# How far do you live from the place you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959 "2020-08-13T03:45:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/21 "2020-08-13T06:27:27Z")
Born in Santa Monica live in Westwood…about 3 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/22 "2020-08-13T06:28:06Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > 6,958 miles using the site @galen_ubal used, between Quezon City, Philippines and San Francisco. 2 miles, for my wife. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/23 "2020-08-13T06:34:18Z")
About 350 miles in the summer. Probably 450 in the winter. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/24 "2020-08-13T06:52:13Z")
Approximately 2300km, or 1400 miles, as the crow flies, assuming crows migrate between Australia and New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/25 "2020-08-13T07:09:47Z")
Currently, 88 miles, but I have lived 2750 miles and 5546 miles away from the city I was born in. ---
**Author:** ![SharltoCopley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sharltocopley/32/12309_2.png) [@SharltoCopley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharltoCopley)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/26 "2020-08-13T07:14:15Z")
How are you finding it there? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/27 "2020-08-13T09:25:45Z")
I was born in Melbourne, Australia and now live just over 1700 miles away in Queensland. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/28 "2020-08-13T09:45:31Z")
295 miles from what used to be fort ord to lancaster ca ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/29 "2020-08-13T10:17:21Z")
I live 165 miles from where I was born in the south of England, now live in the Midlands. and moved about 65 miles from where I lived for the previous 17 years on the opposite side of the Midlands. Moved north, then east to west. ---
**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 13, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/30 "2020-08-13T10:35:07Z")
3km, about 2 miles for the USAians. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/31 "2020-08-13T10:39:36Z")
Born in Nuremberg, Germany and now live in Beijing, China. Distance: 7,686 km = 4,776 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/32 "2020-08-13T10:55:49Z")
Born in Madrid, living in Berlin, it’s 2,132 km according to [Maps](https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Berlin+Hauptbahnhof,+Europaplatz,+Berlin/Madrid,+Spanien/@46.1315453,-4.1679889,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a851bdfbdfe77b:0x7a3c781495bcfcaa!2m2!1d13.369402!2d52.5250839!1m5!1m1!1s0xd422997800a3c81:0xc436dec1618c2269!2m2!1d-3.7037902!2d40.4167754!3e2), who claims you can walk in a pretty straight line all the distance in 439 hours. I don’t feel like trying today, it’s way too hot. Perhaps some other year. ---
**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 13, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/33 "2020-08-13T11:13:55Z")
2682 miles according to Google Maps. Born in San Diego Naval Hospital, living in southern Merrylande. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/34 "2020-08-13T12:13:08Z")
7,666 miles ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/35 "2020-08-13T12:22:44Z")
From Pittsfield, MA, to where I live now in greater Chicagoland is about 847 miles. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/36 "2020-08-13T12:28:03Z")
Not far enough, but I’d rather move closer to there than stay where I’ve been exiled for the last year or so. ---
**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 13, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/37 "2020-08-13T12:36:34Z")
I’m currently in my bedroom a 9 mile car journey (slightly shorter for crows) from the hospital in which I was born, and about half that distance from my childhood home. My only other permanent residences have been within a mile of the hospital. I did move to 150 miles away for university, and have travelled all over the world to many other places in which I’d happily live, but I like it best here - friends and family are a big factor, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/38 "2020-08-13T12:42:00Z")
According to Sygic, 13 miles. That’s to the hospital. To the house I grew up in, it is zero inches. ---
**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 13, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/39 "2020-08-13T13:27:58Z")
Well, I was born in the local hospital, 16 miles from my childhood/current home. But I still live on the same exact plot of land I came home to from the hospital, nearly 63 years ago. Granted, I lived many many places over those intervening years, but my current home stayed in the family and I inherited it (all to prematurely) back in 1995. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/40 "2020-08-13T13:49:25Z")
1.9 km (1.2 miles) straight down 14th avenue. Walking distance; a crow could go a little straighter but not much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959.md?page=3)