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Current, about 300 meters. I live in an apartment a block over from the hospital I was born at.

You can reset your spawn point by sleeping in a bed.

~2500 miles. I have no attachments to Ohio, little fond memory, and will likely never visit again. It’s been over 35 years and I intend to make it another additional 35+

No offense to my Ohio peeps, but Oregon feels a wee more comfortable. …when it’s not on fire

About 120 miles, which in the UK is like a weekend trip at least

14,411 kilometres apparently. It certainly feels like it the few times I’ve flown back. New Zealand feels like walking around your old high school now, it’s nostalgic but also a little eerie.

About 14k km away. Born in Mexico. Reside in Taiwan for now(work).

Is my spawn point the bathtub I was born in or the alley behind the bowling alley that I was conceived in?

I am thousands of miles away from my home. I have been back a few times over the decades and every time I feel more peace, because I am home. I don't feel at home where I live, it still feels foreign to me because the environment is so different than the land my heart calls home.

The heartbreaking part is that it has deteriorated in some parts so that my heart hurts seeing it. The part that I am from remains what I remember, but going to the major city causes distress at the state of things.

I work 20ish miles from the hospital I was born in. I live probably 5 minutes from it driving. I have probably lived half my life here. I call it home but I live in a world that my younger self would never recognize. I was ultra poor growing up and now I mingle with the town elite and have one of the historic houses that is iconic for lots of people here.

I lived 20+ years 300 miles away from my hometown and thought I would never live here again. But life is funny like that.

I'm at home in a town about 10-15 miles from the town and hospital I was born in (as the crow flies.)

And I've lived the majority of my life in a town that's probably about another 3 miles from there.

If I were asked to name my home town, I wouldn't give the name of the town with the hospital, I'd give the town I grew up in.

But it's all close enough together that all three towns share a certain sense of hominess for me, I have childhood memories from all 3 towns.

We all speak, more-or-less, the same local dialect with the same slang (there's a couple shibboleths and bits of local lore that are unique to one part of the county over another) We enjoy the same local foods, root for the same sports teams, attend a lot of the same big local events, etc.

I proudly, and without a hint of irony, tell people that my ancestry is from that town I grew up in.

Yes, if you go back 3+ generations, you'll find that all of my ancestors came from various European countries. Little bits of that has trickled down to the current generation, like a certain fondness for pierogi and kielbasa from my Polish side.

But that's also part of my local culture, those are fairly common food items here too.

I don't speak any of the languages my ancestors spoke, I've never set foot in those countries. Even my family name hasn't really carried over, my great great grandfather changed the name after having already lived here for some time under the original Italian name. It's a pretty unusual anglicization that barely resembles the original name, and anywhere in the world you may happen to encounter someone with my name, you know they can trace their heritage back to my home town.

And if you try to go much further back from that, the trail kind of goes cold. You can kind of make some educated guesses at which regions in their various old countries the different branches of my family came from, but not much more than that, except on the aforementioned polish side, some of those ancestors were a little more recent immigrants (though still well-before my time) and we have some communication with some relatives in Poland. Nothing regular, but once in a while someone on either side reaches out to see how things are going, and we know enough that if we really wanted to we could probably track each other down if we ever ended up in each other's countries.

But overall, my family history pretty much begins with my great-great(or so) grandparents arriving in America and settling in my hometown.

About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.

I was born at the north end of a valley, went to collage in the middle of the valley (maybe 2/3rds down), and then settled down at south end of the valley. About 100mi / 160km. Where I live now is home, my spawn point hasn't been my home in over half my life.

Though I've lived for months at a time in a few more distant cities, all in the US.

Currently not far, but I’m going to be moving to another country in a couple months and it will be about 5,000 miles away

I'm about 80 miles from where I was hatched. Moved away when I had kids because I didn't want to raise them in Winnipeg (Canada) because.. well.. Winnipeg.

It'll always be my home town, but I now live in an area with a population density of 7 ppl per square mile, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. (The loudest things out here are the birds, and it's nice and peaceful.)

549 miles. It’s a blue state beckoning me back as well.

8,130km. Neither current location not spawn point feel like home. That would be 1,667km from spawn and 9,788km from here.

About 250 meters, as the crow flies. My wife, as well. It is no longer a hospital, though.

2312 miles, or 3,721 km. From the east coast of the US to the west coast.

Spawn point LOL

About 1-1.5 hours

At 2 km from the former hospital. Nowadays there is a new one but it's at like 4 km

191 km, or 9-11 hours' travel. #BCFerries

I do not consider it home. I left when I was 6, and have only enough memories to find my old house on a map and mayyybe point out the nun-run kindergarten we had to attend because no one else would take us so young.

5284km this place feels like home because this is where I've slept for the last 4 years.

About 8,100 miles, as the crow flies.

After trying out another country (Switzerland) and other cities in Germany (Berlin and Kiel) im back in Hamburg where I spawned. Yea other places are nice as well but no matter where I went I liked it here more. But we are known for thinking our town is the most beautiful place on earth.

About 1,500 km. Nope, there is places I grew up and places I've been. There's no "hometown".

I live about 6 hours and in the neighboring state from where I was born, though I've also lived further away. It's hard to consider it home - my parents were divorced and living in different states since before I was born, and I've lived with both of them and moved around on my own besides. My mom's the only one left in my home state, but I would never want to live there again because it's deep red and way wrong for me climate-wise.

~18 hours away. Yes, where I'm at currently is definitely home.

Mine is 4,242 km (2,636 mi). I will never go back.

I was born in France, now I live in Japan. France is not home anymore.

74 miles/119km.

I don't consider that specific place home. While it's not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.

Several thousand miles and no.

I saw an article 20 years ago that claimed the median distance of birthplace to death?place? is 50 miles for men in the US. I was determined to beat that number, and I'm almost double that now but goddamn was it hard.

I'm about 8036.68 miles , 12933.78 kilometers from where I was born and where I am isn't my home but now it's been so long since I've gone back that I'm not sure it will feel like home if I go back either

12005km from my place of birth where I still have family. But home is where I live

I live around 40 miles from where I was born.

My home is where I am and who I'm with now. My spawn point is somewhere I managed to survive long enough to stage my successful escape.

30 miles in distance, which doesn't seem like much. But very different culturally. Where I grew up often didn't feel like home even when I lived there. It definitely doesn't now.

78 miles from my spawn point.

Half a world away. It hasn’t been my home for more than 2 decades now.

About 26 miles from the hospital I was born in, or 35 miles from my family’s home at the time. I haven’t gone far, but each move has a been a little bit further.

Who knows, by the time I die maybe I’ll live outside the local metro area!