Yeeehah! Looks like I get the distance award, fer sher! Thanks, Dad, for avoiding the draft for the Korean War and heading off to teach in India for a few years – I finally came in first in something! 
4017 miles. Born in a sauna (really) in Hyvärilänniemi, Finland. Live in Kaministiquia,ON. Canada. I always look for the easy-to-pronounce names for my location. :eek:
Approximately 1141.18 miles from Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, NY to Longwood, FL.
5.65 miles
Baltimore, Maryland to Dublin, Ireland: 3354 miles
I measured the distance yesterday using my pedometer. It’s approximately 720 metres i.e. about 0.447 miles.
Dude, you’re in Sandown? 'S where my mom lives.
Small world… so to speak.
OK, this thread appears to have run it’s course. My thanks go out to all 93 Dopers who posted here. Here’s some stats:
Shortest distance: sassy, 0.21 miles
Longest distance: mamatiger, 9581 miles
% of dopers who live closer to their birthplace than I do: 10.6%
A special shout out to Hal and kitten, who are married to each other and are currently living within 6 miles of each person’s birthplace. Talk about nuts not falling far from the tree!
34% of respondents live within 100 miles of their birthplace
19% live between 100 and 1000 miles away
47% live more than 1000 miles away from their birthplace
mean distance was 1525 miles
median distance was 587 miles
top 5 shortest
sassy; 0.21
cunctator; 0.447
queen tonya; 0.7
ashes, ashes; 1
baker; 1.2
top 5 longest
mamatiger; 9581
false god; 8540
paul in saudi; 6458
chattywine; 6036
shadiroxan; 6009
closest to mean: yosemite; 1500
median: sp2263; 587
thanks again, all!
Ya know, Rufus, between that post and this one, I’m going to go out on a limb here: You like statistics, don’t you? 
Mondovi, WI to Kansas City, MO: 473 miles
Newman, CA to Saint Paul: 2060 miles.
7309 from Bartow, FL to Yokusuka, Japan. That puts me in the top five who are farthest from their birthplaces, right?
Welch WV to Chester Springs PA - 498 miles driving, or 368 miles straight-line.
Welch WV to Chester Springs PA - 498 miles driving, or 368 miles straight-line.
(Mea culpa. For future reference, one ought not to double-click the left mouse button, as that way lies the madness of multiple posts.)
Born Pompton Plains, NJ and now live in Chicago. That’s 773.7 miles.
There was a time that I lived 4296 miles away–when I working in Zagreb, Croatia. That’s the furthest I’ve ever called my home.
I’m 1242 miles. On my mother’s side of the family, all of her children (and their children), all of her aunts and uncles, all of her sisters and brothers, all of her nieces and nephews (and their children), all live within 20 miles of each other. How black is my sheep?
Nah, that’s tame. See what Sluff’s have to write about Slough
http://www.knowhere.co.uk/84_goodbad.html
4,977 miles
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48.5 miles from my home in Fort Worth, Texas to the hospital where I was born in Mesquite, Texas.