# Farthest distance between places you've lived? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215 "2015-04-21T19:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/61 "2015-04-22T16:02:47Z")
7,586 miles between Kadena AFB, Japan and Fort Ritchie, Maryland, USA. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/62 "2015-04-22T16:22:21Z")
140 miles from my early childhood home in San Jose, CA to my high school home in the El Dorado, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/63 "2015-04-22T17:19:04Z")
If we are counting a semester in college, then 100 miles. If not, then it’s 8 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Jabaski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@Jabaski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabaski)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/64 "2015-04-22T17:19:26Z")
~1,800 miles between air force bases in Michigan ans California. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/65 "2015-04-22T18:11:48Z")
4485 miles between Broomfield, Colorado, and the University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, UK. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/66 "2015-04-22T18:48:36Z")
2407 miles from new Symrna Fla to Sacramento Ca ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/67 "2015-04-22T19:00:05Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > “45.5 miles (In current traffic: 1 hour 32 mins)” according to Google Maps. I think that earns me the silver medal for smallest distance. > > Possibly increased to 2,700 miles in the not-too-distant future, though. Not so fast my friend: House where I grew up to present home: 6.75 miles, 15 minutes based on current traffic ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/68 "2015-04-22T23:53:19Z")
Not counting time at college, my three siblings all live in eh same area we grew up. One of them lives within 5-10 miles. (My oldest sister was born in California but lived there for less than a year.) I’ve lived in Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, and New Haven. So Boston-Chicago with 982 miles of driving on I-90 is my distance. Unless you count the two months I lived in Vancouver. Then it’s 3181 miles mostly via I-90 and I-94. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/69 "2015-04-23T00:03:30Z")
East Asia and the central US, about 7,500 miles or so. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/70 "2015-04-23T02:46:40Z")
250 miles, from Southold, NY to Schenectady, NY My daughter, OTOH, went 7600 miles from Schenectady to Aroab, Namibia, for the Peace Corps. She then moved back and finally to Chicago – 800 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/71 "2015-04-23T02:52:06Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Not so fast my friend: > > House where I grew up to present home: 6.75 miles, 15 minutes based on current traffic You’ve _never_ lived farther away than that? Color me impressed! ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/72 "2015-04-23T03:05:00Z")
10,565 miles, using the [Great Circle Mapper](http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=phl-adl) between the two principal airports. It’s actually a few miles more but I’m not quibbling. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/73 "2015-04-23T03:18:15Z")
Wow! Lots of San Diego (at one time or another) people. I’m impressed! Farthest distance was 6565 miles between the west coast of Japan and Cincinnati, Ohio. But I grew up in Sandy Eggo and lived there after each of the longer moves. –G! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/74 "2015-04-23T03:31:02Z")
I moved from my hometown in West Texas to northern Thailand when I was in my 20s, but while I enjoyed living in the North, I can’t say I ever thought of it as “home.” But Bangkok is definitely “home” to me now, so that’s west Texas to Bangkok. Plus I also came to think of Honolulu as home during my years there, as I did Albuquerque. So my four “homes” in my adult life have been West Texas, Albuquerque, Hawaii and Bangkok. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/75 "2015-04-23T12:23:11Z")
2,400 miles according to MapQuest between my current home outside Boston, MA and my place in Salt Lake City, Utah when I was a grad student there. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/76 "2015-04-23T18:16:03Z")
According to Google Maps: 2,179 miles from Sierra Madre, CA to Roswell, GA. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/77 "2015-04-23T21:06:07Z")
30 miles. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/78 "2015-04-23T21:48:26Z")
Well, it depends on the route taken, I guess. One direction, it’s about seven hundred miles. Go the other direction, and it’s about 24,201 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/79 "2015-04-23T23:00:06Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Not so fast my friend: > > House where I grew up to present home: 6.75 miles, 15 minutes based on current traffic Is that driving distance, or as the crow flies? I’m 6.68 miles from my childhood home via giant catapult, but 10.5 by car. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215/80 "2015-04-23T23:10:25Z")
That’s a relatively easy one for me: San Diego, CA and where I currently live. I was in the navy from 1989 - 93. Actually, if you count the time I was in boot camp then it would be from where I currently live to Orlando, FL. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/farthest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718215.md?page=5)