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How many places have you lived in your life?

1. Tillicoultry, Scotland.  Two houses:  91 Fir Park from birth to 1983, then Mains House (where my parents still live) until 1994.
2. Edinburgh, Scotland.  Heriot Watt University halls of residence '94-'95, a grotty flat in Murieston Crescent '95-'97 (which backed onto the Glasgow-Edinburgh train line, so we had trains going by the window every half-hour), a lovely flat on Elm Row, above the STV studios the summer of '97, and an even grottier flat on Montgomery Street '97-'98 (sharing with a revolting stoner grad student called Jim, whose friends were the biggest bunch of Yahs you've ever heard).
3. London, England.  September '98.  A month working for Sapient in London, living in a lovely corporate apartment in the Docklands while I waited for my work visa to the States.
4. Cambridge, MA.  '98-'03.  A smashing fourth-floor apartment on Brookline St in Cambridge, near Central Square, just up the road from the Middle East and TT The Bear's Place.
5. Somerville, MA.  2003-present.  Joy & I moved into an apartment near Ball Square in 2003, a few months before we got married.  Then the following summer, we bought a house, and we've been here ever since.