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What's the distance between where your mum's and your dad's from?

139 replies

ThatGoldEagle · 12/07/2024 19:56

10 miles

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TigerRag · 12/07/2024 20:15

About 200 miles. But they (at different times) moved to the same city as a child and met as teenagers.

SevernWonders · 12/07/2024 20:16

5300 miles (although both came to the UK before the age of 18) - Dad with his family, Mum on a whim with a friend.

PurpleBag · 12/07/2024 20:16

Nearly 400 miles.

Meleys · 12/07/2024 20:16

A mile and a half? They met and still live locally.
In laws 15 miles or so. But met maybe 100 miles away, and have lived all over.

Tinylittleunicorn · 12/07/2024 20:17

10,500 mi

(One parent is from South Australia!)

Catnipcupcakes · 12/07/2024 20:17

Lviv and Huddersfield

According to Google maps that’s about 3,000 kilometres.

TheCultureHusks · 12/07/2024 20:17

Scotland to Wales! Met in London ❤️

AncoraAmarena · 12/07/2024 20:18

1,280 miles- south England to just south of Rome 😍

isittheholidaysyet · 12/07/2024 20:19

130 miles.
Met at college in a different city in the 1960's.

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 12/07/2024 20:19

About 50ft, across the road and a couple of houses down

HurdyGurdy19 · 12/07/2024 20:21

420 miles

mrsfollowill · 12/07/2024 20:22

Mum was Lancs- Dad Newcastle way. Met on holiday in the Isle of Man and had a long distance courtship (in the late 1950s so letters and steam trains for visits. They were 16 and 18 when they met and got married when my dad had just turned 21 and mum was 18 (nearly 19) seems so young these days but they stayed married for 40+ yrs til dad died in his 60's

WhatHaveIFound · 12/07/2024 20:25

5500 miles and my dad drove back to his home country for a visit once in the 1970s!

PrawnofthePatriarchy · 12/07/2024 20:25

No distance. They met at a church group for teenagers in Bristol. Several other couples met there and went on to have lifelong marriages like my parents, who were married for 67 years

RainintheDesert · 12/07/2024 20:25

Leamington and Warwick. Adjoining towns!

DramaAlpaca · 12/07/2024 20:26

Same town, about a mile apart at a guess. They met at work.

GoingRoundInTriangularCircles · 12/07/2024 20:27

3 miles

Furrydogmum · 12/07/2024 20:32

Same city several miles apart, two years between them and went to different schools.

GoodEggy · 12/07/2024 20:37

They grew up 220 miles apart.

UsernameRedacted · 12/07/2024 20:38

0.2 miles, literally the next street

Moonshiners · 12/07/2024 20:39

7427 miles!

IWanderedLonely · 12/07/2024 20:40

About a mile - neighbouring villages. Me & DH about 1/2 a mile.

SemperIdem · 12/07/2024 20:41

700 miles

Mumofyellows · 12/07/2024 20:42

Quite a way. London (Dad) Chamnonix, France (Mum)

nc14 · 12/07/2024 20:43

3,800 miles.