# How far are you from your birthplace right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687 "2007-02-26T04:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/21 "2007-02-26T05:54:31Z")
Born in Auckland City Hospital, Grafton, Auckland Currently in Brooklyn, Wellington According to Google Earth, 397 miles by road. According to Google Calculator, that’s 639 kilometres. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/22 "2007-02-26T05:56:52Z")
355.93 miles from the hospital that I was born in. When I am home from college I am 28.76 miles from the place of my birth. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/23 "2007-02-26T05:58:15Z")
My apartment is 3.1 km (1.9 miles) from the hospital where I was born. My place is actually closer to the hospital than where I grew up - my parents house is 5.2 km from the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/24 "2007-02-26T06:04:34Z")
45 miles, give or take. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/25 "2007-02-26T06:13:14Z")
I’m 27.5 miles from the hospital where I was born, and 12 from the place where my parents lived at the time. I’m curious to see where my kids will end up. ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/26 "2007-02-26T07:33:38Z")
About 5182 miles, if my memory and the aerial photos aren’t lying. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/27 "2007-02-26T07:37:50Z")
8 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/28 "2007-02-26T07:56:22Z")
Born: Westfield, MA Live: Tel Aviv, Israel Distance: 5550 (miles) 8932 (km) ---
**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:** [February 26, 2007, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/29 "2007-02-26T08:16:22Z")
Google maps says 9.2 miles, but that’s taking the freeways. It would be about 6 miles the “short” way, and about 4 as the crow flies. We’ve had this topic come up before, and I’m still waiting for a Doper who is living in the house they were born in to chime in. There must be one out there, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![hekk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/30 "2007-02-26T08:37:31Z")
About 14 blocks to the hospital I was born in. I grew up about 1 block away. It’s kind of sad, but the furthest away from my birthplace I’ve been is Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/31 "2007-02-26T08:51:22Z")
It’s something like 5,000 miles. I tried searching for this once before, but no map searcher is aware of the existence of my village. I was born in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/32 "2007-02-26T09:12:20Z")
4939 miles [as the fly crows](http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist?place1=London%2C+England&place2=Bangalore%2C+India). ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/33 "2007-02-26T09:32:52Z")
A mile from the former site of the hospital I was born in. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/34 "2007-02-26T09:47:33Z")
I’m about 200 miles from the house I was born in, but England’s only a small country so we’re never that far away from anything. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/35 "2007-02-26T09:54:39Z")
567 miles by highways. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/36 "2007-02-26T09:58:05Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] You can use Google Maps or Mapquest to figure it out. [/QUOTE] I don’t think so, since they give driving distances. To drive from my birthplace to where I am now, you would need to cross one difficult barrier (the Bering Strait) and one impossible barrier (the Wallace Line). (They are the big problems – there are several other unbridged gaps, and some bits of roadless wilderness to get through as well.) As the crow flies (if a crow could fly so far) it’s roughly 15,000 km. If there were bridges or tunnels, or even ferries, in all the right places, the drive would be at least twice as long. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/37 "2007-02-26T10:09:22Z")
And I just tried it out on [maps.com](http://maps.com), with this [this strange result](http://www.maps.com/DriveSoloNow.aspx?Nav=DD&A0=&C0=Sydney&S0=&Z0=Australia&A1=&C1=Columbus&S1=OH&Z1=United%20States): about 17 hours, driving 975 miles. They suffer from the delusion that “Sydney, Australia” is close to Interstate 29 in South Dakota. I can assure them that I’ve driven all around Sydney, Australia, and never found Interstate 29. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/38 "2007-02-26T11:09:02Z")
313 miles, per Google Maps. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/39 "2007-02-26T11:17:45Z")
258 miles, but I’d take a different route, using the A50 to avoid going round Birmingham. And no, I’m not telling you where I was born, because it’s not something I’m proud of 😉 ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2007, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687/40 "2007-02-26T11:23:51Z")
3 miles. 15-20 miles from the first house i lived in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-are-you-from-your-birthplace-right-now/393687.md?page=3)