How do you feel about moving?

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I'm asking this because changing location of where we live greatly affects routine, I'm so use to walking down the same streets, looking at stuff from the same windows, sleeping in the same bed, etc. It's one of the reasons I'm so intransigence to going on vacation or even staying away from home for more than a day.

Yet at some points I feel like being a nomad

I used to love it and we moved every couple of years at least, until my in laws bought us that house in Bham for our tenth anniversary. Then we sold it and moved down here in about 01. I don't want to move now, even though I don't like this town that much. I'm all settled and junk.

I have always found it very traumatising -- even though I've actually performed two emigrations in my lifetime, the biggest move of all. But I do find it all deeply stressful. Being someone who is not and will never be a home owner, I've had to move due to issues such as rents climbing too high eventually in any place I live for a number of years, things like that. So, as a renter, it's kind of part of the deal that eventually one will have to move again in search of cheaper, smaller, etc. I hate it. Hate everything about it. Disruption to my routine not just in how I live and where I go, but in the packing process too, the whole breaking-down of one's household.

The only move I ever really enjoyed was one where I actively already loved the place I was moving to and took to it very easily, so the stress of the relocation was both worth it and in fact felt very much less than it might have.


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For years, I did everything I could to avoid settling into one spot. My entire positions could fit into a single pack and I could and would move in a single trip on the back of my motorcycle. I lived out of hotels for about 6 years straight, moving whenever work could bring me to a new city.

It's bad, unless I'm going somewhere warm.

I loved it when I moved because I liked getting my own place and didn't have to have anxiety anymore and deal with my brothers being in my personal space or having parties and being too loud. Then when I moved out to Oregon, I also loved it because I hated living in Montana, it was too isolated and I felt I had less chances of meeting a guy and you had to drive everywhere just to do something or drive to other towns and you do need a car to go anywhere like to work or to buy food. Only thing I miss about it is the snow but after a while you would get sick of it and be ready for it to melt and hoping it will go away soon. It certainly wasn't the same as living in Washington when it snows and it's a big and exciting thing but in Montana, it's so normal you aren't as excited about it and you don't get a snow day so you aren't as eager to play in it. But here in Oregon, if it snows, I have to take my son out now before it's gone by 5PM when it snowed at two.

When I moved into my own apartment that was also exciting too because I had my own place and I was with my husband who was then my boyfriend. Then when we got a house five years later, it was even more exciting because it was a lot bigger and my son had more room to play and a yard to play in and we had huge attic space and two garages and we are close to the light rail it takes me straight to work. Of course I loved this change and always found moving exciting except for when we moved to Montana but when we moved into the house my parents built when I was 16, it was exciting and fun because we were all crowded in a 1,050sq foot home and it was hard for me because we moved into a small house from a big house and we didn't have everything unpacked so lot of it was still packed away including lot of my stuff. I was even unhappy about it too because of the huge change and it took me a year to adjust to a new life of living in a small house and not having everything. That was hard but all the other moves didn't bother me and they were exciting because it was better and a good change.

So I'm the only one who is stressed by moving? I find that hard to believe, as even in the NT population, moving house is considered to be among the top ten stress factors.

Wow. I am definitely on the wrong planet...

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I feel like I'm supposed to find moving stressful, as even many NTs do and it represents a change in routine, but I actually enjoy it. Perhaps this is because we moved every 4 years or so when I was a child, so it has become a regular pattern to me.

It may sound silly, but I get really excited about packing. It's like your belongings are hundreds of puzzle pieces that you need to fit as efficiently as possible into a certain number of boxes. Oh I love it! I spend weeks before the move drawing diagrams of exactly where my furniture will go (even when I'm not moving houses, sometimes I will do this to rearrange my furniture every few months). I love unpacking because I get to choose exactly where everything is going to go, I get to find it's new "home." I also appreciate the chance to start over in a place without any of the previous negative energy from the old place.

Now, the things I really dislike about moving include dealing with the financial aspects, having to make calls and appointments to set up utilities, deal with signing papers or new apartment managers, and the actual day of the move, when it always seems to be 100 degrees outside.

I really enjoy moving too. I don't have a very exciting life and I find moving house very exciting!

I love going online and looking for a property, going and viewing different properties till I find the one I want, then I enjoy the packing. I love driving the van, it's the only time I get to and I love finding places for my stuff in my new house.

However I hate phoning up all those companies to tell them my new address, that is a bore.

I have been known to move twice in one year.

People worry about me because I don't seem to settle anywhere, but I don't see why I should. Why not move around? I know loads of people all over the place and I know my way around lots of towns. I don't know why someone would want to stay in the same place their whole life.

Moving doesn't bother me at all; NTs spend so much time building it up in their heads until it becomes much bigger than it actually is. It's the packing, the organizing, the logistical stuff that gets them worked up. And then unpacking, adjusting to the new environment (I don't for a second believe that people with AS are the only people who are bothered by change) and so forth. Whereas for me, it really doesn't matter where I am, because I spend so much time in my head. Just give me enough space for my books, and I'll be fine .

I hate moving.
I've had to move three times in the last four months, and I have to move again at the end of this month.
I don't even have a place to move to yet, so I might end up in motels, again.

Meh.

Moving is the worst thing ever. Well, at least until my next "worst ever" crisis arrives.

I prefer my routines and routes to be static.

I have moved a total of 24 times in my life and I have found every single one of them to be extremely stressful. I have just recently moved (move no. 24) and I do not want to do so again for a long time. It was horrendous. Three years ago I moved 4 times in the space of one year, that really burned me out, it was awful. I can even cope with going to work (a hard task when you work where I do) over moving house and, if you knew me and where I had to work and the sorts of people I have to deal with 5 days a week, that is definitely saying something.

We've lived 4 different places. When we moved, I couldn't cared less. We stayed in the same general area of the country though. I would've hated moving elsewhere, everywhere else in this country is just too small.
Moving isn't a problem.
All the work concerning it though....

I've never had a problem with going on vacation or its change in routine either. On the contrary, I enjoy it. I always find it exciting to look out the window and see something completely different than what I'm used to!
Sleeping in a strange bed can be weird, but not a problem.
Being alone in another place than home can be a little scary; when I was alone in another country I had no problems with it and wasn't anxious when I was awake, I was far too busy enjoying myself, but I did have several nightmares that someone broke in to rape me, and any noise woke me up. I'm sure that's mainly a matter of getting used to it though.