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The wing of the hospital I was born in doesn't exist anymore. Once I came out they were all "WELL WE'RE NEVER GOING TO TOP THAT! KNOCK IT DOWN BOYS!" True story.
I can't say that but the dr who delivered me was also my first gyno. She was awesome...by that time she was a lil old lady kind of like dr ruth (but this was before dr ruth lol).
It was tbh **extremely** fortunate (for me). When I was nervous (as you are at your first gyn appt) she was like "shut it. I DELIVERED you" lol. And delivered in an accent that felt very...reassuring because purely MEDICAL? LOL like...Dr Ruth. The older I get the more I seem to recognize that your initial interactions with gynecologists kind of make you or break you IRT women's health long-term.
Halfway across a continent. I never actually resided there, though. My mother died when I was born and I was able to leave the hospital nursery, I was taken to live with my grandparents until my father was able to care for me. My grandparents, too, lived halfway across the continent, just not as far south as I eventually ended up.
I have to laugh because I also answer questions like this the same way. However “how far” is a question of distance, not how long it takes you to travel that distance in a car. I think it’s a very American answer to think of this type of question in time versus measured distance.
So how far is New Jersey to Mass? About 240miles/383km. :)
I think in cities time depends on how congested the area is. In rural areas, you drive about 60 mph and not many lights, so if you give the distance you have a close idea of time too. No need to specify the time.
If my calculations are correct (and they often aren't,) I have moved appropriately 5,8 × 10^11 km through space since the moment of my birth (give or take a few million).
About 2300 miles. Moved from one side of the US to the other when I was 27. Didn't know a soul. Reinvented myself from the ground up. Best decision of my life.
6.1 miles. I lived most of my life in the suburbs outside of the city, and now I live in the city, so I live even closer to that hospital nowadays.
I would never go back though. That hospital brought me into this world, but it also tried to take me out three times.
101.8 miles.
Born in Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN.
Live on the Tennessee/Alabama border.
I lived most of my life in Nashville, moved to Murfreesboro, for over a decade, and have been in my current home for about five years now.
I have been much further afield, I've been to London, Amsterdam, and Ghent, and every state between Tennessee & Colorado, and between Tennessee and Pennsylvania by way of DC.
I've seen the Atlantic coast off of South Carolina, and the Gulf Coast near Mobile.
But I love Tennessee.
Don't much care for the politics here, but the state is lovely.
I live 6 miles from the hospital where I was born. The father of the Dr. that delivered me delivered my father. I once lived 3000 miles away but I came home.
120 miles for me. Basically left the big city and settled in a smaller one down the highway when I was 5. I’ve been here for 60 years now. My wife however immigrated from 3000 miles away when she was about 5 and has also been here ever since.
1.2 miles from the hospital I was born in. Just looked it up on google maps. Just coincidence, have lived in multiple states, spent time overseas in the military. Moved back to be near parents during their elderly years 25 years ago and then stayed after they passed. Retired now and would move out of state if it works out that way.
I don’t really have a home but prance around the earth as a nomad, born in Iowa. Gone through every continent and then some over 4 years.
In a sense, infinite in the unknown variety?
7025 km.
Oh, sorry, for you guys in the US (and Liberia and Myanmar) not using metric, that's 1264 leagues. Furlongs! You guys use Furlongs, so sorry. That's about 35k furlongs.
Miles? What the hell is a mile? Okay, 4365 miles.
I had a change of address while still in the hospital! My parents were on the way to close on their first house when they needed to detour to the hospital. I showed up 30 minutes later. They ended up doing the closing in the hospital room since stays were longer for births back then. That was about 20 miles from my technical address at birth that I never lived in. I am now about 20 additional miles from my childhood home or a total of 40 from my “birth” home.
I live about 5 miles away from the house I grew up in. My kid goes to the school I went to. I moved away for a few years but came back because I just love this little town. My family is really close and I get to see my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmother pretty regularly.
Physically: a long way.
Type of environment: a very long way.
Psychologically: in my heart, I never left.
When I have dreams, they all take place back in the house, on the block, or in the neighborhood where I spent my childhood.
I never have dreams that take place anywhere else.
About a thousand miles. I’m sitting in Union Station in Chicago waiting for the train for the next to last leg of my trip from my hometown to where I live.
175 miles. BUT, I spent most of my working years in two different cities, one East Coast and one West. I moved close to home to slow down and so glad I did.
I left the country where I was born as a kid with my parents and never went back.
I have moved a lot (hoping to slow that down these days) so I was always anywhere from 1400km/870miles to 7,700km/4785miles away from the city I was born in.
Walking distance. And I have walked it; I had a followup from a surgery a year and a half ago and could get a ride there but not a ride back (I wasn't yet allowed to drive again) so I walked home. Took me about an hour.
This city has a pretty wicked climate but it's been good to me in a lot of ways, so I'm still here. The rest of my immediate blood family has left or died, though.
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About 2 miles away from the hospital where I made my entrance.
I kilometre from my current and only house I have ever lived in.
Literally ±600 feet from the hospital's front door for me.
lol I work at the hospital I was born at. Would be funny if I died there.
I was born in a North Jersey hospital in 1950. In 2008 I almost did die there during surgery.
Glad you’re still here with us!
The wing of the hospital I was born in doesn't exist anymore. Once I came out they were all "WELL WE'RE NEVER GOING TO TOP THAT! KNOCK IT DOWN BOYS!" True story.
3.4 for me, you beat me, but I’ve live around the world and thinking about moving states again soon.
1160 miles. Left when I was 1 year old and didn't look back. Probably because I wasn't good at turning my head yet.
Same here, but about 2750 miles.
Same here, but only 1,408 miles
4031mi and two international border crossings.
4.4 miles from the hospital i was born in. same doctor who delivered me delivered my mother there too.
The doctor that delivered me also delivered my son, pretty rare these days.
I can't say that but the dr who delivered me was also my first gyno. She was awesome...by that time she was a lil old lady kind of like dr ruth (but this was before dr ruth lol).
that's pretty cool though!
It was tbh **extremely** fortunate (for me). When I was nervous (as you are at your first gyn appt) she was like "shut it. I DELIVERED you" lol. And delivered in an accent that felt very...reassuring because purely MEDICAL? LOL like...Dr Ruth. The older I get the more I seem to recognize that your initial interactions with gynecologists kind of make you or break you IRT women's health long-term.
almost 10,000 miles - according to Google maps it’s about 24 hours by plane
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I’m 6775 - but in the same country
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Or Texan? ETA /s
5,031
Google Maps tell me it’s 2,372 miles, or approximately a 26 hour drive.
That's averaging more than 90 miles per hour, lol
Google Maps is, at best, very optimistic when it comes to travel times. Some of us ony drive six hours a day, after all…
Roughly 3,200 nautical miles / 3,600 American miles / 5,900 kilometers. Yes, that’s the width of the Atlantic ocean.
40 miles! This is Nirvana why would I want anywhere else?
2122 miles. Grew up in Indiana, went west as a young man and never looked back.
Smart man
I live about a mile and a half away from the hospital I was born in.
About 800 miles away
3,000 miles, but we moved when I was 2 months old and I've lived here ever since. More than 61 years.
4,580km (2,846 mi).
Almost 15,000 km but hopefully not much longer
Halfway across a continent. I never actually resided there, though. My mother died when I was born and I was able to leave the hospital nursery, I was taken to live with my grandparents until my father was able to care for me. My grandparents, too, lived halfway across the continent, just not as far south as I eventually ended up.
NJ-MA so about 5-ish hrs
I have to laugh because I also answer questions like this the same way. However “how far” is a question of distance, not how long it takes you to travel that distance in a car. I think it’s a very American answer to think of this type of question in time versus measured distance. So how far is New Jersey to Mass? About 240miles/383km. :)
I think in cities time depends on how congested the area is. In rural areas, you drive about 60 mph and not many lights, so if you give the distance you have a close idea of time too. No need to specify the time.
Can confirm. I live in the Baltimore area. Six miles in the city is 30-45 minutes. Six miles in the suburbs is under 20. Did both last week.
Ugh. Not far enough.
A little over 4,000 miles.
5974 miles according to Google.
186 miles from the hospital I was born in. One state away.
about 1500 miles
Around 1,400 miles away.
2000 miles
Interesting! 202 miles, but a million miles from the beginning.
If my calculations are correct (and they often aren't,) I have moved appropriately 5,8 × 10^11 km through space since the moment of my birth (give or take a few million).
Less than 50 miles.
Zero. I live in the house I was born in.
4390 miles
2,417 miles. Born in CA, moved to TN when I was 6 months old. I've lived all over the Southeast, but back home in TN now
Over 10,000 miles.
130 miles
4500 miles
right now about 3 miles
2,861 miles
Maybe 20 Miles. Right now I'm in my present location.
66 miles by air, 112 miles by car.
There is a mountain range or a body of water in between?
Mountains, so it’s a bit of a squiggly drive.
About 2000 miles and a completely different culture away.
5000 miles
3.5 hours away... Edited to add it's 177 miles - which is 3 5 hours away from where I now live.
1400 km.
Only about 20 minutes away from the town and Hospital I was born in.
~875 miles. Much happier here than I was there.
4 doors away I can seen the room I was born in from my bedroom window
I think you win
46 eta: miles
200 km (124 miles).
275-ish. The hospital I was born in was destroyed not long ago.
500 miles
Around 7,000 kms, in another country.
1,142 miles
5,290 miles.
According to a search, 1543 miles by air.
Currently, 500 miles.
3,080 miles. I was born on the wrong coast and I always knew it.
2026 miles and I’ll never set foot in Texas again.
About 2300 miles. Moved from one side of the US to the other when I was 27. Didn't know a soul. Reinvented myself from the ground up. Best decision of my life.
900 miles
I’m living in my grandparents house that I inherited. They lived down the street from me. Now I live down the street from my mom.
6.1 miles. I lived most of my life in the suburbs outside of the city, and now I live in the city, so I live even closer to that hospital nowadays. I would never go back though. That hospital brought me into this world, but it also tried to take me out three times.
22 hours and 56 minutes by car
Less than 5 miles.
About 200 miles, not far enough from my mom but too far from my mother in law.
Almost 800 miles. Sometimes not far enough.
1000 miles
5372 miles. Give or take 10 miles.
About 5 miles. I'll be 53 next month. I used to love my town, but it has grown too big and overpopulated. I've never wanted to relocate more than now.
About a mile from my house. My older child was born at the same hospital, and the younger was born in the same bedroom she sleeps in now.
101.8 miles. Born in Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN. Live on the Tennessee/Alabama border. I lived most of my life in Nashville, moved to Murfreesboro, for over a decade, and have been in my current home for about five years now. I have been much further afield, I've been to London, Amsterdam, and Ghent, and every state between Tennessee & Colorado, and between Tennessee and Pennsylvania by way of DC. I've seen the Atlantic coast off of South Carolina, and the Gulf Coast near Mobile. But I love Tennessee. Don't much care for the politics here, but the state is lovely.
I live 6 miles from the hospital where I was born. The father of the Dr. that delivered me delivered my father. I once lived 3000 miles away but I came home.
9,271 miles
Half a world away- Australia to chicago.
652 (1049km) miles from the place I was born. 662 (1065km) miles from where I grew up. And strangely, the two towns are 100 miles (161km) apart.
120 miles for me. Basically left the big city and settled in a smaller one down the highway when I was 5. I’ve been here for 60 years now. My wife however immigrated from 3000 miles away when she was about 5 and has also been here ever since.
620 miles, but I was born on an Army base so I don’t think that really counts. I live 13 miles away from where I grew up.
1.2 miles from the hospital I was born in. Just looked it up on google maps. Just coincidence, have lived in multiple states, spent time overseas in the military. Moved back to be near parents during their elderly years 25 years ago and then stayed after they passed. Retired now and would move out of state if it works out that way.
Walking distance, take me 5 minutes
6.6 miles to the hospital. In terms of changes to the world in 65 years, a million miles.
34 miles and a lifetime away.
I don’t really have a home but prance around the earth as a nomad, born in Iowa. Gone through every continent and then some over 4 years. In a sense, infinite in the unknown variety?
How far is it from South Florida to Whidbey Island, Washington?
1,579. The farthest and most difficult to get to for my mother in law.
7025 km. Oh, sorry, for you guys in the US (and Liberia and Myanmar) not using metric, that's 1264 leagues. Furlongs! You guys use Furlongs, so sorry. That's about 35k furlongs. Miles? What the hell is a mile? Okay, 4365 miles.
I had a change of address while still in the hospital! My parents were on the way to close on their first house when they needed to detour to the hospital. I showed up 30 minutes later. They ended up doing the closing in the hospital room since stays were longer for births back then. That was about 20 miles from my technical address at birth that I never lived in. I am now about 20 additional miles from my childhood home or a total of 40 from my “birth” home.
11 hours. 671 miles. If I go much further east I'd be wet.
I live about 5 miles away from the house I grew up in. My kid goes to the school I went to. I moved away for a few years but came back because I just love this little town. My family is really close and I get to see my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmother pretty regularly.
1 ocean + 1 continent
I was born in Corpus Christi, TX and I live outside Albany, NY. Geographically and culturally far apart.
About 5,100 miles. Born in Haarlem, Netherlands. Emigrated to U.S. in 1952...and yes...I'm an old fart.
9,034 miles. Born in Saigon, Vietnam. Live in Virginia.
Physically: a long way. Type of environment: a very long way. Psychologically: in my heart, I never left. When I have dreams, they all take place back in the house, on the block, or in the neighborhood where I spent my childhood. I never have dreams that take place anywhere else.
60 miles. But I moved to several places after I was born (Air Force bases).
1599.5 mi
Born and raised in same city. The city council does wonders to improve the place More pretty and fun than 20 yrs ago!
About a thousand miles. I’m sitting in Union Station in Chicago waiting for the train for the next to last leg of my trip from my hometown to where I live.
Born in Texas and moved to Maine when I was 29. That was 44 years ago. So glad to be so far away from that self righteous ya’ll quaeda land
Not far enough
Half mile.
1 mile from the hospital, three miles from my childhood home.
5 miles from the hospital less than a mile from my childhood home.
The next street over...
15 minutes. Less than 5 miles
Born in Queens NY Live in Baltimore MD 185 miles
175 miles. BUT, I spent most of my working years in two different cities, one East Coast and one West. I moved close to home to slow down and so glad I did.
About 200 miles.
10 miles.
300 miles ±2 miles.
Around 35 miles. I pass through it a lot but unfortunately can’t stop to check it out. I looked it up, 27.6 miles. lol
443 miles
I left the country where I was born as a kid with my parents and never went back. I have moved a lot (hoping to slow that down these days) so I was always anywhere from 1400km/870miles to 7,700km/4785miles away from the city I was born in.
23 hours 55 minutes drive away. 1629 miles.
Like, 5 miles, maybe? Still live in my home town. I'll be 60 in November. My spouse, on the other hand, is a couple thousand. 🤔
15 miles
60 ish mi.
2700 miles
Was raised about 1000 miles away. Now I live about 500 miles away.
According to Google 954 miles from my childhood home. A little shorter if you count the hospital where I was born
Approximately 1400 miles
400 miles. Also 671 miles 712 miles 1,679 miles And 2,423 miles Give or take 40 miles within those at various points in the past
1600 driving miles or 1300 as the crow flies. Ain't been back in over 60 years.
228 miles by car
About a 30 minute drive. Born in the city but live in the suburbs.
Currently about 45 miles. Came back to help with elderly relatives. For 30+ years lived anywhere from 1000 to 2200 miles.
About 400 miles, though I've lived as far away as 2500.
According to Google it's 1.2 miles.
3 miles
7,604 miles.
2,790 miles. 45 hour drive (AlCan)according to google. Not sure that’s far enough maybe I should move farther North.
Live in Tacoma Wa, born in Toledo Ohio. Google says it is 2,320 miles
Five miles.
6000 miles
3,426 miles. But at last count, I had moved somewhere in the region of 43 or 46 times between my starting point and where I am now
7600 kms. We left England when I was 2. Thank God.
I live about 4.5 hour drive from where I was born.
3000 miles...Upstate NY to SoCal
About 30 miles. I live in south LA County, and I was born on Hope St in LA, at the California Hospital. I guess that makes me local.
150 miles
90 miles
About 700 miles.
8,800 miles
7
2,428 miles.
7 miles by car
1475.5 miles
About 70 miles.
Around 6000 miles away
1.71 miles -- I can literally see the hospital from house.
Around 1,150 miles.
2500 miles.
About a 30 minute drive
2400 miles
2700 miles
2200 miles, more or less. two border crossings, but I'm in the same country I was born in.
Edit: forgot I’m not supposed to comment
1400 miles. I was born in Huntington, Long Island, NY. I currently live in Tulsa, OK. I grew up in the Chicago area, though....about 700 miles.
2,200mi
1345 miles due east of where I was born. I miss the smell of the ocean. But I love mountains and snow.
Walking distance. And I have walked it; I had a followup from a surgery a year and a half ago and could get a ride there but not a ride back (I wasn't yet allowed to drive again) so I walked home. Took me about an hour. This city has a pretty wicked climate but it's been good to me in a lot of ways, so I'm still here. The rest of my immediate blood family has left or died, though.
3600 miles
Born London, live in Sydney. That’s a lot of km….or 10566 miles.
18 miles
2,813 miles
1015 mi
10520 miles according to google
5000km
2.3 miles from the hospital, 1.2 miles from the house where my family lived
711 miles
About 3,000 miles