I have not had a real home with a permanent address since...2023

[glowingfish]

This is more backstory! And it might sound worse than it is.

When I left my apartment in Corvallis, Oregon in September 2023, that was the last time I lived in a place where I had my name on a rental contract. I then lived in an AirBnB in Costa Rica for six months, with my mother in Montana for six months, back in the same AirBnB in Costa Rica for six months, and then I ended up in Spokane for six months. So that is two years of moving between places, and at no point was this a legal, guaranteed, signature on a contract living situation.

There are obviously a lot of people who are homeless and living a struggle day by day. I am not that. But I also don't have the comfort of having a guaranteed living situation. Right now I am renting from someone I know, but that could change any day. It makes things a little bit harder to arrange. Like, you know, I haven't changed my credit card billing to this address. And thus, some things on Amazon can't be delivered here. I haven't tried. And I don't know how long I can/will continue living here. Sometimes I get tired of it. But also, I don't know if I have another option.

Anyway. There is more back story.

Comments

[rafqa]

It is difficult, to have your living situation in flux. Do you have a place you can always go if you need to?

You have been around to such various, interesting places.

[glowingfish]

I can probably always go live with my mother's house, (Which is big, and in a beautiful location, but also doesn't have a lot of transportation opportunities). As long as she lives there.

So that is the thing---I don't have anywhere near the problems that some people have.
But...I also don't have quite what I would need to feel secure.