# How far do you live from where you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519 "2006-01-11T17:29:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/21 "2006-01-11T18:34:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I live about 1-1/4 miles from the hospital where I was born. I work right across the street from said hospital. Doh! _slinks away in frustration_ ---
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/22 "2006-01-11T18:39:05Z")
Google Maps says “13.5 miles (about 24 minutes)”. Born on the south side of the city; currently reside on the north side. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/23 "2006-01-11T18:40:09Z")
About 2300 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/24 "2006-01-11T18:40:13Z")
> [@Wallflower](#): > > ~150 miles Now that I went through Yahoo maps, I see that my guess was very close! 155.4 miles ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/25 "2006-01-11T18:45:21Z")
47.5 miles by road. 37.4 as the crow flies. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/26 "2006-01-11T18:45:26Z")
About 2,800 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/27 "2006-01-11T19:26:42Z")
I currently live 10.8 miles by road from the hospital (since torn down) where I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/28 "2006-01-11T19:36:20Z")
> [@Dorjän](#): > > I currently live 10.8 miles by road from the hospital (since torn down) where I was born. Not only is the hospital where I was born (on and army base no less) torn down, but the house where I lived until I was in junior high school, both grandparents’ houses, the first church I went to as a kid were also torn down before I was a parent. It’s like they’re trying to tell me something like, “Sorry you’re here.” Gives an additional meaning to “You can’t go home again.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/29 "2006-01-11T19:37:12Z")
About 20,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles, give or take a mile or two. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/30 "2006-01-11T19:39:11Z")
As of today (Wednesday) - 17.4 miles. After Sunday, 377.5 miles. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/31 "2006-01-11T19:40:24Z")
The street where the hospital I was born in used to be can only be seen now as a faint line from over head (sat, airplane, superman, whatever…), as that entire former area of the town sank back into the swamp some 20 - 30 odd years ago. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/32 "2006-01-11T19:41:07Z")
I think I did come in in the top 5 or 10, last time we had this thread. We had a couple of people from Europe move to Australia or NZ, or vice versa. But I am almost the maximum distance you can get around the globe. I didn’t even move very far north or south, according to Google Punjab, India is around 30.4 N latitude and 75.5E Longitude, and NY is 40 N latitude, and 71 E longitude. Dear Og, I hope I got that right. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/33 "2006-01-11T19:52:21Z")
I think I was fairly high up in the stats, too, last time around. I come in at 8,692 miles or 13,988 kilometers. Yeah, I was born on the other side of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/34 "2006-01-11T20:07:37Z")
1930 miles. Santa Anna to St.Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/35 "2006-01-11T20:15:16Z")
2.09 miles. [http://gmap-pedometer.com](http://gmap-pedometer.com) is handy for this, and other stuff. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/36 "2006-01-11T20:27:09Z")
19.7 miles according to Google maps. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/37 "2006-01-11T20:32:04Z")
2700.68 miles according to Mapquest. (Silver Spring, MD -\> San Diego, CA) Outside of the town I grew up in in Maryland (not Silver Spring), I’ve only met one other person who’s ever lived there. I was pretty amazed–she was working at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and I met her when she was giving a presentation about the school at my high school here in San Diego. She mentioned that she grew up on a small town on the East Coast and I managed to weasel out that she was from my town, and she told me the town had just got a ZIP code a couple years ago. But looking at Mapquest, it looks like either (a) they haven’t yet or (b) Mapquest doesn’t recognize it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/38 "2006-01-11T20:56:40Z")
21 miles. The closest I have lived to that hospital was maybe 4 miles; the furthest was 1040. My kids were both born in that hospital, too. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/39 "2006-01-11T21:05:21Z")
20 miles for me. I wish my neighbor was a Doper. She lives in the house where she was born, and she’s 70. I think she’d win. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519/40 "2006-01-11T21:22:52Z")
45.2 miles from the hospital where I was born to the house I live in now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-where-you-were-born/339519.md?page=3)