Places I have lived

[vilakins]

It took me two hours to commute home in horrendous traffic. I like the company I'm contracting at--it's interesting, nerdy (electronics) and friendly--but I'm so not taking a permanent job there should I ever get offered one.

OK, to take my mind off my frustration with Auckland traffic, here's a meme, copied from steverogerson and matildabj:

Places I have lived

We moved a lot when I was a kid; I went to three different primary schools and three high schools No wonder I feel a bit trapped now I've lived here for more than five years. And I suppose it's why I have so few lasting RL friends--I keep leaving. :-(

1. Birkenhead, Auckland
   
2. New Plymouth, Taranaki
   
3. Stratford, Taranaki (The full name is Stratford on Avon and a river called the Avon does indeed run through it. The planners named every street after a Shakespeare character. We lived in Juliet and Hamlet Streets.)
   
4. Kawhia, King Country
   
5. Stratford again (this time in Orlando Street; my school was in Regan Street)
   
6. Hamilton
   
7. Auckland (three different flats while at uni, in Remuera, Grafton, and Remuera again)
   
8. Lower Hutt


9. Thun, Switzerland (with a family called Schwarz which later confused people in Israel no end when I mentioned that I'd lived with the Schwarzes--they assumed I'd been in Africa)
   
10. Kfar Hachoresh, Israel
    
11. Dovrat, Israel
    
12. Neasden, London
    
13. Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt am Main


14. Mt Eden, Auckland (yes, the place with the prison)
    
15. Sandringham, Auckland
    
16. Ellerslie, Auckland
    
17. St Johns, Auckland

17! And that was with some of them amalgamated. Counting separate houses, it's more like 20, though some of them were only for a few months. This is the longest I've lived anywhere in my life.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Juliet, Hamlet and Regan streets?!
I read a book once, called The Ladies of Missalonghi where all the streets were named after people associated with Byron. The area where the ladies of the night worked was Caroline Lamb...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Yes, every street in our Stratford is named for a character, some more obscure than others. Orlando was in 'As You Like It'. Oddly enough I sometimes dream I'm living back in that street.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

You make me feel so much less adventurous than you. Except for the part where you lived in Neasden.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I lived in Neasden Lane, Neasden! I used to get introduced to people at parties and asked to recite my address. :-)