About fifty miles from where I was born, and about 4 miles from where I was as a teenager doing the actual growing up stuff. As a youngster we moved around a lot, and I lived in a few different places in my twenties, but when I got the chance to go back to more-or-less home it seemed the right thing to do.
Born in Mercy Hospital, San Diego.
- First 14 years I lived about 10 miles away from MH.
- next 5 years, 15 miles
- next 4 years, 5 miles
- next 27 years, 1/2 mile from MH
- next 4 years, 10 miles
- last 14 years to present day, 1300 miles.
Another 2000+ mile person.
Seems like a bimodal distribution is common here. Quite far or quite close. IOW: “Go big or go home.”
Right, about half stay around where they are from and half move away.
I was going to ask this question myself. For me it’s about 15 miles.
Roughly 12 miles by car. I did leave for a while though, moved to the opposite corner of the country then about halfway back before coming back home. I suppose I would leave again if the conditions were right. I’d probably end up moving back though, even if it was just to finish my days on this world.
213 miles (343km) door-to-door, according to Google Maps. That’s on roads, not as the crow flies.
About a thousand miles from where I grew up. And of my four siblings, I’m the one that lives the closest to where we all grew up!
5 miles. But I’m 100 feet from the house my dad grew up in.
I’m living in the house I grew up in. Bought it from the estate when my mom died. Hardest part is seeing what used to be fairly rural area transformed by development. They built an enormous hospital nearby about a decade ago and as it’s grown it’s brought an influx of “medical money”. Farmlands and woods are being replaced with 500K and up residences.
BTW, 500K is still a lot here! There are some places near me that I would guess are 1M+
.7 miles to the house we grew up in, and my brother still lives, bought by our parents 69 years ago. Son still with us, daughter & grandkids another .5 miles further than bro’s.
2,671 miles, based on Google Maps driving directions from my current house to the house I grew up in. I grew up in North Carolina and moved to California after college for my first real job. None of my family actually lives in that area anymore anyway. My parents moved back to their home state after they retired (the only moved to NC in the first place for my dad’s job). My sister also moved to a different state for grad school and stayed there.
I bounced around a lot too, but I’ll claim Columbus, Ohio as home. That makes it 365 miles. And, since all the Chicagoans are saying where they live, I’m at Halsted/Waveland.
Oh, and the wife, born and raised in Bangkok, now lives 6596 miles away.
48 miles, roughly. I still stay at that house pretty often. And I let the dogs inside. Don’t even care.
About 500km I grew up in a small city with no opportunities for someone interesting in science and engineering, so I left as soon as I could afford it to go to university. I’m still in that city.
From my house where I live now to the place I grew up in, around 1,199 kilometres (745 miles).
Military brat here. I’m relatively close to where I went to highschool. The school is no more, though.
My parents both grew up in Arkansas. So there are extended family around. All my sibs have scattered to the 4 winds.
2192 miles, Arlington Heights, IL to Aptos, CA
You couldn’t pay me to move back.
According to Google Maps, 14.3 miles. I have always lived within 15 miles of the house I grew up in, except for one year living on campus in college. In general, my family just doesn’t move far away. I can go to a church cemetery 8 miles away and count back at least 5 generations of my dad’s family and a to a municipal cemetery 14 miles away and find an equal number of my mom’s family. Yes sir, this nut tree has deep roots.