Ready for the new people

And so to moving-out day. Another visit to the storage unit and a trip to the dump with some rubbish before a last bit of cleaning up and leaving a few notes, a card and a bottle of fizz for the new people. Then it was locking up one last time and posting the keys through the letter box and we left our house after fourteen years.
The longest either of us have lived anywhere. Made me think of the different places I've lived in my life.
1. I was too young to have any memories of the first place - a flat in Airlie Place in the centre of Dundee next to the University where my folks lived when they first moved to Dundee. The building has long since been demolished and replaced with a modern University building that houses the Student Union I think.
2. They moved from there into a brand-new semi-detached house on Kintore Place in the new estate at Gotterstone. Although I was too young to remember moving in, I have plenty of memories growing up in that cul-de-sac, seeing the estate expand from a few short streets to fill the surrounding fields.
3. We then moved into the Ferry, in plenty of time for me starting secondary school. My folks still live in that same house a very short walk from Grove Academy - I could leave the house when the bell rang and still make it in time.
4/5/6. Were the Uni rooms I stayed in in Durham. Three different rooms in St Hild & St Bede College - first year was in a converted house on Gilesgate that was part of the college's disparate estate. I worked it out that there probably wasn't any longer journey to lectures for a student that lived in college than my walk from Old Belevedere to the lecture theatre on the science site for my Thursday 9am lecture on the other side of Durham. I liked living there, on the edge of college and so moved into New Belvedere in the former back garden of the old house for both my second and third years. Not sure if college rooms really count as where you live. I think they do, even if it was only a little more than half the year.
7/8. A couple more rooms in halls in London at the LSE. Most of the year on the 9th floor of Rosebery Avenue Hall with the rest of the post-grads on the top floor corridor. And with a fabulous view across the London skyline, from the dome of St Paul's to the Post Office Tower. With great sunsets. For the summer they clesred the place of students so they could rent out the rooms to tourists and so I moved to Passfield Hall while I worked on my dissertation. The same Hall my father stayed in when he was at the LSE.
9. A friend of a friend at LSE had a place in Edinburgh where I rented a room when I first moved up to Edinburgh to start work at S&N after Uni. I was only there for a matter of weeks while I looked for my own flat.
10. Which was at 69 Albert Street - a one-bedroomed flat with a living room/kitchen. And a view of Calton Hill across the top of a factory that used to print labels for tins. The place closed down and was replaced with flats in the time I lived there, between Easter Road and Leith Walk.
11. Moved into the heart of student Edinburgh and a third floor flat on Forrest Road looking down Middle Meadow Walk. Where I lived first with M, then on my own and then with L when she moved in a few months before we got married.
12. From Forrest Road we moved to our West Coates cottage in 1999.
13. Until today, when we moved out. Where next?