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(72,386 posts)flying_wahini
(6,696 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)if I can get an apartment in the building that used to be the hospital where I was born. Then make funeral arrangements at the funeral home I got my start in, parents rented an apartment in the back of the funeral home when they first got married.
for now about 75 miles.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)...give or take.
rickford66
(5,532 posts)fierywoman
(7,705 posts)trocar
(243 posts)MuseRider
(34,136 posts)but live 12.5 miles from the hospital I was born in and 11.7 miles from the house I lived in until I went off to University that was about 3 miles from the house I grew up in. I have traveled a lot but always come back here. I live in a different place than the town I was born in but still very close. I have no idea why, I had bigger plans than this.
Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)That sounds like small town talk. That is the same thing all of my friends from my childhood say. Most of us are still here. We tried to escape but always came back.
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)Small town NE Kansas to a place with 260 total.
I do love where I am and what I am doing but it really is not anywhere near what I had planned. Such is life and it is NOT bad.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)I was born in a small SE town in Kansas.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Walleye
(31,147 posts)Bayard
(22,228 posts)By way of Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Calif. I'm home (or pretty close).
sanatanadharma
(3,752 posts)...but more like 6900 miles from where last I lived in the states.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,062 posts)from the hospital.
mnhtnbb
(31,414 posts)but for many years I lived as much as 2700-2800 miles from where I was born, and then 1200-1300 miles from where I was born before I moved to the area where I am now and have been for the past 21 years.
mbusby
(823 posts)...as the crow flies.
patphil
(6,249 posts)Ocelot II
(115,975 posts)EYESORE 9001
(26,026 posts)Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)cloudbase
(5,530 posts)1350 or so by road.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,496 posts)But it's 14 minutes away from where I am now.
Midnight Writer
(21,845 posts)Fla Dem
(23,875 posts)MiHale
(9,799 posts)Response to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)
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Ohio Joe
(21,776 posts)Hmmm... Feels so much further.
jcgoldie
(11,657 posts)I bought the next farm over from the one I grew up on after my parents sold it while I was in college. Over the summer I attended my 30th class reunion by accident (buddy tricked me into coming out for beers neglecting to tell me the entire class of '91 would be present)... I was a little depressed to realize that my classmates are successful all over the globe doing exciting stuff and here I am farming next door to where I grew up and teaching mathematics in the same high school I attended 30 years ago I must be the most boring person alive!
Elessar Zappa
(14,131 posts)catbyte
(34,530 posts)Edited to add: That's driving distance.
Cadfael
(1,301 posts)16.3 miles from the house I went home to from the hospital
wendyb-NC
(3,344 posts)wryter2000
(46,130 posts)Queens to Oakland. I'm a coastal creature
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)But I hung up my traveling shoes. Going to stay in state. Thinking of a trip to Tombstone. Depends on how effective the new medication on mobility.
Trailrider1951
(3,415 posts)But if you count my 30 year detour through Texas, it's more like 3100 miles.
Kali
(55,030 posts)About 300 miles.
Marthe48
(17,111 posts)I go home often. My best friend inherited her Mom's home, where I spent half my time when I was a kid. So I stay with her and we catch up, and go forward
Kali
(55,030 posts)About 300 miles.
ShazamIam
(2,577 posts)lucca18
(1,245 posts)From Long Island (New York), to San Francisco.
Doc_Technical
(3,528 posts)"as the crow flies."
sarge43
(28,946 posts)cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Laurelin
(538 posts)According to Google.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)Mrs. ironflange: about 2500.
jmowreader
(50,588 posts)I was born in the Mountain Home AFB base hospital, even though my parents weren't military. Dad was in the Bureau of Public Roads, which built the roads to the base ammunition supply point. Because Mountain Home had no hospital to speak of in the 1960s, the Air Force agreed to provide all the medical care to the BPR families building the roads.
Sogo
(5,015 posts)Glorfindel
(9,745 posts)We lived "in town" when I was born, but moved out to the country to live with my grandfather when I was six. Seventy years later, I'm back in the old house and hope to live here the rest of my life.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Born in Utica, NY, now living in Boston, MA, although I have lived further away (Europe, San Francisco) and NYC was slightly closer, but not much.
Auggie
(31,230 posts)SamKnause
(13,114 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)So far I think you are among the closest to your birthplace.
Tikki
(14,562 posts)Couldn't get away from there fast enough when we turned 18 yrs old.
Have never regretted it for a moment.
Here has been home for over 55 years.
The Tikkis
trof
(54,256 posts)Jim G.
(14,811 posts)But I only moved back 5 years ago. It was more than 800 up until then.
LuckyCharms
(17,472 posts)from the hospital I was born in.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)In distant hemispheres.
Wolf
TexasTowelie
(112,654 posts)or a 4 hour drive.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Thyla
(791 posts)Or so says the interwebs.
petronius
(26,613 posts)The farthest 'permanent' address I've had from my birthplace is 1800 miles...
DFW
(54,501 posts)Alexandria, Virginia to Düsseldorf in the German Rheinland.
Rhiannon12866
(206,678 posts)I'm fine with traveling, have seen some cool places, but I'm not a fan of moving.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Huh, I've never given it any thought..
Rastapopoulos
(675 posts)Hospital is less then a quarter mile
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)malthaussen
(17,235 posts)... via I-70 W and I-71 S. According to Google.
Light years, according to culture.
-- Mal
Chautauquas
(4,455 posts)Left my hometown as a teenager and was glad to get away from that place. I go back once a year to visit relatives but I make it a short visit and I'm always happy to leave.
Iggo
(47,591 posts)Akoto
(4,267 posts)Kaleva
(36,395 posts)Kaleva
(36,395 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)And now that both parents are dead and their house sold, I will probably never go back. The house I grew up in was torn down in 2011 so there is nothing to go back for.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)zanana1
(6,139 posts)I'm a real adventurer.
we can do it
(12,217 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,863 posts)electric_blue68
(15,012 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 29, 2021, 10:46 PM - Edit history (2)
It depends on exactly how far downtown in Manhattan
the hospital (which probably doesn't exist any more) was.
As a preemie I think I was transfered to another hospital.
I've lived 3 Burroughs - Manhattan, Brooklyn, and now The Bronx. Technically it's the first time I've lived on NA Continent!
Brooklyn (and Queens) are situated on the
westernmost part of Long Island.
NYC while occasionally frustrating (rarely scary) it's so packed with multiple cultures, all kinds of architecture, museums, big parks, and gardens, restaurants, and foods from all over the world, full of art, crafts, music, still decent weather more often than not - I don't think
I'd ever want (and probably not at my level of lower income) to live anywhere else.
I do love (and have) visited other 8+ USA cities, San Juan, Paris, and a small village in Switzerland.
I love Nature. I've visited the High Desert of Arizona, including sleeping in Monument Valley waking up at 3AM under rhe span of the Milky Way, the Grand Canyon, up into The Rockies northwest of Denver on the back of a motorcycle (!!!), and seeing ?40+ tall all in bloom pink lotuses near one edge of Echo Park in LA. (I'd loved them since I was tween seeing a photo of one of this kind, and this was my first glimpse of this type in the real)
I hope I get to one more USA city I haven't yet visited. It'll be a miracle if I get to see The Pyramids.
In I feel quite lucky in my travels, and even luckier to have born in, live in NYC. 🙂
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Born in Brookville PA and live in Albuquerque
bluedigger
(17,090 posts)Germany to Colorado.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,292 posts)I was born in Clarksville TN and now live in Fort Worth TX
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)I've lives as much as 4,000 miles away in the past.