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steel starBOT
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fickle helm
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Nous avons déménagé.
A pronominal verb would use être as its auxiliary in a compound tense. Plus, "nous nous sommes déménagés" would mean you removed yourselves from a place and put yourselves in another, which sounds just weird. You usually move stuff from a place to another, so we say things like "nous avons déménagé les meubles".
In the context of moving to another place, the verb is intransitive so you wouldn't pronominalize it.

daring fox
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okay. what do you mean by intransitive?

fickle helm
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A verb that doesn't take an object.

daring fox
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moving doesn't take an object?

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Don't we move ourselves

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Or am I just saying we moved, no mention to what moved us

mellow gale
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You should only consider the French verb. Déménager is intransitive, it's not pronominal and it doesn't have an object.

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I mean, it can be transitive : Je déménage mes meubles. But not in the meaning here.

past lotus
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you have to separate the linguistic utterance from some other way of understanding the action