I Once Went to Germany "for Six Months" and the Same Thing Happened to Me.

From The Onion:
CHARLOTTE, NC—Suddenly stopping in his tracks as he boarded the Lynx blue line to go apply for a library card on Tuesday, local man Mark Collier came to the horrifying realization that he was putting down roots in the city of Charlotte, NC...
I ended up staying for nine years. Qualifications, job, friends, wife, kids, bank account, telephone, the lot.