History Main / ReallyMovesAround

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke often had to move around because of his father's job, with his move to Inaba a few months before the start of the game only being the latest such. Because of moving so often and trying to integrate into new schools, he [[FriendlessBackground doesn't have many close friends before meeting the Investigation Team]]. In the manga and anime it's shown that [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] had a similar background which contributes to him becoming Yosuke's BestFriend. At one point in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', his father's job at Junes is threatened when the recent murders cause an idol to cancel a scheduled appearance, forcing the Investigation Team to throw a Risette concert together to save him from having to move away.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke often had to move around because of his father's job, with his move to Inaba a few months before the start of the game only being the latest such. Because of moving so often and trying to integrate into new schools, he [[FriendlessBackground doesn't have many close friends before meeting the Investigation Team]]. In the manga and anime it's shown that [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] had a similar background which contributes to him becoming Yosuke's BestFriend.

* ''Art/CivicVirtueTriumphantOverUnrighteousness'' was originally erected in-front of New York City Hall. Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, who hated it for its lack of modesty ([[ValuesDissonance nudity in art being less acceptable in America than Europe at the time]]) and had it moved to Kew Gardens, at Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike, beside the new Borough Hall in 1941. In 2011, the statue was put up for auction on Craigslist by Former Congressman Anthony Weiner where it would eventually be purchased by Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn where it now stands.

* After ''Art/VenusDeMilo'' was first discovered by a peasant in Milos (the name of the person debated among scholars), it was purchased by the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, where it was then repaired and given to King Louis XVIII, who then donated it to the Louvre Museum where it now stands.

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* * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': Since [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959 her hometown Argo City's destruction]], Pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El moved at least six times in just ten years in her search for a new place that she could call "home", where she could belong to and be herself.
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* ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'': Taro Misaki, one of the best known characters of the series and [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]] of Tsubasa Ozora, moves to many different places, since his father is a painter. He played in several teams due to his father travelling around Japan all the time.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Parthenogenesis}}'', the TitleCharacter and her daughter, Maggie, move to San Francisco when the latter's a teenager so she can live her dream of having a "normal" life after moving around so much while she was growing up. Prior to living in San Francisco, Carmen and Maggie had never lived in a place for longer than a year--this is not only due to Carmen's adventurous nature, but also because of the fact that she's still a wanted thief (despite having long since gone straight).

* The official {{novelization}} of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' says that Madison Russell and her father Mark have been moving around to places around the world in the years since Mark rejoined Monarch before Mark settled them down in Pensacola, Florida.

* Fiene of ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'' recalls in her early years, she and her mother had to move frequently to escape from people trying to hunt them down, sometimes moving once a month. Her mother explained that's because some high-ranking nobles are mad at her. [[spoiler:Those were assassins sent from Fiene's maternal ''grandparents'', and they're trying to hunt down Fiene, much less her mother.]]

* ''Manga/PenguineBrothers'': Hina lives with her painter uncle, and as a result they move around a lot to accommodate his wanderlust. At the start of the story, she mentions how she's changed schools 8 times, and [[spoiler:by the end of the series, he decides out of the blue to move to ''France'', and she willingly goes with him]].

* Finne of ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashisLiveCommentaryOnTheVillainess'' recalls in her early years, she and her mother had to move frequently to escape from people trying to hunt them down, sometimes moving once a month. Her mother explained that's because some high-ranking nobles are mad at her. [[spoiler:Those were assassins sent from Finne's maternal ''grandparents'', and they're trying to hunt down Finne, much less her mother.]]

* Creator/PedroPascal interviews sometimes describe him as [[https://www.gq.com/story/pedro-pascal-in-paradise a nomad]], unable to plant roots despite his fame as an actor. By the time the son of Chilean-American refugees graduated college, he lived in three different countries, and three different states. His acting career further complicated his attempts to settle down, after he began landing gigs that require him to travel away from his home.

* In [[ClashingCousins "Dissin' Cousins,"]] a first season episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'', the [[TitleCharacter Title Character's]] cousin, Andrea, is mentioned to move around a lot due to her dad (Raven's uncle) being in the military. While it has given Andrea the chance to travel to all sorts of cool places (which includes having been able to live in at least three different European cities), she eventually confesses that she hates having to move around so much and has always been secretly jealous of the fact that Raven ultimately got to have a much more "normal" life (it's unknown if Andrea knows about Raven's PsychicPowers).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': Gus Griswald's family moves often [[MilitaryBrat because his father is a general]]. He admits to attending eleven different schools by the time he starts 4th-grade--in fact, until transferring to Third Street Elementary School, Gus explains that he's never been at a school long enough to be known as anything other than "the new kid."
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': When Connie is introduced in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E7BubbleBuddies "Bubble Buddies"]], she says her family moves around a lot because of her dad's job as a private security guard. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness This is never referenced again]], doesn't really make sense once we find out her mother is a doctor, and she keeps living in the same house until she goes to college.