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How close do you live to your home town?

Started by Savonarola, April 11, 2019, 03:14:43 PM

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Admiral Yi

#15
April 11, 2019, 04:20:09 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2019, 04:07:07 PM
:blink:

It's been 16 years on Languish, and now I feel like I don't know you at all.

I thought you didn't even speak much Korean.

My Korean is not good.  I attended Seoul Foreign School, a missionary established English language school for 12 years.  My friends and I all spoke English. I knew enough Korean to interact with taxi drivers and ask for beer and cigarettes at the corner store.

PDH

#16
April 11, 2019, 04:24:47 PM
About an hour away - I was born in Monterey, I live now in Santa Cruz.
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Barrister

#17
April 11, 2019, 04:26:48 PM
Gotcha Yi. :thumbsup:
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Caliga

#18
April 11, 2019, 04:27:20 PM
576 miles according to Sav's tool.*

* :perv:
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dps

#19
April 11, 2019, 04:51:53 PM
About 185 miles, going by the closest airports in that app.  Probably just a tad further, adjusting for distances to the airports.

crazy canuck

#20
April 11, 2019, 04:55:00 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 11, 2019, 04:10:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 11, 2019, 03:21:09 PM
I live in my hometown, so I stand to bring down the Languish average considerably.

I moved from Bathurst and Eglington to Bloor and Royal York.  ;)

About a 4 hour drive?

viper37

#21
April 11, 2019, 05:00:21 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 11, 2019, 03:14:43 PM
I was watching Netflix's presentation of Bruce Springsteen's one man Broadway show; in which he describes how eager he was to get out of Asbury Park, NJ when he was young and how he now lives all of ten minutes away.  (Born to Run; just not very far.)  I was curious how Languish rated.

Here's an air miles calculator

My home town is Grand Rapids, Michigan; it's 1055 Miles / 1698 Km / 917 Nautical Miles to Melbourne, Florida.
I live in my home town, in my childhood house, the one I have most memories of.
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Malthus

#22
April 11, 2019, 05:04:56 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 11, 2019, 04:55:00 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 11, 2019, 04:10:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 11, 2019, 03:21:09 PM
I live in my hometown, so I stand to bring down the Languish average considerably.

I moved from Bathurst and Eglington to Bloor and Royal York.  ;)

About a 4 hour drive?

:lol:

...  :cry:
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garbon

#23
April 11, 2019, 05:06:48 PM
5,427 mi
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mongers

#24
April 11, 2019, 05:08:46 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 11, 2019, 04:24:47 PM
About an hour away - I was born in Monterey, I live now in Santa Cruz.

For me this is the 'coolest' answer, if there's one place I'd like to have been born in other than England, it would be California. 


Though obviously Wales would trump that for quite a few other reasons.
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The Larch

#25
April 11, 2019, 05:18:38 PM
I live a 5 minute walk away from the house I grew up in.

Savonarola

#26
April 11, 2019, 05:43:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2019, 03:40:10 PM
I Kind of miss my home town (Winnipeg).  I left 19 years ago, I married a local girl, and my family has mostly moved out here by now, so there's no chance I'm moving back, but even after 8 years in Edmonton I don't feel the same kind of connection to this city.

I never felt any connection to Grand Rapids.  To me (much as I complained about it) Detroit always felt like home; but the city I left seven years ago isn't the same Detroit.  Now downtown is clean, there's things to do and people out every night.  You can't go back home.   :(

;)
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Savonarola

#27
April 11, 2019, 05:49:02 PM
Quote from: derspiess on April 11, 2019, 03:29:00 PM
2.5 hours / 148 miles.  In some ways it feels close, but in other ways far away.  I was eager to move away when I was 20.  No regrets about being raised there, but I'm glad I left when I did.  Depresses me whenever I go back and visit.

You're from WV right?  Is your hometown a victim of industrial decline and opioid abuse?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Razgovory

#28
April 11, 2019, 06:05:22 PM
3.8 miles from the hospital I was born in.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#29
April 11, 2019, 06:33:26 PM
720 miles
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