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At one stage a few thousand miles away.
These days, 15 miles & I go to work there 5 days a week...


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:41 am
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37 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:42 am
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About 15 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:44 am
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Yes


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:52 am
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3673 miles apparently.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:53 am
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Less than a 10 minute walk.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:02 pm
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0m (That's Zero metres)

I was born in the house I'm living in ๐Ÿ™‚

Furthest I'd moved away, apart from Uni, was 15 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:04 pm
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6048 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:15 pm
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14,515 km give or take according to google.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:22 pm
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from here:

to here:

is 17087.46 kilometers (km)


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:23 pm
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Though i suspect the time dilation effect caused by perth being stuck in 1962 means i win?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:24 pm
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6 months ago it was 11680 miles. currently its 11 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:59 pm
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Hm, about a mile I think! - strictly I was born in Aberdeen, but that was an ambulance through and then return once I'd been born (in the snows of 1963 winter, apparently no heating in ambulance so was wrapped in my aunt's fur coat ๐Ÿ™‚

Usual stuff of going away to study, work but returned to home town to look out for my elderly parents.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:23 pm
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1.78 miles as the crow flies.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:35 pm
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208 further north according to Google... But despite how long I've lived in the North, I'll still be an incomer!


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:35 pm
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10553 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:38 pm
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Not sure how far it is as the crow flies but Google maps thinks it's 8264km to walk from Hemel Hempstead to Ahmedabad in India and apparently it'll take about 67 days and 21 hours.

I was born in Hemel hempstead too living 170 miles away now


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:45 pm
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80 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:55 pm
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47 parsecs


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:55 pm
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642.5 light years.

Now, where did I put my towel?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:03 pm
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88.1 miles ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:07 pm
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150 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:16 pm
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219 miles and 50 years so it could be as far away as say..Islamabad.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:22 pm
 hels
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18,399 km, which is 11,433 miles. Not sure if you could get much further...


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:28 pm
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About 60 miles the wife 7 miles I'd like the numbers to swap around but the wife doesn't agree.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:42 pm
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50 miles, closest, I have been since leaving home 22 years ago. Only 1 other of my extended family have moved from where they grew up. 50 miles is close but not too close.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:47 pm
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11771miles/18943km.

Surprised it's more than Hels.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:47 pm
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73 miles.

Wife is 11,411 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:51 pm
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139 miles from the hospital.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 3:08 pm
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508 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 3:14 pm
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4579 miles and a 72 he drive according to Google.

27 minutes faster going through southern Europe though ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 3:14 pm
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about 7 miles, it's now houses. Ronnie O'Sullivan was born there too, bit odd cus he's a southerner?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:01 pm
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2.2 miles if the crow is on a niche single speed.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:18 pm
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1648 miles. Only ever been back once when I was 16


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:31 pm
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2 miles according to google maps ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:36 pm
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My kids were born in the same hospital I was!

I now live in the next town from my parents, but it's in Lonon so isn't far!


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:45 pm
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1.7 miles according to Here. Maternity hospital, is now a business park.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:47 pm
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3 miles now. Lived far and wide during my late teens and early 20's.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:49 pm
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2700-ish miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:50 pm
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131 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:55 pm
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About 4 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 6:57 pm
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About 12 miles from where i was born, back living in the village i grew up in, although i was away for most of my twenties i ended up drifting back. My kids were also born in the same hospital that i was.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 7:11 pm
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Not far.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 7:12 pm
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about 25 miles, the wife is about 10.

I know what the OP is getting at. No Dad marrying my mum was a hugely exotic thing at the time. He grew up in a rural village near Worthing and most people married people from nearby villages. But my dad went to sea in 1955 and met my mum a couple of years later when his ship was on a refit in one of the Tyne shipyards. About 350 miles away. She recalls that she might as well have been from a different planet the first time she made a trip down south to meet family.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 7:14 pm
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4200 miles


 
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