What's the furthest you've ever been from home?

In My Humble Opinion
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Simply enough, this thread posits three questions (you might have guessed which ones by now):

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?

Please include relevant place names, distance, driving distance, etc., as you see fit.

My answers:

  1. 5855 mi (9422 km) from Capitol-area Maryland to the Golan Heights, Israel (distance may be fudged a little as I don’t remember the name of the city I was in when I was the farthest away–I think I was at Kibbutz Hagoshrim–anyone know which city that would be?)

  2. 2271 mi (3654 km) from Capitol-area Maryland to San Diego, CA.

  3. 7567 mi (12177 km) from San Diego to Israel (see disclaimer in #1).

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I guess it would be Maine for me. From Tennessee.

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace? 4688 miles - London
  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace? 40 miles - Englewood, CO
  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there? 4690 miles - London
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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace? - Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 6635 miles from Motherwell Scotland
  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace? - Sarnia, Ontario Canada - 3434 miles from Motherwell
  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there? - Kuala Lumpur Malasia - 9070 miles from Ottawa.

I used this calculator.

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
    11,246mi / 18,099km. San Francisco to Mauritius

  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
    8,103mi / 13,041km. San Francisco to Dubai

  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?
    11,246mi / 18,099km. San Francisco to Mauritius

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
    7530 miles as the crow flies, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada to Taipei, Taiwan

  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
    1468 miles as the crow filies, 1865 miles driving to Los Alamos, NM

  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?
    7939 miles to Taipei from Stafford, TX

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How long is “lived”?

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My problem is that I live so far away from where I was born, anywhere else I go is actually closer.

Oops - I lied :smack:

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
    Monaco = 11756 miles from my birthplace seems to be the furthest

  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
    Eastleigh, UK = 11524 miles

  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?
    Kawerau, NZ (town of my birth) = 11524 miles

Us antipodeans who travel - huh. But I haven’t done the round-the-world yet - always travelled via Asia.

Si

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace? 11878 miles (Quito, Ecuador/Phuket, Thailand)
  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace? 5810 miles (Quito, Ecuador/Norwich, UK)
  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there? 10824 miles (Oakland, CA/Durban, South Africa)
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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
    11090 miles to Augusta, As

  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
    702 miles

  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there? 10,800 miles

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  1. Indianapolis to Thurso, Scotland – 3682 miles
  2. Indianapolis to Tucson – 1473 miles
  3. Dayton, OH to Thurso – 3615 miles
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  1. Baltimore, Maryland (USA) to Melbourne, Victoria (Australia): 10,200 miles (16,415 km)
  2. The same 10,200 miles
  3. 7,613 miles (12,281 km) from Baltimore to Moshi, Tanzania.
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  1. Furtherest I’ve been from my birthplace in Victoria, Australia is Inverness, Scotland - 10573.0 miles (17015km).

  2. Furtherest I’ve lived from my birthplace is 29 miles (46km), but that was for a very brief time. Furtherest I’ve lived from my birthplace for an extended time is 8 miles (12km) in a neighboring town.

  3. As my birthplace is my place of residence, my answer is the same as in question 1.

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?

LA to Durban, South Africa 10623 miles.

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?

LA to Davis, CA 366 miles.

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?

Santa Barbara to Durban, 10705 miles.

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The farthest I have been from home is at the Mayan ruins near Merida, Mexico, located on the Yucatan peninsula. This was in 1987 when I was on a trip to Mexico with my Spanish class in my junior year of high school. As my birthplace is only about 20 miles from the area where I live now and have lived since I was born, the different answers for the three questions is negligible.

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To expand on my disclaimer in answer #1, does anyone know how I could go about finding what city I was in? Googling “Kibbutz Hagoshrim” isn’t much help. I just remember that at one point I was standing on top of the Golan Heights and there was a sign showing the distance to the capitals of various countries*, and I could’ve thrown a rock into Lebanon and then spun around and thrown another rock into Syria if I wanted to.

*Now that I think about it, I can probably find the distance from DC to that point if I look at the pictures I took. I’ll have to see if I can find them.

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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace? 10206 miles - from Cleveland, Ohio to Hobart, Tasmania
  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace? 2157 miles - from Cleveland, Ohio to San Leandro, California
  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there? 8998 miles - Pueblo, Colorado to Hobart, Tasmania
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  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?

Fairfax, VA to Jakarta - 10164 miles (16358 km)

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?

Fairfax, VA to Santa Barbara - 2356 miles (3791 km)

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?

Santa Barbara to Jakarta - 8894 miles (14313 km)

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All distances are approximate since I don’t know how to calculate the exact distance.

  1. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your birthplace?
    ~5918 miles (9524 km) (Palo Alto, California to the German border of Switzerland)

  2. What’s the furthest you’ve ever lived from your birthplace?
    ~5495 miles (8844 km) (Palo Alto, California to Bordesholm, Germany)

  3. What’s the furthest you’ve ever been from your place of residence during the time you were there?
    ~826 miles (1329 km) (Bordesholm, Germany to Pyla-Sur-Mer France)

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  1. 6878 miles (Loma Linda, CA to Athens, Greece) Actually a bit further because we cruised the Aegean as well on that trip.

  2. 2348 miles (Loma Linda, CA to Anchorage, AK)

  3. 6873 miles (San Bernardino, CA to Athens, Greece)