The other day I started thinking about the fact that our current apartment is our third apartment in three years in Taiwan. I counted how many times I've moved in my life, and the total is 22 times, which over 38 years is once every 20 months. But that's actually misleading, because in my adult life I've moved 19 times, which over 20 years is almost once a year! So the fact that we lived in Danshui for two years and that we have a two-year lease here means that I've really settled down.
The whole list, which admittedly is totally self-indulgent, is as follows:
My parents' apartment, Berkeley, March 1972
My parents' house, Seattle, September 1972
Highgate, London, spring 1974
South Woodford, London, spring 1981
Clark Kerr Campus, Berkeley, August 1990
Apartment, Berkeley, June 1991
Room, Berkeley, February 1992
Cité André Allix, Lyon, France, August 1992
My mom's house, Seattle, June 1993
Room, Berkeley, January 1994
Apartment, Oakland, June 1994
Apartment, Piedmont, October 1995
My dad's house, Seattle, September 1996
Lake shack, Seattle, May 1997
Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK, September 1998
Densmore Avenue, Seattle, September 1999
Woodland Park Avenue, Seattle, January 2000
Natal Road, Cambridge, UK, June 2002
Melrose Avenue, Seattle, September 2003
13th Avenue NW, Seattle, December 2003
Hongshulin, Taipei, October 2007
Danshui, Taipei, August 2008
Xindian, Taipei, June 2010
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