places I have lived, and for how long
Feb. 17th, 2020 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI have a spreadsheet listing everywhere I have ever lived, with addresses when I know them. Tonight a conversation on the Drachenwald slack channel about how often we have moved prompted me to open it, and this time fix the issues I had had with the formulas that calculate how long I have lived in each place. The numbers aren't necessarily accurate for many of my younger moves, as I had to guess dates for those, but they are probably close enough.
If we look at how long I have spent living in a single house my record is the 8.92 years I lived in the house in Anchorage. Second place is my current house, at 7.28 years. Third place is the house in Ashland where I lived for 3.25 during by Bachelor's degree. Fourth was the house we had for 3.13 years in Texas after mom and dad split, but before our spur of the moment move to Alaska. No place was longer than three years.
If we look at the type of place I have lived--I have spent 75% of my live living in houses, 24% in apartments, and 1% either in a tent (field work) or travelling in between moves, with no actual address.
If we look at the total number of years I have lived in a given country, then the total is:
If we break the time in the US down into specific states those totals are:
All of which explains why, when someone asks where I am from, and I don't feel for giving the full essay answer, I reply "Alaska". Not only is it the coolest of the US states, it is also the place where I have spent the greatest part of my life (34% in fact). Yet more years (20 of them) have elapsed since I left Alaska than I lived there...
If one looks at the three countries for which I hold passports (Sweden, Australia, and the US), then I have spent 86% of my life living in a country in which I am a citizen (though, in the case of the latter two passports, about five years each of that time was before I actually became a citizen, since it takes time to become a citizen.
If we look at how long I have spent living in a single house my record is the 8.92 years I lived in the house in Anchorage. Second place is my current house, at 7.28 years. Third place is the house in Ashland where I lived for 3.25 during by Bachelor's degree. Fourth was the house we had for 3.13 years in Texas after mom and dad split, but before our spur of the moment move to Alaska. No place was longer than three years.
If we look at the type of place I have lived--I have spent 75% of my live living in houses, 24% in apartments, and 1% either in a tent (field work) or travelling in between moves, with no actual address.
If we look at the total number of years I have lived in a given country, then the total is:
| USA (all) | 31.5 |
| Sweden | 9.1 |
| Australia | 5.2 |
| Japan | 2.9 |
| Germany | 1.9 |
| Italy | 1.4 |
| Canada | 0.8 |
| travel between countries | 0.2 |
| Crete | 0.1 |
If we break the time in the US down into specific states those totals are:
| Alaska | 18.2 |
| Oregon | 3.6 |
| Texas | 3.3 |
| California | 2.8 |
| Arizona | 2.0 |
| Michigan | 1.1 |
| travel in US between moves | 0.5 |
All of which explains why, when someone asks where I am from, and I don't feel for giving the full essay answer, I reply "Alaska". Not only is it the coolest of the US states, it is also the place where I have spent the greatest part of my life (34% in fact). Yet more years (20 of them) have elapsed since I left Alaska than I lived there...
If one looks at the three countries for which I hold passports (Sweden, Australia, and the US), then I have spent 86% of my life living in a country in which I am a citizen (though, in the case of the latter two passports, about five years each of that time was before I actually became a citizen, since it takes time to become a citizen.