warpus
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I hate moving in with 15 year olds. It's always such a hassle and I have to do all the heavy lifting
Does anyone actually enjoy moving?
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I live myself on an extreme side of the issue and as such I can give rather an unpractical perspective. Usually I do not keep any single job for more then couple months (even though I often come back to places I have worked before) and I enjoy to travel. My likely schedule for next 365 days is: Salzburg (presently), Canberra (fall), Czechia (winter/spring), Oslo/some place in Canada (summer)...
And yes I dont have much of a personal property to worry about...
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I've moved some thirteen or fourteen times in my life, not counting temporarily moving for undergrad education. Every time sucks.
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I beg to differ. When I was 15 my parents moved (taking me with them of course) and likely did the most heavy lifting of any individual involved in the process, though my dad was certainly close + did more overall (I was more of a grunt since he has an engineering background and we had some construction stuff involved).
As for OP question, I suspect most people do not like doing mundane physical labor, and by extension don't like the process of moving. Maybe other aspects of it make it worth it in cost/benefit, but the process itself is still a cost to the vast majority of people.
The social reaction to age gap is certainly interesting. Add 8 years to both parties here and nobody thinks much of it in majority of countries. You can make a case that 15 is too young to make informed decisions...what's the hard data say on rationality of age 15 vs 18 vs say 30? I don't know because it's never been relevant to me. I do know people older than me that are no better at cost/benefit or optimizing based on stated priorities now than I was at half my current age. I always found the draft/vote eligibility vs drinking age in the US a bit awkward.
Speaking of cost/benefit, that's worth doing before moving in with anybody, regardless of age...
Relax, I give 3:1 odds she (?) is just trolling.
EDIT: also, there is a saying "moving twice equals getting your house burned down once". Sorry, doesn't translate too well into English...
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warpus
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You mis-read my post.
As you get older, you seem to accumulate more stuff so it gets harder.
As a result after I got married I bought a house and have now been there around 25 years an only plan to move once more when I retire. I hate moving but at least I can afford to pay others to do it. (but that doesn't eliminate ALL the packing and unpacking aspect)
As a result after I got married I bought a house and have now been there around 25 years an only plan to move once more when I retire. I hate moving but at least I can afford to pay others to do it. (but that doesn't eliminate ALL the packing and unpacking aspect)
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So I did, mostly because it triggered too many memories of moving cinder blocks and tile in addition to unreasonable furniture (let's get that old hospital bed to the 2nd floor up stairs that do a 180 halfway up!).
Even when I moved by myself recently...it still sucked. Sucked less, but sucked all the same.
warpus
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Yeah, moving sucks. I am soo used to moving every couple months/years though. Throughout my whole life we were always moving.
When I was born my parents were waiting for a new apartment to be built, so we were living out in the country. Moved around a bit as people took us in. The apartment building was finally finished by the time I was to start kindergarten. Yeah, communists take forever to get anything built, even crappy grey apartment blocks.
After grade 3 (for me) we fled Poland and every couple weeks moved to a new refugee camp in West Germany, for about a year. Moved around soo much in this time period. After the German government hooked us up with a house we lived there for a year or so, then were moved into another one. A year and a half later and we were on a flight to Canada.
Once in Canada it took us a while to get settled, so at first we lived at the house of a sponsor, and then moved from apartment to apartment, as my parents slowly got better jobs and could improve our living situation.
After a couple years of this it was time for me to go off to university. Where I lived every single term and did an internship type program, so every 4 months I'd be either working or going to school. Always moving from city to city, from apartment to apartment.
After university I lived in a number of different places and then finally 10 years ago or so I bought my house. I moved there and I haven't moved since, and it feels weird that I don't have to move anymore. My body wants to move. But my mind knows that it would be horrible.
When I was born my parents were waiting for a new apartment to be built, so we were living out in the country. Moved around a bit as people took us in. The apartment building was finally finished by the time I was to start kindergarten. Yeah, communists take forever to get anything built, even crappy grey apartment blocks.
After grade 3 (for me) we fled Poland and every couple weeks moved to a new refugee camp in West Germany, for about a year. Moved around soo much in this time period. After the German government hooked us up with a house we lived there for a year or so, then were moved into another one. A year and a half later and we were on a flight to Canada.
Once in Canada it took us a while to get settled, so at first we lived at the house of a sponsor, and then moved from apartment to apartment, as my parents slowly got better jobs and could improve our living situation.
After a couple years of this it was time for me to go off to university. Where I lived every single term and did an internship type program, so every 4 months I'd be either working or going to school. Always moving from city to city, from apartment to apartment.
After university I lived in a number of different places and then finally 10 years ago or so I bought my house. I moved there and I haven't moved since, and it feels weird that I don't have to move anymore. My body wants to move. But my mind knows that it would be horrible.
Half your age plus 7 is a good rule. If you break that rule, you have to pay for everything and probably more. That includes a move.
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Why is that rule a better alternative than other rules? It does some silly stuff for the "both under 20" bracket too.
I'm a lot more interested in what age people develop a measured ability to evaluate this kind of stuff for themselves effectively, and I wouldn't take "never" off the table.
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I moved around 20 times in my life and lived in other places abroad temporarily. My advise: You got to be rigorous not accumulating much clutter and other dust collectors as I call unnecessary stuff. I moved twice just with a taxi load of stuff. It's all possible if you want. I migrated too, personal possessions make that all the more troublesome. Throw away things, it's liberating.
I like being flexible and able to move and whenever I buy a property, I feel restricted. I am still thinking which country to choose to retire. However, you are only 15. The key to flexibility is a solid educational foundation and a skill set that is wanted in many places. Work on that rather than being dependent on your partner.
Moving out with 15 to live with 26 yr old bf does sound odd. I moved out from my parents home when I was 17, but that was with my 3 year older brother and did not involve gfs.
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I like being flexible and able to move and whenever I buy a property, I feel restricted. I am still thinking which country to choose to retire. However, you are only 15. The key to flexibility is a solid educational foundation and a skill set that is wanted in many places. Work on that rather than being dependent on your partner.
Moving out with 15 to live with 26 yr old bf does sound odd. I moved out from my parents home when I was 17, but that was with my 3 year older brother and did not involve gfs.
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Welcome to life.
I've moved numerous times in my life, and only two of those were because I wanted to get out of the situation I was in. It was wonderful moving in with my grandparents (away from the dad's-girlfriend-from-hell). It was heart-wrenching, decades later, to have to leave the house I'd lived in for 34 years. Every important life-changing decision I'd ever made was in that house. Every important dream and new realization of me had happened there. And three of my cats were buried in the back yard. They probably aren't anymore.
The place I lived in previously to here (the building, not the apartment) was in a bad part of town. Places I could afford that would take cats aren't plentiful here, though, so I couldn't be picky. The cops swore up, down, and sideways that they'd cleaned up that part of town and the biker gangs weren't there anymore. But after a year of cops regularly coming to see who was beating up whom on the floor above me, a murder in the next block, a neighbor explaining why there were so many holes in the walls and doors of my suite (seems a hooker lived there previously and her keeper had a bad temper), and being accosted at the bus stop by some woman whacked out on drugs... let's just say that the first chance I had to move, I grabbed it.
All in all, I hate moving. My sig still applies, btw. Officially I've been in this suite since April. There's still crap going on pertaining to that move.
@Valessa: My advice: Never throw out your moving boxes. You never know when you'll need them again. Just a couple of weeks before I had to move in March this year, someone was nagging, "Why don't you get rid of those - you've lived here 3 years, you won't need them."
And a few days later came word from the property management company that the mold in my bathroom wall was worse than they thought. It was impossible to fix it while the suite was still inhabited, so I had to move. It was only down one floor and a suite over, but it still involved a hell of a lot of packing (I've got thousands of books, dozens of shelves, and some very heavy furniture).
And then I found out they're phasing out the storage rooms here. So we had to get my stuff out of storage and yay, some of it was stolen (that was a sarcastic "yay"; I should be grateful that most of my things were too old to tempt anyone; they left my cassette player, I noticed). So I'm still unpacking.
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Welcome to life.
(I've got thousands of books, dozens of shelves, and some very heavy furniture).
And I thought I had a two full sized shelves packed with hundreds of books was a massive collection
There is nothing like a real paper book compared with the more convenient ebook format. The price you pay for having so many books is moving them is a huge pain. Recently though I only buying large format books and stopped buying paperbacks.
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Most of what's in my collection isn't available in e-book form. And why buy it twice? I have a Kindle and some stuff on it, but I prefer the sort of books that I can read without worrying about batteries or electricity.
I grew up surrounded by books (most kids take a teddy bear to bed with them; I had a teddy bear plus a stack of books), and can't ever feel comfortable in a new place unless the shelves are up and there are books in them. That's why I'm not completely settled here yet. Far too many books are still in the moving boxes, and I've yet to replace the furniture that was destroyed by the mold.
I've ordered some new shelves, though, and they should be here at the end of the week.
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Urh cant you just soak it in bleach, then dry out the wood and continue to use the bookshelves ?
How did you books survive the mould ?
Anyways yeah I too love my collection of books, Just not adding to the collection like I once used to
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