# Let's find the Doper who moved the farthest away from his/her parents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 7, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868 "2013-07-07T14:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/21 "2013-07-08T02:04:19Z")

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Trying to beat **Joey P** out for the closest, at .4 miles. It’s an 8-minute walk, according to Google.

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**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/22 "2013-07-08T02:10:16Z")

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I moved from Reno to Tbilisi: 6,763 miles, then moved to Dubai: 7,965 miles

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/23 "2013-07-08T02:15:12Z")

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About 5000 miles from Baltimore to Santiago, Chile.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/24 "2013-07-08T03:04:15Z")

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For a while, my parents lived here in Houston, and I lived in various places like

Singapore - app. 10k miles

Jakarta, Indonesia - almost the same

Sydney, Australia - about 8600 miles

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**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/25 "2013-07-08T03:14:15Z")

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> [@Blue\_Mood](#):
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> About 10,000 miles. (Florida to Australia.)

8800 miles ish from Sydney to New Orleans, so you must be in Perth. 🙂

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/26 "2013-07-08T10:04:09Z")

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I’m currently 11542mi from my father.

But I am also 11510mi from my MIL 😉

Sadly, I am also 11510mi from my wife ☹

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**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/27 "2013-07-08T11:48:09Z")

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Parents are deceased and I have been on the move since I went to university. My furthest separation distance would be ~16,000 km ( 9800 miles ) when I moved to Brisbane Australia while they were in Maine.

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**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/28 "2013-07-08T12:35:50Z")

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I am not sure if this counts, but after my parental-units dropped my brother, Grunthos, and me off to work at the Earth Life Observatory, they returned with the Mothership to our home world (RA 4h 35m 55s | Dec 16° 30.558’) which is about 65.23 light years from here.

But, I believe **Czarcasm** has me beat.

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**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-find-the-doper-who-moved-the-farthest-away-from-his-her-parents/662868/29 "2013-07-08T15:52:44Z")

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> [@DrumBum](#):
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> Parents are deceased \>snip!\< .

Mine are dead, too. \*\*DrumBum \*\*and I win. 😃

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