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I tried the prompted answers without success, so here is the story. After living decades in the Berkshires, marriage ended in divorce and I lost my house (complicated ending and I couldn't afford to keep up prolonged pursuit of money...big mistake). I moved to NYC Upper EAst Side after receiving my MFA in music composition at Tisch and lived there from '93 - to 2000 when owner of apt had to sell and I couldn't buy. I also couldn't find another place at a price I could afford on my pt salary + gigs income. Miraculously something came up in Paris days before having to leave apt. Deal was to cat sit for owner and live in MOntmartre. Moved things to MMStorage and off to Paris. Lived between there and Valencia Spain for half a year, returned to NY for a gig in 2001 and moved to Roslyn Heights at brother's house while I hunted for apt. Jan 2001 I was hit by a taxi and it wasn't till early autumn I found an apt in a Harlem brownstone on W/ 136th. Stayed a year and rent was about to go up w/ lease so I left 2003 for Weehawken NJ where a musician who worked with me found me a large sunny apt for less...have been here since.
Prior to the Berkshires I lived in Stratford-upon-Avon for over a year. before that I lived in Rego Park from 1948 to 1965. More to the story but that's for a book.

I was born in Trinidad and moved to Queens Village NYC on August 12, 1994. On March 2007, I moved to Washington Heights (181st); Have a lovely view, big apartment and affordable rent!

Because my same-sex partner could not get a green card, we moved from NY to Hong Kong. We still send summers in New York
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My family and I moved from 64 and 1 in Manhattan to Belford N.J.

Seven years ago we moved from Pittsburgh to NYC in our mid-70s to be near one of my sons and families as we got older. Coincidentally a special needs grandchild hastened this move

Hello, I moved from San Francisco, CA to Buenos Aires, Argentina, then to GA where I got mortgage fraud and foreclosure. Then to Norfolk, VA and then to an unfortunate 2 days in Jersey City and then to the steps of a church with my cat. Now I am in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, thinking of going back to Argentina because I am unemployed and cannot afford to take care of my infected teeth here. My teeth need root canals. Eugenia Renskoff

Yes, the form was confusing. You had to give the zip code of the place you weren't, which is nuts.

I moved from Staten Island to Park Slope, Brooklyn. Brooklyn is great, cheaper than Manhattan & full of fun things to do. Staten Island is an awful place to live!! If you don't have kids, or want a house, and/or want car payments, want to do interesting things & have fun AVOID Staten Island - it's like living on Alcatraz! Terrible.

After moving from Chicago to San Francisco (1971) to Los Angeles (1976) to New Haven (1981) to Manhattan (1982) to Brooklyn (1993), my partner and I got tired of increasing rents, increasing noise and increasing prices that precluded actually enjoying New York City and bought a house in Upstate New York on the Vermont border, an hour and a half north of Albany where we have land, a historic house and a barn to enjoy. I read my NY Times in my yard every morning with my coffee...and miss nothing.

You have left off two important reasons for moving...Downsizing empty nesters and taxes!!!!

ack, nevermind. i don't know what i was looking at. seems to be fine now.

anyone else find the form confusing?

2000 (Cambridge, MA to San Francisco) followed my boyfriend after graduating college.

2001 (SFO to Oakland) moved closer to my job and was cheaper

2002 (Oakland to NYC) enrolled at a pre-med program for postbaccalaureates at Columbia Univ.

2003 (Upper West Side to Murray Hill) pre-med thing didn't work, needed something cheap but in Manhattan

2004 (Murray Hill to Jackson Heights) wanted something bigger and cheaper; was recommended by boyfriend's colleague

2006 (Jackson Heights to London, UK) had just gotten married and wanted to know what it was to live abroad

2007 (London to Hoboken, NJ) we could do London for just a year (too expensive)

2008 (moved apts within Hoboken) needed to be closer to the PATH train

2009 (Hoboken to West New York) needed apt with parking but within our budget

Last September, my husband and I moved from a house in Greenlawn (Town of Huntington), Long Island, NY to a condo apartment in Monmouth Beach, NJ. As we near our retirement years, my husband and I no longer wanted to do all the work of taking care of a house. We wanted the ease of living in a CONDO (not coop) apartment in a hi-rise. With a condo apartment, we no longer have to spend time and money taking care of a house. Also, we can travel and not worry about the house being vacant. We chose NJ because in NY we could not locate suitable CONDOs (only coops) in walking distance to the ocean. (Condos have more freedom in terms of renting out the unit. )We purchased the condo 9 yrs ago and rented it out until we moved in 9/1/09.

9/1/2001 - moved from Chicago back to Brooklyn. Finished school. Lived with Mom. Little did I know 10 days later the world would change and it would take me 3 years to get a full time job.

1/15/2007 - moved from Clinton Hill to Coney Island. Got priced out of Clinton Hill.

12/31/2010?? - will I be priced out of Coney Island????

Sold apt in Soho ---> Ft Greene Brooklyn. Lovely neighborhood and yard in brownstone, but the honeymoon is over. Soho baby, can you ever forgive me and take me back?

2000 - grad school in Morgantown, WV
2002 - moved to Beverly, MA
2002 - moved to Medford, MA
2003 - moved to Boston, MA
2004 - moved to Cambridge, MA
2006 - moved to Astoria, NYC
2006 - moved to 8th & Broadway
2007 - moved to 48th & Lex
2008 - moved to Astoria
2009 - moved to West Harlem, NYC

I moved from Brooklyn USA to Norwalk CT in 2003. I moved here because of a job offer after being layed-off during the early 2000's slowdown and to be around trees!

I moved from Brooklyn to Atlanta about 7 months ago. This place sucks, I can't wait to move back to NY. I'll take a small apartment over an over-sized house anyday of the week.