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New Back in the day, we moved around. A lot.
From 1955, which is as far back as I can retrieve coherent memories, to 1970, when I left parental oversight, I count eleven addresses, all but two of these within an area of the San Fernando Valley today bounded by the “Ronald Reagan Freeway” (118) on the north, the San Diego Freeway (405) on the east, the Ventura Freeway (101) on the south and Topanga Canyon Boulevard on the west, an area about the size of San Francisco, only flatter, less photogenic, and conspicuously shorter on the cultural amenities. These various moves took us only a few miles from neighborhood to neighborhood, but it always meant a new school, and as for the chums I left behind, well, particularly in earlier childhood they might as well have been living on the far side of the moon. By the time I was twenty-five, the longest I’d ever lived at a given address had been two years.

I was fairly peripatetic in and around my undergraduate years, including a period spent being discreetly homeless early on, but since arriving in Oakland forty-one years ago I’ve had just four homes: the craftsman bungalow I rented in 1977, and to which I grew so attached that sheriff’s deputies were practically required to extract me when the place was sold out from under me in 1993; a charmless second-floor flat in the same yupscale neighborhood until 1998; another, larger second-floor flat after Lina and her dog joined the household (this move took me forever out of the coveted “Rockridge District”—up until that time I regarded everything past the end of College Avenue as “Baja Oakland”), and finally, that one being sold in turn, The Crumbling Manse™ beginning in 1999, the street number of which which will very possibly be entered in the appropriate field when one day the coroner’s office completes my paperwork.

cordially,
New Pretty.
We moved a lot, too. I don't know that I could even count the number of places we lived in... :-/

(I may have told this here before...) It was kinda creepy when I signed up for an online account with UPS and they made me pick out previous addresses from a bunch of others. Brought back some memories - good and bad!

Cheers,
Scott.
     Millenials - (drook) - (6)
         A fair point. - (mmoffitt) - (4)
             Did people buy third and fourth houses? - (drook) - (3)
                 Everyone's experience is different, I guess. - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                     Back in the day, we moved around. A lot. - (rcareaga) - (1)
                         Pretty. - (Another Scott)
         dont know about that, grew up dirt poor - (boxley)

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