No one said anything about a house. In retrospect, the signs were clear. The obsessive reading of the real estate pages. Besides, the house we moved into two years ago and the massive renovation project therein was almost complete. Now, I know we live in a mobile society.
People often move one or two times, from the starter house to another, bigger house.
But this will be our fourth house in 10 years, all in the same town. We, however, move whenever we've finished making one house just the way we like it. This, I'm learning, is a deep sickness that affects not just my wife, but her family as well. My parents bought a triple-decker in Dorchester when I was 2 years old. Forty years later, they're still there.