How far did you live from your high school?

[Megz25]

Just for fun thread

I lived about a 15 minute walk away , it was the closest one.

[malmontar]

5min walk in y7 than we moved and it was a 35min bus ride plus 10min walk from bus stop to school. 20min if coming home late. It was only 2.8 miles but inner London so hellish traffic and I was far too lazy.

[ClashCityRocker]

Mine was 12 miles via school bus.

Rural school so most kids were bussed in. Obviously, this made afterschool clubs difficult, so we had a long school day (finishing at 4.30!) but a long lunch time (1 hour 40 minutes) so extra curricular ran at lunchtome.

[MrsMoastyToasty]

About 20 minutes by bus.
I was a day girl at a private school. Some of my classmates lived in places like Papua New Guinea and would be travelling 24 hours to get home at the end of term.

[valleysareus]

45 minute bus ride.

[C0untDucku1a]

1 mile

[The4ks]

2 minutes down the road.
Son now in 2nd year at same school and we still live in my childhood home.

[keekeedee]

2 buses away but only 3 miles. Used to take about 40 minutes. My mum and dad didn't want me going to the local schools and the journey wasn't too bad...

[juicyjuicymangoes]

Why so many threads asking for so much information?

[FredaFox]

35mins walk or 15 mins bike ride

[mamapants]

5 miles, about 30 mins on the bus with the various stops.
We live 1.4 miles from a secondary school now.

[SecretNutellaFix]

Between a mile/ mile and a half depending on if the shortcut was usable that day. Never took me longer than 25 minutes to get there. Unless I stopped to fuss local dogs and cats.

[Namechangewho]

45 minute walk away, there was a bus however, I always seemed to miss it

[OhTheRoses]

I don't know how many miles but 15 min brisk walk to station, 20 mins on train, 10 to 15 mins walk at other end. Left house at 7.50, arrived school at 8.45.

[YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer]

First school was 0.5 miles. About 10 minute walk. After one year I changed to a school 5 miles away. Was about 20 minutes on the school bus.

[Milicentbystander72]

About 5 miles. A school in North Wales so it was a large catchment area.

I now live in the South West of England and my dcs school is 3 miles as the crow flies. Some old primary parents seemed to think it was outrageous that I'd picked this school because every normal child must be able to walk to school. Apparently 🙄

[Alexandrite]

30 min walk. Same as my children, except my children have to walk uphill on the way there

[TowerRingInferno]

10 miles - 20 min walk then a 30-45 min bus ride.

Nearest schools were sink schools at the time.

[sanityisamyth]

40 mins on the bus.

[CleopatrasBookWorm]

3-5 min walk. I basically lived across the road and found it embarrassing lol.

[TateWorm]

About a 20 minute walk. It was the closest to our home, the only other one here would have taken a good hour to walk to.

[usernamexox]

6 miles -2 buses spent about 45mins altogether on the 2 buses but could be up to 30 mins waiting. Girls Grammar school.

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

About a mile and a half in the next town. First day of school noone bothered to collect me and I ended up waking the wrong direction home and ended up bloody miles away.

What were my parents thinking???

[FlyingTaxis]

5,800 miles give or take. But I boarded.

[elliejjtiny]

1 mile. 5-10 mins in the car, 20 minutes running or 30 minutes walking slowly with my friend and chatting.

Ds1 and ds2's school is 2 miles away.