72% of adults live less than 20 miles (32 km) from where they grew up

I’m over 800 miles from where I grew up.

Thousands

I live in the same house in which I grew up: I bought it from my Dad's estate.

In another country.

About 1400 miles apart

I'm about 760 miles from where I grew up. I wish that meant I live in some super cool, fab place. But, I live in Springfield, Illinois currently, having grown up in Moorhead, MN (adjacent to Fargo, ND). Hope to get back to a city I really like in the next few years. Have lived in Chicago and Atlanta.

In America? Or the world? That seems a little high for America.

On the other side of the world.

I'd like to know how many moved back and after legitimately living relatively far away (or sort of far away) for two or three years or more (not including college).

Paris, France; Palm Beach FL.

I moved 2000 miles from home when I was 18.

Now, age 68, I live in a different country.

I have never lived in the town that I grew up in, since age 18.

About 1,500 miles.

1,287 miles.

I moved to a different country and became a citizen.

Forgot to say I moved countries when I was 18 - same as R11.

I had a one way ticket, 1 suitcase and around $500 bucks in 1989.

I moved away 2000 miles for grad school very deliberately to escape a rather insane, toxic household. Fast forward 20 years later, one parent had Parkinson's and dementia, the other Alzheimer's, so I moved back to deal with it. It was 12 years of being a caretaker. I now live in a house that's been in the family since the '40s.

R14 moved from Mexicali to Calexico.

Do you like where you live, R16?

I think people should experience something else if they can, and obviously many people flee places they hate. But, if you genuinely like where you're from, I don't see the problem living within 20 miles.

4000 kilometers.

born and raised in New England; living in the heart of LA now.

My goal over the next five years is to make enough $ to buy my parents home and live there part of the year

Live on the opposite side of the country from where I grew up and have thought about moving back when I retire in 6-7 years, even though my family is no longer there

I live roughly 500 miles from where I grew up and have for more than 20 years. Previously, I lived about 250 miles from where I grew up. I used to think I might return to my home state after I retired, but I retired two years ago and really have no desire to go back, except for occasional visits.

I do very much, r18. Quality of life, weather, etc. is much better here, especially since they both passed away and don't have to deal with their insanity any longer.

I’m 27 miles away from I grew up.

[quote] 4000 kilometers

I am not sure kilos are allowed on DL. Sorry. Please recast.

I live almost on the other side of the planet now. Does that mean I'm special?

R26 Vladivostok to West Virginia. Great. Nothing special.

Nothing but wrong R27!

- R26

6.5 miles from where I grew up (childhood to adulthood) and 27 miles from where I was born.

I went to college in a major city and lived in NYC and LA. Now I’m back in my pretty hometown and love it.

Across the world from mine

8 miles.

Sorry R28: it was Greenland -> Tierra del Fuego in your case. Great. Nothing special. Bye.

24 miles.

I live about 130 miles away from where I grew up. This I ate closest I’ve lived or my hometown since I left. I used to live out of state entirely.

[quote] Across the world from mine —Couldn't wait to leave R31

R31: Kaliningrad to Pyongyang.

It not the ⓖⓔⓞⓖⓡⓐⓟⓗⓘⓒⓐⓛ distance you travel. Most of you don't understand OP.

*this is the closest I’ve lived

[Quote]It not the ⓖⓔⓞⓖⓡⓐⓟⓗⓘⓒⓐⓛ

Someone's missing its AA meetings. And having grammar problems.

About 50 miles. Still in the same metro area, just on the opposite side.

Same house I grew up in. My family is gone.

All this is based on some random statement made by some random dude on social media without any links to any kind of documentation.

And, I don't buy it. At least not in the U.S. where everybody moves constantly.

About 2,000 miles, and a different country. I'm 40 now, and I miss home a little bit more everyday.

I'm living in the same house since 1976.

Waiting for the inevitable posts from Manhattanites boasting that they have never felt the need to leave the neighborhood they were born, grew up and have spent all their lives in.

My hick hometown in the middle of nowhere is chockful of people who grew-up, worked and died there. They all married each other.

I got the hell outta there as soon as I saved $1,500 dollars and never looked back.

Only five miles away. Small beach community.

I've never lived closer to my hometown than 400 miles since I finished college. My hometown is a rust belt economic disaster. Everyone with a college degree in my social circle left 30 + years ago.

I moved across the pond.

4,220 miles, give or take 50 or so because I grew up in various suburbs.

I'll never move back to NYC, but I also never thought I'd be totally unable to visit for two years or more. Thanks, COVID!

I live 375 miles from where I grew up, which is too close for my comfort. I have lived as far away as 1000 miles away, which I liked better. I cannot imagine going back and living in that little town. It makes me depressed to think about what would have to happen in my life that could cause me to end up there.

Almost 1000 miles, at least for right now. I've lived farther away in the past.

Just looked it up. I live 3.1 miles from where I grew up.

London.

Approximately 400 miles, and I haven’t been back in 15 years.

Your point R36 ??????

I still live in my home city, but I have lived away for university and also worked abroad. I don’t have a very good job but my life and friends (old and new) are here and the gay scene is great. I’m 37.

My father was a Marine. We moved all the time. I travel for a living now; cheaper to stay in hotels than get a place. I guess I'm still doing the same thing, even if that means being a gypsy.

Have you ever wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you?

My parents moved to 200 miles when I was 2 years old. Since then the furthest I've lived is 6 miles from the house I grew up in.

I live on the coast.

I live abroad and haven't lived anywhere near that close to home since I was 22 and lived at home a few months after graduation before landing a job out of town.

My brother lived in the nearest big city to our suburban hometown (probably about 20 miles away) for about half of his adult life. He moved to another state right before the pandemic started to take a new job.

[quote]I live on the coast.

What the hell does that mean?

[quote]I live abroad

and another one.

I've lived at least 12,000 km from where I grew up since 1978.

I’m more worried that 90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. They can only be planning an attack and take over of the US.

[quote]What the hell does that mean?

The coast is a common abbreviation for coast line. where the land meets the sea.

I left my hometown at 17 and kept moving farther away with each subsequent move. I’m 3,961 miles / 6,375 km in a different continent. All my sibs live within 25 miles of where they were born. They all think my hometown is the greatest even though they haven’t lived anywhere else. It works for them because ignorance is bliss. I just don’t compute with their world view and vice versa.

420 miles, door to door.

I look at so many of my high school classmates (who were terrible to me), who stayed in or near our hometown. And I realized that I made to NYC. I won.

2400 miles

About 500 miles from Buff, to which I’d move back in a second if I could. The expense, noise, and danger is starting to outweigh the thrills of living in a big city.

^^Buffalo

I wonder how they figure this for people who moved WHILE they were growing up? Which of the three states am I supposed to count?

I'm about 600 miles away.

8,500 miles. what do i win?

Well, I split my time between Manhattan and the north shore of Long Island growing up, so in a way I’m still in that routine. Live in the city and also go to my hometown on LI a lot to see my mom. I’m also part owner of a business there.

Works fine for me. I still love NYC, though I did live in LA for a few years in my 20s. And the area where my family’s house is is gorgeous. A few friends from the city have moved there.too. I consider myself very lucky in that way.

About 50ft from lot 55c to 57c at the Rolling Meadows trailer park. It’s actually a double wide so I’ve moved up in the world!

All my straight siblings do. Always amazed me - given my parents were immigrants who moved thousands of miles from their home. Now I see THEIR kids doing the same thing - didn’t even consider college far away or going to work somewhere else.

I thank God I was gay and had dreams of getting away when I was a kid - even if they were influenced by being “different” than those around me. It’s the one thing I’m most grateful for about being gay. The other being that marriage and kids was not an assumed way of living.

I would be ok going back there now 30 years a later - as it’s a suburb of a major city.

Yes I'm in that category. Lucky to have grown up in a good area with plenty of positives and few negatives, so when I moved away after returning home from University I didn't go too far.

I live 12,547 Km (7,796.443) away from where I grew up. It was a long trek.

this statement may have been true at one time but I don't think it is anymore. I moved 400 miles away from where I grew up 46 years ago and I would never go back. I moved to rural PA and in the beginning a lot of people who had grown up here and moved away eventually came back. not anymore. It's becoming a ghost town.

There aren't enough opportunities anymore in small rural places. We used to have oil and steel and generation after generation worked in them but they are long gone. I'm sure it is the same with the coal mines.

We have one Mexican restaurant and some bar restaurants and that's it. We have Walmart, Home Depot and a few other known names but that it. In my town there is one grocery store. It is the same in the surrounding towns. There just isn't much left to come back to or a reason to stay here.

Gays move around more because we all wanted to run away and be little whores.

I live 4000 miles from where I grew up.

[quote] r58 I live on the coast.

[quote] r60 What the hell does that mean?

I fit the bill...

Only 2436 miles. I used to live farther (4817 miles away within the same country for 3 years; 3867 miles in a different country for a further 4 years).

This percentage is probably a lot lower for gay people who'll often move to cities or away from homophobia. (177 miles away for me.)

Yeah, what R84 said. Most gay people got the fuck out of Dodge as soon as they could.

I live three time zones away.

R78 where are you?

another unsubstantiated tidbit from twitter? no thanks

I live over 1,200 miles away from where I grew up in New England. My family still lives there. My mother, my brother and all my cousins on my father's side (my father passed away) all live in or somewhat close to our hometown. There is one other set of cousins who live a couple hundred miles away in the State of New York, but they all live right where they grew up. That side liked staying put except for me. My family on my mother's side all moved down South. I keep in touch with both sides.

I just never felt like I belonged there. I love going back to visit and it's always so wonderful to see everyone, but I'm always left with a sense that my life is elsewhere. Somewhat like R20, I'd like to live in New England part-time, probably during the summers, but that won't be until after I retire, which is close to 20 years away. Also, it won't be in some house I inherited. I do miss New England summers. The weather is about perfect.

300 miles. And I moved to state/city with less population. I know... I’m an outlier!

Left Sugar Land in the 80s and subsequently lived in Austin, DC, Dublin, Los Angeles, and Baltimore. Now back in Austin, about 160 miles from my dad in SL. My stepmother died last summer and it’s really brought up a lot of memories so I’ve been driving through the older parts of town, which has been very sweet and comforting. I wouldn’t live there but the incredible diversity gives me hope for Texas.

Thousands. I live on the west coast. It was as far as I could get from Detroit. My idiot family remains in Michigan.

I still live in my home town (a major city). In 1994 I inherited the house I grew up in and still own it, although I don't live there. I have lived about 10 minutes away in the same apartment for 45 years.

I live in a bordering state to where I grew up.

R90 Dublin Ohio (Columbus area) or Dublin Ireland?

I grew up in Michigan, moved to Boston right after college then moved to Oregon 8 years later. I spent 90% of my vacation time back in Michigan visiting my parents while they were alive.

For those of you who moved back to care for elderly parents, what did you do for work? I regret not at least taking a leave of absence once my Mom hit her mid 80s. I had a good paying Federal job with lifetime healthcare, I had 4 years to early retirement before she died suddenly. I wish I could do that over, I think her death was preventable.

Don't fret none R95.

r96, how did you know I'm female? Thank you for the kind words.

R97 Sorry honey. I just being sarcastic at someone who I thought was male...

[quote]Greenland -> Tierra del Fuego in your case

The other side of the world of Greenland would be Antarctica. The opposite of the world of Terra del Fuego would be Lake Baikal in Russia.

"For those of you who moved back to care for elderly parents, what did you do for work? "

I'm wondering this myself. My mom is 85. In great shape, independent. Still drives (a little). But there will come a day. Ugh.

R91 What’s wrong with Michigan?

R94 Ireland. I’ve actually only driven thru Ohio from Chicago to DC.