My mom nearly lived in the same house her entire life, she lived there for 68 years. The first two years after marrying my dad they rented a house, then my grandparents gave them their house and my day and mom lived there until the farm was sold.

Growing up, I moved about 15 times with my family for the first 18 years of my life. Dad was in O&G and we moved around the world.

In my own adult life, moved twice early in my career, but been in this current house for 13 years now and we'll stay in it until the youngest is off to college (he's in 7th grade, so about 5.5 more years we hope).

My parents moved into the house I grew up in when I was about 6 months old and I lived there until I moved to A&M...so 18 years. My dad sold it my sophomore year at A&M. My first apartment, I was there for 2 years before I moved into a condo I bought. Lived there for about 2 years before my wife and I moved into a house we built. Lived there 7 years before selling it and moving into our current house. We will be in here 7 years in May and do not intend on moving until our youngest (currently in Kinder) graduates.

I hate moving with a passion, so my next move will be to my retirement house they'll carry me out of. Also, our current interest rate is insanely low, so no way I'm giving that up until I have to.

8 years in my first house
moved towns before 3rd grade
10 years in 2nd home, parents still live there (30 years for them now)
moved off to college
new dorm/apartment every few months in college and summer internships (2 dorms, 6 apartments in 5 years)
1 year apartment right out of school
13 years in first home I bought
upgraded to new house, <1 yr so far, plan to keep it 10-20 years

Beckdiesel03 said:

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18 years this July. Never planned on staying there this long but it's ridiculously inexpensive to stay. Put in a huge patio cover last year that has pacified the desire for a bigger house somewhat.

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This is what kept me in the first house I bought longer than I thought I would be there. A little 1500 SF house is just so cheap to keep up with. Tiny little yard that I could mow, weedeat and blow in literally like 20 minutes.

Small electric bill
Small water bill
Cheap insurance

Once I paid it off I was saving money so fast. Really takes a lot of stress out of life when you live well within your means like that. Anything that broke it wasn't a huge stress to just have it fixed.

In 2023 we bought a bigger house now that we've got 3 kids. 2700 SF with a bigger yard and a pool is a real shock when it comes to cost to maintain. It's still within the budget but man I miss the days of cheap living.

Gotta keep that lifestyle creep in check. It can really soak up all of your wealth building ability.

18 years - childhood home
College
5 years - 1st purchase
10 years
1 year - built new on childhood homestead 120' from where I grew up.

Since leaving home:

Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 3 months (sub-lease)
Apartment - 13 years
House - 19 years
Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 2 years

Getting ready to build on our lot just east of Bryan. We're planning on that being our last home, unless we decide to move to Tennessee when I retire.

Rex Racer said:

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Since leaving home:

Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 3 months (sub-lease)
Apartment - 13 years
House - 19 years
Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 2 years

Getting ready to build on our lot just east of Bryan. We're planning on that being our last home, unless we decide to move to Tennessee when I retire.

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You can't move here. We're full.

zooguy96 said:

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Rex Racer said:

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Since leaving home:

Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 3 months (sub-lease)
Apartment - 13 years
House - 19 years
Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 2 years

Getting ready to build on our lot just east of Bryan. We're planning on that being our last home, unless we decide to move to Tennessee when I retire.

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You can't move here. We're full.

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If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.

Rex Racer said:

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zooguy96 said:

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Rex Racer said:

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Since leaving home:

Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 3 months (sub-lease)
Apartment - 13 years
House - 19 years
Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 2 years

Getting ready to build on our lot just east of Bryan. We're planning on that being our last home, unless we decide to move to Tennessee when I retire.

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You can't move here. We're full.

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If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.

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Johnson city is really nice.

We're at 5 years right now. Longest I've been in one place since my folks house I grew up in.

Like others, we're here until our youngest graduates.

Moved the kids around a lot before this house so we want them to have some stability and longterm friends.

We've been in this house for 31 years, same as wife's tenure in current job. She retires at the end of this year. My mom still lives in the area, at age 95. When she passes, we may be moving closer to grandkids in the Temple area.

Mom has lived on the same farm since 1951, so 75 years at the same address. Except the Post Office has changed the address several times.

She's sort of in the same house. The original house was a Texas Land and Development house built in the 1920s. TL&D was a company that sprang up in Hale County to help break up and sell off the old ranches into farm land.

The house was leaky and cold, but the lumber was solid. So we moved to town for a while when I was about 3, and the carpenters tore down the old house, and used the lumber to frame the new one. They apparently complained bitterly about it, because the old wood was as hard as a rock.

Mom has been in the "new" brick house since 1959, so coming up on 66 years, with wood framing that has to be past 100 years old at this point.


I had a couple of dates at A&M with a wonderful and lovely young lady. Her dad had been in the oil business, and they had lived all over the world, including Australia. She could put on an Australian accent that would make you melt. We were discussing our upbringing, and about the time I was going to tell her how cool it must have been to live all over the world, she told me it must have been wonderful to live in the same town all the way through your childhood.

Love stories about old houses like that, esp in Texas

41 years.

Gunny456 said:

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First home -16
Ranch home in HC-29
Home now -4

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Gunny, if you don't mind me asking, what was the deciding factor on you leaving the Hill Country?

zooguy96 said:

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Rex Racer said:

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zooguy96 said:

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Rex Racer said:

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Since leaving home:

Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 3 months (sub-lease)
Apartment - 13 years
House - 19 years
Apartment - 1 year
Apartment - 2 years

Getting ready to build on our lot just east of Bryan. We're planning on that being our last home, unless we decide to move to Tennessee when I retire.

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You can't move here. We're full.

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If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.

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Johnson city is really nice.

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Yeah, we'll be near there if that's where we end up.