How far do you live from the place you were born?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Me: 2,088 miles.

[GPV]

1. About half an hour from the hospital and 50minutes from the old house.

[flying_wahini]

2. About 3 miles. Moved back when we retired.

[whistler162]

90. I am thinking of doing this

if I can get an apartment in the building that used to be the hospital where I was born. Then make funeral arrangements at the funeral home I got my start in, parents rented an apartment in the back of the funeral home when they first got married.


for now about 75 miles.

[Anon-C]

3. 2566.2 miles...

...give or take.

[rickford66]

4. About 60 miles and a few hundred years.

[fierywoman]

5. 2396 miles.

[trocar]

6. 800 miles nt

[MuseRider]

7. Been a lot of places

but live 12.5 miles from the hospital I was born in and 11.7 miles from the house I lived in until I went off to University that was about 3 miles from the house I grew up in. I have traveled a lot but always come back here. I live in a different place than the town I was born in but still very close. I have no idea why, I had bigger plans than this.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

22. "I had bigger plans than this"

That sounds like small town talk. That is the same thing all of my friends from my childhood say. Most of us are still here. We tried to escape but always came back.

[MuseRider]

34. Yup

Small town NE Kansas to a place with 260 total.

I do love where I am and what I am doing but it really is not anywhere near what I had planned. Such is life and it is NOT bad.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

38. You were born in NE Kansas,

I was born in a small SE town in Kansas.

[Thomas Hurt]

8. 1049 miles by road

[Walleye]

9. 50 miles. I lived in big cities on both coasts and came back to my home state

[Bayard]

10. 80 miles

By way of Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Calif. I'm home (or pretty close).

[sanatanadharma]

11. About 5400 miles from birth place...

...but more like 6900 miles from where last I lived in the states.

[blueinredohio]

12. Around 500 miles.

[Mme. Defarge]

13. Exactly 2.3 miles

from the hospital.

[mnhtnbb]

14. A little under 500 miles now

but for many years I lived as much as 2700-2800 miles from where I was born, and then 1200-1300 miles from where I was born before I moved to the area where I am now and have been for the past 21 years.

[mbusby]

15. 800 miles...

...as the crow flies.

[patphil]

16. About 175 miles. Born in Glens Falls, NY. Now live down state in Orange County.

[Ocelot II]

17. About 330 miles driving distance.

[EYESORE 9001]

18. Roughly 400 miles

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

19. 83.3 miles. About 1 hour and 20 minutes.

[cloudbase]

20. 1100 plus as the crow flies.

1350 or so by road.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. Don't know how many miles

But it's 14 minutes away from where I am now.

[Midnight Writer]

23. Less than a mile.

[Fla Dem]

24. Too far; 1,300 miles. Most of my family are still in the area.

[MiHale]

25. 376 miles and a trip through time I'll surely pay for later.

[Ohio Joe]

27. According to google maps... 1776 miles

Hmmm... Feels so much further.

[jcgoldie]

28. About 200 yards :(

I bought the next farm over from the one I grew up on after my parents sold it while I was in college. Over the summer I attended my 30th class reunion by accident (buddy tricked me into coming out for beers neglecting to tell me the entire class of '91 would be present)... I was a little depressed to realize that my classmates are successful all over the globe doing exciting stuff and here I am farming next door to where I grew up and teaching mathematics in the same high school I attended 30 years ago I must be the most boring person alive!

[Elessar Zappa]

29. 141 miles.

[catbyte]

30. I looked it up and it's 368 miles

Edited to add: That's driving distance.

[Cadfael]

31. 23.3 miles from the hospital

16.3 miles from the house I went home to from the hospital

[wendyb-NC]

32. About 620 miles

[wryter2000]

33. New York to California

Queens to Oakland. I'm a coastal creature

[Lady Freedom Returns]

35. 1,159 miles.

But I hung up my traveling shoes. Going to stay in state. Thinking of a trip to Tombstone. Depends on how effective the new medication on mobility.

[Trailrider1951]

36. About 2000 miles, as the crow flies

But if you count my 30 year detour through Texas, it's more like 3100 miles.

[Kali]

37. Same state,

About 300 miles.

[Marthe48]

39. About 150 miles

I go home often. My best friend inherited her Mom's home, where I spent half my time when I was a kid. So I stay with her and we catch up, and go forward

[Kali]

40. Same state,

About 300 miles.

[ShazamIam]

41. 2018 miles according to the map program

[lucca18]

42. 2,927 miles

From Long Island (New York), to San Francisco.

[Doc_Technical]

43. 3,028 miles

"as the crow flies."

[sarge43]

44. 787 miles. n/t

[cinematicdiversions]

45. 4080 miles per Google nt

[Laurelin]

46. 3888 miles

According to Google.

[MFGsunny]

47. 9685 kilometers or 6018 miles n/t

[ironflange]

48. About 200 miles

Mrs. ironflange: about 2500.

[jmowreader]

49. 438 miles

I was born in the Mountain Home AFB base hospital, even though my parents weren't military. Dad was in the Bureau of Public Roads, which built the roads to the base ammunition supply point. Because Mountain Home had no hospital to speak of in the 1960s, the Air Force agreed to provide all the medical care to the BPR families building the roads.

[Sogo]

50. 205 mi.

[Glorfindel]

51. About eight miles

We lived "in town" when I was born, but moved out to the country to live with my grandfather when I was six. Seventy years later, I'm back in the old house and hope to live here the rest of my life.

[smirkymonkey]

52. About 261 miles, or 4 hours, by car.

Born in Utica, NY, now living in Boston, MA, although I have lived further away (Europe, San Francisco) and NYC was slightly closer, but not much.

[Auggie]

53. 2450 miles according to Google Maps

[SamKnause]

54. 60 miles.

[SharonClark]

55. 3 miles from the hospital and 5 miles from my parents' home.

[denbot]

69. The happy wanderer..

So far I think you are among the closest to your birthplace.

[Tikki]

56. 1,073 miles by Interstate...

Couldn't get away from there fast enough when we turned 18 yrs old.

Have never regretted it for a moment.

Here has been home for over 55 years.

The Tikkis

[trof]

57. About 270 miles.

[Jim G.]

58. 25 Miles...

But I only moved back 5 years ago. It was more than 800 up until then.

[LuckyCharms]

59. 2 miles.

from the hospital I was born in.

[HipChick]

60. 4000 miles

[Wolf Frankula]

61. About 10000 miles

In distant hemispheres.

Wolf

[TexasTowelie]

62. 240 miles

or a 4 hour drive.

[struggle4progress]

63. 500 miles

[Thyla]

64. 10,169

Or so says the interwebs.

[petronius]

65. 214 miles to the hospital, according to Google maps

The farthest 'permanent' address I've had from my birthplace is 1800 miles...

[DFW]

66. If Google is to be believed, 3952 miles

Alexandria, Virginia to Düsseldorf in the German Rheinland.

[Rhiannon12866]

67. About a hour north, but I've lived in 7 places in my life, went to 12 schools

I'm fine with traveling, have seen some cool places, but I'm not a fan of moving.

[denbot]

68. 20 mile or less from my birthplace.

Huh, I've never given it any thought..

[Rastapopoulos]

70. Right down the block

Hospital is less then a quarter mile

[Wounded Bear]

71. About 15 miles...nt

[malthaussen]

72. 464.4 miles...

... via I-70 W and I-71 S. According to Google.

Light years, according to culture.

-- Mal

[Chautauquas]

73. 457 miles

Left my hometown as a teenager and was glad to get away from that place. I go back once a year to visit relatives but I make it a short visit and I'm always happy to leave.

[Iggo]

74. Thirty-ish miles.

[Akoto]

75. I live where I was born. :) n/t

[Kaleva]

77. Nobody asked you why you live in a delivery room?

[Kaleva]

76. About 50 miles

[csziggy]

78. Slightly less than 300 miles

And now that both parents are dead and their house sold, I will probably never go back. The house I grew up in was torn down in 2011 so there is nothing to go back for.

[Klaralven]

79. 1300 miles, a crash, two detours, and three construction zones

[zanana1]

80. One mile.

I'm a real adventurer.

[we can do it]

81. About 450 miles.

[Wicked Blue]

82. Probably around 250 miles nt

[electric_blue68]

83. 🤔 about 8 - 10 miles...

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It depends on exactly how far downtown in Manhattan
the hospital (which probably doesn't exist any more) was.
As a preemie I think I was transfered to another hospital.

I've lived 3 Burroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, and now The Bronx. Technically it's the first time I've lived on NA Continent!
Brooklyn (and Queens) are situated on the
westernmost part of Long Island.

NYC while occasionally frustrating (rarely scary) it's so packed with multiple cultures, all kinds of architecture, museums, big parks, and gardens, restaurants, and foods from all over the world, full of art, crafts, music, still decent weather more often than not - I don't think
I'd ever want (and probably not at my level of lower income) to live anywhere else.

I do love (and have) visited other 8+ USA cities, San Juan, Paris, and a small village in Switzerland.

I love Nature. I've visited the High Desert of Arizona, including sleeping in Monument Valley waking up at 3AM under rhe span of the Milky Way, the Grand Canyon, up into The Rockies northwest of Denver on the back of a motorcycle (!!!), and seeing ?40+ tall all in bloom pink lotuses near one edge of Echo Park in LA. (I'd loved them since I was tween seeing a photo of one of this kind, and this was my first glimpse of this type in the real)

I hope I get to one more USA city I haven't yet visited. It'll be a miracle if I get to see The Pyramids.

In I feel quite lucky in my travels, and even luckier to have born in, live in NYC. 🙂

[Stuart G]

84. ..About 25 miles..45 minute drive..

[left-of-center2012]

85. Over 1,700 miles

Born in Brookville PA and live in Albuquerque

[bluedigger]

86. 5,291.78 mi (8,516.30 km)

Germany to Colorado.

[TuxedoKat]

87. 1,277 miles

[steve2470]

88. about 5 miles nt

[yellowdogintexas]

89. 685 miles, approximately

I was born in Clarksville TN and now live in Fort Worth TX

[Generic Brad]

91. Around 800 miles

I've lives as much as 4,000 miles away in the past.