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?

Comments

[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.