Between changing houses in college and then moving for the army, filling out my security clearance paperwork for all addresses for the past 7 years was a PITA for a few years.
Looks like your moving history is a flipped version of mine. I haven't moved much until I was 15 (except once when I was 4 into our apartment where I'd stay until then). But after moving to Denmark in 1996, I'd moved a total of at least 15 times within the country.
Our last move was in 2018 and hopefully this time around we'll linger a bit longer.
2018 is the year we unite our timelines and settle down! Everything that was old is new again.
That's definitely interesting that you did so much traveling much more recently, but also: 2018 is the year it all ended for me, too. I mean, until the next move.
It was less "traveling" and more "living in many different rented places and dorms around Copenhagen for sometimes as little as three months at a time, some of it with family and later, when I was 19, with friends and on my own."
I guess I am conflating my own "traveling" with the places I lived. There was a brief couch-surfing type period for me where these two worlds were one and the same. I know I could do that again if I had to, but would prefer not. I'm guessing that phase for you was similar.
On one hand, it was vibrant and lively to move to new places and meet new folks, get new ideas, etc. On the other hand, you don't really want to spend so much time moving and packing, and if you never really unpack anything, you don't enjoy the things you have (if you care about things you have). Further, not staying in the same bed got very, very old for me.
Between changing houses in college and then moving for the army, filling out my security clearance paperwork for all addresses for the past 7 years was a PITA for a few years.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time!"
Looks like your moving history is a flipped version of mine. I haven't moved much until I was 15 (except once when I was 4 into our apartment where I'd stay until then). But after moving to Denmark in 1996, I'd moved a total of at least 15 times within the country.
Our last move was in 2018 and hopefully this time around we'll linger a bit longer.
2018 is the year we unite our timelines and settle down! Everything that was old is new again.
That's definitely interesting that you did so much traveling much more recently, but also: 2018 is the year it all ended for me, too. I mean, until the next move.
It was less "traveling" and more "living in many different rented places and dorms around Copenhagen for sometimes as little as three months at a time, some of it with family and later, when I was 19, with friends and on my own."
But yeah, 2018 is where the multiverses unite!
I guess I am conflating my own "traveling" with the places I lived. There was a brief couch-surfing type period for me where these two worlds were one and the same. I know I could do that again if I had to, but would prefer not. I'm guessing that phase for you was similar.
On one hand, it was vibrant and lively to move to new places and meet new folks, get new ideas, etc. On the other hand, you don't really want to spend so much time moving and packing, and if you never really unpack anything, you don't enjoy the things you have (if you care about things you have). Further, not staying in the same bed got very, very old for me.