lesley
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Post by lesley on Nov 22, 2024 7:47:51 GMT
Or for those who moved around a lot in childhood, which place you most identify as ‘home’?
My answer is zero. I now live in the home where I grew up. This is something I never anticipated when I was younger and wanted to be as far away from my home town as possible! 🤷♀️
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sueg
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Post by sueg on Nov 22, 2024 8:02:35 GMT
I was born in Melbourne, Australia though we moved around a lot until settling back there in 1999. I now live in Munich, Germany which is just over 16,000km from’home’
We do intend to retire back to Australia in a few years and will go back to Melbourne most likely, as our grandchildren are there.
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Post by ntsf on Nov 22, 2024 8:06:15 GMT
800 miles.. seattle to san francisco
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Post by gar on Nov 22, 2024 8:26:57 GMT
About 70 miles  My Dad still lives in the town where he grew up, where his father started their family business, where I was born etc so I still get to see the area when I visit him. |
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Post by malibou on Nov 22, 2024 8:42:10 GMT
A little over 2000 miles. Northern Indiana to Southern California.
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Post by fruitysuet on Nov 22, 2024 8:50:12 GMT
About three miles. I would love to live in my home town but the properties there are too expensive for the same in the town I live in now - minimum of 10% premium depending on type of house. It doesn't sound a lot but it puts homes to meet my needs above my budget.
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Post by lainey on Nov 22, 2024 9:31:31 GMT
317 as the crow flies, way more if you use Ryanair!!
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Post by AussieMeg on Nov 22, 2024 9:41:58 GMT
I was born in Melbourne and still live in Melbourne. I live 16km (10 miles) / 22 minutes from my childhood home.
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Post by gillyp on Nov 22, 2024 9:43:51 GMT
512 miles.
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Post by karenlou on Nov 22, 2024 11:17:06 GMT
Less than 10 miles...Moved 2 towns over when we bought our house, Taxes are lower where we live!!
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Post by christine58 on Nov 22, 2024 11:34:10 GMT
500 feet
My parents built a home on family property and I built a home about 20 years ago right next-door on family property. I have three cousins up the road who built houses in the same area.
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teddyw
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Post by teddyw on Nov 22, 2024 11:44:26 GMT
About 180 miles. I left for college and never moved back.
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Post by melanell on Nov 22, 2024 12:06:09 GMT
Or for those who moved around a lot in childhood, which place you most identify as ‘home’? My answer is zero. I now live in the home where I grew up. This is something I never anticipated when I was younger and wanted to be as far away from my home town as possible! 🤷♀️ I live half a mile from my parents' current home, which is where I lived as a teen. I also live half a mile from the house they owned before that. (We moved 4.5 blocks to a larger home when I was a tween.) DH lives zero miles, because we purchased his childhood home. It wasn't maintained much at all over the decade before we bought it, so we have a project on our hands, now, but I always wanted an older home, and he is happy to have his home in the family, so it all worked out. I actually know a handful of former classmates who live in their childhood homes, now. Some never left, some moved in when their parents needed help, or passed away, but some were like us and purchased them when their parent(s) wished to downsize. |
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Bridget in MD
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Post by Bridget in MD on Nov 22, 2024 12:21:32 GMT
5 miles from my childhood home.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 22, 2024 12:25:44 GMT
About 35 miles. It is about 50 to 60 minutes. My parents still live there so I still go home a lot.
It is funny because I think I refer to both my childhood home and my condo both as home. When I go there, I am going home but when I leave I am also coming home. 😆
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Post by KelleeM on Nov 22, 2024 12:37:06 GMT
32 miles. I couldn’t afford to live in my hometown and absolutely would never have afforded my own home there. I live in my late husband’s hometown. My youngest brother bought our childhood home.
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lisaknits
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Post by lisaknits on Nov 22, 2024 12:41:36 GMT
919 miles. Wisconsin to Georgia
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Post by mikklynn on Nov 22, 2024 12:55:48 GMT
I live about 20 miles from my childhood home. My dad told us how mom cried when they moved there, because it was so far from her mom and extended family. It was 2 miles!
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Post by Sharon on Nov 22, 2024 12:57:40 GMT
I live about 500 miles from where I grew up.
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Post by lisae on Nov 22, 2024 12:58:53 GMT
1/2 mile.
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Tearisci
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Post by Tearisci on Nov 22, 2024 13:21:24 GMT
Technically, it would be about zero as I was born in Dallas but moved to Tacoma when I was 6 months old. I consider Tacoma my hometown as I lived there most of my life so the distance would be 2,088 miles.
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Post by quinlove on Nov 22, 2024 13:31:57 GMT
My childhood hometown is in Michigan, right *on* Lake Huron. 1,300 miles from DFW.
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Post by littlemama on Nov 22, 2024 13:41:13 GMT
Maybe 8 ish miles?
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Post by Merge on Nov 22, 2024 13:42:53 GMT
About 1000 miles. Bellevue, NE to Houston, TX.
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Post by bbkeef on Nov 22, 2024 13:50:59 GMT
I live about 3 miles north of where I grew up.
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Post by snugglebutter on Nov 22, 2024 14:01:08 GMT
About 600 miles for me. We are about 50 miles from my IL's but they moved here when Dh was almost grown. We are 1500 miles from his childhood city.
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Nov 22, 2024 14:01:27 GMT
Roughly 15 miles from first and 8 from the second.
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huskergal
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Post by huskergal on Nov 22, 2024 14:03:30 GMT
From where I was born, about 225 miles. From where I lived from age 7 until I left home, about 15 miles. My brother and sil live in that house.
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Post by melanell on Nov 22, 2024 14:16:10 GMT
My very first house, which was my mother's childhood home, and my grandfather's childhood home, would be 13 miles from my current home if it was still standing, but alas, it was torn down. The house was still fine to live in, but it fell to one of the dangers of being located on the main street of a busy town---it's now a parking lot.  |
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Post by gramasue on Nov 22, 2024 14:21:40 GMT
A little over 300 kms or 188 miles
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