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How far from your birthplace?
« Thread Started on Nov 23, 2009, 8:43am »		[Quote]
I remember reading at one time something along the lines of 90% of the population of the world being born, living their lives and dying within a 50km radius. Obviously, that is becoming less true every year, and I suspect that the majority of us here are currently not very close to our place of birth (and hopefully even farther from our place of death).

Anyway, I found this excellent Google tool for calculating distances.

I am currently 7260 km / 4735 mi from my birthplace.
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« Reply #1 on Nov 23, 2009, 12:38pm »		[Quote]
Mine works out to be 6984.231 miles away from my birth place.

We're almost the same distance away.
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« Reply #2 on Nov 23, 2009, 1:32pm »		[Quote]
Nope -- you're much farther!
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« Reply #3 on Nov 23, 2009, 1:39pm »		[Quote]
3747m/6031km
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« Reply #4 on Nov 23, 2009, 1:40pm »		[Quote]
Oh yeah, I am! I'm in miles. :D

Do I break a record here?
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« Reply #5 on Nov 23, 2009, 4:26pm »		[Quote]
No record here, but I am still pretty far at 5597 mi / 9008 km.
And I am 1977 mi / 3181 km from where I spent much of my growing up years.
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« Reply #6 on Nov 25, 2009, 5:07am »		[Quote]
I am 994.401 miles / 1600.334 kilometers away from where I was born.

Just zip across the Gulf of Mexico, & it's no distance at all!

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« Reply #7 on Nov 25, 2009, 7:01am »		[Quote]
1134 km, but I went the long way.
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« Reply #8 on Nov 25, 2009, 9:29am »		[Quote]
3761.289 km and 2337.157 miles ... pretty much the length of Canada. *homesick*
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« Reply #9 on Nov 25, 2009, 1:45pm »		[Quote]
Where are you now existentialcrisis? And where were you born?
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« Reply #10 on Nov 25, 2009, 9:40pm »		[Quote]
I am 717KM/441miles.

The furthest away is 1361KM/845 miles. That was Portland, Oregon.
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« Reply #11 on Nov 25, 2009, 11:49pm »		[Quote]
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/500_Miles/11559436 (Get Kleenex!)
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« Reply #12 on Nov 26, 2009, 9:01am »		[Quote]
Born in Halifax, NS. Moved to Calgary, AB 5 months ago. Questioning the rationality behind this move now ...
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« Reply #13 on Nov 26, 2009, 9:43am »		[Quote]
Born in Kuala Lumpur, living in Phnom Penh, 944km.

It's the closest I've ever really lived to where I was born.

Furthest I've ever been from my birthplace is Portugal, about 11.500km.

And the two very furthest points apart from each other are Portugal and Derby, WA, Australia, 15.000km.
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« Reply #14 on Nov 26, 2009, 5:27pm »		[Quote]
Right now I'm only 1145 km from where I was born, but there was a long detour to get here.
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« Reply #15 on Dec 1, 2009, 2:25am »		[Quote]
I have been 13,000 km from where I was born, but now I am only about 5K away :-)

I probably break the record on here opposite to how deyana does....
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« Reply #16 on Jan 17, 2012, 7:35pm »		[Quote]
I was led to think of this by an item on tonight's evening news which said that France is one of the most sedentary countries in Europe because 70% of the French live (and die) in their region of birth.

I also remember reading at some time that most people (I don't remember the percentage but it was well over 50%) live and die within 50 km of their birthplace. Of course this is normal in primitive or poor societies (Africa, rural China or India...), but I am wondering more about countries where people have a choice.

How far do you live from your place of birth?
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« Reply #17 on Jan 17, 2012, 7:40pm »		[Quote]
I don't remember the exact thread, but we did have something like this before, where you could map exactly how far you were from your place of birth. I'll have a look for it.

Here it is. You started that one too, Kerouac.

http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/ind....24&page=1#53894
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« Reply #18 on Jan 17, 2012, 7:51pm »		[Quote]
Yes, I realized that as I was writing it. :-[
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« Reply #19 on Jan 18, 2012, 6:35am »		[Quote]
From Johannesburg it's calculated at 2,977Km or 1,850 miles but I have to add on another 500km for the distance from my city, Pietermaritzburg to JHB.
So that would be 3,477km from Pietermaritzburg to Kisumu, Kenya.
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« Reply #20 on Jan 18, 2012, 8:27am »		[Quote]
From UK to Amman = 3788km.
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« Reply #21 on Jul 14, 2012, 9:48pm »		[Quote]
Only 117 miles from Bay City, Michigan to Traverse City, Michigan. But I have been to a lot of other places in that time.
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« Reply #22 on Jul 15, 2012, 2:43am »		[Quote]
120 miles (193 km), but I also have lived other places.
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« Reply #23 on Jul 15, 2012, 4:43am »		[Quote]
Approx 100 miles only ;D
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« Reply #24 on Jul 15, 2012, 8:22am »		[Quote]
10846 miles, 17456 kilometers. Wow! I have always joked that it is about as far as you can get from my current location but never actually bothered to look into the measured distance.
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« Reply #25 on Jul 15, 2012, 8:03pm »		[Quote]
I was brought up about 3 miles from where I was born in SW London, and now I live about 11 miles away in East London.
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« Reply #26 on Jul 17, 2012, 4:30pm »		[Quote]
Wow ~~ if this were a contest, 6Lucky & PatrickLondon would win for furthest and closest!

Patrick, you didn't get a nosebleed going that far east?

Where do you live, 6Lucky -- on the moon? ;D
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« Reply #27 on Jul 17, 2012, 4:47pm »		[Quote]

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Patrick, you didn't get a nosebleed going that far east?


Nope. I have lived a couple of hundred miles outside London for six years or so.

It's noticeable though, that on both sides of London, I've stayed very close to the river.
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Jul 17, 2012, 4:30pm, bixaorellana wrote:
Wow ~~ if this were a contest, 6Lucky & PatrickLondon would win for furthest and closest!

Patrick, you didn't get a nosebleed going that far east?

Where do you live, 6Lucky -- on the moon? ;D


When I look outside I sometimes feel like I am on the moon. The landscape is quite barren and some of the people who visit here are not from this world. :o I currently live near LAS (not a hooker or croupier) and was born near TNR (don't know the the lady who lived upstairs from K2's cafe).

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« Reply #29 on Jul 18, 2012, 3:25pm »		[Quote]
Approximately 6220 klms. :)
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