I finally have an answer to the question of how many times Jack has moved home.
I hinted in my New Year reflections post that I had some happy news to share - and some of you that follow me on Twitter will already know... I've moved house into a flat beside the sea, and I hope...
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This is phrased weirdly. Actually Jack moved out of the flat she shared with her partner in October '11, into a very expensive "executive luxury apartment". Then she immediately quit her job and plunged into poverty. She moved out in October '12 to save 50£ a month on rent.
Anyway:
1) flat with ex-partner - until Oct '11
2) executive luxury apartment - Oct '11 - Oct '12
3) flat with mirror tiles in kitchen - Oct '12 - May/Jun '13
4) house share (she moved into this in May/June, got engaged in August, and was living with her new fiancée in September. She always talks about this house share as a major indicator of poverty. She was there for one summer) May/Jun - Sep '13
5) moves in with fiancée - Sep - Nov '13
6) empty flat generously offered to her temporarily by a friend (LOL WHAT) - Nov '13 - Jan '14
7) amazing new house that inspired the gushing post above - Jan '14 - ???? not sure, but absolute maximum start of May '14, as this blog post confirms:
https://web.archive.org/web/2014051...lledjack.com/2014/05/07/jack-monroe-biography
8) May '14 - Jun '15: Allegra's house (not rented)
9) Jun '15 - Aug '16: flat
10) Aug '16 - Jun '18: house by the sea
11) Jun '18 - Feb '19: not-
crappy bungalow
12) Feb '19 - present:
crappy bungalow
(more sources here:
https://tattle.life/threads/jack-mo...e-you-helped-set-up.28113/page-3#post-8818558 )
Jack claims to have moved home at least 24 times. She left her parents' home in 2005. This suggests one of three things:
a) She moved far more frequently in the six years pre-poverty than the ten years post-poverty.
b) She is not good at granular maths.
c) She's lying.
By the way, I can clear another detail up - it was not Allegra who fancied GIRLS, babe. Based on the timing of the Sainsbury's ad, it was Hazel the police officer, who Jack started dating, got engaged to, moved in with, and broke up with in less than a year (all this in 2013):
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