I missed out on any chance of community. And I have always felt like a loner. I hated it, and vowed from a young age my kids would never have to live like that.
By my late 20s, I was making a plan on where I wanted to live once I had kids, which was kind of bizarre, being that kids were nowhere in sight. But I think what I was looking for was control.
A recent study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that Danish kids who moved more than once between the ages of 10 and 15 were 61 percent more likely to suffer from depression in adulthood compared to their classmates who did not move.
Even if you came from the most income-deprived communities, not moving - being a 'stayer' - was protective for your health, said Dr. Sabel, a geographer who studies the effect of environment on disease, told The New York Times.
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