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Post by rainangel on Nov 22, 2024 20:24:43 GMT
About 10 miles. My parents still live in the house they built when they were expecting me.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Nov 22, 2024 20:33:12 GMT
I live less than 10 minutes away from my childhood home. Still pretty close. I drove by there because I still have friends in the neighbourhood.
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Post by tampascrapper on Nov 22, 2024 20:42:01 GMT
Not enough is the official response 🫤
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Nov 22, 2024 20:48:17 GMT
Or for those who moved around a lot in childhood, which place you most identify as ‘home’?[ Thanks for this! I live about 25 miles from where I tell people I grew up. I live 3,442.4 mi from where I was born. |
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Nov 22, 2024 20:55:23 GMT
I've really tried to provide my son the family ties, with a home we owned, that I didn't have growing up. This summer, his girlfriend moved here from NJ and we're working on her mom now. If you didn't grow up with it, it's possible to create your own. As a fellow military kids I feel you. We never lived near my childhood extended family. As adults both my brother and I stay close to my parents' home. My kids are in HS and have friends they went to kinder with, which I was always in awe of. Our extended families (in laws) all gather together to celebrate holidays at the same time whenever possible. I always tell my kids how lucky they are to have both sets of grandparents near by and to grow up with their cousins. No to mention staying in the same neighborhood and having long family friendships. |
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Nov 22, 2024 21:25:06 GMT
About 150 miles.
Rochester Mn (Southern MN) to Central Mn
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 22, 2024 21:30:01 GMT
608. Haven't been back since my dad passed in 2001.
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Post by disneypal on Nov 22, 2024 21:30:08 GMT
Zero
When my parents retired & moved back to their hometown, I sold my condo & bought their house, so I live in the house I grew up in
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Post by craftedbys on Nov 22, 2024 21:39:44 GMT
0.0 here. In 2019 DH and I bought the house my parents bought when I was a year old.
Our kids also claim it as their childhood home because they spent so much time here growing up.
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Post by quinlove on Nov 22, 2024 21:44:12 GMT
This warms my heart so much that so many of you have purchased a childhood family home. It seems like the right, special thing to do, for a lot of you. I was given that opportunity, and as much as I absolutely love that lake area; I could not move that far away from my daughters and grandchildren.
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Post by padresfan619 on Nov 22, 2024 21:51:38 GMT
7.3 miles. I went out of state for college and came right back. I am born and raised in San Diego and would be hard pressed to ever leave again.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 22, 2024 21:55:48 GMT
I live 1400 mi/2267 km from my childhood home. We moved in when I was 6 and my parents sold it when mom went into care about 10 years ago, so it was home for almost 50 years. DH and I came very close to buying a house about 3 miles from it a year ago, but things happened and that plan is on hold for the moment.
It is another 600 mi/1000 km north by ferry (1000/1600 if you drive) to where I was born.
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Post by Gennifer on Nov 22, 2024 22:08:31 GMT
My parents still live in the same house they lived in when I was born. I’m still within the same valley, but at the other end now… so about 30 minutes away? My kids go to the same high school I went to, which is between our houses.
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Post by Linda on Nov 22, 2024 23:08:02 GMT
4,369 mi from my birthplace (also where I lived from 5-6y)
4,623 mi from where I lived from 6m-3y
4,614 mi from where I lived from 4-5y
6,295 mi from where I lived from 6-9
4,259 mi from where I lived at 9 (which was my dad's hometown)
1,174 mi from where I lived from 9-17 (which was my mum's hometown)
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christinec68
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Post by christinec68 on Nov 22, 2024 23:15:45 GMT
About 10 miles.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 22, 2024 23:23:43 GMT
Well depends on how you define childhood home
I live 51 miles from the house I was from birth to 5
101 miles from the house I lived in 5-college.
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Post by ellemkay on Nov 23, 2024 1:56:43 GMT
Only 9 miles but depending on the time of day, that's about 25 minutes away. But in the 23 years since I moved out, I've lived an hour and a half away, 3 hours away, 390 miles away and 450 miles away and moved back 3 times to my hometown. I don't want to jinx myself but I'm hoping that my move back here in 2023 was my last move for a good long while even though I don't really like anything about my hometown other than my ridiculously cheap mortgage and that my family is nearby, even though they're still on my shit list for the way they voted. 🙄
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Nov 23, 2024 1:57:16 GMT
I lived in 3 different towns and 2 small cities from birth to age 22 and different houses in each town. BUT only 45 miles between the two towns the farthest apart. But I now live 845 miles west of there and have moved to this state twice and have now lived here continuously just one year shy of how long I lived in my home state.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 23, 2024 2:23:16 GMT
Navy brat so I had many homes. My parents grew up near Pittsburg so that's about 2500 miles from me.
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Post by jackietex on Nov 23, 2024 5:16:56 GMT
I'm an army brat, but "home" is about 20 miles from where I live now.
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Post by chaosisapony on Nov 23, 2024 6:30:31 GMT
About 200 miles from my childhood hometown, 20 miles from the house I did most of my growing up in.
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