# How far from your high school did you live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472 "2010-09-03T08:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/41 "2010-09-03T15:57:23Z")
1,822 miles, according to Google Maps. Yes, I went to a boarding school. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/42 "2010-09-03T16:05:36Z")
17.6 miles, also in rural NC. Hey **Cisco** , fellow former Tar Heel. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/43 "2010-09-03T16:18:29Z")
3.2 miles from my house to Pioneer High School. I didn’t have a car back then, so I took the bus or rode my bike most of the time. It was close enough to walk home if I missed the bus in the afternoon. On rare occassions my parents or a friend’s parents would give us a ride if the weather was particularly nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/44 "2010-09-03T16:28:09Z")
OK, I just decided to do the Google thing… Where I could walk, I was about 2km (~1 mile), by a walkable route (not the one I took, typically, but the distances are probably not that different); where I couldn’t, 9km and change (~4 miles) by roads (more or less the route the bus took). Straight shots between them - ~1km and ~7km. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/45 "2010-09-03T16:28:46Z")
Mine was just over a mile, so far enough that I was in the bus zone, but close enough that when I stayed after for activities, it was a fairly easy walk home. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/46 "2010-09-03T16:31:55Z")
According to Google, 2.5 miles. But I rode the bus. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/47 "2010-09-03T16:40:26Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > 9km and change (~4 miles) Actually, 9km is about 5.6 miles. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/48 "2010-09-03T16:40:54Z")
1 1/4 miles. I walked, it was colder then and snowed more not like now where the terrain is flat and air conditioning is everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/49 "2010-09-03T16:41:25Z")
7.3 miles, one CTA bus. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/50 "2010-09-03T16:53:05Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I’m guessing right at a mile. There was an elementary school that I didn’t attend (I had already graduated one in the town we had moved from) across the street and the junior high school (grades 7-9) that I did attend was more like 1/2 to 3/4 mile to the southwest. The high school was in that same direction but another couple blocks. > > I walked or rode a bicycle to jr. high and walked or caught a car ride from a friend to high school. It was uncool to ride a bike to high school. It was also uncool to walk, but I was uncool anyway. Google Maps took a different route than I would have, and got 1.2 miles. My route might have knocked off maybe .1 miles, so I go with my guess of “right at a mile.” They take an even more stupid route to Junior High and get .9 miles, and I know my route was at least .2 miles closer. Google Maps is not very efficient for kids walking to school! ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/51 "2010-09-03T16:59:14Z")
3.6 miles. When I left my parent’s house I moved even close, still live 2 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/52 "2010-09-03T17:32:20Z")
4.5 miles direct. But the route it took made it 5.5 miles. Central NJ - mostly rural. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/53 "2010-09-03T17:39:39Z")
According to Google, the path I would have driven is 2.4 miles from home to school. I also had the option of walking .7 miles to the school-bus stop and taking the bus, but that involved getting up really early, as the bus took a rather long path to school. Before I drove, I usually got a ride with the neighbor kids. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/54 "2010-09-03T17:46:29Z")
According to Google, 5.9 miles, in the middle of suburbia. But my high school was quite big, and its actual address is on the back side of the school, so the directions take into account driving past the road leading to the main parking lots and going around the campus. So I’m gonna say 5 1/2 miles. I took the school bus for the first three months of my freshman year (which was a nightmare), before convincing my parents I could ride my bike. Drove the last two years. The funny thing is, there’s another high school about two miles from where I lived, but I was zoned to go to the one I did. Which was fine with me - I didn’t want to go to that other, inferior (and rival) high school anyway. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/55 "2010-09-03T18:21:21Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > I feel your pain. While my trip to HS (also a better one that I attended in preference to my default local one) was only 13+ miles away by surface road as given by Google Maps, it took me 75 minutes in the best case scenario to get there every morning, and a like amount of time to get back. (Often it took me 90 minutes, and once or twice a year, 2 hours.) This is because I had to take a NYC bus to a subway and transfer twice. Yeesh. Any heavy rainfall or snow meant the buses ran badly at a minimum, plus train delays, sick passengers, track fires, police actions, you name it I’ve seen it (including someone pulling a knife on someone else in a crowded train feel-up gone bad, but no stabbing). Bronx Science? Stuyvesant? ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/56 "2010-09-03T19:22:17Z")
Without looking it up I would’ve guessed “a couple of miles”. Google maps makes it 1.6 miles. Which is about the same distance I lived from my first elementary school, but I walked there and we rode the bus to HS. The route to grade school did have sidewalks the whole way which wouldn’t have been true of walking to HS. That must be it. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/57 "2010-09-03T19:26:40Z")
About 3 miles when going to school. After moving around a bit and up until about 3 months ago I lived about 1 mile from the high school I had gone to. ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/58 "2010-09-03T19:44:05Z")
I went to boarding school, so about 350 miles. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/59 "2010-09-03T19:50:56Z")
6.27 miles per Mapquest. It was about a 20-minute drive through morning rush hour (I live(d) Montgomery County, MD, which is basically one big congested suburban sprawl). My dad dropped me off on his way to work, then I took the school bus home, which was about 30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472/60 "2010-09-03T20:10:15Z")
We lived in the sticks and it would have been a good 40 minute drive to my High School. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-from-your-high-school-did-you-live/552472.md?page=4)