# Shortest distance between places you've lived? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395 "2015-04-23T22:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/21 "2015-04-24T02:23:54Z")
OK…mine involves a few moves in between, but right now I live about 2000 feet from my childhood home, as the crow flies. It’s around a mile and a half if you stick to the streets. Not counting college, I’ve lived in four other places in between the current house and the childhood one. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/22 "2015-04-24T02:32:25Z")
When I first moved to NYC, I got a room at the “Y” until I could afford my own place. 6 weeks later I moved to the Upper West Side. I moved my entire belongings on the subway . . . a handful of stations away. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/23 "2015-04-24T02:41:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > When I first moved to NYC, I got a room at the “Y” until I could afford my own place. 6 weeks later I moved to the Upper West Side. I moved my entire belongings on the subway . . . a handful of stations away. Fascinating! I mean I’m sure it’s not an unknown occurrence, but it seems like a lot more trouble than it’s worth. Cursory Googling yielded [this story](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/06/man_moves_entire_apartment_usi.html) of a guy moving his apartment via subway. I must know more! I assume you didn’t have much or any furniture, or did you? How many trips was that? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/24 "2015-04-24T02:57:28Z")
a friend of mine moved across the street. got a crew of friends who walked everything. minimal packing and lots of walking. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/25 "2015-04-24T03:21:38Z")
I’ve moved from one apartment to another in the same bldg twice. First time the back doors faced each other so maybe 10-12 feet. Second time the bedrooms backed up to each other so while the doors were further apart, my head was only about 20" west from it’s previous location. Also moved from one apt across a small driveway to another apt maybe 40 feet. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/26 "2015-04-24T03:42:20Z")
My last move was about 500m. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/27 "2015-04-24T04:00:28Z")
Between different buildings, .2 miles. In college I moved from one dorm room to another two floors directly beneath. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/28 "2015-04-24T04:00:39Z")
Across the hall and one floor up (in a highrise). I remember one morning during the pre-move renovation work that I showered in one apartment and got dressed in the other. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/29 "2015-04-24T05:15:09Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I can’t recall exactly which building our apartment was in before we bought the house we’re in now, so it’s somewhere between 3500 and 3700 feet, so call it .7 miles. This goes for me as well. ---
**Author:** ![TaoPilot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TaoPilot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaoPilot)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/30 "2015-04-24T05:17:44Z")
Moved three doors down in the same apartment building, so roughly 100-150 feet. My side of the building was settling, and the people on the other side had just left, so I switched sides. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/31 "2015-04-24T09:36:29Z")
Not as close, but I’ve lived in more than a dozen places in one area of a city around 1 mile across. I was at university and lived in a house, then halls, then a house, then another house, then an apartment, then another house, apartment, house, etc. It was a mixture of contracts ending, taking a year out to work, a house being condemned, staying short-term between one ‘good’ place and another, and some for reasons which escape me. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/32 "2015-04-24T11:25:28Z")
I also changed apartments within the same complex. So probably about 100 feet or so. They were both two story apartments, so it was still a pain to move. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/33 "2015-04-24T12:50:48Z")
I’ve had multiple moves of only a few feet from one apartment to another over the years. More than I can recall without working at it. If you’re looking for moves not within an apartment complex, then I moved perhaps a mile from one apartment to another in an unrelated building. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/34 "2015-04-24T12:58:49Z")
I moved into my aunt’s house, which was across the street from the house in which I grew up. In between I lived in my grandmother’s house, which was a mile away. Every house I have lived in has been owned by someone with my last name. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/35 "2015-04-24T13:04:58Z")
I changed apartments in the same building once so, down one flight and across the hall. It was actually the worst move I’ve ever done. I was young, stupid, and thinking that because it was so close that there was no need to box everything up. Learn from my mistakes. We ended up with two boxes that we used. One person would fill a box and bring it downstairs and take the empty box upstairs while the other person would empty the box just brought down. It felt like a million trips up and down those damned stairs. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/36 "2015-04-24T13:06:39Z")
0.6 miles, from my apartment to my current house. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/37 "2015-04-24T13:17:04Z")
If dorms count, about 300 feet between freshman and sophomore year. That’s probably boring. Non-dorm, .87 miles. Took three moves and two years; the first move was about 1200 miles. Moved from college (St. Louis), back to New Hampshire, lived two places there, then returned to St. Louis for grad school and ended up on the same street as my senior year apartment. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/38 "2015-04-24T13:48:28Z")
Shortest: my parents moved twice within the same town, probably less than three miles each time, but I see several people in the thread have already beaten that. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/39 "2015-04-24T14:25:54Z")
I moved from a downstairs apartment to the one above it. The apartment complex that I live in now is right next door to the apartments where I lived during the 80s. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/40 "2015-04-24T14:32:25Z")
I purchased a house .4 miles from my childhood home, moving directly from one to another. I just put in the addresses to Google Maps to get the distance and it literally will not give me driving directions - only walking! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395.md?page=3)