# How far do you live from your birthplace?(poll) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 28, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567 "2004-05-28T20:07:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/41 "2004-05-28T23:00:26Z")
11.44 miles for me. I haven’t left my hometown in search of treasure yet. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/42 "2004-05-28T23:01:48Z")
:smack: Mental, not metal ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/43 "2004-05-28T23:02:15Z")
For me 5357 miles from Slough to Santa Clara, not far enough if you ask me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/44 "2004-05-28T23:13:41Z")
Using MapQuest, 257.9 miles from West Point, MS, to Gulfport, MS. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/45 "2004-05-28T23:26:46Z")
Approximately 100 miles - the hospital I was born at is about 2 miles from my parents’ house (and less than a mile from where I went to HS). ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/46 "2004-05-28T23:42:24Z")
381 miles from Bakersfield to here. A bit more than six hours. (And here is a big improvement over Bakersfield, let me tell you…) ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/47 "2004-05-28T23:49:01Z")
2354.5 miles from where I live now to Detroit. Anyone know if New Grace Hospital is built on the grounds of the old Grace or elsewhere? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/48 "2004-05-28T23:49:01Z")
Born: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Lives: Toronto, Ontario. Distance: 111 km or 69 miles accoording to that Geobytes thing. I suspect the actual distance point-to-point is slightly greater. I’m so unambitious. I should be living in Finland or India or somewhere by this point. ---
**Author:** ![kittenlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kittenlm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenlm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/49 "2004-05-29T00:01:14Z")
According to Mapquest: **4.83** miles from the hospital where I was born to my current home. > [@Hal Briston](#): > > What can I say? I’ve seen most of the country, but I like my hometown, thanks. 🙂 Unfortunately for me…yes, **Hal** _does_ like this hometown 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/50 "2004-05-29T00:04:21Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > For me 5357 miles from Slough to Santa Clara, not far enough if you ask me 😉 Don’t like Slough? Then you’ll probably like [THIS:](http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/51 "2004-05-29T00:06:48Z")
> [@kittenlm](#): > > According to Mapquest: > > **4.83** miles from the hospital where I was born to my current home. > > Unfortunately for me…yes, **Hal** _does_ like this hometown 😛 So you and Hal were both born within 6 miles of where you both live together now, but you were each born in a different place? wild. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/52 "2004-05-29T00:12:28Z")
'Bout 250 miles. Born: Waynesboro, VA Live: Waynesboro, PA Soon to be about 3,000 miles… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/53 "2004-05-29T00:20:50Z")
According to Mapquest it’s 24.05 miles. On a sidenote, when I was born my folks were told that I was the biggest baby ever born alive at that hospital (12 pounds and 10 ounces and I needed a haircut and I was born 2 weeks early, this was 10/1965). Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/54 "2004-05-29T00:32:18Z")
2581.34 miles from Chattanooga, TN to Salem, OR. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/55 "2004-05-29T00:49:54Z")
2,426 miles (and shouldn’t this be in IMHO?) ---
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/56 "2004-05-29T01:03:16Z")
2300 miles SA to NZ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/57 "2004-05-29T01:07:42Z")
I was born in Lakewood, California (about as far south as you can go and still be in L.A. County). Except for about a year and a half in Japan when I was little, I always lived in SoCal – San Diego, Lancaster, and Los Angeles; basically within 100 miles of my birthplace. For the last six months I’ve lived in northwestern Washington, about 1,200 miles away. 🙂 Given the opportunity, I would live in Australia, England, Italy or France. (Anyone wanna marry a Yank? 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/58 "2004-05-29T01:08:37Z")
2139.18 miles from San Francisco General Hospital to the North Side of Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![kittenlm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce7236/32.png) [@kittenlm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenlm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/59 "2004-05-29T01:09:58Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > So you and Hal were both born within 6 miles of where you both live together now, but you were each born in a different place? wild. Yep! 😃 I was born in Point Pleasant Hospital (one town to the **east** of where we live now) and he was born in Lakewood (one town to the **west** of where we live now). And the funnier thing? Both of our parents lived in the same town…there just wasn’t a hospital in this town back then 🙂 Do you realize how many times we must have run into each other while growing up without even knowing it??? I love thinking about that 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/60 "2004-05-29T01:37:20Z")
Another poster mentioned that they seemed to hold the _distance_ award, and after reading this thread I think I can claim, so far, the _closeness_ award. I live **1.2 miles** from the hospital where I was born. MY workplace is right across the street from the same hospital. What can I say? I’m a hometown girl! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567.md?page=4)