# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/81 "2015-05-04T13:58:48Z")
I lived with my sister and brother in law for about five years (we had a joint mortgage). When I got married, the house directly opposite happened to come up for sale so I bought it. I moved about 25 yards. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/82 "2015-05-04T14:00:35Z")
300 yards. I bought the a house across the river from the apartments from where I used to live. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/83 "2015-05-04T14:31:49Z")
How about moving to a different studio apartment directly above the one I lived in below? Is that zero feet, 9 feet or some other amount? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/84 "2015-05-04T15:12:22Z")
4 houses and across a street but Mangetout still wins dammit! ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/85 "2015-05-04T16:09:53Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Many years ago, I moved in with my future wife in a studio apartment. A couple of months later we moved across the hall into a one bedroom. Same here - I moved down the hall on the same floor. The move after that was about three blocks away. My friends joked I had moving irony - since it never took more than two hours to move me, I always had more people show than people that needed more people. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395/86 "2015-05-04T18:23:55Z")
Excluding college dorm moves (my mailing address didn’t change, as we all had PO boxes in the college mail room). When I moved to my current apartment, it was about a mile from my previous apartment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shortest-distance-between-places-youve-lived/718395.md?page=4)