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How far from your birthplace do you now live?

369 replies

DuckyMcDuck · 18/01/2021 20:16

Chatting at work today and it came to light that of the 5 of us, 3 still live in the same town as they were born in.

I moved a lot as a child and (having used a distance calculator) have worked out I live 445miles from where I was born.

This is the one I used if you're interested in working your's out. www.distancecalculator.net/

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thelonggame · 19/01/2021 05:23

9,056 miles, love it here but hate being so far from all my family during the pandemic

TheWashingMachine · 19/01/2021 05:30

5, 150 miles

PandemicPalava · 19/01/2021 05:32

12 miles

Imapotato · 19/01/2021 05:36

103 miles

garlictwist · 19/01/2021 05:42

About ten minutes walk from the house I grew up in. I did move to France for a few years but came back!

FraughtwithGin · 19/01/2021 08:58

1500km
Not actually as far as I thought!
According to Google it would take me somewhere between 16 and 17 hours to drive there, although I am not sure whether this factors the sea crossing into the time equation (and I wouldn't drive anyway).

Chicchicchicchiclana · 19/01/2021 08:59

42.5 miles

BikeRunSki · 19/01/2021 09:02

157 miles
DM lives a similar distance away to there in a different direction.

scoobiedoobiedoo · 19/01/2021 09:04

10205.46 miles

Waxonwaxoff0 · 19/01/2021 09:05

Couple of miles. I've moved quite a few times and lived in different counties but I always missed my home city.

WhatAreWordsWorth · 19/01/2021 10:02

26 miles.

I don’t think I’ll ever live in my hometown again. I do like the area though (North West) and can’t ever imagine moving to a different area of the country.

Darklingthrush · 19/01/2021 10:04

700 miles almost exactly.

PawPawNoodle · 19/01/2021 10:06

About 0.2 miles..

Spied · 19/01/2021 10:14

99mile

AudTheDeepAndCrispAndEven · 19/01/2021 10:17

227 miles from where I was brought up. Bizarrely, living v close to the town in which I was accidentally born (parents visiting relatives).

CeibaTree · 19/01/2021 13:32

26 miles for me but we have lived in 3 other countries before settling down in suburbia :)

DuckyMcDuck · 19/01/2021 18:40

It's very interesting and I'm surprised at how many people seemed to have moved to/from the other side of the world.

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OverTheRainbow88 · 19/01/2021 18:41

About 2 miles, and now about 2 roads away from parents and siblings!

newtb · 19/01/2021 19:00

599.9 miles

Petitmum · 19/01/2021 19:07

3 miles from the hospital I was born in and 10 house down the road from the family home where my parents still live.
I have only been back here for 16 years though, I lived 300 miles away from the age of 18 - 30.

Whatpaint · 19/01/2021 19:26

4,830 but I wasn't brought up where I was born so in reality about 100 miles from where I spent most of my childhood.

Taswama · 19/01/2021 19:33

Me : 141 miles
DP: 330 miles

My mum: 723 miles
DP mum: 284 miles
(Neither within this island)

VienneseWhirligig · 19/01/2021 19:37

2.1 miles Grin I've lived as far away as 3.7 miles though... I met DH at 20 and neither of us had any reason to move away. He had lived elsewhere in his younger years and was in the army for a while, I live basically two main roads away from the hospital where I was born.

Fairystory · 19/01/2021 19:40

330 miles but I've lived here since before I was two years old so this feels like my home area.

CaptainMyCaptain · 19/01/2021 19:44

1817 miles

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