# 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:** 4
**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:** [May 29, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/61 "2004-05-29T01:41:33Z")
I live 19.4 miles from where I was born. However, I suspect our master bedroom occupies the same geographic space where the bedroom I was probably conceived in was located. ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/62 "2004-05-29T01:47:24Z")
Approximately 212 miles. The hospital I was born in no longer exists, so I just picked an major (ha) intersection in the incredibly small town of Safford, AZ. ~S ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/63 "2004-05-29T01:54:43Z")
8,540 standard nautical miles. San Clemente, California, to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Do I get a prize? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/64 "2004-05-29T01:57:07Z")
I’d say it’s just a bit less than a kilometre. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/65 "2004-05-29T01:57:44Z")
1814.89 miles ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/66 "2004-05-29T01:59:30Z")
It is 290.73 miles from Sacred Wallet Hospital in Eugene, OR to my current address in Kirkland, WA. Mapquest tells me that is a 4 hour and 50 minute drive, though on a good day with no stops for peeing I can make it in 4. ---
**Author:** ![ShadiRoxan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@ShadiRoxan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadiRoxan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/67 "2004-05-29T02:05:17Z")
6009 miles. Born in Tehran, living in Ballston Spa, NY. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/68 "2004-05-29T02:07:10Z")
Roughly 3 miles… 3.1 if my calculations were accurate. The hospital was demolished in 2002. I’m fond of driving past it’s former site and saying “I was born on that empty block of land” ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/69 "2004-05-29T02:51:33Z")
5787 miles. Tokyo, Japan to Boulder, CO, USA. ---
**Author:** ![quilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/839c29/32.png) [@quilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quilter)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/70 "2004-05-29T03:03:44Z")
2600-and-some miles – from northern Idaho to Long Island, via a lot of other states/towns/cities over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/71 "2004-05-29T03:22:59Z")
Mapquest says 24.48 miles, and 35 minutes. Like someone else said, maybe 35 minutes in the middle of the night on a weeknight. God, I love Houston traffic… ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/72 "2004-05-29T03:29:45Z")
587 miles for me. My mother has an uncle who lives 0 miles from the place he was born. He’s 82 and was born at home and has lived in the same house his entire life. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/73 "2004-05-29T03:31:26Z")
I am currently 5.78 miles away. For the first 25 years of my life, I was only 4.92 miles away. At this rate, I’ll have to move to the next county by the time I’m 80. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/74 "2004-05-29T03:32:03Z")
1958.04 miles. Born in Redlands, California, living in St Cloud, MN. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/75 "2004-05-29T03:40:10Z")
2183.85 miles…From somewhere in the Los Alamitos/Cypress/Orange County California Area (at “the hospital near the racetrack”) to about 30 minutes south of Midtown Atlanta. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/76 "2004-05-29T03:41:07Z")
Awww, sorry **Baker** but I’m two blocks down and three over from the hospital I was born in, 0.7 miles according to mapquest. Sort of an unfair advantage with them planting the hospital right in the neighborhood, I’ll admit. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/77 "2004-05-29T04:50:42Z")
1,780.5 miles, soon to be about 1,790 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/78 "2004-05-29T05:06:20Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I was born in Lakewood, California (about as far south as you can go and still be in L.A. County)…For the last six months I’ve lived in northwestern Washington, about 1,200 miles away. 🙂 I now live in Lakewood, California, but was born at Lake County Memorial Hospital, Willoughby, Ohio - 2437.0 miles according to Yahoo Maps. Now all we need is someone who was born in northwestern Washington but now lives in Willoughby, Ohio, or vice versa, to complete the triangle. That would be about 2500 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/79 "2004-05-29T06:02:57Z")
I was pronounced dead and wasn’t revived for a little under two minutes when I was four. Counting that as my “birth”: Manama, Bahrain \> Oviedo, FL, USA = 7,482 miles Using my actual birthplace, because the above is sorta cheating: Yeovil, England \> Oviedo, FL, USA = 4,230 miles I was pretty convinced I was gonna win this thing, but those dastardly Indian/Iranian transplants got me. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567/80 "2004-05-29T10:31:46Z")
Mapquest says 2390.94 miles (Dundalk Maryland, born in Edmonton, Alberta) City Distance tool says 1990 miles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-your-birthplace-poll/247567.md?page=5)