I've been living in London for 10 years.

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Hello.

I only want to clarify one more thing for me.

If I say "I've been living in London for 10 years" it implies that I keep living there.
If I say "I lived (was living) there for 10 years" it doesn't neccessary mean that I keep living there.

Am I right?

P.S Probably #2 isn't a natural sentence.
 

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If by "I keep living there", you mean "I still live there", then yes.

I've been living in London for ten years. (I still live there.)
I've lived in London for ten years. (I still live there.)
I lived in London for ten years. (I no longer live there.)
I was living in London for ten years. (I no longer live there.)
 

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Thank you.

I woke up in a cold sweat from the horrible nightmare that I was wrong. ;-)
I'm happy now.
 

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I've lived in London for ten years. (I still live there.)
If the speaker is on a plane flying to another city where he is going to live, will it mean "I no longer live there"?
 

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If I understand your question correctly, yes. When I was in the actual process of moving to New York, I no longer lived in Chicago.
 

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If I understand your question correctly
My question is: can "I've lived in London for ten years" denote "I no longer live there" if he is on a plane while speaking?
 
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Just flying on a plane to a city where one is going to move is not necessarily moving. If the person's belongings have been moved and this is the final stage of "the move", then yes.
 

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Assuming the OP has arrived at the airport in Moscow where he will settle, can he say "I've lived in London for ten years"?
 

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At the airport in my new home, I would say "I lived in London for ten years but today I moved to Russia". To use the past perfect, I would add two words "I have lived in London for the last ten years but now I live in Russia".
 

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If I understand your question correctly, yes. When I was in the actual process of moving to New York, I no longer lived in Chicago.
Does that mean you lived nowhere at the time? Or maybe you lived in Harrisburg for ten minutes as you were flying over?
 

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Yes, I lived nowhere at the time. I was homeless, in a U-Haul truck. :-D
 

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Between homes :up:
 
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