# How far away do you live from the spot where you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156 "2005-02-27T17:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/61 "2005-02-28T13:44:03Z")
8014.14 miles or 12897.16 kilometres Do I win a prize? The info was garnered from [here](http://www.mapcrow.info/) ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/62 "2005-02-28T13:46:26Z")
That is from New Plymouth, New Zealand to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/63 "2005-02-28T13:50:05Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > 10751 miles (17303 km) (9343 nautical miles) as the crow flies from the approximate region of my birth to where I live now. Thanks to [How Far Is It?](http://www.indo.com/distance/) 10,586 miles thanks to the link. Great site, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/64 "2005-02-28T14:02:52Z")
I still live 5.64 miles from the hospital where I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/65 "2005-02-28T14:06:08Z")
I can _see_ the hospital I was born in from my front porch. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/66 "2005-02-28T15:00:50Z")
Approximately 1000? I am not sure, never having measured the distance. Born in Fla, live in northern IL. (but I do know that it is 987 miles from my front door to Boulder CO–but it’s irrelevant!). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/67 "2005-02-28T15:04:35Z")
Right now about 450 miles SSE of where I was born. But for three years I lived across the street from the hospital where I was born, and a few years after that I actually worked in that hospital for a year (but on a different floor.) ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/68 "2005-02-28T16:04:16Z")
Well, according to the old thread: > [@](#): > > top 5 longest > mamatiger; 9581 > Giles; 9469 > Jervoise; 8998 > false god; 8540 Nautical Miles > TroubleAgain; 7309 I used to be in the top 5 distance-wise. I guess I’ve been bumped. (Yokusuka, Japan to central Florida.) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/69 "2005-02-28T16:31:30Z")
OK, I slacked off instead of working and put them in order. Here they are. Apologies for mispelling your name, or anything. They are in miles (or in one case, feet). Sorry rest of world, I think better in miles. I’ve been dropped down to # 7! Iceland Blue 11500 Idlewild 10751 don’t ask 10,586 Mama Tiger 9400 Unwritten Nocturne 8014 Driver8 7662 Anaamika 7174 biddee 6715 Sublight 6712 colour Wolf 6444 Lamar Mundane 5787 Noone Special 5573 Larry Borgia 5229 amarone 4110 1920s Style "Death Ray"3105 (I don’t know what a nm is, so I’m assuming he meant “m” for miles. It could be “km” though) RTFirefly 3000 FairyChatMom 2731 Aesiron 2621 SolGrundy 2491 Shibboleth 2400 Stuffy 2079 lel 1780 lunarnoodle 1704 NinjaChick 1700 fishbicycle 1186 Wile E 1063 Lockz 1044 elanorrigby 1000 Polycarp 713 Lsura 650 NoClueBoy 600 Sean Factotum 450 matt\_Mcl 369 (converted to miles) Jonathan Chance 368 kung fo lola 296 wolfstu 279 (converted to miles) F.U. Shakespeare 220 nocturnal\_tick 200 FrostySonofThunder 195 Wesley Clark 145 KellYM 135 Pyroette 95 DWTom1815 40 Merhouse 38 ggurl 35 FaerieBeth 20 MissTake 9.89 SanibelMan 9 PigBoy 6.97 Rufus Xavier 5.64 Blalron 5 Governor Quinn 5 (a few miles, he didn’t specify, so I gave him 5) Baker 1.25 AsecretK 1 balle M 1 (didn’t say exactly, but said he could see the hospital) Queen Tonya 0.5 Cunctutator 2361 feet. (Which is a little less than .5 a mile) Girlbysea 0 (who apparently is either living in the hospital or was born at home) And: daredevil (didn’t say, I didn’t bother to look up the cities) Ace309 (same thing) Sorry if I made any mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/70 "2005-02-28T16:42:03Z")
About 45 miles from the hospital where I was born, and about 60 miles from the house where I grew up. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/71 "2005-02-28T16:44:25Z")
From birth hospital to current address, according to Mapquest – **Driving distance:** 5.31 miles. **As the crow flies:** 3.9 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/72 "2005-02-28T16:55:06Z")
7,816 miles ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/73 "2005-02-28T16:56:24Z")
From Chicago, IL to Oxford, UK is 3896.45 miles. But until I went to college I probably lived less than 20 miles from the hospital where I was born (but if I had been born at the nearest hospital, it would have been more like 0.1 miles). Daphne ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/74 "2005-02-28T17:30:01Z")
1163 miles, according to Mapquest. ---
**Author:** ![Caiata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Caiata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caiata)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/75 "2005-03-01T04:57:50Z")
9206 miles Born in St. Louis, MO (Go Cards!) and now live in … well, _points to location_ (Um, go Raiders. Or something. Damnit, why can’t Australia have baseball?) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/76 "2005-03-02T07:15:22Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > 1920s Style "Death Ray"3105 (I don’t know what a nm is, so I’m assuming he meant “m” for miles. It could be “km” though) Sorry, that’s nautical miles, translates to 3573 statute (normal) miles Cheers ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/77 "2005-03-02T07:16:24Z")
> [@Caiata](#): > > 9206 miles > > Born in St. Louis, MO (Go Cards!) and now live in … well, _points to location_ (Um, go Raiders. Or something. Damnit, why can’t Australia have baseball?) They do. In the same way that the US has cricket. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/78 "2005-03-02T13:29:12Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > OK, I slacked off instead of working and put them in order. Here they are. Apologies for mispelling your name, or anything. They are in miles (or in one case, feet). Sorry rest of world, I think better in miles. I’ve been dropped down to # 7! > > Iceland Blue 11500 > Idlewild 10751 > don’t ask 10,586 > Mama Tiger 9400 > Unwritten Nocturne 8014 > Driver8 7662 > TroubleAgain 7309 > Anaamika 7174 Sorry, you’re number 8 ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/79 "2005-03-02T14:45:46Z")
From the aforementioned “How Far Is It” website I am; Distance between 54:35:13N 7:01:37W **(Omagh, Northern Ireland)** and 54:36:00N 5:55:00W **(Belfast, Northern Ireland)** as the crow flies: ``` 45 miles (72 km) (39 nautical miles) ``` Initial heading from 54:35:13N 7:01:37W to 54:36:00N 5:55:00W: east (88.4 degrees) Initial heading from 54:36:00N 5:55:00W to 54:35:13N 7:01:37W: west (269.3 degrees) Not really handy information to know since the bus journey there is rather more tortuous, about 2 odd hours :smack: ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156/80 "2005-03-02T15:22:23Z")
1167 miles, (Johnstown PA to The Woodlands, TX) according to **How Far is it?**. Looks like I’m smack dab in the undefined middle, as is so often the case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-do-you-live-from-the-spot-where-you-were-born/292156.md?page=3)