Places I Have Lived

OK time for something different. I have been quiet of late, due to being damn busy and also not having much time to devote to the topics I originally intended to blog about. But as I was lying in bed yesterday, I had an idea, and quickly threw it on a spreadsheet in the morning. I was interested to see just how many individual places I have lived in, with a qualifying period of a minimum of three months. Here is the list:

Interesting how there was a lot more stability when I was living with my parents than when I struck out on my own! Of all the places I have lived in for 2 years or more, only one of the five have been when I lived outside the nest. Of course that's a lot to do with my career too, so hopefully now we have ventured into small business, we'll see this place steadily climbing the list of longest-stayed homes over the next few years.

I'm impressed that I could remember all these place names, particularly the streets! I did use Google Maps a bit to orient myself though. So looking at it in terms of countries and cities (not chronologically like above), it looks like this:

I probably should have pointed out by now that all the numbers in each list are actually years. Again, this list surprised me, as I did not expect that even now, the city I have lived the longest in is Sydney, my city of birth and one I have hardly visited since that initial 6.5 years!

For others on the list, I can't see too many having the opportunity to climb up and knock Sydney off. Barooga eventually (obviously), small possibility of Melbourne, some chance of KL, and if you count Singapore as a city-state rather than just Clementi as the suburb, perhaps Sing is some chance too. That all depends on if we win Lotto though hahaha!

4 countries, 17 cities, 33 individual addresses! I'm really glad I did this little analysis, and peek backwards into my past. It certainly brought back a few memories!