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150ish miles

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.

Several thousand miles and no.

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.

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.

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

In functional reality, I've lived in the same place all my life. In technical terms I'm less than 5 miles from the hospital where I was born.

I'm determined to be the short side of the 50 mile average.

Like 10 kilometers? The hospital I was born in was torn down but I still live in the same town and I don't plan on leaving.

6k km almost precisely. Different continent. This will be my home.

4300km. I’ll go back for a few more funerals and maybe because downtown Boston has fantastic food.

Weirdly I’m only 17 kms as I’m staying with friends while I’m away from home working. I actually live 90 kms away now, though I lived all over the world growing up. The furthest away was 12k kms.

Maybe 250 miles. While I have “rose colored glasses” about that being a wonderful place to grow up, now it’s all grey monochrome dystopia. The major tech employer left and the town never recovered. Many years later it’s exactly the same, but decayed.

At this point I’ve lived in my current town almost as long, my current region longer. It’s home

I'm about 500 meters from the place where the hospital I was born stood (the building still exists, but it's something else now).

I grew up in this city since my parents moved here before I was born. I also lived here half of my adult life and I'm thinking of leaving.

I have no emotional connection with this city. My family is from a different region of the country and we have a very different culture. My heart is with my parents hometown and I always identify myself with the region autonym.

Other side of the country.

38 miles away, but it should be noted that since being spawned, I've moved upwards of 3k miles from that point and then returned to my current location many years later.

Looks like 1126 miles. I had to guess the hospital, though. It was never home. Probably left within days never to return.

Other than that, lived my whole life within a 12 mile diameter except when I was in the Army and a 5 year stint in DC.

About 30 miles. I guess I'd consider it local, but I've never considered that specific town home.

2208 km, moved when I was in my early 20s. Still have friends and family there so I visit occasionally, but I have no desire to move back.

A bit over 1200 miles. Haven't been to Texas since before i could read, once got close enough in Oklahoma to seat the GIANT WALL OF HEAT to the south and promptly said fuck that. No desire to ever be there.

Right now I’m 9.8 miles away. Looking up how far away from it I live…looks like 10 miles. So now I’m wondering if I just spend my life rotating in a 10 miles away radius from my spawn point.

13,300 km (8,264 mi) away from "spawn point", ~14,000 km from "home".

I live about 100km from my hometown. It's where I was born and I lived there on and off for about half my life but I no longer think of it as home.

100km now, but even though i say I’m from there, i have no family and barely any acquaintances left. Still can do the dialect, though, if i make an effort. Usually don’t. And in a couple of years, I’ll move hundreds or thousands of kilometres away. Again.

285 miles, 459 km. But no, absolutely not. My home town is where I grew up, not where I was born.

375 miles away from spawn point, but my tutorial zone (where I actually grew up) was 215 miles away from there and 215 miles away from my current home point.

I lived in the city of my birth for a bit for a job, fucking hated that city, it was never home. Lived off and on where I grew up, and now have lived in my current for about 10 years.

Where I grew up is a complicated feeling. I miss the Ozark mountains, the flatlands I live in now I don't like despite liking the city. But the area has changed so much and so rapidly it's like coming to the bones of an animal where nature has rapidly overtaken the body and saying that's the animal. It's... recognizable if you squint at it, but it's dead and gone and now something completely different.

I'm not sure if where I live now is "home" still. But if where I grew up was home, I can never go back there. I can live in that place, but the farming town is now a metro that is unrecognizable.

I'm almost at the antipode of my spawn point but I moved here late enough in life that, while the rest of my household call here home, I still think of my birthplace as home. Some days it's hard.

about a 58 hour walk right now but at timed I am >10,000 miles out

I'm more than a thousand miles away and it never felt like home. The few times I've been back reinforced my decision to leave.

I live about an hour from my spawn point. I don't consider it home as I left it 15 years ago after realizing it was dead end city full of terrible people.

I have been about 4500 miles away for most of my life, but I was home sick so I moved closer and I am now only 1500 miles away from spawn.

Hard to say, as my "spawn point," was decommissioned a few years ago, and is currently being dismantled. I suspect the medical deck is long gone from the ship.

"Home" has, for me, always referred to where I currently live.

My house is about 2 miles away from the hospital where I was born but only a couple of meters from the spot where the house my parents lived in when I was born used to stand, which means there's a good chance I can see the spot where I was conceived from my upstairs window.

Just checked on the map. There's a stretch of about 11 miles that I consider to be home. I lived most of my life smack in the middle of that stretch .So about 5 and a half miles radius?

20 km, and yes, definitely my home, i'd say :D

About 6k km, vertically. Basically went from the middle of the planet to the tip.

Around 20km from the town I was born in. Never lived there though, so it's not really my home but definitely part of my home region. I do currently live in the village and house I grew up in, which I would consider as home.

Currently 7 miles / 11.3 km away, but have lived 3941 miles / 6343 km away.

The fact that I'm now so close again is pretty much pure chance.

5 miles away from spawn point, the furthest I've lived is 300 miles away but in the same nation, my spawn city is absolutely home to me, even if not ethnically from here, I am very privileged to be born here

About 30 miles, couple towns over. We moved away when I was 5, and back to roughly where I live now when I was 9. I consider my current city to be much more my home than my spawn point. Spawn point is in a pretty boring red county.

7km, and yes, still home lol

Over 10,000km. This is home, it's where my kids were born and are growing up. But there's also "back home", where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.