Who lives nearest to their childhood home? (and who is furthest?)

mudslide73

About 18 miles - just about far enough away to forget how boring it is. 

VimFuego

I was hatched at a small top secret, cloning research somewhere in orbit in the oort cloud (I was one of the flushes, failure had consequences for us there). So that's pretty far.

p90fool

I grew up in an RAF family, so it's hard to pin down a family home and even harder to pin mine down since - though I have settled only 75 miles from where I was born. 

Paul_C

I'm about a mile from the house I grew up in (from around 2 years old) though I have been further away.

I lived there for 18 years, I've been here nearly 26 years.

octatonic

I am from rural Tasmania and live in rural Oxfordshire which is 10864 miles as the crow flies (bloody tired crow too).
The flight from Heathrow to Hobart is 26hours long at a minimum and it is usually better to break it up.

You still have a 90 min journey either side from my house here to Heathrow and then from Hobart airport to the town I grew up in, so you'd struggle to do it under 30 hours door to door.

I guess that is far.

DLM

Just shy of 1,000 miles, assuming Chunnel usage. Little less as the crow flies.

I'll sing along with Huey:

"I would walk five hundred miles, and I would walk five hundred more."

@Stickyfiddle is not the furthest from his origins, there's at least one émigré gone down under.

mikeyrob73

@octatonic ; wins, thread ended 

BigMonka

300miles for me. Grew up on the South coast, now live in Yorkshire but parents and sister are still where I left them on the south coast.
I'm glad I moved away, I find it a bit sad to go back and see my old friends still sitting in the same seats in the same pubs 15years later.

munckee

BigMonka said:

300miles for me. Grew up on the South coast, now live in Yorkshire but parents and sister are still where I left them on the south coast.
I'm glad I moved away, I find it a bit sad to go back and see my old friends still sitting in the same seats in the same pubs 15years later.

Luckily they completely changed the layout of my local or I would be in the same seat on the rare occasion I mix with the great unwashed in pubs!

You've gone the wrong way though, you are supposed to move to the prosperous south from the north : )

DLM

There are some appropriate resources at the bottom of this page:

https://postscripter.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/the-farthest-two-cities-apart/

I'd propose using this one:

https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm

717.7 miles as the crow flies for me.

DLM

@octatonic clocks in at something like 10,900 miles, 3367.5 miles for @stickyfiddle

Chris777

I'm about 23 miles away from my childhood home in kings road kings heath Birmingham, well according to google even found a picture on there of it nice memories, now in Tamworth Staffs, anyone else near me out of curiosity?.

octatonic

DLM said:

@octatonic clocks in at something like 10,900 miles, 3367.5 miles for @stickyfiddle

It is about to get a bit closer- the upcoming move will see us 4075 miles from home.

Still an 8 hour flight but only a 3 hour time difference.

scrumhalf

I'm 2.3 miles away according to Google Maps.

Kilgore

I'm 180 miles. I wouldn't want to risk going too far in case I fell off the edge.

Dominic

I live 1 mile from my childhood home and pass it everyday

Samgb

Liverpool to Chilliwack BC = 4518.71 miles

But i did live less than 2 miles from where i grew up until a few years ago

quarky

mikeyrob73 said:

@octatonic ;; wins, thread ended 

NZ must be further! Someone could live in the south of NZ though. Or Antarctica.. And I wasn't born there, so happy to let a true Antipodean claim it  

mrkb

its very league of gentleman round here isn't it - Are there any of you that have never left your home town ;-)

Sporky

mrkb said:

its very league of gentleman round here isn't it - Are there any of you that have never left your home town ;-)

I went to uni 200 miles away or so, first job was 150 miles from the ancestral home, but where I was brung up is a really handy place for getting into that London town or lots of other places.