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Distance between you and your place of birth?

207 replies

NorthernLiner · 09/01/2025 20:13

5958 miles for me.

OP posts:
AllProperTeaIsTheft · 09/01/2025 20:39

256 miles

Parker231 · 09/01/2025 20:40

3461 miles

onlyhereforthechaletschool · 09/01/2025 20:40

0.6 of a mile … but I’ve only lived here since i was 40 …

User543211 · 09/01/2025 20:42

Warmhandscoldheart · 09/01/2025 20:32

According to Google 120yds 😂
I can see the house I was born in from one of my bedroom windows.

This the same for my husband! He was born at home there and we had our first child at home here in a room with a window that you can see it from.
I'm about 2 hours away from where I was born.

ItWasntMyFault · 09/01/2025 20:43

182 miles

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 09/01/2025 20:43

Not sure as Mum never told me the length of the umbilical cord, but I suppose about twelve inches or so.
(I was a naturally delivered, Imperial baby.)

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 09/01/2025 20:44

28 miles from the actual hospital, apparently.

TiredCatLady · 09/01/2025 20:44

Not fucking far enough. Shithole.

JustCuttinAboot · 09/01/2025 20:44

About 30 miles for me

Sadcafe · 09/01/2025 20:45

Me 120 miles, DW less than 2

NameChangedOfc · 09/01/2025 20:45

280 miles.
Sometimes it feels like worlds apart, though.

TheChosenTwo · 09/01/2025 20:45

About 40 miles.
Moved away when I was about 5 and been around the same sort of area since. I love where I live and will always keep a home of some kind here.

PreferMyAnimals · 09/01/2025 20:46

1650 miles.

Fordian · 09/01/2025 20:47

6680 miles apparently! We don't drop in often.

mollymazda · 09/01/2025 20:49

18 miles... DC less than a mile DH about 50 miles

abracadabra1980 · 09/01/2025 20:49

20 miles

Housefullofcatsandkids · 09/01/2025 20:50

10 miles from the actual hospital, 16 miles from the house I grew up in

PreferMyAnimals · 09/01/2025 20:50

TwigletsAndRadishes · 09/01/2025 20:27

This is a surefire way to smoke out someone you know well and suspect you've spotted on MN 😂

Only one person I definitely recognise around here. And only because they made it obvious.

MooseBeTimeForSnow · 09/01/2025 20:51

3,873 miles according to Google

Dolamroth · 09/01/2025 20:52

925 miles and journey involves a sea voyage 😀

faintingfancy · 09/01/2025 20:53

36 miles

itsgettingweird · 09/01/2025 20:59

9 miles!

itsgettingweird · 09/01/2025 21:01

I have loved 2200 miles away and so DS is now 2200 miles from where he was born!

devongirl12 · 09/01/2025 21:03

Itcantgetanycolder · 09/01/2025 20:23

I can see it from my upstairs window. About a ten minute walk

Around 480miles for me.

Always feel strangely envious of people who live happily in the town in which they grew up.

Seems very wholesome /cosy.

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 09/01/2025 21:03

0.5 miles.
1.5 miles from the home I grew up in.