# How far away from where you grew up do you live now? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 9, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382 "2019-08-09T00:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/41 "2019-08-09T07:51:30Z")
2934.1 miles from Bayside, New York to Fremont California. Google maps doesn’t give the inches. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/42 "2019-08-09T08:50:00Z")
6 miles for me, less than 2 for my wife. Our kids go to the same schools she did. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/43 "2019-08-09T09:16:30Z")
well i bounced 2 different places most of my life one in Indiana and one in California and there 2200 miles apart i moved back to the ca location in 88 and i live 3 houses down from where i lived in 1990 … ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/44 "2019-08-09T10:53:40Z")
About 3 miles for me. It’s a nice part of the country/world, close to a major regional city, we’re near all our immediate family and most of our friends. I did go to university over 100 miles away, to experience a different part of the country, but met my now-wife just before I left, and stuck with it. As a result I kept in touch with school friends from back home rather than making new friends at uni, and since my wife stayed where she was for her studies, moving back to the area when I graduated was the obvious thing to do. No regrets whatsoever, I’m very lucky. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/45 "2019-08-09T11:08:30Z")
For me it’s 7687.67 km (4776.90 mi) according to the “Measure distance” tool of Google Maps. I grew up in a moderate-sized city of about 160,000 inhabitants (now 215,000) on the Great Plains, and now live in Vienna. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/46 "2019-08-09T12:08:11Z")
450 miles. A good day’s drive, although I haven’t driven it since my mother died in 1991. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/47 "2019-08-09T12:16:53Z")
I live \< 4 miles currently or just over 4 by car. I’ve lived over 3000 miles away in the past but mostly have lived within about 20 miles. My kids did end up going to the same High School as my wife. A much better school than the one I went to. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/48 "2019-08-09T12:29:48Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Whoa. That’s where my best friend grew up, and we spent many an hour in that area. > … PM sent ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/49 "2019-08-09T12:34:30Z")
I grew up in Baltimore county, just a bit north of the city. I now live in St. Mary’s county. I don’t know how far it is at the crow flies, but according to Google maps, it’s about 91 miles door to door. The farthest I ever lived was 2650 miles when I was in Coronado, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/50 "2019-08-09T12:43:06Z")
350 miles from here to Eastlake, Ohio, according to Google maps. Google maps also tells me that if I go straight up I70 and I76, I can be there in 5 1/2 hours. I would have guessed it was a longer drive. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/51 "2019-08-09T12:46:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I grew up in Baltimore county, just a bit north of the city. I now live in St. Mary’s county. I don’t know how far it is at the crow flies, but according to Google maps, it’s about 91 miles door to door. > > The farthest I ever lived was 2650 miles when I was in Coronado, CA. That is my furthest location also. Though technically I had an apartment in San Ysidro for 6 months. So either way around 2750 miles. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/52 "2019-08-09T12:57:56Z")
Around 4200 miles from southern Iowa to southern England. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/53 "2019-08-09T13:13:02Z")
266 miles according to Google maps. SW Houston to NE Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/54 "2019-08-09T13:16:51Z")
425 miles from my house in Chillicothe, OH to the house I grew up in in Baltimore, MD. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/55 "2019-08-09T13:37:14Z")
In a straight line, 16.29 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/56 "2019-08-09T13:43:06Z")
I live in the city I was born in, and I’m sixty four years old. I went to university here. I did spend three years in the Army, and three years working in Michigan, but the rest of it has been here. I work right across the street from the hospital I was born in.The church I attend is less than a mile away. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/57 "2019-08-09T13:50:43Z")
Depends on how you look at it. I have two hometowns. I grew up on Cape Cod. 1500 miles from Little Rock I moved to Arkansas in the 5th grade. That town is 125 miles from LR. My fondest memories are living on Cape Cod. I learned to swim at those beaches and regret ever leaving. But, I never had to drive in the heavy snow. Snow was was for sledding. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/58 "2019-08-09T13:57:14Z")
Thanks for the replies, everyone. Maybe moving wont be as life-altering as I’ve feared. It certainly seems to be the most common experience. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/59 "2019-08-09T14:03:46Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Not applicable. I grew up in no one place. I’m ~2,800 miles from where I was born( Ithaca, NY ), but I have no memories of the place - we moved when I was still a baby. I had lived in four different states + D.C. and eight different cities by the time I was 13. > > I did settle down a bit thereafter, bouncing around the SF Bay Area after 13 and I’m still here generally( I’ve lived in multiple cities in the area as well ). But given the big gap at the start I’m not really inclined to say “I grew up here.” > [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Another one who bounced about quite a bit\*, but I’ll count Champaign, Illinois as “where I grew up” > 9618 miles, or 15,478 km, according to [the Great Circle mapper](http://www.gcmap.com/) site. > > \*Dad was US Air Force - I was born in Michigan, moved to Hawaii then Indiana, but moved to Illinois when I was…six, I think. Then I spent the next sixteen years there, and that’s the location of my only childhood memories Ditto. No one place is my hometown. My dad was a field engineer, so we moved every 2-3 years. Like the umbrella, I was born in Baltimore and raised all over the world. After leaving home and marrying, I have continued the habit. From all the moving, I have lived as far as 3,891 miles northeast, 949 miles south, 2327 miles northwest, 12,472 miles southwest (and many places between) of my birthplace. I’m now 491 miles NW of Baltimore, and there is no realistic chance I would ever move back. None of my family stayed there; most are now in northern VA. We are here to keep an eye on Mr. Celtic Knot’s parents, and will stay as long as they are around. (We’re 39 miles from one of his childhood homes, and 5 from another.) ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/60 "2019-08-09T14:08:28Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > 2100 miles, the distance from Johnstown, PA to Tucson, AZ. The economy wasn’t great, Johnstown was a dying town, and my mom grew up in Tucson. Tucson is a great town, home to a major university, lots of good medical facilities, and a booming aerospace industry. Employment is good, Arizona has an $11 per hour minimum wage going up to $12 in 2020. The weather is great, if a bit hot in the summer. We’re not suffering from the extreme weather going on in the rest of the country. You’re from Johnstown? I live there now! (It still sucks.) My husband works at Pitt-Johnstown so I moved here when we got married. Oddly enough, I have friends in Tucson. To answer the OP, I now live about 3 hours from where I grew up. That’s 107 miles as the crow flies. I’m from a small town in western PA. I’ve lived in Texas, California, and New York but wound up here seven years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382.md?page=4)