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i now live approx 30 miles from where i was born

born: Bedford
live: Cambridge

What about you? How far do you live from where you were born?

Think of it as a polite, gentile afternoon competition

― james (james), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Mississauga, Ontario...living in Kingston, Jamaica. How far is that?

― cybele, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Northwick Park, Northwest London
Live in Edgware, Northwest London

And proud.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Northwick Park is the ugliest hospital ever! i was born in the second ugliest (Hillingdon) and live just 3 miles from it currently

why do i feel like a failure because of this?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i was born approx. 4km from where i live now. however i was conceived in sri lanka!

― minna (minna), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Denver, Colorado. Live in Denver, Colorado. This is somewhat cheating, though, because for 22 years between the time I was born and just a few months ago I lived in a town 50 miles away from Denver.

― Mandee, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatcha sayin, stevem? It may be an ugly hospital, but by all acoounts I was a beeeeeeyoooootiful babeeee. And so well-behaved!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Guys Hospital, Central London
Live in Blackheath, SE London

I am currently at work and therefore a ten minute train ride from the place of my birth, and yet I never think of it like that...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Exeter, live twelve miles away, work 2 miles away. Went 250 miles awy to university though.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

12 miles, according to Mapquest. Probably fewer.

born: Flushing NY
live: Brooklyn NY

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Born: Dennistoun, Glasgow
Lives: Streatham, SarfWest London. In the nice bit, up by the Common. 45 minutes' walk from St George's Hospital if you're a good walker; 75 minutes otherwise.
Distance: about 500 miles.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Born 49œ 8' N 117œ 44' W, live 51œ30' N 0œ07' W, that's about 16 light-years or something isn't it

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(actually about 4800 miles, do i win?)

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Born: Grimsby Maternity Hospital
Live: Edinburgh
Distance: about 250 miles

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I live about what... 25 miles as the crow flies? from where I was born. I don't actually know. But very close. Considering that I have spent most of my life a couple of THOUSAND miles from where I was born, I find this strangely comforting.

― kate (suzy), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

About 5 or 6 miles, I think.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

1639.5 miles

― hstencil, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Doncaster Royal Infirmary, live in leafy east Croydon - which is 185 miles away according to multimap.

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Stoke-on-Trent, live in North London (having taken in Stockport, Nottingham and Southampton in between). About 150 miles?

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Born Hendon, London, UK, now live Melbourne, Australia.

― Fred Nerk, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Not enough...only 1770 miles.

― cybele, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fred -- b b b but don't you miss the Quadrant?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I left Hendon before I was a year old. The only Quadrant I know is a conservative think-tank magazine down here in Oz.

― Fred Nerk, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Before any of you get any ideas of even TRYING to compete, I'm soon moving to Saturn

― dave q, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

The quadrant is a brilliantly 70s shopping district in Hendon. it has a shop called "Not Quite New" and it's superbly named sister/brother shop "Not Quite New For Men".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know. Born Christchurch NZ, live Auckland NZ, that'd be the distance spanning half of two islands, a bit. I'd guess. Someone else take a guess if they'd like

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I was on Jupiter last night. ;-)

― kate (suzy), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

16.18 miles (do I win something for most accurate distance?)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i take it the radioastronomy's out of the question, then.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 March 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't belive no-one has pulled James up on

"Think of it as a polite, gentile afternoon competition"

It ain't a party without a tray of smoked salmon bagels, man!!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

bbbbbbbbut it could be

― james (james), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. But I don't really have a home right now...

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Only about three miles from here, unfortunately. I must do something about that eventually, i.e. I don't like the area much.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

2176.3 miles

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

ChristineSH: where's "here"?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Born: Chicago
Live: Chicago

I was born on the S. Side though, and live on the N. Side, maybe 9 miles away or so?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

About 15 miles outside Birmingham. (UK)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

From Boston to New Orleans, 1520.2 miles.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Seattle, WA.. around 1200 miles from my birthplace in Santa Monica, CA

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 21 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

1,320,000 feet

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 21 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

About 40 miles, sadly. I swore I'd never move back to this area.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in the Royal Women's Hospital, Swanston St, Carlton, just across the street from Melbourne State College where I studied from 79-81. For a year in the middle of that period I lived three doors around the corner and across Faraday Street from the hospital. Distance: less than 200 yards.

― Karen, Saturday, 22 March 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Live in El Granada, CA; work in Santa Cruz, CA. Either way: approx. 2000 miles from my birthplace in Columbia, Missouri.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 22 March 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird! I only live about 5 miles from where I was born, but until last September I hadn't lived closer than 200 miles from it for over 18 years.

― Dan I., Saturday, 22 March 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Born Williamsburg, VA Live in Denver, CO. That's 1722 miles according to Mapquest, and I drove in a rental truck that wouldn't go more than 55mph.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in University College Hospital, Central London.
Live in West Central Glasgow, approx 350 miles away.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 22 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Born in Southmead Hospital, Bristol, live now in East Ham, London. I guess that's about 130 miles,

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 22 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Born: Manama, Bahrain
Live : Oxfordshire, UK

about 3,200 miles

― C J (C J), Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

born in Olympia, WA
currently in Chicago area
~2400 milesish if I remember correctly

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Huntsville, AL to Columbia, MD - 827.48 miles by Mapquest's route.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 22 March 2003 23:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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i'm lazy

― "Set phasers to thrill!" (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:38 (seventeen years ago)

too lazy to figure out where you live or too lazy to look it up

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:39 (seventeen years ago)

I have also lived 12 miles and 190 miles from where I was born.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:41 (seventeen years ago)

My youngest son sleeps about 5 metres away from the spot where he was born.

― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:43 (seventeen years ago)

58.5 miles!

In a few weeks it will be 7,979 miles, according to google maps.

― big papa cigarettes (╓abies), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

I was born in a hospital in Southwest Helsinki and I currently live in West Helsinki. I think the distance between my flat and the hospital is about 5 km.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:46 (seventeen years ago)

I'm one of those boring people who have lived their whole life in the same city.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

The stat that really bothers me is how far away I am from the spot where I will die.

― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

I figure that as long as I never go there, I'll probably be okay.

― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

YOU HAVE SECRET KNOWLEDGE

― big papa cigarettes (╓abies), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:49 (seventeen years ago)

3952 miles.

― Disco/Very (Roz), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

Latebloomer, can I ask why you were born in Naples? Just curious.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 11:55 (seventeen years ago)

my dad was in the army

― "Set phasers to thrill!" (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:01 (seventeen years ago)

Ah, okay. I didn't know US Army is in Italy too.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:04 (seventeen years ago)

conceived in Ghent. Born in Ghent. Live in Bruges. Have been here so long, pple think they remember my mom being pregnant.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

Born: Ormskirk, Lancs
Live: Glasgow
Distance: 213 miles (but 499 miles if you include the roundtrip to Ardnamurchan, where I lived for a while).

― calumerio, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

Ormskirk?

No way, I live there, was also born there.

― Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

Born in Worcester, live in London, I think that's about 120 miles

― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 13:13 (seventeen years ago)

10639 MILES

― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 13:14 (seventeen years ago)

This month, it’s 3.6km, probably a little less by foot: born at point A, living at point B.

If you draw a straight line from the hospital to the Opera House, I work about 2/5 of the way along that. Lived in the bottom left corner from 2001-2007. Spent Saturday on the island in the top middle.

― my prefab arse just falls apart (sic), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

Born: Shit-hole city in New Jersey
Now: Broklyn, NY

Distance: 15 miles. Ambitious. That's what sucks about being born in the New York area ... the only place after it is what, London? Tokyo?

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

there's quite a lot of cities that are cool that are not New York, London or Tokyo.

― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:33 (seventeen years ago)

Oh yeah. Paris

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:35 (seventeen years ago)

San Francisco CA to Austin TX, 1758 miles, per googlemaps.

― Barack History Month (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:37 (seventeen years ago)

palo alto --> nyc

google sez it's 2,941 miles. (aka 4,733 km)

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

Oh yeah. Paris

― burt_stanton

you're a clueless cunt.

― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

I'm just fucking around. I regret getting stuck here.

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

2252 miles

USSR-->UK

― warmsherry, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:45 (seventeen years ago)

About 360 miles.

― Last night it was pullulating with (Michael White), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

411 mi

― YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS (dan m), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

xposts. sorry burt_stanton, I've just experienced people from London and New York in the past who were quite serious in their thinking that basically nowhere else in the world counts but their city.

I live about ten miles from where I was born. Which is slightly depressing because I would have thought I would be somewhere warmer by now.

― Women can be captains too, you know? (jim), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 23:50 (seventeen years ago)

SoCal --> NoMiss = 1925 miles

― WmC, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

Google maps says it is a 671km drive from Melbourne to Canberra, which is where I was born, in a hospital that has since been blown up, and in the process killed a bystander who got hit by flying rubble.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

I like to think they had to destroy the place after it produced me.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

Born manchester st marys
live chorlton manchester
distance of 5 whole miles

i need to get away :-/

― not_goodwin, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

3.2 mi

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

interesting to me that nobody in my nuclear family (mom, dad, sis, bro) lives closer than 350 miles to where we were born. a peripatetic bunch.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

52.2 mi from the hospital where I was born in Joliet, IL.

― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:24 (seventeen years ago)

Des Moines, Iowa >>>> Ithaca, New York

882 miles

― scourge of cords (Z S), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:30 (seventeen years ago)

My wife's answer: 9 blocks.

― WmC, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:31 (seventeen years ago)

Random spot in upstate NY to Boston: 376 miles. I wouldn't mind being closer, but there's NOTHING within a four hour driving radius of where I was born (in terms of job prospects), so I probably won't get any closer than that.

― Maria, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

Born: Paisley
Live: Stranraer (90 miles)
Soon to live in: Dumfries (70 miles)

― AndyTheScot, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

14690 km.

― paulhw, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

OK so mine's born MPLS live LDN distance 4022 miles.

My mom: born MPLS lives 6 blocks from house of birth and two blocks down the same street from house she lived in from the age of four. Other houses lived in were four blocks from current house, 1 mile from current house, all in same town. Apart from 9 months in CHI, has lived NOWHERE else.

― Choom Gang Gang Dance (suzy), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

Straight line distance from the first home I lived in as an infant to my present home: less than 10 miles.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

Born: Painesville, OH
Live: Cleveland Heights, OH
Distance: 21.6 mi, according to Google Maps.

I have, however, lived as far away from my birthplace as 4,000+ mi. when we were stationed in Germany.

― Olive Wheatgrass (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 03:09 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

Wow, only 22 miles according to Google Maps. But you can add a couple of thousand miles on if you take the circitutous route I took to get here.

― Violent In Design (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:57 (seventeen years ago)

This conjured up odd images: I misunderstood thread title to refer to the distance you shot out when born.

― James Morrison, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

3.4m

― suggestzybandias (jim), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

891 miles

― Jeff, Thursday, 11 June 2009 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

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