# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/81 "2019-08-09T20:43:01Z")
About 3 miles, presuming I can count “grew up in” as the house I lived in starting from age 6. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/82 "2019-08-09T20:46:05Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > When my parents got married, they moved 1950 miles west of Ohio (PNW). When I got married, I moved 5250 miles east of them (middle of Europe). > > The joke is that I’m less than an hour’s drive from my multi-great grandfather’s birthplace. So it only took 400 years to get back. 😃 Almost snap! This economic migrant moved south nearly 400 miles (by road) to find work. As, incidentally, did my brother - he’s about 15 miles away. He was the one that much later found out that our great grandmother had been raised about 4 miles from where I now live, and just over ten from him. Her family travelled nearly 400 miles _north_ to find work. j ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/83 "2019-08-09T20:59:10Z")
Have you noticed older people were very aware of the county they lived in? My grandmother always said she was from Hempstead County and my grandfather was from Nevada county. They share a common border. That’s where several generations owned family farms. Neither lived in a town and specifying the county is convenient. This was before the post office created RFD addresses. My Arkansas hometown is in Union county 40 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/84 "2019-08-09T21:17:11Z")
Grew up in Atlanta, now live in San Antonio. Not going to measure it, about 1,000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/85 "2019-08-09T22:29:34Z")
282.46 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/86 "2019-08-09T22:47:25Z")
I’m 51 years old. My mother and stepfather still live in my childhood home, which is about 45 miles from me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/87 "2019-08-09T22:59:31Z")
Slightly over 2000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/88 "2019-08-09T23:14:51Z")
The farthest away from there I’ve ever lived is 9,346.47 miles. That was in Malaysia. Great circle over the North Pole. That isn’t how I got to Malaysia, though. I flew to LA and then to Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur. That was a much longer distance. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/89 "2019-08-09T23:28:16Z")
Within 25 miles. I haven’t _always_ lived that close to “home” though. I spent my 20s between 800 and 3000 miles from the Inland Empire. But the IE is like the Mafia. Born in Town “A.” Ages 0 - 12 in Town “B” that abuts Town “A.” Ages 13 - 20 in Town “C,” which abuts “A” but on the other side from “B.” Interregnum. Then back South to Town “D,” which abuts Town “C” but on the other side from “A.” ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/90 "2019-08-09T23:38:53Z")
I live less than ten miles from where I was born, and have all my life, which means for 60 years. That’s in New York City, so I suppose that’s a bit different from some of the situations described above. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/91 "2019-08-09T23:46:44Z")
2510 miles or so (about 4040 km). ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/92 "2019-08-09T23:58:23Z")
About 2 feet, more or less. When I was watching shows about Apollo 11 recently it hit me that I was sitting about that far away from where I was when it actually happened. It’s about the difference between sitting next to my dad’s chair and where I now have my chair. The sad part is in the intervening years I haven’t been to the Moon myself, not even once for a quick visit. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/93 "2019-08-10T00:19:41Z")
Between 2800 and 3000 miles. We moved a lot a lot a lot. I don’t remember ever attending the same school for a full year. I was raised in Miami and Tampa and St. Petersburg, etc., but I’m now in the Sacramento area. I miss the beaches in Florida and a lot of the foods I grew up with are not readily available here. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/94 "2019-08-10T00:58:12Z")
I live in a house that sits on the site of the house that I was conceived in. My direct family has had a stake in this particular patch of land since about 1930, and my ancestors have lived within 3 miles or closer of here since 1850. The cemetery 1.5 miles away has multiple 3xgreat grandparents along with more recent ancestors, including my parents in it. It’s on the shore of Lake Michigan, with 220 feet of sandy beachfront, and 60 acres of woods behind it. It feels like home, because it is. Now, I’ve lived other places growing up. At least 15 other homes, in 4 other states. But I always came back to this spot for summers and other vacations. And when my dad died in 1995 we moved into the large home he built to replace the smaller original house. My younger daughter hand my kindergarten teacher for her first grade teacher. The road we live off of has the surname of my great grandmother. A road with my surname is less than 2 miles away. I go to sleep listening to the waves of the same lake that I listened to as a newborn. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/95 "2019-08-10T01:04:01Z")
3,120 miles. Except for some youthful traveling, I spent my whole life within a 50 mile radius of where I was born, though I lived in several places. Last year I moved across the continent to the old side of the country. Only regret not doing it sooner. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/96 "2019-08-10T02:10:14Z")
1180 miles. Google says it will take 18 hours and 7 minutes to drive there, because there is a car crash in Reno. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/97 "2019-08-10T02:15:18Z")
I was born in Daytona Beach, Florida. I was originally raised in the Orlando (Central Florida) area before spending my teenage years in the suburbs of Fort Lauderdale (South Florida). I now live in Denver, Colorado, having moved 3 and a half years ago. I love Colorado. I relish the climate. I prefer the prevailing politics. I even like the time zone better. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/98 "2019-08-10T03:20:41Z")
I live almost 11,000 km away from where I was born. That’s close to 7000 miles. I’ve spent a total of 30 years in Asia. That’s still more than half of my life. Considering that I spent the first 20 years in Salt Lake, most of my adulthood has been here. I got the hell out of Dodge. It was a very abusive family and repressive religion. Overall, it’s been the right choice. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/99 "2019-08-10T03:20:53Z")
In the OP start he mentioned about half the family had moved away and about half had stayed. I find thats about average where about half will stay and half will end up living farther away. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382/100 "2019-08-10T03:25:52Z")
33 miles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-away-from-where-you-grew-up-do-you-live-now/838382.md?page=6)