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Older married and unmarried jellies, how far away are you from your hometown/city/country?

Asked by ZEPHYRA (21750points) August 11th, 2011

Are most of you living where you started out? In the same town/city/country as your parents? Do most of you have to travel far to get to see your parents and close relatives?

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Cruiser's avatar

I am 40 miles west of where I was born. My nearest sibling is 900 miles and my folks are 1,100 miles away.

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Tropical_Willie's avatar

I’m over 2800 miles from where I was born and 500 miles from where went to high school and college. Same country just a different culture.

tom_g's avatar

I’m exactly 40.5 miles from my mother’s house (where I grew up).

ZEPHYRA's avatar

@Tropical_Willie @Cruiser – how often do you go and see your folks/siblings/relatives?

linguaphile's avatar

I live 1005 miles from where I was born, 1434 miles from where I went to high school and 1090 miles from where I went to college.
However, to get from my birthplace, through 7 states, to where I am living now, I moved about 7500 miles altogether. Yahoo!
I have to travel nationwide to see family, and that’s okay. By car’s best!

_zen_'s avatar

6500 miles away.

jrpowell's avatar

I live seven blocks away from the hospital I was born at. But I have lived in five states and two countries. Somehow, 34 years later I ended up here.

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

I live in the house I grew up in. I intend to stay here for a very long time. I live about 10 miles from my parents.

Cruiser's avatar

@ZEPHYRA not enough. They visit me once a year. I try to get down and see them once a year. Travel is expensive and getting time off from work prevented me from seeing them more. All I could swing this year was sending my oldest son to see them on his spring break. I am hoping things will ease up so I can afford to take more time off and see them more.

YoBob's avatar

Not sure when exactly it happened, but sometime along the way I quit thinking of the city in which I grew up as my hometown and started thinking of it as being the city I have been living in for the past 30+ years.

But, in answer to the question, I live approximately 300 miles from the city I grew up in.

john65pennington's avatar

My roots are in Nashville. Born here, raised here, live here, will die here.

All my childrens and grandchildren moved 3,000 miles away to Seattle.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

@ZEPHYRA Parents have passed away. I’m planning a trip to see kids and grand-kids and they are 500 to 800 miles away. Will drive around the old stomping grounds. Has been four years.

Seelix's avatar

I’m living about 400km (250 miles) from home. I get home every month or so, and I plan to move back after I finish my PhD, if I can get work there.

SpatzieLover's avatar

Basically, I’m a 5th gen US citizen living directly where my relatives planted themselves in the 1840’s. I haven’t moved an inch, really.

Jude's avatar

I still live there. Moved back after university.

Mamradpivo's avatar

I live about 4850 miles or 7800 km from my parents. Yet I still speak with my mom more than I’d probably otherwise like.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I’m roughly 5000 miles from my hometown. I have no desire to ever go back there again. My parents don’t live there anymore, and I try to visit them once a year.

flutherother's avatar

I am 90 miles south west of where I was born.

OpryLeigh's avatar

I am 64 miles north/west of where I was born but I have moved around a lot since I was born so don’t really consider anywhere to be my “hometown”. I’ve lived in my current location for 2.5 years.

My dad is 18 miles from me and my mum and brother are 45 miles away.

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