# How far from where you live now were you born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019 "2006-05-24T12:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/41 "2006-05-24T15:53:02Z")
1-6-1 over the course of the lifetime (so far). More than 2 pages easily. ---
**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/42 "2006-05-24T15:54:00Z")
Currently I am in Category 2. I spent 11 years living about 34 miles from where I was born. Then I went to college and spent 3 years in Category 5. Since I return to college in the fall, I will be back in Category 5 in the next few months. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/43 "2006-05-24T15:54:45Z")
[QUOTE=LampMan] So who lives the farthest from where they were born? Me: 8,115 miles. [/QUOTE] We figured it out last time…someone was over 11,000 miles. They had moved from Australia to somewhere way up north, and the way it worked out was nearly the max you could be. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/44 "2006-05-24T15:57:53Z")
I live 362 miles from my place of birth, which makes me a category 5. I am, however, only just over a hundred miles from the place I consider to be my home town. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePasto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@AuntiePasto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePasto)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/45 "2006-05-24T15:57:55Z")
1. Currently about 700 miles, but it will be 7,000 miles in a couple weeks. Well more than two pages ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/46 "2006-05-24T16:08:23Z")
1. Really fucking far. Born Saigon, Vietnam. Currently reside Houston, TX. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/47 "2006-05-24T16:09:52Z")
Cat. 6, for over 50 years. I’ve only visited my birthplace twice in that time to the best of my recollection. The house I was born in burned down in the mid 50’s. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/48 "2006-05-24T16:12:09Z")
Category 6 and loving it. ~3000 miles away from home. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/49 "2006-05-24T16:19:48Z")
I’m a 1 - a full 23 miles from where I was born, but only 6 miles from where I grew up. For about 5 years I was a 2, it’s like a whole nother world in South Denver… I’m a city type that’s never moved far, but most of my relatives are small town types that never moved (or have moved back). My sister’s about a thousand miles away, but she’s the freak in the family 😉 I think the number of posts is going to be directly related to how many people answer the question, plus some unknown number. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/50 "2006-05-24T16:25:20Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] Category 6 and loving it. ~3000 miles away from home. [/QUOTE] 😃 And I kow at least partially why you’re loving it. Probably for the same reason I’m glad to be 7,000 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/51 "2006-05-24T16:26:03Z")
About 4,000 miles (live in Chicago, born and raised in Dublin). ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/52 "2006-05-24T16:29:38Z")
1. Within 30 miles I have been in catagory one all of my life. At the current rate of posts, we will go over two pages. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/53 "2006-05-24T17:36:56Z")
Jumped from category 1 to category 6 the month I turned 18, briefly moved back home this winter, am now back in category 6. (Born in Philly, raised in NJ, went to school in New Mexico, currently living in Ireland). ---
**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 24, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/54 "2006-05-24T17:41:28Z")
I’m about 17 miles from the hospital I was born at. However, our master bedroom suite occupies approximately the same space as the house where I was conceived. So, not too far. Between then and now, I’ve lived all over the country. But when I inherited Stately Mercotan Manor, to become _the_ Mercotan, it made sense to come home. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/55 "2006-05-24T17:56:04Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] … But when I inherited Stately Mercotan Manor, to become **the** Mercotan, it made sense to come home. [/QUOTE] Is this like Jocko, \*the \* Doral, in Heinlein’s Glory Road? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/56 "2006-05-24T18:38:49Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] I was born in San Diego and lived there until high school. We moved to northern California then, which put me in catagory 6, even though it was still the same state. [/QUOTE] Ditto for me, except that I lived in San Diego until my late 20s, when I got married and moved up here. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/57 "2006-05-24T18:39:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Just to test a theory of mine, please respond with one of these possibilities: 1. Within 30 miles 2. 30-60 miles 3. 60-100 miles 4. 100-200 miles 5. 200-400 miles 6. over 400 miles [/QUOTE] Just made it within #5 – Cleveland, OH to Lafayette is 376.34 miles according to Mapquest. ---
**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 24, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/58 "2006-05-24T20:30:01Z")
[QUOTE=Oy!] Is this like Jocko, \*the \* Doral, in Heinlein’s Glory Road? [/QUOTE] Yes, only with a more xymolosely polydactyl tongue. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/59 "2006-05-24T21:02:37Z")
I’m a Category 1. My house is approximately two miles from the hospital in which I was born. I’ve moved all around the country and lived in many other towns, but I came back home in the end. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019/60 "2006-05-24T22:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] My sister’s about a thousand miles away, but she’s the freak in the family 😉 [/QUOTE] 961 miles, actually (so, I’m a strong 6) I’m guessing at least 3 full pages/150 replies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-where-you-live-now-were-you-born/358019.md?page=4)