Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Cities I lived in for over a year

All of the below I lived in for on year or more. Years I lived in each (in brackets): 

Tokyo (3) >> Rome (5) >> New York (3) >> Bonn (1) >> Canberra (10) >> Pretoria (1) >> London (3) >> Sydney (3) >> Beijing (3) >> Shanghai(1) >> Hong Kong (36)

Which leaves 6 years for all the rest. 

Continents lived in: Asia, Europe, America, Africa and Oceania. 

By far the longest in Asia: 43 years and counting. 

In total, I've been to 79 countries and visited all seven continents, including Antarctica twice. Many people have visited more countries, for sure. But I wonder how many have lived in quite as many cities for that long... 

This is just for my record.