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.

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

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      Damn, got me beat. I’m a little over 2 miles away.

      I think we’re the two closest, though!

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        I’m right at 3 miles. I didn’t always, though. The family moved around a lot. The furthest we lived was about 1500 miles away.

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    ~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

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      Man, I meet so many people who have left Ohio. People love leaving Ohio. In fact, an abnormally high proportion of astronauts are from Ohio. People wanna leave Ohio so bad, they leave earth.

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        I’ve met so many fellow members of the Ohio diaspora that we came up with a saying: Ohio is a great place to be from. Far from.

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      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!

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    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.

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    I live around 40 miles from where I was born.

    My home is where I am and who I’m with now. My spawn point is somewhere I managed to survive long enough to stage my successful escape.

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    Like 10 kilometers? The hospital I was born in was torn down but I still live in the same town and I don’t plan on leaving.

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    I am thousands of miles away from my home. I have been back a few times over the decades and every time I feel more peace, because I am home. I don’t feel at home where I live, it still feels foreign to me because the environment is so different than the land my heart calls home.

    The heartbreaking part is that it has deteriorated in some parts so that my heart hurts seeing it. The part that I am from remains what I remember, but going to the major city causes distress at the state of things.

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    After trying out another country (Switzerland) and other cities in Germany (Berlin and Kiel) im back in Hamburg where I spawned. Yea other places are nice as well but no matter where I went I liked it here more. But we are known for thinking our town is the most beautiful place on earth.

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

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    I saw an article 20 years ago that claimed the median distance of birthplace to death?place? is 50 miles for men in the US. I was determined to beat that number, and I’m almost double that now but goddamn was it hard.

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        Spaceship Georg, whose body is 5.7×10⁹ miles from Earth, is an outlier and should not be counted.

        (A portion of Clyde Tombaugh’s remains are on the New Horizons spacecraft about this far from Earth). Edit: but this of course is useless for place of death statistics.