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 (https://www.airmilescalculator.com/)
My home town is Grand Rapids, Michigan; it's 1055 Miles / 1698 Km / 917 Nautical Miles to Melbourne, Florida.
I live in my hometown, so I stand to bring down the Languish average considerably.
740 miles / 1190 km
At my further, I was 1638 miles / 2636 km (Whitehorse, obviously)
About 75km, down from about 200km a few years ago.
Mind you, that's as far away as possible without leaving the country.
For the past 6 months, about 20 miles. :ph34r:
I had to use Google Earth as there's no airport within 30 miles of my home town, but using that it's 366.3 air miles from the house I grew up in (south of Albany, Georgia) to my current house (New Orleans, Louisiana).
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.
6451 miles / 10382 kilometers
I figure I'll be hard to beat.
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.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 11, 2019, 03:39:29 PM
6451 miles / 10382 kilometers
I figure I'll be hard to beat.
I figure that's some place in South Korea. How long did you live there? I would have thought that you'd consider some place in Iowa your home town, even if not born there.
970 miles / 1561 km.
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2019, 03:41:31 PM
I figure that's some place in South Korea. How long did you live there? I would have thought that you'd consider some place in Iowa your home town, even if not born there.
About 19 years.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 11, 2019, 03:47:46 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 11, 2019, 03:41:31 PM
I figure that's some place in South Korea. How long did you live there? I would have thought that you'd consider some place in Iowa your home town, even if not born there.
About 19 years.
: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.
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. ;)
70km
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.
About an hour away - I was born in Monterey, I live now in Santa Cruz.
Gotcha Yi. :thumbsup:
576 miles according to Sav's tool.*
* :perv:
About 185 miles, going by the closest airports in that app. Probably just a tad further, adjusting for distances to the airports.
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?
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 (https://www.airmilescalculator.com/)
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.
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:
5,427 mi
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.
I live a 5 minute walk away from the house I grew up in.
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. :(
;)
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?
3.8 miles from the hospital I was born in.
720 miles
Quote from: Savonarola on April 11, 2019, 05:49:02 PM
You're from WV right? Is your hometown a victim of industrial decline and opioid abuse?
IIRC he might be from Huntington, WV? If so yes, I've been there and it's one of the biggest shit holes I've ever seen (sorry spiess :blush: )
It's 4,455.39 miles for me.
Still #1. :punk:
Stupid Pacific Ocean. :mad:
~23.5 miles. I might go back in retirement, but very low chance of it before then.
I live in my hometown.
2,405 or so by air
3,182 by car.
Roughly a thousand miles by car, it'd seem.
I live within a mile of the house I was brought from the hospital to after I was born.
4,265 miles apparently.
I used to be even further away when I lived in San Francisco.
My hometown is Cambridge, in the UK. A lovely place. I last lived there in about 1993 I think.
I live in the same block as I did when I was a teen, about 5 minute walk from where I lived as a little kid.
I don't have a home town.
From my old hometown - 795 km (494 miles) as the crow flies, 1,027 km (638 miles) by car.
Quote from: Caliga on April 11, 2019, 07:01:31 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 11, 2019, 05:49:02 PM
You're from WV right? Is your hometown a victim of industrial decline and opioid abuse?
IIRC he might be from Huntington, WV? If so yes, I've been there and it's one of the biggest shit holes I've ever seen (sorry spiess :blush: )
Correct. It is an absolute shithole. Sadly, I can remember when it was still something of a decent small town. It was already in decline in the 70s/80s, but still had some things going for it and was a good place to grow up. Now it's just a dirty old river town in decay.
Quote from: DGuller on April 11, 2019, 07:35:46 PM
It's 4,455.39 miles for me.
And yet it's still not far enough. The fuckers followed you here.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 12, 2019, 06:35:20 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 11, 2019, 07:35:46 PM
It's 4,455.39 miles for me.
And yet it's still not far enough. The fuckers followed you here.
Don't remind me. :(
I live 1471 miles according to Sav's tool.
I may be one of the few who can say that my hometown got better over the years I've been away. Des Moines is now regularly on the Top 10 lists for Best Places to Live/Raise a Family, etc. It was not all that when I was there.
Quote from: DGuller on April 12, 2019, 06:50:38 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 12, 2019, 06:35:20 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 11, 2019, 07:35:46 PM
It's 4,455.39 miles for me.
And yet it's still not far enough. The fuckers followed you here.
Don't remind me. :(
Hey, you're better off than Tamas. There are assholes trying to send him back.
Quote from: Maximus on April 12, 2019, 04:33:59 PM
I don't have a home town.
Your home unincorporated area. Your home rural postal code.
I live in my home town.
Quote from: The Brain on April 13, 2019, 08:49:48 AM
I live in my home town.
It has kept you so long you've begun to identify with it.
The Sunday Times 2019 best place to live in Britain has been announced:
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OVERALL WINNER
Salisbury
Wiltshire
This cathedral city is divinely attractive, has a distinguished history and offers top-class schooling, but this year we're honouring its resurgent community spirit — and its glorious surrounds
:hmm:
22 Km. I live in a coastal town in Barcelona's metro area.
I'm kinda tied down to either the Barcelona or Madrid metro areas given my line of work. I know super-successful guys that live in the middle on the countryside and commute via AVE high speed train, or even fly to work, but I'm not at that level.
34 km. From a small village north of the town to a small village south of the town.
Quote from: mongers on April 13, 2019, 08:30:01 PM
The Sunday Times 2019 best place to live in Britain has been announced:
If I lived in Britain I think I'd like to live in Ventnor or the Scilly Isles. :hmm:
Bragança is 1400 km away by car or train.
Paris Rive gauche, where I was born, but never lived, a couple km.
Back in West Paris so living pretty much in my home town or should I say arrondissement.
I live 200 km away from my honetown.
I live like 350km from the town I was born and lived for a couple of years and 580km away from the town I grew up in and which I would consider my hometown.
I also live in my hometown, town where I was born.
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 (https://www.airmilescalculator.com/)
My home town is Grand Rapids, Michigan; it's 1055 Miles / 1698 Km / 917 Nautical Miles to Melbourne, Florida.
Roughly 11,000 km as the bird flies. That's 6835 miles
Sorry Yi, I got you beat! :cool:
https://www.google.com/search?q=sejong+to+providence+distance&oq=sejong+to+providence+distance&aqs=chrome..69i57.6910j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Rounding error. Let's have a spelling bee to break the tie.
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2019, 10:44:10 AM
Quote from: mongers on April 13, 2019, 08:30:01 PM
The Sunday Times 2019 best place to live in Britain has been announced:
If I lived in Britain I think I'd like to live in Ventnor or the Scilly Isles. :hmm:
:D
Very good.
Your link doesn't give the number.
1400 miles across the Canadian Shield. In Europe that would be from London to Smolensk.
Currently 125 miles. Looking back on places that I have lived the maximum would be 6759 miles (Newcastle to Singapore); very similar to the other high figures. If we had a former Brit who was now a Kiwi they would win it; probably a not uncommon type either.
If we count all places lived I can stretch to 6,960/11,200, DC to Seoul.
This game means so much to me. :cry:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 16, 2019, 01:32:03 AM
Currently 125 miles. Looking back on places that I have lived the maximum would be 6759 miles (Newcastle to Singapore); very similar to the other high figures. If we had a former Brit who was now a Kiwi they would win it; probably a not uncommon type either.
Doesn't Bogh live in NZ?
Quote from: Eddie Teach on April 16, 2019, 02:12:36 AM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 16, 2019, 01:32:03 AM
Currently 125 miles. Looking back on places that I have lived the maximum would be 6759 miles (Newcastle to Singapore); very similar to the other high figures. If we had a former Brit who was now a Kiwi they would win it; probably a not uncommon type either.
Doesn't Bogh live in NZ?
Unless he moved back. Lets hope he doesn't pay a ninja visit here and claim the crown...........Yi would be crushed :o
Word.
Wait, Hayklut is a geordie? Now that I didn't expect.
Quote from: celedhring on April 17, 2019, 12:05:16 PM
Wait, Hayklut is a geordie? Now that I didn't expect.
Please do keep up, said a couple of years ago he's Tyr's 2nd cousin. :bowler:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 14, 2019, 11:07:07 PM
Rounding error. Let's have a spelling bee to break the tie.
:lol: