Places I Have Lived
I started life as a “military brat”. Therefore, I have moved often over the years. When I was little because the military told Dad it was time to go, and to where. After my parents split the moves were because mom felt like it, till I was old enough to start moving for University, and then I just kept up the habit of moving regularly, sometimes for love, sometimes for work, sometimes for University (sometimes more than one reason at once) till I got to Sweden and (mostly) settled down.
The posts in this folder summarise where I have lived (page down for the index), when, and I have started adding some highlight memories of each location (all of which written on 2026-01-23 or later)
What counts as a place I have lived?
It wasn’t easy figuring out what to count, or not to count. I eventually decided that I wouldn’t count a place I stayed at only a few days after arriving somewhere new to live, but instead lump those days in with the first days at my official address in that town. However, I did count major vacations, especially the ones which were in conjunction with a move. In those cases I record the “type of house” as “between homes”. After applying these two rules, the 57 lines in my spreadsheet of places lived condensed to a total of 51 places. Colour coded by colour, the graph of my travels looks like this:
For the most part I chose the colours based on their flag, and took the exact RGB value for the exact shade of a flag colour from https://www.flagcolorcodes.com/. But too many of the countries from my list use the basic dark blue, dark red, and white combination to use those colours for all of them. So I use the yellow from Australia’s aboriginal flag, let the British Isles be the green used on the Irish flag (as that is where that trip started, never mind that we visited multiple countries on those islands), and for Norway I took the grey of the spear from the Kingdom of Norway (which flag I didn’t even know existed before today).
Here is the list of colour codes (numbers in parentheses are the RGB values for that colour), in the order that I first set foot in each:
- USA (various states) = dark blue 10, 49, 97
- Japan = red (188, 0, 45)
- Germany = gold (255, 204, 0)
- Crete = light blue (114, 196, 198)
- Australia = yellow (255, 255, 0)
- Norway = (153, 153, 153)
- British Isles = (0, 154, 68)
- Canada = white (255, 255, 255)
- Italy = green (0, 140, 69)
- Sweden = blue (0, 106, 167)