# Furthest/Shortest distance you have moved home from to to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811 "2018-01-03T19:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reecejackox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reecejackox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reecejackox)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/1 "2018-01-03T19:15:29Z")
I would say furthest would be Lancashire to Surrey Don’t know about Shortest ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/2 "2018-01-03T19:19:27Z")
Across the hall. From a studio to 1 bedroom apt. And it actually was _across_ the hall, you could touch both doors at once. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/3 "2018-01-03T19:59:46Z")
We moved next door, from 1923 XYZ lane to 1927 XYZ lane. Furthest would be the move from Knoxville to San Antonio, about 1,200 miles. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/4 "2018-01-03T20:08:24Z")
Chicago to Budapest for longest. Shortest would be 1/4 mile from the house I grew up in here in Chicago to a new one we bought a year ago. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/5 "2018-01-03T20:10:24Z")
Closest? Around the corner–maybe 1/10th of a mile. Farthest? From Baltimore, MD to Saipan, CNMI (other side of the planet)-- when we moved back, it was Saipan, CNMI to Sunnyside, WA, so not quite as far. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yellow_sausage_bandit/32/394_2.png) [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_sausage_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/6 "2018-01-03T20:12:16Z")
Shortest: 450m Longest: 3.7km ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/7 "2018-01-03T20:16:58Z")
My farthest move also started in Baltimore, but ended in Melbourne Australia. Closest is Reno to 2 miles away in Reno. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/8 "2018-01-03T20:18:26Z")
Shortest: About 100 yards Furthest: 6232 miles ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/9 "2018-01-03T20:18:46Z")
Shortest- down one flight of stairs. Longest- North Carolina-San Diego +/- 2500 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/10 "2018-01-03T20:19:29Z")
The longest was from Cleveland to Bozeman, MT, on a Greyhound bus with the maximum allowed number of extra boxes in luggage. Actually, I guess the eventual move back to Cleveland was just as long, but in a car and with my stuff shipped in a POD, not a bus, which made it a lot more bearable. The shortest was from one apartment in Bozeman to another, about a mile away, when an on-campus apartment opened up. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/11 "2018-01-03T20:26:14Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Across the hall. From a studio to 1 bedroom apt. And it actually was _across_ the hall, you could touch both doors at once. I don’t think this one can be beat. We moved around the corner, once. It was easier to walk the refrigerator on a dolly than to load it into a truck. Measuring on Google Earth, it was about 1200 feet. For longest, moved from near LA to near Flint, Michigan. About 2300 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/12 "2018-01-03T20:30:14Z")
Longest was NYC to Seattle. Shortest probably about one and a half miles from a rental house to our first owned home. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/13 "2018-01-03T20:35:56Z")
Moved NY to CA and back again for furthest. Shortest was my first apartment, moving to my second apartment one floor up and maybe 50 feet away. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/14 "2018-01-03T20:36:33Z")
Furthest: New Jersey to Bay Area. My daughter has got me beat, though, with moves from Germany to Las Vegas and Las Vegas to Hong Kong. Shortest - to the other side of a house. I was able to move all my books from the third floor of one to the third floor of the other by handing them out the window. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/15 "2018-01-03T20:44:51Z")
To the other side of the street in Sarasota FL. Down to Sarasota, then up again, then back again, from two cities in Western/Central NY whose distances are close enough that who wins depends on how many tiny detours one takes. Moved across Central Florida 5 times but those were short. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/16 "2018-01-03T20:59:05Z")
Reston, Virginia to Torrance, California for longest (if you don’t count times served in Germany, Alabama and California in the Air Force). Shortest was Torrance, California to Redondo Beach, California, about five miles. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/17 "2018-01-03T21:22:36Z")
Shortest: About 1500 feet as the crow flies from a rental apartment in Chicago to a Co-op, the first place we owned. Longest distance: 867 miles from that co-op in in Chicago to New Haven CT. We spent 1 summer in Vancouver, but it was always to be temporary visiting appointment so I didn’t count it as a move. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/18 "2018-01-03T21:26:39Z")
Shortest: from apartment #924 (downstairs) to apartment #925(upstairs). Longest: from Wahiawa, Hawaii to San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/19 "2018-01-03T21:35:41Z")
Shortest distance: same building, same apartment, one floor up. Since the ceiling of our old apartment is the floor of our new one, the total distance moved was tecnically, what, 0? Longest: from Israel to New York and back, twice. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811/20 "2018-01-03T21:40:38Z")
Longest, 11,479 kilometers, Camp Lejeune to Kwajalein. Shortest, +/- 50 meters, 1 floor down, 3 apartments over. Move from a 1br. to a 2br. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/furthest-shortest-distance-you-have-moved-home-from-to-to/805811.md?page=2)