Our father was in the Army so we moved around a lot when I was growing up.
It seemed like we never stayed in one place for more than a year.
Every base was different and so were the houses we lived in. Most of the time we just lived in base housing. It was easier that way. Some bases had nice houses, and other houses were infested with mold and bugs and falling apart. Another thing that I found interesting were the Heating and A/C systems in all of the different houses. Every one of them had central heating and cooling. However, this heating and cooling was a total crap shoot. Some houses had new Heating and A/C systems that were inspected and worked well, but those were a rarity though. In most cases, the Heating and A/C systems were ancient,and there was a lot of dust in the air duct, so they broke down from time to time. I remember this one house where the furnace didn’t work. It only was lukewarm no matter how high you set the temperature control. In another house, the a/c broke down 6 times in just under 2 years. Each time it broke down, we had to wait over a week before it was fixed. Then there were the temperature controls. We had dial temperature control or analog temperature controls and no one was like the other. 68 degrees in one house felt much different than a temperature of 68 degrees in another house. I don’t know if that is because the temperature controls weren’t calibrated or if it had to do with the design of the house.