One of the interesting differences between Taiwan and the UK (my own country) is how different people view moving house. While I know of a few Taiwanese who move house, there is no family that I know of that moved house as often as I did over the past forty years. Though I never moved house like this!
Picture courtesy of FoxTongue, found on Flickr. 
The nadir of the experience must have come though when a man and a van from the Highlands offered to help us move house in his cattle truck way back in 1978. In that year, my parents bought a small traditional grocery store in the town of Lairg, Scotland. That’s a whole other story for my business blog! In all, I have had over 30 different address since starting primary school. Penicuik, Glenrothes (x2), Kinross, Lairg, St. Andrews (accounted for seven alone!), Edinburgh, Taipei (x2), Tamsui, Hong Kong, Luchow,… are the ones I remember! I know there are others…
Since 2000, we’ve been forced to stay in one place – I guess a mortgage will do that to you! Anyway, for movers New York represents a place I have always wanted to live in, … I’d also like to try London. Never had the chance to live in either, but who knows…? I do know that I would hate the cold winter days of New York, and long dour winter days of grey skies in London. Still… If I had to move to somewhere else, I think New York or London would represent my top two choices. Where’s the lottery ticket? The only thing I’d hate is the moving part. I would schlep almost all the heavy boxes, I’m sure. I might even drop a few!