Temporary Living Quotes

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

Los Angeles is a very transient town. It's the only place I know where you can actually rent a dog.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I don't live in D.C. I keep an air mattress in my office.

Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house or apartment for a few months or even a year or two in developments that are striving to provide critical elements of community - schools, healthcare, social and cultural institutions - even for people who are living there only temporarily. People invested in a home, mortgage, or community are less likely to move to more economically vibrant locales. That kind of entrenchment is going to be an impediment to the coming spatial fix.

I cleaned my room - I've been living out of suitcases. I live in London; I've been here six years and I still haven't got myself an English phone.

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.