I used to believe that when a family moved to another house, that the family living in the purchased house would move into the first family's house, i.e. a house swap. I wondered at the cooperation of it all.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c