Well, each country has different administrative organization. Spain has provinces, which are grouped into regions; the UK is a nation-state involving several countries and dominions and whatnots, which may be divided into counties… I think the OP would have gone nuts trying to cover every combo out there and the US doesn’t have official region groupings.
I currently live, for tax purposes, 20km away from the town where I was born. These weeks I’m staying at my mother’s, 90km from my birthplace. But I’ve also been living (both for practical and tax purposes) in other nation-states within the same continent and in another continent. I have a cousin who’s always lived in the same house, we’re both 42.
Born in Ohio, grew up in Florida, lived and worked in Hawaii, Alabama, SC, FL and Bahamas.
Then Japan, Jordan, Italy, Spain, Portugal, now Turkey.
Moving on soon, though.
I was born in San Diego when my dad was stationed at MCRD a gazillion years ago. According to mapquest, I live 2683 miles from there, give or take a few. Having been stationed in San Diego myself when in the Navy, I have to say, I prefer southern MD. Interestingly enough, I live within 20 miles of California, MD and Hollywood, MD.
Born in the Detroit metro area. Currently living in Beijing, China.
Perhaps a step between continent and planet should have included hemisphere, because I am still in the Northern Hemisphere (and only a small degree difference in latitude).
Mapquest says 1,934.29 miles from home. In some places on the globe, this would be four countries over, but the United States is a big ass swath of land.
According to Google Earth, I live 3.88 miles from the hospital I was born in, and 1.11 miles from the house I grew up in (both as-the-crow-flies). The hospital is in the nearby city, my parents live in the same town (in the same house I grew up in).
The farthest I’ve lived from home/hospital was 7.03 and 6.77 miles, respectively. I guess I don’t get out much.
There are three simple ways to divide the Earth into hemispheres:
(1) Northern/Southern
(2) Western/Eastern
(3) Longitude < 90 degrees / Longitude > 90 degrees
(There isn’t a good name for the third pair, but you could call them Europe-Africa region and Asia-Pacific region).
In each case, I was born in the second hemisphere, and an now living in the first hemisphere.
