How FAR have you moved from where you grew up?

[Donkey-Milker]

was talking about this with some friends yesterday. some had lived all over the country etc.

i'm 20 and have lived in the same town all my life - apart from 8 months a year when i live on my own-ish in another city at University.

but i do want to live in other places at some stage. London, New York, Las Vegas and a few others are on my 'life-list'.

anyway - question is how far are you from where you were born? maybe also include when/why you moved? what were the benefits/downsides of living in many different places?

ok tyia. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ChipWrecked]

I'm a typical American, I've lived all over the place.

Born near Chicago, grew up in Arkansas, lived in the Atlanta area for 14 years, now near Sacramento, California.

So, 2000-odd miles from where I was born.

[mrkilla]

Not far, born in Queens NY, Live there till 12, moved to Long Island Lived a few towns all with in 15 miles of each other. Now I live in the Bronx

On anotehr note I am buying a house in CT but its an easy commute/visit to friends and family that will still be in NY>

[samsdmf]

Around 4k miles
Middle East To UK

[Punker]

According to this site:

Distance between two places

Distance is 5497 kilometers or 3416 miles or 2968 nautical miles (from Edmonton Canada to San Jose Costa Rica)

[Donkey-Milker]

i should add that it has only been in the last 2 years that i have lived in the other city (Leicester - about 100 miles from home) for 8 months each year.

my first 18 years were solely in hometown. but i am well traveled in terms of holidays etc... aus,hong-kong, various in usa.. most of europe...

but obv living in a place is v different to staying in a hotel and not doing any work for 2 weeks then flying home with a tsn...

in a more general point... should we aspire to live in different places? maybe it is a bit sad/wasteful to live in one place all your life?

obv you have to take into account having the funds etc to be able to move..

[ChipWrecked]

Yes, I said 'typical American' but so far maybe not so typical.

Very American to follow the money wherever it may be, though.

[Tigermoth]

Lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon, Colorado, Georgia, Wisconsin, Germany, and Malta. Several places in each state/country. These are all places I have lived, not travelled; that list would be much longer. Texas barely counts, as I was only there 6 weeks, but I was born there, so it's on the list.

Almost half my life was spent in Atlanta (5 areas in Atlanta that I can think of off the top of my head). I am currently about 6000 miles from where I was born and 5300 miles from where I grew up.

I'm 25 now. I try to move every 6 months to a year.

My thing when I was younger was that I would never own more than I could fit in the trunk of my car. Now I don't even own a car. I do have about a truck-load worth of books at my mother's house. Whenever I visit, I bring books I've bought since I was last there and leave them.

[dcasper70]

Im the perfect 2 hours away.

Perfect because it's close enough for my parents to visit, but far enough that they don't do it very often...

[Fishwhenican]

I was born in Northern WI but that can't count as my family moved to Columbus Ohio when I was only 2.

Grew up in Columbus until I was 20 and moved to SE WI. About 450 Miles

Was in a couple of different towns but basically SE WI for 19 years until we moved here to SE Montana. A little over 1000 miles

Been out here in the middle of nowhere for 8 years now. LOVE IT!