# Who is the LEAST peripatetic Doper?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 23, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492 "2003-01-23T18:17:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/1 "2003-01-23T18:17:39Z")
So who is the least traveled Doper?
-How long since you last changed your primary residence?
-How far from each other have your past residences been?
-How many continents have you visited on travel?
-I have lived in my current house for about 7 years, after 10 years in my previous house.
-I have never lived outside of the north and central parts of Illinois, USA. All of my homes since my birth 42 years ago would fit within a 150 mile circle.
-Tho I have travelled quite a bit throughout the US, and have visited Canada and Mexico and a couple of islands in the Caribbean, I have never been off of (out of? away from?) North America.
Anyone out there more sedentary than me?
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### Author:  [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/2 "2003-01-23T18:30:09Z")
Not me personally, but my family has lived within a 30 mile radius of my parents’ current home for the past 250 years.
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### Author:  [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/3 "2003-01-23T18:35:50Z")
Well, I may be gaining on you.
But I still claim that I am “Peripatetic, poetic and chic”.
plagiarized from _A Chorus Line_
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/4 "2003-01-23T18:36:40Z")
I’ve lived within 10 miles of my parent’s house all my life. I’ve lived within a 15 mile radius of the hospital where I was born. The farthest I’ve been north is NYC, farthest south is Nassau, Bahamas, and the farthest west I’ve been is Dallas, Texas. The only time I’ve been away from the continental 48 is when I went to Nassau.
Of course, this will all change in 6 months, but for right now, I’ve never lived anywhere else.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/5 "2003-01-23T19:12:52Z")
I’ve always considered myself more of a Socratic than an Aristotelian.
😃
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### Author:  [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/6 "2003-01-23T19:29:48Z")
I’m a native-born Idahoan. I’ve never lived more than 20 miles from my birthplace. From age 5 on I was in the same house until I moved out on my own at age 24. I moved to the next town about 7 miles away and then after 3 years I moved back to the town I grew up in, having now lived there for over 5 years since the move.
As for travel, I have been as far as Mexico. Within the U.S. I have only visited Oregon, Washington, Nevada (just over the border to gamble), Montana and Kansas. I’ve also been in Colorado, Texas and Utah, but these were all airport-layover visits only, so I really can’t count them.
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### Author:  [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/7 "2003-01-23T19:31:35Z")
(After looking up “peripatetic” for an exact definition (and now I get **pravnik** ’s joke 🙂 ))
My wife and both live less than 10 minutes from our parents. My current zip code differs by one from the zip code where I grew up, and only for a a period of less than a year have I lived more than 2-3 miles from where I grew up (and where my parents still live).
Stayed at home during college.
Traveled to El Paso, Houston, St Louis, North Carolina, Florida, the Caribbean and I’m going to the Bahamas in two weeks. My wife is into vacations, otherwise I’d probably not even done half of that list.
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/8 "2003-01-23T20:06:36Z")
Wow! Some real homebodies around these parts!
As far as **pravnik** is concerned - smart ass newbie lawyers!
(Good one, actually! Perhaps a candidate for the most intellectual joke thread?)
Now here’s a tougher question - for those of you who stay close to home - how come? Is it because you really love where you are at and simply were never interested in checking out whether the grass was greener (or bluer, **Daddy** ) elsewhere? Or did the opportunity just never present itself conveniently enough?
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/9 "2003-01-23T20:09:06Z")
Until age 17, I lived in the same town where I was born, and after age 2 within 6 blocks of the hospital where I arrived. Then I went to college, 30 miles away, and lived there for six years. Lived 15 miles further away for another year, and then in 1993 we moved here—which is the property where Mr. S’s parents lived for most of their lives, and where they lived when he was born (not the same house though—there’s now a dog kennel where the old house once stood). So I have always lived in central WI.
I have traveled east to Kentucky, south to Texas (Galveston), and west to Oregon (that last one, when I was 3 months old). In September 2001 I left the country for the first time—went about 150 miles into Canada and back one weekend. Other than that I have never left the United States. I have never seen the ocean ☹ (although I hope to change that this year).
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### Author:  [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/10 "2003-01-23T20:09:27Z")
I currently live a couple of hundred yards from the house I grew up in. I have never lived more than five miles away from where I am now, except for college.
As far has travelling goes, I go to Maine every summer, but thats just because all my relatives are there. I went to Canada once nut I was a little kid and my parents made me, so I don’t think it counts.
How am I doing?
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/11 "2003-01-23T20:22:27Z")
I’ve been in my current location for 13 years. Before that, 30 miles away for 9 years. Before that, 60 miles away for 16 years.
I’ve never been outside the South Eastern United States.
Farthest North - Kentucky
South - Florida
East - Virginia
West - Memphis
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/12 "2003-01-23T20:56:31Z")
I’ve lived within 30 miles of my place of birth (Oak Park, IL) for most of my life, except for a year in Colorado. I skipped over the border to Mexico once for lunch. I’ve never been to New York or California. I dislike Florida’s humidity. I love the midwest (except for when it’s below FRIGGIN’ ZERO, like it is today). Basically, I need to get out more.
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### Author:  [@DaToad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaToad)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/13 "2003-01-23T22:07:49Z")
I guess I’m pretty much a nomad. In the 37 years since I turned 18, (been on my own), I have moved 29 times, an average of once every 1.28 years.
I have lived in: California, Viet Nam, California, Iran, Texas, California, Texas, Arizona, Egypt, Arizona.
In the US, the only states that I have not visited are: Wisconsin, S. Carolina, Delaware, New Hampshire, Vermont, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Washington, Montana, and Indiana.
I have visited in Europe: England, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Yugoslavia, and Greece. In Asia: India, Thailand, Japan, and China. I have also visited Israel and Mexico.
I’ve seen a lot of this world, but I haven’t seen enough.
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/14 "2003-01-23T22:22:42Z")
I’ve lived in three different homes, all in this small town of 2300. This one is three blocks away from my first house, and the middle one was about a half-mile out of town. However, I’m a junior now in high school, and the way things are looking right now, I’m going to go to Crawfordsville to Wabash in a year and a half for a while.
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/15 "2003-01-27T15:01:14Z")
My Grandmother has lived in the same house all her life. She has never been outside Dublin.
I’ve travelled quite a bit.
US
Canada
Thailand
Cambodia
Malaysia
Lots of Europe
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-least-peripatetic-doper/150492/16 "2003-01-27T15:15:59Z")
I’ve been all over Hideback County and as far east as Rudy Creek, so I’m pretty well travelled. 😃