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.
How long have y'all lived in the same house?
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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).
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.
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
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
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.Beckdiesel03 said:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
You can't move here. We're full.
If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.zooguy96 said:Rex Racer said:
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.
You can't move here. We're full.
Rex Racer said:If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.zooguy96 said:Rex Racer said:
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.
You can't move here. We're full.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Looks like 40 years in this drafty old house. Grew up about a half mile away. Dad had one of the old barracks from camp Howze moved to the place he bought next to his mother's 100 acres. Framed it out to 3 bedrooms, and bricked it with old brick from the camp also. I still remember cleaning bricks of old mortar, although I was only around 5. Lived there till 23, when we bought the place across the road, and moved an old 2 br trailer there. Stayed there till married in 85, when we lived in Gainesville for about a year in one of her folks rent houses while I fixed up this 2 story house we had moved to the farm from Era. Time to start rebuilding it again, but have been too busy rebuilding all the rent houses we bought from her folks. Keep telling her I'm not a carpenter, but it doesn't help.
Gunny456 said:
First home -16
Ranch home in HC-29
Home now -4
Gunny, if you don't mind me asking, what was the deciding factor on you leaving the Hill Country?
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
-Matthew 6:34
-Matthew 6:34
zooguy96 said:Rex Racer said:If we do, it will be just across the border from North Carolina. Maybe Elizabethton.zooguy96 said:Rex Racer said:
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.
You can't move here. We're full.
Johnson city is really nice.
Yeah, we'll be near there if that's where we end up.
Fair question. I was born and raised there. Lots of family history there as ranchers. . Then bought my own ranch. Loved the hill country. Love Texas.
I got tired of the property taxes going up to absolutely crazy amounts. We got tired of the increasingly hotter and dryer years and more and more frequent droughts and lack of consistent rainfall that caused us to spend a fortune on feed every year….and worry about our springs and wells running out of water and the general increasingly high cost of running the ranch every year. We also fought the almost constant barrage of threats of large wind power transmission lines and pipelines always wanting to come through our land.
So we looked around a lot. Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Southern MO. Montana, Colorado.
Settled on the Ozarks. Love it. Lots of rain and water and four true seasons. Solid Red area. Low taxes, salt of the earth people…..very Christian based. They even close the schools Friday and Monday for opening weekend of deer season.
Lots of Texans around us. Some great Aggies too.
But will always miss my roots.
I got tired of the property taxes going up to absolutely crazy amounts. We got tired of the increasingly hotter and dryer years and more and more frequent droughts and lack of consistent rainfall that caused us to spend a fortune on feed every year….and worry about our springs and wells running out of water and the general increasingly high cost of running the ranch every year. We also fought the almost constant barrage of threats of large wind power transmission lines and pipelines always wanting to come through our land.
So we looked around a lot. Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Southern MO. Montana, Colorado.
Settled on the Ozarks. Love it. Lots of rain and water and four true seasons. Solid Red area. Low taxes, salt of the earth people…..very Christian based. They even close the schools Friday and Monday for opening weekend of deer season.
Lots of Texans around us. Some great Aggies too. But will always miss my roots.
27 years in current house off the Guadalupe river in Comal CO. Not far from 456's old homestead. Between 2 marriages and 10 single years in between I've lived in about 9 places and am 3 months away from my 75th bday. I didn't think I was old until one of the guys said "How does it feel being nearly 3/4's of a century old?"
Speaking of Hill Country living, longevity and ranches, a grandchild and his wife of one of our old geezer Kafe Klatch group are building a new house on my buddies land. Those 2 youngsters will be the 8TH generation of said family to live on that piece of land. My buddy got a 175 year plaque from the state about 5 years ago. They've been on said property since 1845. Pretty cool.........
btw 456 ......I would think you know the person I'm talking about and maybe went to school with his kids
Speaking of Hill Country living, longevity and ranches, a grandchild and his wife of one of our old geezer Kafe Klatch group are building a new house on my buddies land. Those 2 youngsters will be the 8TH generation of said family to live on that piece of land. My buddy got a 175 year plaque from the state about 5 years ago. They've been on said property since 1845. Pretty cool.........
btw 456 ......I would think you know the person I'm talking about and maybe went to school with his kids
That is cool about your buddies land. I'm sure I know him. The way our family married back then a bunch of double cousins. Heck most of those German families that homesteaded along the Guadalupe and around Smithson Valley were all related somehow.
We were poor as church mice and didn't have much other than the land… but I had free range on both sides of the river from Rust Falls up to the first rapids by the old Koenig place. Lots of fun adventures with my dogs and memories I would not trade for anything.
Got my first kiss from a German girl behind one of the buildings attending the annual " Anhalt" on Hwy. 46..
We were poor as church mice and didn't have much other than the land… but I had free range on both sides of the river from Rust Falls up to the first rapids by the old Koenig place. Lots of fun adventures with my dogs and memories I would not trade for anything.
Got my first kiss from a German girl behind one of the buildings attending the annual " Anhalt" on Hwy. 46.
. If you knew Harvey he passed away a couple years back.........good guy.....and his family were some of the first to settle here. As far as marriages and double cousins ........one of the old guys who's gone now used to say that happened with regularity "becass yu shudn't mary enivun frum off"Gunny456 said:
That is cool about your buddies land. I'm sure I know him. The way our family married back then a bunch of double cousins. Heck most of those German families that homesteaded along the Guadalupe and around Smithson Valley were all related somehow.
We were poor as church mice and didn't have much other than the land… but I had free range on both sides of the river from Rust Falls up to the first rapids by the old Koenig place. Lots of fun adventures with my dogs and memories I would not trade for anything.
Got my first kiss from a German girl behind one of the buildings attending the annual " Anhalt" on Hwy. 46.
This is interesting. I knew how rare I was, but didnt know it was this different. I might be the leader in the clubhouse for most houses.
My mom was a secretary/single mom that rented and changed jobs often. She had been married and divorced 3 times and was about to be married a 4th before I even graduated high school.
- I lived in 20 different apartments/houses before turning 18
- 7 different places during college (4 years)
- Finally settled down and only lived in 3 places before business school (4 years)
- 3 places during business school (2 years)
- 4 places before getting married (3 years)
- 4 places since being married (7 years). Latest house for 2.5 years, about to move into what I hope is our last home this summer, being built now.
So it's been 41 places… damn. More than one a year. Hopefully the 42nd is the last one.
My mom was a secretary/single mom that rented and changed jobs often. She had been married and divorced 3 times and was about to be married a 4th before I even graduated high school.
- I lived in 20 different apartments/houses before turning 18
- 7 different places during college (4 years)
- Finally settled down and only lived in 3 places before business school (4 years)
- 3 places during business school (2 years)
- 4 places before getting married (3 years)
- 4 places since being married (7 years). Latest house for 2.5 years, about to move into what I hope is our last home this summer, being built now.
So it's been 41 places… damn. More than one a year. Hopefully the 42nd is the last one.
you must have a strong back with all that moving
Once out of my parents house and not counting college years, I did a year and 9 months in an apartment in Webster, then 8 years in a one bedroom apartment in Westchase. I got married and we had a two bedroom apartment in Westchase for two years before buying my current home in 2019, (5.5 years now).
Thanks Gunny, PM sent!
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
-Matthew 6:34
-Matthew 6:34
It will be 20 years in this house in June, although I worked out of town and only came home on weekends for most of the first two years.
We don't have any plans to move. We like our spot. We just need to do some upgrades. Those are happening a little bit at a time.
We don't have any plans to move. We like our spot. We just need to do some upgrades. Those are happening a little bit at a time.
Did a complete remodel about 5 years ago. The entire inside of the house looks new.
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This is the longest I've ever lived in a single building.
This is the longest I've ever lived in a single building.
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