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Maybe 250 miles. While I have “rose colored glasses” about that being a wonderful place to grow up, now it’s all grey monochrome dystopia. The major tech employer left and the town never recovered. Many years later it’s exactly the same, but decayed.
At this point I’ve lived in my current town almost as long, my current region longer. It’s home
I am thousands of miles away from my home. I have been back a few times over the decades and every time I feel more peace, because I am home. I don't feel at home where I live, it still feels foreign to me because the environment is so different than the land my heart calls home.
The heartbreaking part is that it has deteriorated in some parts so that my heart hurts seeing it. The part that I am from remains what I remember, but going to the major city causes distress at the state of things.
I'm a single digit number of miles from the place I was born, but I do not consider the town it is in to be "home" as it is in a neighboring town.
191 km, or 9-11 hours' travel. #BCFerries
I do not consider it home. I left when I was 6, and have only enough memories to find my old house on a map and mayyybe point out the nun-run kindergarten we had to attend because no one else would take us so young.
About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.
I work 20ish miles from the hospital I was born in. I live probably 5 minutes from it driving. I have probably lived half my life here. I call it home but I live in a world that my younger self would never recognize. I was ultra poor growing up and now I mingle with the town elite and have one of the historic houses that is iconic for lots of people here.
I lived 20+ years 300 miles away from my hometown and thought I would never live here again. But life is funny like that.
Currently 7 miles / 11.3 km away, but have lived 3941 miles / 6343 km away.
The fact that I'm now so close again is pretty much pure chance.
Around 20km from the town I was born in. Never lived there though, so it's not really my home but definitely part of my home region. I do currently live in the village and house I grew up in, which I would consider as home.
I was born at the north end of a valley, went to collage in the middle of the valley (maybe 2/3rds down), and then settled down at south end of the valley. About 100mi / 160km. Where I live now is home, my spawn point hasn't been my home in over half my life.
Though I've lived for months at a time in a few more distant cities, all in the US.
20 km, and yes, definitely my home, i'd say :D
Mine is 4,242 km (2,636 mi). I will never go back.
Currently not far, but I’m going to be moving to another country in a couple months and it will be about 5,000 miles away
I live about an hour from my spawn point. I don't consider it home as I left it 15 years ago after realizing it was dead end city full of terrible people.
8,130km. Neither current location not spawn point feel like home. That would be 1,667km from spawn and 9,788km from here.
549 miles. It’s a blue state beckoning me back as well.
Weirdly I’m only 17 kms as I’m staying with friends while I’m away from home working. I actually live 90 kms away now, though I lived all over the world growing up. The furthest away was 12k kms.
I'm about 80 miles from where I was hatched. Moved away when I had kids because I didn't want to raise them in Winnipeg (Canada) because.. well.. Winnipeg.
It'll always be my home town, but I now live in an area with a population density of 7 ppl per square mile, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. (The loudest things out here are the birds, and it's nice and peaceful.)
4300km. I’ll go back for a few more funerals and maybe because downtown Boston has fantastic food.
So many location based questions here lately. Little sus ngl
2312 miles, or 3,721 km. From the east coast of the US to the west coast.
6k km almost precisely. Different continent. This will be my home.
Half a world away. It hasn’t been my home for more than 2 decades now.
In functional reality, I've lived in the same place all my life. In technical terms I'm less than 5 miles from the hospital where I was born.
I'm determined to be the short side of the 50 mile average.
Like 10 kilometers? The hospital I was born in was torn down but I still live in the same town and I don't plan on leaving.
480km away. Not much
And no
I saw an article 20 years ago that claimed the median distance of birthplace to death?place? is 50 miles for men in the US. I was determined to beat that number, and I'm almost double that now but goddamn was it hard.
About 1,500 km. Nope, there is places I grew up and places I've been. There's no "hometown".
74 miles/119km.
I don't consider that specific place home. While it's not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.
Several thousand miles and no.
2000ish km
About 1600km, and fuck no. Hit the ground running when I was 16 and never called anywhere home again.
Home is where the close ones are.
Beside that, birth place is 151 km away.
16 miles right now.
30 miles in distance, which doesn't seem like much. But very different culturally. Where I grew up often didn't feel like home even when I lived there. It definitely doesn't now.
150ish miles
Over 10,000km. This is home, it's where my kids were born and are growing up. But there's also "back home", where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.
About 30 miles, couple towns over. We moved away when I was 5, and back to roughly where I live now when I was 9. I consider my current city to be much more my home than my spawn point. Spawn point is in a pretty boring red county.
~2250 miles
Visiting the area feels like going home. I don't belong in my current location and i hate it here.
About 26 miles from the hospital I was born in, or 35 miles from my family’s home at the time. I haven’t gone far, but each move has a been a little bit further.
Who knows, by the time I die maybe I’ll live outside the local metro area!
A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I'll sleep again tonight.
They don't all mean the same thing, but let's go home could mean any of those.
