Rolling stones gather no moss?

[angledge]

[Poll #1317329]

What are the good things about moving? What are the bad things? What is it like to live in one place for an extended period of time?

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

Good things: Fresh start, chance to get rid of kipple, chance to acquire new kipple

Bad things: Hauling shit around costs money; need to form new local social network (unless you're a hermit)

Define "extended period of time"

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Re: kipple. My grandpa used to say, "As far as getting rid of stuff, two moves equals one fire."

Another good thing about moving is you get to know a different place. Visiting somewhere doesn't teach you as much as living in a place.

A good/bad thing: the more you move around, the more widely dispersed your friends network becomes. While it's true I have people in all corners of the country at this point, it's also true that I can never gather them all together. Therefore, no matter where I am, I'm missing somebody.

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

Re: kipple. My grandpa used to say, "As far as getting rid of stuff, two moves equals one fire."

My mom always said that, except I thought she was talking about DAMAGE to stuff. Now that it is put in the perspective of purging junk, it makes a lot more sense.

Therefore, no matter where I am, I'm missing somebody.

So. True.

I answered >10 because I counted FEMA moves, like NC to NOLA to BR back to NC, even though they didn't involve miving all my stuff. If I just counted the ones that involve moving my stuff, I'm probably in the 7-10 range.

FEMA counts, I feel.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

My move count included:

SF->NOLA
NOLA->SF
NYC->Galveston

just for kicks..

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

OK -> VA
VA-> NC
Davidson county -> Winston Salem
Winston Salem -> Tobaccoville
Tvill -> dorm
dorm -> apartment
Raleigh -> oklahoma
OK -> Raleigh
Raleigh -> Tville
tville-> raleigh
apartment -> house
house-> NOLA
Nola-> baton rouge
Baton rouge-> tville
tville-> Cary

holy crappoly.

Bleah, just typing it all up makes me tired. Total moves = 25.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Cherry Hill, NJ -> Medford, NJ
Medford, NJ -> Concord, CA
Concord, CA -> Medford, NJ
Medford, NJ -> Dorm, Ithaca, NY
Dorm -> Maidstone, Kent, England
England -> Dorm
Dorm -> 509 House, Ithaca, NY
509 House -> Menomonie, WI
Menomonie, WI -> 509 House
509 House -> 301 Cornell St, Ithaca, NY
301 Cornell St -> Dousman, WI
Dousman, WI -> Hill House, Ithaca, NY
Hill House -> first apt, Waukesha, WI
first apt -> Riverwalk apt, Waukesha, WI
Riverwalk apt -> Conshohocken, PA
Conshohocken, PA -> King of Prussia, PA
King of Prussia, PA -> Wayne, PA
Wayne, PA -> Jenkintown, PA
Jenkintown, PA -> Claymont, DE
Claymont, DE -> Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland -> San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA -> New Orleans, LA
New Orleans, LA -> San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA -> NEW YORK FUCKIN' CITY
NYC, NY -> Galveston, TX

Holy Crapoly.

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of moving.

Re: Bleah, just typing it all up makes me tired. Total moves = 25.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I feel so inadequate with my seventh in six years now compared to you now...

[angledge.livejournal.com]

YOU define "extended period of time"!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Three years in BFE Pennsylvania felt like entirely too fucking long. Likewise for six months in Brooklyn.

Two years in New Orleans felt like enough.

Four and a half years in Tampa (and still going) feels fine.

Environmental comfort makes this a non-Euclidian curve.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Environmental comfort makes this a non-Euclidian curve.

And you win the GOTW. Here's your complimentary -1.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

O R'LYEH?

IA, R'LYEH!

(alas, I do not have this icon, else I would img src= it with a quickness.)

[mrbigsteve.livejournal.com]

The best thing about moving (to me) is that it forces you to take a look at all of the crap that you have and hopefully pare it down a bit. I still have a lot of paring to do yet, but I shudder to think what living where I am now would be like without the past... oh, three purges or so.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, moving does give you a chance to pare down all the stuff. My last big move (SF to NYC) was a failure on that front though - I brought EVERYTHING, & so did hotpantsgalore. Our NYC apartment feels quite overstuffed (heh) as a result.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

The best thing about moving is the new shower curtain. I always get a new shower curtain when I move.

Since leaving my parents' place, I haven't lived in one home for more than 2 years and I haven't lived in one city for more than 5.

I seem to need to move less often the bigger the place I'm living. Both times in Ithaca I wanted out of there long before I left. Austin could've been my home forever if the weather had been more to my liking. I'm pretty happy where I am now as long as I continue to live within a decent commute (30 min by transit or bike, 10 by car counts as decent to me)

[kielbasa-007.livejournal.com]

And now that I'm in an area I like I can forgo the rule of "amount of stuff = space in car"

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

I've moved exactly 10 times. How do you count that one???

Oh wait, I forgot one. *goes to change answer*

I've been here just over 3 years, and have been kinda looking for another place but the way the market is right now I've kinda got it good. So I'll probably be here a while longer.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I've moved exactly 10 times. How do you count that one???

You know, I always fuck up the divisions in almost every poll I write. And polls are impossible to edit.

[thepikey.livejournal.com]

Ok, just because everybody else is doing it...
Des Moines house 1 -> DM house 2 -> Ames grad school dorm -> single occupancy dorm -> Ames apt -> DM house 2 -> DM apt -> SF condo -> San Mateo apt -> Millbrae efficiency -> Burlingame apt -> Redwood City apt

[ataralas.livejournal.com]

I. Hate. Moving.

I never moved in my life until I was 18 and went to college, which may have something to do with it. But it's so freaking tedious. You have to find a new place. You have to pack your shit. You have to carry your shit. (Books are freaking heavy!) You have to unpack your shit. You have to deal with the electric company and the gas company and whoever supplies the interwebs. It's expensive and time consuming.

That said, I really only have issues with the actual moving part. But then again, I've been very lucky housing-wise, and I've never moved to a place I absolutely hated—MA took two years to grow on me, but I love it now.

My list of Moves:

Hometown, NJ -> Chicago dorm
dorm->Summer sublet
sublet->dorm
dorm->Herodotus*
Herodotus->This Land**
This Land->47 Cherry
47 Cherry->current place

*My first apartment, on Crack Dealer Alley. Nicknamed Herodotus the Talking Stick. Don't ask.
**My second apartment in Chicago, way less sketchy than Herodotus.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

See, you didn't count the move to CERN for the summer & I did count some summer moves. My methodology for this survey is poorly defined & therefore my data is somewhat inconsistent.

Oh well, who didn't know I was a bad scientist?

[marasca.livejournal.com]

You do work for FEMA now. It should be expected. ;)

[ataralas.livejournal.com]

I guess I count a move as moving a certain percentage of my stuff and not having some other "real" residence at that time-when I was living in Geneva, my real residence was This Land.

Plus, all I did was pack up a big suitcase and get on a plane. I didn't move...because if I count Geneva, then I have to count every summer I went to camp as a kid.

My list of moves and duration, lemme showz you it

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

The womb to Mesa, Ariz.: 9 months
Mesa, AZ: 1 year
Fullerton, Calif: 10 years
Brea, Calif.: 11 years
Hayward, Calif.: 4 months
New City, NY: 1 year
East Flatbush in Brooklyn, NY: 8 months
Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY: 7 months
Flushing in Queens, NY: 8 months
Elmhurst in Queens, NY: 1 year, 11 months (longest stay in NYC to date!)
Harlem in Manhattan, NY: 6 months
Bed-Crown-Stuy-Heights-thingie in Brooklyn, NY: ???

I'm really sick and fucking tired of moving, and I plan on staying put in Brooklyn for at least as long as I stayed in the Elmhurst apartment. Then, I'll have repaired my credit enough to move into a real 1-br apartment by myself (either to rent or to own), and that would be totally awesome. My goal? To own a place in NYC before I'm 40.

[marasca.livejournal.com]

I didn't count back and forth to my parents house, and only counted Eco-House and Ferris Pl. once even though I lived in multiple rooms there. So maybe I did this wrong and answered more "in how many building have you lived?"

Anyhow.

Good - getting rid of stuff, exploring a new place. I love finding new restaurants, coffee shops, hidden gems, etc.

Bad - the friends network problem. I also just don't make friends all that easily.

[effrontery.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Does this mean you might be moving again?

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Woman, when am I not on the verge of moving?

But yeah, I'm putting some serious thought into where we're going to go when we leave NYC.