# How close do you live to your birthplace? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461 "2010-05-06T00:54:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/21 "2010-05-06T02:57:32Z")
Born in New York state (Long Island), went to college upstate and stayed. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/22 "2010-05-06T03:24:50Z")
18.7 miles from the hospital where I was born to where I live today. Odd. I didn’t think it was that close. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/23 "2010-05-06T03:29:04Z")
According to the [Great Circle Mapper](http://gc.kls2.com/), the airport in the city in which I was born is just over 600 miles from the airport in the city in which I now reside. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/24 "2010-05-06T03:35:20Z")
> [@Cerowyn](#): > > I was born in the UK, now live in Canada. As an interesting aside, we realized recently at our office that only one employee of ten was born in Canada. I was born in Pennsylvania, and now live and work in California. Not one person in our office of about 20 people was born in California. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/25 "2010-05-06T03:36:29Z")
Interestingly, at the moment no one picked “same continent”. I do know some people who were born in Canada and now live in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/26 "2010-05-06T03:37:08Z")
Five miles, give or take. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/27 "2010-05-06T04:01:03Z")
Born in New York, live in Panama. I’ve lived further away. For three years I lived in New Zealand. My mother, however, lives in the same house she was born in 80 years ago. And I was born in the hospital one block away. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/28 "2010-05-06T04:01:38Z")
I was born in Long Beach, CA and now live in Los Angeles, about 20 miles away. But what’s way, way weirder is that the apartment I now live in is just a few blocks from the cemetery where my ancestors are buried-- the oldest being my great-great-great grandfather, born pre-Civil War. Pretty rare for Southern California. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/29 "2010-05-06T04:02:08Z")
Born in Montebello, CA (suburb of Los Angeles). Currently living in Saitama, Japan (north of Tokyo). Roughly about 5500 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/30 "2010-05-06T04:20:13Z")
I was born in Auburn WA, and have lived 1448 miles away for the last 40 years. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/31 "2010-05-06T04:32:16Z")
Born in Hong Kong, living in Minneapolis: 7482 miles as the crow flies. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/32 "2010-05-06T04:53:10Z")
There needs to be something in between “same state” and “same country”. I’m living in a different state from where I was born, but not by all that much. Ok, by a fairly lengthy drive that might mean another country in Europe, but it’s still only the next state over. Lima, Ohio -\> Detroit Metro area ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/33 "2010-05-06T05:09:01Z")
Same neighborhood. My parents still live down the street. There are 4 other households in the neighborhood where the owners grew up here too. That I know of. Not bad, 5 out out of 65 houses owned by people who love it here so much that they settled here for good. Yet, in 31 years, we’ve never had a block party. ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/34 "2010-05-06T05:16:56Z")
I live 4 blocks from the house I grew up in, and both are one mile from the doctor’s office I was born in. My second son was born in the same hospital my wife was born in, but in a different city! Seems two adjoining cities made a land swap and the hospital became part of the second city. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/35 "2010-05-06T05:18:21Z")
I’m on the opposite side of the planet. ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/36 "2010-05-06T05:29:00Z")
I now live 1,586 miles from the hospital in which I was born. Crosby, MN to greater Seattle area. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/37 "2010-05-06T05:44:36Z")
I live in the same state, but given that I now live at the other end of California than where I started, it’s pretty far. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/38 "2010-05-06T05:51:43Z")
Born in California, live in China. I could get further away, but I’d have to work at it! ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/39 "2010-05-06T06:16:41Z")
Same country. But it’s a small country. I was born in Jerusalem and now live in Tel Aviv. With no traffic on Route 1 and without breaking the speed limit, we’re talking a 45 minute drive. ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461/40 "2010-05-06T07:10:46Z")
For my permanent residence rather than my college apartment, 5.9 miles, but I’ll be moving out of state this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-birthplace/538461.md?page=3)