I’m about 12,950 Kilometers from my spawn point, according to Google Earth. That place is not “home” since I barely have any memories of it, and left the country during primary school.

  • Zatore@lemmy.zip
    37·
    14 days ago

    Current, about 300 meters. I live in an apartment a block over from the hospital I was born at.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
    121·
    14 days ago

    ~2500 miles. I have no attachments to Ohio, little fond memory, and will likely never visit again. It’s been over 35 years and I intend to make it another additional 35+

    No offense to my Ohio peeps, but Oregon feels a wee more comfortable. …when it’s not on fire

  • Paige@lemmy.ca
    7·
    14 days ago

    14,411 kilometres apparently. It certainly feels like it the few times I’ve flown back. New Zealand feels like walking around your old high school now, it’s nostalgic but also a little eerie.

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      I was dismayed to find that the hospital I was born in has been torn down and replaced with a newer one. I’m only 44!

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    6·
    14 days ago

    I’m at home in a town about 10-15 miles from the town and hospital I was born in (as the crow flies.)

    And I’ve lived the majority of my life in a town that’s probably about another 3 miles from there.

    If I were asked to name my home town, I wouldn’t give the name of the town with the hospital, I’d give the town I grew up in.

    But it’s all close enough together that all three towns share a certain sense of hominess for me, I have childhood memories from all 3 towns.

    We all speak, more-or-less, the same local dialect with the same slang (there’s a couple shibboleths and bits of local lore that are unique to one part of the county over another) We enjoy the same local foods, root for the same sports teams, attend a lot of the same big local events, etc.

    I proudly, and without a hint of irony, tell people that my ancestry is from that town I grew up in.

    Yes, if you go back 3+ generations, you’ll find that all of my ancestors came from various European countries. Little bits of that has trickled down to the current generation, like a certain fondness for pierogi and kielbasa from my Polish side.

    But that’s also part of my local culture, those are fairly common food items here too.

    I don’t speak any of the languages my ancestors spoke, I’ve never set foot in those countries. Even my family name hasn’t really carried over, my great great grandfather changed the name after having already lived here for some time under the original Italian name. It’s a pretty unusual anglicization that barely resembles the original name, and anywhere in the world you may happen to encounter someone with my name, you know they can trace their heritage back to my home town.

    And if you try to go much further back from that, the trail kind of goes cold. You can kind of make some educated guesses at which regions in their various old countries the different branches of my family came from, but not much more than that, except on the aforementioned polish side, some of those ancestors were a little more recent immigrants (though still well-before my time) and we have some communication with some relatives in Poland. Nothing regular, but once in a while someone on either side reaches out to see how things are going, and we know enough that if we really wanted to we could probably track each other down if we ever ended up in each other’s countries.

    But overall, my family history pretty much begins with my great-great(or so) grandparents arriving in America and settling in my hometown.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    191 km, or 9-11 hours’ travel. #BCFerries

    I do not consider it home. I left when I was 6, and have only enough memories to find my old house on a map and mayyybe point out the nun-run kindergarten we had to attend because no one else would take us so young.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    At 2 km from the former hospital. Nowadays there is a new one but it’s at like 4 km

  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
    4·
    14 days ago

    I live about 6 hours and in the neighboring state from where I was born, though I’ve also lived further away. It’s hard to consider it home - my parents were divorced and living in different states since before I was born, and I’ve lived with both of them and moved around on my own besides. My mom’s the only one left in my home state, but I would never want to live there again because it’s deep red and way wrong for me climate-wise.

  • Caveman@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 days ago

    5284km this place feels like home because this is where I’ve slept for the last 4 years.