2008. Moved back in in 2015.

.mil so I rented it out while I was stationed elsewhere.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:11:46 AM EDT

[#3]

I'm on to my 6th home in 7 years

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:12:17 AM EDT

[#4]

27 years

No, happy here after moving all over the US.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:13:10 AM EDT

[#5]

Had my house built 20 years ago.
I'm retired and very happy where I live, I plan on dying here in another 30 years or so....

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:13:27 AM EDT

[#6]

15 years, give or take. It's too damned early to try to actually remember things.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:13:48 AM EDT

[#7]

Three years. If it wasn't for NY gun laws forcing me to relocate after retirement, I'd plan on dying here.
The house the ex got, we'd been there 20 years.
The house I grew up in, my dad is still there 50 years after he built it.
I see no purpose in moving just to "see new walls".
It's called having roots.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:14:34 AM EDT

[#8]

13 years at my primary home in WI.

We have another home in northeast PA we use for vacations that used to be my primary home. But for our home here in WI, we use it as a basecamp and travel out of it. It's a sprawling ranch, easy to maintain and we have it tweaked and updated to last quite a while. neighbors are awesome all around and we have a large lot with plenty of room. We've talked about moving, but we'd rather just keep it and plan our travels with this place as our constant primary home.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:15:46 AM EDT

[#9]

10 years nearly to the day. This was our first home, and a very small one at that.

We close on our new home in just over a month.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:16:38 AM EDT

[#10]

Just closed on my most recent home purchse..doing some remodeling to it now before moving.
Wife asked me if this is last house/move?
I said why?
She said this is our 9th house in 27 year marriage..

I shrugged.. walked down to the barn.

If I find a house I like and if the price is right?(and if I have the ca$h)...probably move again,if she doesn't like it she is welcome to keep the one we are in and I move without her..
So far she keeps tagging along..

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:18:06 AM EDT

[#11]

22 years.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:20:24 AM EDT

[#12]

A year and a half. I bought my first place 7 years ago, then officially moved in with my wife after we got married. My house is now a range and a place to house family and friends when they come up to see us. I should probably rent or sell my house.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:21:05 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Just curious as to how long you've been where you call home.
Do you get the urge to to see some different walls/yard from time to time if you've been there a long time?

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Less than three weeks.
I don't like to move. It's a lot of work.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:25:25 AM EDT

[#14]

They laid the foundation in Jan of 2016 we moved in may 2016. Our first home. I like it here but hoping to get to Florida

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:28:49 AM EDT

[#15]

Current residence: 20 years

Current City: 54 years

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:34:09 AM EDT

[#16]

Coming up on 13 years. We've been getting the itch lately. We're near train tracks and are tired of hearing them blast their horns all day and night. Stairs are also starting to annoy us. Otherwise, we still really like the house and would stay. But we can't change those things, so we're thinking about moving in the next couple of years.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:34:32 AM EDT

[#17]

current house 18 yrs, happy I bought this when I did,
couldn't afford to buy the same thing now, kinda stuck now
could sell, but couldn't afford a similar house ,

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:39:13 AM EDT

[#18]

Current house for 6 years. Current area for 34 years.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:42:01 AM EDT

[#19]

Bought our first house 5 years ago. We're looking to move in 2-3 years as our kids get older

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:42:39 AM EDT

[#20]

3 months. I'll be moving again in another 3 months, give or take.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:44:18 AM EDT

[#21]

October 1997

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:46:04 AM EDT

[#22]

40 years, might stay.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:46:08 AM EDT

[#23]

March 2003

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:46:24 AM EDT

[#24]

We built the house we are in now. We moved in, I believe, in August of 2002. The house we lived in prior to that, which is 10+ miles from here, was about 10 years. While I love my house, and I love being at home, I hate South Florida. It wouldn't upset me in the slightest to move.

But then it has never bothered me to move around with my hubby. We don't have kids so who cares? We've lived in FL, NY, CT and VA. We've just accumulated so much stuff at this point it's gonna be a pain to move.

ETA apparently I stutter when I type...

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:47:33 AM EDT

[#25]

24yrs

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:48:41 AM EDT

[#26]

Coming up on 6 years, last house 30 years, it was only temporary

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:49:56 AM EDT

[#27]

Since '72.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:51:11 AM EDT

[#28]

5 years

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:52:02 AM EDT

[#29]

it will be 30 years in October

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:52:23 AM EDT

[#30]

I've lived here about 10 years, the missus her whole life pretty much. Been in her family since 1892 when it was built after the previous house, barn, and back house burned.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:53:41 AM EDT

[#31]

17 years this Mothers Day Weekend.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:53:44 AM EDT

[#32]

17 years....here for the long haul.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:54:48 AM EDT

[#33]

A little over 2 years, had my first house for 20. The last five I really wanted to get out but had to see what happened with work. I plan on staying in this one a while too.

Posted: 2/14/2017 10:56:08 AM EDT

[#34]

Almost five years, but I moved out of CA a little over a year ago to central AZ. I spend 30% back in CA at the mountain house. We both have family in town there.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:09:03 AM EDT

[#35]

Bought this house 5 years ago. Would be nice to sell it by the end of the year.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:15:21 AM EDT

[#36]

On post housing for the last 18 months as no other options exist here. Hopefully out of here in 4 months or less.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:20:51 AM EDT

[#37]

51 years. It's the house I grew up in. Inherited half, bought the other half. Converted it back to a single family and raising my own family in it. It's been in my family 70 years now.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:21:50 AM EDT

[#38]

I've owned my house for 40 years. No plans to move.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:22:00 AM EDT

[#39]

30 + years. Just in the process of moving to our 2nd house now the kids have gone..

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:24:05 AM EDT

[#40]

17 years. Looking to move southeast a few hundred miles in the next year or so.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:25:19 AM EDT

[#41]

Two months tomorrow.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:27:37 AM EDT

[#42]

Twenty five years last September. Sometimes I think about moving but the thought of packing up that many years worth of stuff overwhelms me.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:29:42 AM EDT

[#43]

Thanksgiving, 1993.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:30:07 AM EDT

[#44]

almost two years.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:32:24 AM EDT

[#45]

27.5 years

Sometimes I wish for bigger, but then I'd just have to clean more

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:32:31 AM EDT

[#46]

We moved a lot when I was a kid. I bought my house 20 years ago and have no desire to move.

Posted: 2/14/2017 11:33:17 AM EDT

[#47]

4 years...this is our second home. Bought/built a townhouse and realized we couldn't live like that and sold after 3 years.

Bought current house and have zero interest in moving. We got our house for a steal and got everything we wanted.

ETA: If I somehow came into a mountain of money, I'd move, but only to purchase a house with more land. We have 15.5 acres, but who wouldn't want hundreds of acres?