Zero miles. I live in the same house I lived in from the ages of 13-18.
Not that I lived here all that time. I’ve lived in several places… Columbus, St. Louis, NYC, Long Island, then back to NYC. My husband and I moved back here to help take care of my parents. Now that they’re gone, we’re here to stay.
About 360 miles as the crow flies, 460 by car. Haven’t been to my hometown since my Mom died 17 years ago, and given that I have no family or friends left there unlikely to ever return.
I moved to L.A. for work, this is where the entertainment industry is. Significant benefits? Hell yes, the weather for one. Also, while the east coast was a perfectly nice place to grow up, I love Southern California, and can’t imagine living anywhere else.
10214 miles, from the Cape Town, South Africa house I grew up in to the Bellevue, Washington house I live in now. So pretty far. I think I’m close to literally being on the other side of the world.
About 1700 feet from my childhood home, where my parents still live. Same neighborhood, just the opposite end. Right across the street from my high school. There’s actually a handful of us who grew up in this neighborhood and bought houses here. The guy across the street grew up on the end of my old street maybe like 60 years ago and he, too, moved to “the other end of the neighborhood”. Cool stuff.
I’m actively friends with people I’ve known since I was in pre-school, too. Some of us are still here, some left. It’s nice to be one of the ones who are still here, we’re kind of like a hub for the friend circles.
I never felt any sort of calling to leave. I never thought there was anything better for me elsewhere. I like making a happy life right here. Now I’m on city council so I got that goin’ for me.
We moved on my 10th birthday, from suburban Chicago to Green Bay, so I think of myself as having grown up in both places.
I currently live about 15 miles from my first childhood home, and about 200 miles from my second.
I wound up back in Chicago due to my career (there are very few job opportunities even remotely related to what I do, back in Green Bay). I miss the feel of being in a smaller city, and I wouldn’t mind moving back there someday, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon.
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.”
According to Google maps I am approximately 2,833 miles. I was born and lived in San Francisco until i was 7. I moved to the east coast and now live near Washington DC.
I have visited California only 2 times since we moved in 1973.
Once was in March of this year when I went to Palm Springs and the second was when our whole family went back to San Francisco back in 1987.
I hear it has changed a lot since then.
My address of record is about 20 min from where I was born (22km), 1h 20 min from where I grew up (113km). But I’m currently 10h away (1000km); my next project will be some 200-250km (3h) away.
About ten miles. I was born in Chicago, grew up in the suburbs, hopped around the country after college for various jobs, and eventually landed back in Chicago where the culture speaks to me (blues music, pizza, people I can grok). I’m here to stay.
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 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
I grew up in two different cities. From the age of 2 to the age of 9 I lived in Leeds, England, and from the age of 9 I lived in Newcastle, Australia. As an adult I’ve also lived in Sydney and in Columbus,. Ohio.
Where I live now is on the other side of the world from my earlier childhood home, but just a short walk from my later childhood home. I no longer have any contacts with people in Leeds, and most of my friends live in Newcastle.