About 2 miles. I could get a city bus (cheap with a bus pass) 3 blocks from home, which I did in the morning, but it dropped my off 8 blocks away coming home, because the Long Island Expressway was in the way. So I usually walked home.
High school: 7.1 miles.
Grades 1-3: .2 miles
Grades 4-8: 1 block.
10-15 min walk, Google tells me it’s about 1.4km
Well, it really was.
I get homesick when I see a Harry Potter movie - misty, even. The big old masonry buildings with towers and mystery. It was like that. And it was very contained and isolated, like I imagine a monastery might be. Weekends too. There was a shared TV available but few watched it. There were also two payphones - decades before cell, obviously. No student cars. And a rural setting with little to walk to off campus. It was its own world, without parents, in which the outside world became sort of a faint memory.
Definitely, the time of my life, even though I was a hapless and sad teen. I’d recommend it to anybody.
I lived literally across the road from my HS. From the end of my drive cross the road and there you have ot the school side gate, so I guess about 6-7 metres away? Left the house at precisely 1 minute before 1st period.
My middle school was almost a mile. I walked most of the time, but then in 8th Grade, the city set up a special bus route just for us kids who had to walk (uphill both ways in freezing rain), but were further than half a mile. I think the “take the school bus” cut off was at 1 mile or maybe 1.5 miles.
My high school was about a half-mile. My sister drove me my freshman year, I walked sophomore year, then drove the last two years because I had to be at work right after school. Rather than my dad carting me around all day, he just let me use one of the family vehicles.
1 mile. This was in California, so cold weather wasn’t an issue. Sometimes my dad gave me a ride if it was really rainy.
About 20 feet, give or take. Whatever the distance from my bed to the kitchen table was.
Clear across the city, about an hour’s commute by train.
Hmm, Mapquest says 2.59 miles. (I would have guessed farther, although that’s probably because I didn’t exactly take the most direct route on the handful of occasions when I walked it.)
15 minutes by car. I’d guess we averaged 45 mph, so that’d be 11 miles away.
I lived across the street, catty corner + 2 houses, what do I win?
The good: I could see whether my mother was home from the high school steps, in case I wanted to hang out with friends or even invite them over
The bad: I never, ever got to drive the car to school
**The good: **I was close, in case I was late
The bad: I was at the far end of a whole football field and half a practice field, so I had to walk two blocks, essentially, to get inside the building. And my first class was band. And during football season, we were marching. On the football field. So if I was late, the whole band could see me walk out of my house (late), including the band director. Who usually directed the rest of the band to play something for the occasion. (I say usually. In fact, this only happened once. You can probably guess why.)
According to Mapquest, my foster home was 4.66 miles from my school. Of course, it wasn’t actually 4.66 miles for me because that would be taking the most direct route. In order to get to school, I had to take the city bus. The bus left the nearest stop to my house at 6am so I had to leave about 5:40 am to get there in time to catch it. If the bus was running on time, I’d catch the next bus at city hall about 6:30 and that would get me to school right about 6:50, leaving me 25 minutes til the start of school. The only other option for the bus had me walking farther and got me to school right at the start of first period IF it was running on time and that option only gave me about 10 extra minutes of sleep so I usually avoided it.
85 km by two buses. I was travel sick the whole way too. My last year of school I boarded in town with an old lady because I couldn’t cope with the travel anymore
Funnily enough, later in life I lived on the same block for twelve years–technically you could say next door, because the properties were separated by just an alley. For practical purposes it was farther, because it was against the back of the school grounds and our unit was on the other side of its building, which was large.
I lived in Toronto during my high school years. I think I lived about 5k from it. Sometimes I walked, other times I biked or took public transportation. I failed typing (you would never think it possible now) one year and had to go to summer school. I hitchhiked almost every day for a month until one day the dude that picked me up pulled out his penis and began masturbating. It scared the shit out of me (I was 16) and I practically jumped out of the car. Luckily he stopped the car and let me out. I put a nice dent on the door with my boot and then ran away. I never hitchhiked again. Sorry, I know this was just about distance from point A to B…the memory just surfaced as I was typing…
Need an explanation for why it was that far and what “travel sick” is.
Wow. Toronto is a world-class city. I’m surprised you can go that far without bumping into a high school. Doesn’t seem like you can in Phoenix, and we’re far less dense and located in a state that doesn’t give two farts about education.
10 Kilometers as the crow flies, but about 25 Kilometers in terms of taking public transport to get there.
I didn’t go to my neighborhood school I don’t think. And 3 miles really isn’t that far. Toronto has excellent public transportation, too.
One mile. Walked all the way every day for 5 years (8-11)(Jr. & Sr. H.S. were in the same building at that time.) The 6th year (senior) I was old enough to drive and my aunt had given me her '50 Ford so I drove. Removed the grilll and added fender skirts. Spray painted it with Krylon flat black spray cans. My folks never owned or drove a car (16 miles from Boston.) K-5 I walked about 100 yards. Grade 6 I walked about 1/4 mile. I know-TMI. Nostalgia rules. Off the grass! and the lawn.