# How far do you live from where you grew up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633 "2006-09-29T17:50:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/1 "2006-09-29T17:50:20Z")
Both branches of my family are widely scattered - hell, right now my immediate family is spread out over three countries and two continents - so I always thought that it was normal to grow up and move far from home. When I moved to Boston two years ago, I expected that most of the people I’d meet would be transplants. But although I no longer find it remarkable to hear three or four different languages on a daily basis, most of my friends here are living no more than a couple hours’ drive from where they grew up. So how far have you traveled from home base? I grew up in Milwaukee, WI and, as mentioned, now live in Boston, MA. So I’ve travelled literally halfway across the country. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/2 "2006-09-29T18:02:18Z")
I grew up on Long Island and moved to Florida as a young adult. Shortly after, my parents retired and moved down. Within two years both my siblings moved down as well. We all now live less than five miles from each other but in a totally different state. So in reference to “home” no but in reference to “family” not scattered at all. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/3 "2006-09-29T18:13:02Z")
Depends on what you consider grew up. I’m about 5.4 miles from my first home (0-12), and about 35 miles from my second (12 ~22). Unlike many of my contemporaries, I loathe the suburbs and would much rather live in Queens than Long Island or Mew Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/4 "2006-09-29T18:15:29Z")
An hour and a half. Only three other people/branches of the family have journeyed further. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/5 "2006-09-29T18:18:19Z")
Born in Quito, Ecuador (3815 miles) Grew up in San Diego, CA (446 miles) Now in Oakland, CA ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/6 "2006-09-29T18:18:50Z")
Let’s see. NY State, NJ, DC, Chicago, NYC, Vermont. A circuitous route to end up about four hours from my hometown. I never go back though as my parents moved away. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/7 "2006-09-29T18:22:51Z")
Till I was 29 I had never lived more than an hour drive from any other house I had lived in. Then I moved about 2500 miles from central ohio to LA. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/8 "2006-09-29T18:28:31Z")
I grew up down the Jersey Shore, and when I went to college in SoCal, I swore I would never move back. But after 2 subsequent years in North Carolina, I’m back in Jersey City, 54 miles (by car) from my home town. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/9 "2006-09-29T18:33:37Z")
I live in a suburb about 30 minutes from the suburb I grew up in. Strangely enough, it is like a totally different world. ---
**Author:** ![Trillionaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Trillionaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trillionaire)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/10 "2006-09-29T18:34:19Z")
Like a great many New Zealanders, I now live in London. Geographically it’s almost impossible to travel much further. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/11 "2006-09-29T18:35:07Z")
Mapquest says 47.88 miles ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/12 "2006-09-29T18:37:11Z")
Mapquest tells me 42.59 miles. Eh - I wouldn’t have used their route though… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/13 "2006-09-29T18:44:54Z")
Nobody in my family has strayed very far. After I was five years old we lived in the same place while growing up, right up until I moved out at age 24. I currently live a half mile away from the house I was raised in, as does my sister (though she’s in the other direction). My other sister is about 12 miles away. My parents moved into another house about a mile away from where the lived for over 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/14 "2006-09-29T18:45:59Z")
I grew up about 30 min from where I live now. I’ve lived 4 different places, all within ~45 min of each other. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/15 "2006-09-29T18:46:45Z")
Well… I did spend part of my childhood near Chicago. I guess I live less than an hour away from where I used to live. On the other hand, I also grew up in Detroit, Atlanta, and Seoul. So either an hour away by car, 15 hours away by plane, or anything in between. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/16 "2006-09-29T18:47:13Z")
1079 miles; from Dardanelle, AR to Arlington, VA. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/17 "2006-09-29T18:50:56Z")
I live about 4 miles from my childhood home. I’ve moved out of state several times, but I always came back. Something just feels right here. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/18 "2006-09-29T19:00:34Z")
That is a really hard question for me. I spent four years in India, so some could say that was where I did at least some of my growing up. So 7,000 + miles. I spent the next 10 years or so outside of Detroit, MI. So that’s like 5-600 miles. I spent all my teen years closer, though, and when I think of growing up, that’s what I think of - 2 hours south of here, in Poughkeepsie-Wappingers Falls. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/19 "2006-09-29T19:02:34Z")
.4 miles according to Google. You’d be amazed at how different this end of the neighborhood is from the end where I grew up. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633/20 "2006-09-29T19:03:23Z")
2.73 miles, according to Map Quest. I stayed in town for college and moved out on my own alst July. My apartment is closer to school, but clearly not that far from my dad’s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-grew-up/374633.md?page=2)