Where have you lived?

[Gemini]

Not so much where, but in what accomodation?!
The conversation on Daisy's New Home thread made me think a thread is in order!

As far as I know, I have lived in the following :
A flat , a terraced house and a semi, all in York, all in the first 3 years of my life. Just after I was 3, my parents bought a new build detached bungalow a few miles from York. Mum still lives there.
I lived in a top floor flat in a quietish road off the Holloway Road in north London for 2 years.
Then an 8th floor council flat (my in laws) in Middlesex for about 3 months.
Then a caravan, in the grounds of a theatre in West Sussex, for 9 months
Then back, with husband and baby to my parents bungalow, for just over 6 months.
Then a 2 bedroomed terraced house in York, the first we owned, for 9 years
Next a 3 bedroom larger Edwardian terraced house with garden, even closer to the city centre, for 25 years.
And then to my present home, 3 bedroomed 1960's semi in village 4 miles from York. We have lived here for 7 years.
If we move again I think it will be a bungalow.

[Oma]

Born in a 2 bed semi , where 10 of us lived , Mam Dad us 4 children and my Mams 4 orphaned siblings
Then when I was 11 moved to a 3 bed Semi detached
Then moved to a larger 3 bed Semi while we lived with my mother ,
We then moved to our own 3 bed Semi for a year before we moved to Washington,
To 4 bed large terrace where we lived for 28 years
Finally to this house a 2 bed new build that we would never leave we love living hear so much .

[Nanto2girls]

For the first 3 months of my life,i lived in 2 bed terraced house.
Then i lived next door but one to that house until i was 17.
Got married and lived in a 2room flat for one week.
Then moved into a furnished two bed terraced house for four months.
Then moved into this 3 bed semi, it was a council house then,but we bought it as soon as the right to buy came in.
Have lived here 49 years and one month.
Can't see us ever leaving here.

[Mimi]

A three bed house ( where I was born)
Then moved into a different 3 bed house
When I was about 7 moved into a four bed house opposite the house where I was born .
Then family broke up and I went to live with mum in Barry into a 4 bed house but ....
I returned back to the 4 bed house where dad still lived and stayed there till I got married.
Then as a married woman moved into a two bed flat but as family got bigger
Moved into a very big three bed house until all DC had moved out and then downsized into
A two bed flat opposite the flat where we first moved into when we first got married.

[WeeGranny]

When I was born, my parents shared a room and kitchen with my maternal grandparents, then they got a similar house, up the stairs, in the same block. Outside toilets and wash-house in back yard!
When I was 10 we moved to a 3 bedroom semi where I lived until I moved South.
I then had a room in a shared house in Croydon before we bought our first 3 bed semi in Wivenhoe before we got married.
We then moved to a 3 bed detached across the river in Suffolk before moving back to Essex and a 4 bed detached.
Next was a 4 bed terrace in The Netherlands and when we came back we moved to a 16th century farmhouse with 3 acres of land which we sold before we moved and bought a rentable 4 bed near Ipswich( Rented out to US Air Force personnel)
Before we could get settled we were posted to Australia where we lived in an apartment, then a 4 bed detached, then another 4 bed detached. The latter 2 were within walking distance of the beach....bliss in summer!
We returned to Ipswich and finally moved here because it offered good transport links to OH's place of work and DC's schools.
We're still here after 28 years in a 4 bed with a large garden and think we'll be here until such times as a move is absolutely necessary.

[Grauntie Mag]

2 lovely old houses in Kent with parents, a bedsit then 2 flats, home again briefly, married, 1 newbuild in Yorkshire, back to parents for a year while we sold and then bought in Surrey. A 3bed semi and then a bungalow there, on to Essex and 4 bed detached and then a bigger 4 bed detached, then a 3bed bungalow, another 4 bed bungalow and now this 2 bed bungalow from which I will never move....

[Gemini]

It is very interesting to read all the many and various properties and locations we have lived in.
Some have hardly strayed from where they were born and others have lived in many places.
I think WG definitely wins the prize for that so far

[Enfys]

When my parents married Dad was in the RAF so she lived with family then moved to lodgings on a farm near where Dad was stationed and was there when I was born. Then back to a two bed terrace with her aunt until Dad was demobbed when we moved to a 1bed flat here in Bournemouth. Another rented flat then they bought a house to,share with my grandparents. I was there until we married then we had a three bed new build semi in Wimborne, then moved to a three bed detached then to our three bed bungalow, which I hope we can stay in for ever.

[Plantaholic]

I was born in a 3 bedroomed house, the youngest of 6, so the dining room was used as a bedroom. I was evacuated to Wales when I was 4 for about 18months then returned to the family home and lived there until I met my OH. We moved to his mothers house in Staffordshire before moving to a flat in Coventry, there was a possibility we would be staying in the Midlands but OH was offered a job back in the south and we bought a very large Edwardian house in Buckinghamshire with OH's mother, our two children were born there. We then moved into a new house in Marlow and Mil bought a bungalow near. We were only there 3 years when we saw this property with a separate annexe for Mil, we moved into the annexe about 20 years ago after Mil passed away. My DD and Sil had four children and were looking for somewhere with a bigger garden and we needed to move so we joined forces and extended.both the bungalow and the annexe. Not sure what the future holds.

[WeeGranny]

I meant to say in my previous posting that the first two houses only had gas for cooking and lighting! You can imagine our excitement moving to a house with electricity and a proper bathroom!

It's interesting how many people are still in the same area as they were brought up in. I do envy you as really I've no roots in any place.

[ZIZI]

I was born in a large terraced house converted into two flats owned by my grandparents which was originally a house. They had lived there since before the war. My dear dad ad was in the army so we moved every two years or so. Germany (twice), Gibraltar, Kenya, a couple of places in England. We finally went to Bath which I always hated. I left and went to Brussels as an au pair (not my thing) and ended up in the most adorable flat, my favourite one in my youth, it was an attic flat and tiny. These days I would nit even be able to get half way up the stairs but in those days we raced each other and had a chart to see who won each week.

Then I went back to Twickenham where I was born, to a studio flat (posh name for a dump with outside loo and no bath), then to a flat in Piccadilly London which went with a PA job with my first husband. That was quite nice. Husband beggared off, back to Twickenham in a flat with inside bath shared with downstairs flat but they had to come through my kitchen to use it. The loo was outside and I had to go through downstairs flat to get to. Had a gas fridge in the kitchen! Then off to Teddington when son was about a year old to a flat which was extremely cold but looked lovely from the outside. Moved back to Bath ti a flat, remembered how much I hated it in the first place and moved to a cottage near Hampton Court Palace, I was bruddy cold there, ice on the inside of the windows etc. Then moved into husbands house, sold mine, unfortunately did not get what we expected as survey discovered asbestos in extension and a couple of other problems which did not show up when I bought it nd the solicitor I used had closed. Lived in Hampton until 2000 when we closed the business and husband had his licence revoked due to his eye problem. Moved to our village next to Heathrow and have done a lot of renovation especially over the last two years or so.

We talked about moving somewhere cheaper, the properties around here are absolutely silly prices but at the moment we want to enjoy what we have. We are both physically healthy with good access to the motorways (M25 UGH, M4 and M3). I think I have moved enough for one lifetime. I went to nine schools and did 1066 nine times. Too much but in those days nobody really thought much of that, you just put up with it.

The house I was born in is again two flats and where my grandparetns bought the whole thing for £350, one of the flats was on the market last year at £760,000. It is the area (Twickenham Green) but last time I drove down the road last year it was crammed with vehicles, not a parking space to be had.

[Plantaholic]

Certainly a much travelled lady like WG

[Qwerty]

I was born in a 2 up and down only for a few months and my dad got a job as a caretaker of a chapel and a house went with it, moved when I was 3 yrs old, to a rented semi got married from there and bought a 16 th century cottage, loved that house but only 2 bedrooms and we had our son we wanted another baby so moved to a 4 bed detached and 38 yrs later we are still here and now want to downsize but don’t think it will happen now probably sheltered housing next !!

[Daisy]

When I was born my parents lived in the 3-bed semi built when they got married in 1936. My dad's brother and family lived next door but one, and my grandad had helped both to buy their houses (bank of mum and dad isn't new). We moved when I was 6 to a corner shop. It was basically another 3-bed semi with the shop being in place of the front room. My parents then bought a new 2-bed bungalow 11 years later, and we in the process of selling the business when my dad died. It was a bit hairy - mum and I could have ended up homeless, but thankfully we sold the shop and then had to find a way of financing the bungalow!

We lived there until I got married and moved with OH to North Wales. We lived in a two-bed rented flat for a few months until we bought a 3-bed modern detached house with a tiny handkerchief of grass at the front and a bit of crazy paving at the back. Two years later OH's job moved to Liverpool and we bought a 4-bed detached house - a 60s box - on the Wirral. We were there for 4 years and then moved to Bedfordshire. We bought a new-build 4-bed detached house in a little village and were there for just under 2 years before moving to Worthing. That was a big older house - late Edwardian, I think - with 5 bedrooms and a large garden. Within 2 years we were off again, this time to Haslemere in Surrey. Four years later we came down to the New Forest. We lived in a rented 2-bed flat for a few months, and then moved into a chalet bungalow which could have been 4-5 bedrooms and 3-4 reception rooms. Our last move (so far) was just round the corner from there to our present house - 4 bed, smallish garden, and OH has said that's it - he's not moving again!!!!