How far do you live from where you were born?

Me: 1,763 miles from Pensacola, Florida to San Diego, California

You can use this page to calculate the distance "as the crow flies"

http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm

from Seattle.

Agana, Guam to Wheaton, Il.

My Mom lived in Guam in 1932 and even won a golf tournament there at the age of 14.

I was born there under the post-war Naval Government of Guam, was seven months old when we moved stateside, have never been there since. I posted a KIA on my website the other day who was from Agana Heights. I couldn't find it with Google Earth, but speculate it is on the high ground above Agana. My parent's quonset hut was on a cliff immediately above Agana - so I figure he was probably my "homeboy"

after that, so my Mom got to travel that whole region as a teenager. Guam was pretty much undeveloped at that time. She says the golf course had grass, but the greens were sand. A thin layer of sand on the hard ground. No grass on the greens.

my mother joined him there in 46

Agana was pretty much leveled by the Japanese when they invaded.

We had a Chamorro housekeeper, Helen, who told many stories of the occupation.

Said that when the Americans finally landed to retake the island, the villagers ran down to the beach, waved flags and such to show where they lived, avoid "collateral damage," since they were in locations other than where they might be expected.

The Chamorro people had a song they sang during the brutal Japanese occupation.

It referred to Uncle Sam, but they pronounced Sam "sahm"

Part of it was:
"Sam, Sam, Please come back to Guam"

I guess that referred to your grandfather, among others.

Somehow I don't think the Iraqis will be looking back at our occupation with fondness; they'll view us as the Chamorros did the "damn japs" as Helen called them.

I weep for my country.

I was 7959 miles from Guam!

:)

my mother was from Flatbush; we lived on Ocean Avenue in the early '50's while dad was in Korea

:P

oh, wait...

cool.

Mapquest says 2007.

We'll just say the definitive answer is far. Very far.

Oakville, Ontario to Edmonton.

I thought it would be farther.

So the solar seasons are similar, and the temp is very different.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad%2C_MT 48° N 111° W


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson%2C_AZ 32° N 112° W

Edit to add: 1104 miles

Seoul, Korea to Valley City, ND

(I don't live in Seoul but it was the only city they listed)

8 months to go.

I live in Atlanta, GA and I was born in Rockingham, NC.

Very cool site! :thumbsup:

CAW!!!! :D

Hollywood to Roswell, NM

:D

Same state, 2 counties apart. I've come nearly full circle, having lived in 5 states, 2 countries and 2 continents in between.

A bit over ten miles, as the crow flies. Closer to 20 from the place where my parents lived, since it was on the opposite end of town.

I was born in O-hi-o

East Coast to Left Coast, diagonally.

anyway, I live about 50 miles from there out here in Ventura County

West Hollywood is a city on its own.

Ripon, Wisconsin, where I was born!

Clever website!

:hi:

Norfolk VA to Milwaukee WI

I live now in Monkton, MD. I always just say that I live about an hour's drive north of Baltimore.

According to mapquest.

Elberton GA to Blue Lake CA.

I'm in San Diego atm, and I was born in Saint Etienne, France

actual odometer reading is 68 miles.

from Wilmington, Ohio, to Anchorage, Alaska.

Northeast Ohio to Westcentral Indiana.

...but I have lived as far as 5,800 +/- miles away...(Angwin, California to Amberg, Germany)
:D

although it seems like from the earth to the moon.

An hour driving distance.

I don't imagine I'll ever live very far from here. I love New England.

Sigh

Phippsburg to Poughkeepsie

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Kansas City, KS. Hopefully it will be a shorter distance in a few years.

:hi:

RL

793 miles
University City, MO to Dover, DE

is my distance.

Culturally .. a gazillion miles.

:hi:

not counting those 8 years in Texas.

113 miles by road according to an on-line route-finder.

England is a pretty small place.

I've traveled to many parts of the US, been to Canada, Ireland, London and Amsterdam, yet here I am still in same vicinity.

Pathetic, ain't it? :crazy:

Man, it was a long time ago. The continents have drifted since then.

But I didn't grow up here.

not too far :-)

They tore it down and put condos in its place in 1985.

From: Ms_Dem_Meanor :hi:

Weirdly enough, I've moved back clost to where I was born, for the time being. I've almost always been farther away, often by thousands of miles.

From the town in Virginia where I was born to Dallas is 1,177 miles.

From that town in Virginia to where I mostly hang in the Rheinland
is 3,962 miles.

That makes me sound like such a chav. :rofl:

Of course, I've been all over the world since then. I would never want to move very far away from my family again.

though I don't want to be in NC much longer....