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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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RabbitBeaver · 18/01/2021 20:25

0.74 miles, literally down the road

Mrsbclinton · 18/01/2021 20:25

About 40 miles although it feels a lot further away at the moment!!

Seafog · 18/01/2021 20:25

Still in the same country tho

AngusThermopyle · 18/01/2021 20:25

65 miles according to google maps.

SweatyBetty20 · 18/01/2021 20:25

7 miles from hospital to my front door. Did move to London for 8 years though, but came back because it’s home.

FAQs · 18/01/2021 20:25

About a 100 miles currently but I’ve lived in lots of places, I’ve said to me daughter to not stay in the town she was born in all her live and to move, experience new places, can’t imagine living all my life in one place!

Friends where I live now even have children attending the school they themselves attended!

Crownofthorns · 18/01/2021 20:26

2230 miles. A couple of miles from where I grew up, however.

NotCornflakes · 18/01/2021 20:26

45 miles. But I have lived much further away (10,000 miles Grin), but when I moved back to the UK I wanted to be close to family so settled in the nearest big city to where I was born. Actually considering moving back to my hometown now as houses are much cheaper.

Jjacobb · 18/01/2021 20:26

6,767 miles

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 18/01/2021 20:27

Me = 106 miles
DH = 136 miles
DSs = 11 miles

Cissyandflora · 18/01/2021 20:27

Just a few miles! I’ve lived at 5 addresses in my life and all are within a few miles of where I was born and all are pretty much in sight of where I live now! I’ve travelled a lot though.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 18/01/2021 20:28

Furthest I've lived from hometown is 2000miles

PollyPorcupine · 18/01/2021 20:28

47 miles in a straight line according to your distance calculator, although the fastest route back there by road is 81 miles.

SofieSam · 18/01/2021 20:28

4005 miles

LadyofMisrule · 18/01/2021 20:28

About 2000 miles

LApprentiSorcier · 18/01/2021 20:28

About 250 miles.

Hailtomyteeth · 18/01/2021 20:28

Four miles from where I was born.
Half a mile from where an ancestor was born in the 19C. Four miles from where ancestors were born, lived and died in the 17C and 18C.
About 200 miles from where other ancestors lived in the 14C.
In NW England. Other ancestors from Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Isle of Man and ... Essex. What? Essex? Somerset and Devon also.

SpaceRaiders · 18/01/2021 20:28

6,600 miles, I’ve lived all over.

DrCoconut · 18/01/2021 20:29

Maybe 2 miles

gettingshitstraight · 18/01/2021 20:29

0.47 miles 😄

lilmishap · 18/01/2021 20:29

30 Miles but I was 150 miles away for nearly Twenty years

LoveFall · 18/01/2021 20:29

1,147 km

Spaghettio · 18/01/2021 20:30

10,557 miles

Chimeraforce · 18/01/2021 20:30

4 miles. I'm the only one left. All my family left this dump.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 18/01/2021 20:30

I was born in the hospital 3 miles away and have lived here my whole life, both parents and all 4 grandparents were also born within the same city and never lived anywhere else.