I was born in the UK but now live in the USA. yup, I’m an immigrant stealing your jobs. 
Which is why astronomers prefer to refer to “extrasolar planets” as opposed to “other solar systems”? :dubious:
Opposite quadrants of the US; 2568 miles by car.
I was born in Atlanta, Georgia and live 65.6 miles from there in Athens, Georgia.
I have lived much farther away and only ended up here through a rather unlikely set of events.
Psst. See post #75, in which I quote an astronomer personally telling me he says “other solar systems.” 
I asked the extrasolar planetary people who work down the hall from me.
I wonder if they know my astronomer friend. Ask them if they know any U of Chicago astronomy grads who live in Bangkok. I suspect it’s a tight field. (He’s not Thai. An American caucasian.)
Its probably likely that they do! Especially if he still works in the field. Astronomy in general is a pretty tight field (in fact I’m fairly sure one of the guys down the hall is a Doper too…), and the sub-fields tend to get a bit incestuous.
My friend would probably be memorable. If I recall correctly, he was one of these boy geniuses who was entering grad school when his cohorts were graduating from high school. And more recently, he was the first foreigner to receive tenure at a Thai university in many years … or possibly the first foreign physics prof to do so. One or the other. I believe he actually is from Chicago.
Planetary mechanics, that’s his main game. And his Thai is so fluent that whenever an event occurs, they always put him on TV and radio to explain what’s happening. (“No, folks, this is NOT the god Raku growing angry. It’s just an eclipse, and it works like this.”)
I suspect I’ve heard of him just because of general knowledge of the field… Friends down the hall are all in meetings now, so asking would be a bit difficult!
Well, HE says “other solar systems.” They can duke it out with him.
He can say what he likes. Doesn’t mean the rest of the community will follow him.
I chose ‘same country’. I was born in White Plains, NY and I think we lived there until I was about a year old? Then we moved around a lot. 7 years in upstate NY area, 8 years in South Dakota, and going on 10 years here in the Philadelphia area.
I’m working on moving back into my childhood home, but currently just live in the same city. I’m also just a few blocks from the hospital where I was born.
Born in Ohio, live in Oregon… I went pretty far.
Same Country. About 450 miles and 3 states away. My dorm room at college was about 1/2 mile from the hospital where I was born.
Interesting choices.
For about 10 years of my mothers adult life, she was living within a mile of the actual building where she was born. It also happened to be another country. She was born in the Canadian customs house and after she married my father she lived in the US Border town, about a half-mile from her birthplace.
I was born 8,900 miles from where I live today.
Mrs. Slug was born 5,700 miles from where we live.
I used to live in the same state I was born in. Before that, I lived all over the world. Now I live in the same city that both of my parents were born in.
I’m about 4 miles from the hospital where I was born, and about 6 from the house I grew up in.
I live on the same street, in the house next door.
My grandparents bought this house I live in brand new in 1954. My parents bought the house next door several years later. That is the house I was born into.
In 1963, my grandma died, and Grandpa wantged my family to move into his house with him, so we did. I was 3 years old. Our house was sold. 3 years later, Grandpa moved out, selling this house to my folks.
I lived here all my life, helping take care of my mother, who was never healthy. After she & Dad passed on, the house became mine. So it has never belonged to anyone outside my family. I suppose I’ll either die here or at leaast be here till I have to go to a nursing home.
Hello, fellow Toledoan!
I’m about 10 miles from my childhood home, although my first house after returning from college was less than a mile away from my parents. My two oldest kids were even born in the same hospital I was.