# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/122 "2023-11-27T01:34:09Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You win I think. Upthread I said I lived 1.4 miles from the hospital I was born in, you are even closer. (That would be about 2.25 k) I think I got that beat. I scrolled back, and when I posted back then, I checked on Google Maps that I’m living 650 meters from the place I was born. I didn’t check this whole old thread if I was the closest, though. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/123 "2023-11-27T01:54:14Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > 5 h 34 min (355.0 mi) - there’s a highway for most of it. Forgot to mention that I’m still in the same state. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/124 "2023-11-27T02:01:58Z")
16.55 miles now. [If I use my first house in Cleveland] A year ago it would have been 775.25 miles (from NE Florida). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/125 "2023-11-27T02:38:44Z")
2,339 miles if you walk (it’s a straighter line than driving). At most, I’ve lived 6,130 miles away. The farthest I’ve traveled from there is 9,410 miles. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/126 "2023-11-27T02:44:15Z")
About 20 miles (by Google Maps with highways turned off, not as-the-crow-flies) from the Chicago hospital where I was born. The building’s still there but the hospital isn’t. I’ve been slowly but surely living farther away each time I (or my family) moved. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/127 "2023-11-27T02:52:44Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > 5 h 34 min Interesting… there seem to be people who ONLY judge distances by time. _“The folks’ cabin isn’t far. Two an’ a half hours up the Interstate, three on the weekends.”_ If you ask them how many miles, they’d have to look it up… but they wouldn’t. _“It’s two hours over the river, a left at Hooterville, then an hour through the woods to Grandmother’s house.”_ I made it an easy afternoon’s drive away from “home”, but that’s from a red suburb to a dark blue University town. Huge distance! Y’know who’s the closest? Most of my high school reunion! I was amazed at how many friends are living within a mile or two of their childhood homes Or in them. (To be honest, I felt just a wee bit superior…) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/128 "2023-11-27T02:58:53Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Interesting… there seem to be people who ONLY judge distances by time. Not to mention apps. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/129 "2023-11-27T04:07:45Z")
About 450 miles from my birth city of Atlanta, Ga. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/130 "2023-11-27T06:01:42Z")
> [@Cwturner](#): > > 5.8 miles from the hospital where I was born, but 0.8 miles from the home I was brought up in. Almost identical coordinates for me, although the hospital was closed a couple of years ago, and they are trying to figure what to do with a massive structure from the 1890s. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/131 "2023-11-27T17:36:32Z")
Google Maps says 644 miles, driving distance 794 miles (760 if I take a shortcut through Canada). ---
**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:** [November 27, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/132 "2023-11-27T18:31:11Z")
In a straight line from my house to the hospital, 10.24 miles. But apparently I was already halfway out when Dad pulled up to the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/133 "2023-11-27T21:20:44Z")
Google says it’s 2,672 miles from Los Angeles to my current Maryland abode. Given the OP, that’s obviously far from the longest. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/134 "2023-11-27T21:29:49Z")
2.4 miles according to map quest. That would be the house I lived in when born. Hospital would be about 20 miles. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/135 "2023-11-27T21:47:14Z")
Some surprising variations here between “very far” and “very close”. I’m in the more intermediate “not very far” category – about 300 miles from where I was born. A little closer than the 400 miles when I first left home and went to college. Most of the job opportunities I’ve had – taken or not – would have left me in the same general area of east-central Canada or eastern US, except for one that would have moved me to Silicon Valley. I still wonder if I made the right decision on that one. ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/136 "2023-11-27T21:59:27Z")
Mine is kinda in-between too. I don’t know what hospital I was born in, but from the town where I was born to the town where I live now is about 400 miles. I’ve moved around a lot, and at one point it was 5,600 miles. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959/137 "2023-11-28T09:10:06Z")
Nor did I, but from 2008 to 2014 my wife and I lived less than 1km from the hospital in which we were born, and prior to that she lived 500m away for about 15 years. We are now about 9 miles away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-the-place-you-were-born/917959.md?page=6)