When you think about where you were born, does it feel close by or like a whole world away?
Some of you might be parked just a few miles from your hometown, maybe even visiting the same roads you once rode your bike on as a child. Others of you may be thousands of miles from where it all began—different time zones, different scenery, or maybe even a different country altogether.
One of the freedoms of RV travel is that you get to choose your backdrop. You can revisit familiar places that hold memories, or wake up somewhere entirely new. Some of you might find yourselves circling back to the place you started, while others keep moving farther down the map, content to let distance mark progress.
You may have left home decades ago to build a new life, or perhaps you return often to stay connected to family and friends.
There’s something grounding about realizing how far you’ve come, whether it’s five miles or five thousand. You carry the place you were born in your memories, even as the view outside your window keeps changing.
So today, take a moment to think about it: At this very moment, how far away are you from where you were born? Don’t know the exact number? That’s okay, take a guess. Thanks!
MORE POLLS YOU MIGHT ENJOY:
- How many U.S. national parks have you visited in your lifetime?
- Are your parents still alive?
- Do you have a favorite U.S. state?
- Do you remember the address of the home where you spent your childhood?
- Did your parents take you camping as a child?
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A little over 70 years ago my parents brought me home from the maternity ward to the same home I live in today. I did leave for 19 years as a young adult before purchasing my parents home and returning.
We bought and are living in my wife’s parents house near Pittsburgh. 3 miles from the house I was born in.
When we got married we moved to the Cleveland Ohio area for 7 years.
There’s no place like home.
I have been gone from birth site for most of my life. No idea even to return there.
2280 miles, 31 hrs 58 minutes according to Mapquest….driving at posted speed limits, of course 🤔
Military Brat for most of my younger life. Me and my siblings don’t live near any of the places where we were each born.
Born and raised on the beaches of Southern California (Redondo Beach). Fled from CA to MO and never looked back.
Missouri (or as my father called is “misery”) is certainly cheaper!
It’s like CA was growing up. As for ‘misery’, we’re in the Ozarks and love it. We heard all the horror stories about the weather, but unlike your dads time, we have central AC and Heating these days.
Us too! Also now in Missouri.
Born and raised in the Detroit metro area. Lived outside Michigan for a decade, domiciled in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for close to 40 years, of which we have wintered in Texas for the past 8 years, soon to be 9.
Born in Massachusetts, visiting in-laws in California, 3,150 miles according to Google
Well, as the bird flies it will be ~21,600kms… going the opposite way around Earth. ~3,300kms the easy, short way. We are spending the winter in Mexico.
Told my dad when I was 8 years old that I was going to live up north as I hated the flat land and open farm land around Saginaw Bay. I am now about 70 miles south west of the Mackinaw bridge and have loved the natural beauty I can see from my windows everyday.
I was immensely fortunate to be born in San Francisco and am now immensely fortunate to live in Carmel Valley.
Born in Fairbanks, Alaska and currently in Santa Barbara, CA. I am over 3200 miles from my birthplace and have no desire to go there.
Statistically, 50% of people live within 50 miles of where they were born. Interesting, as recently as 50 years ago, that percentage was nearly 80%. I think it might be an interesting study to see a, state by state breakdown. I once saw an article that said that residents of New Jersey was in the top 3 of those moving out of state upon retirement.
After retiring from the military 32 years ago, I’m home-based in New Mexico. However, my parents told me that I was born in Las Vegas, but I don’t remember it.
Within 3 miles of Hospital where I was born. We don’t move much. My family have been in the same town since the 1700’s.
Our motorhome is now our full time residence and is currently 466 miles from my birthplace in Alexandria, Virginia. If you aren’t familiar with that city, Washington DC is a suburb of Alexandria. Alexandria was there first, and was the home of George Washington, who wanted a short commute to the office.
Did you know that Mama Cass Eliot also came from Alexandra, VA? I remember going to the 8th century warehouses along the Potomac River to see what was interesting in a store called Dockside. Sort of an upscale Pier . The cobblestone streets in Alexandria are mode from ballast stones in the ships that came to pick tobacco
My computer has taken an unreasonable dislike to the numeral for “one”. Eighteenth century
Roughly 30-miles.
I’m about 7 miles from the little town where I was born, and about 800 yards from the home where I grew up and lived until I married.
Ed and I are one hundred ten miles for him and 946+change for me We met at Stetson U in DeLand, FL in nineteen69 He was engaged to one of my good friends but she ran away w/o telling us Neither of us is a homewrecker My first marriage died of natural causes after 3 months but I wouldn’t admit it for ten years My computer has decided to boycott the numeral for “one” We date our love for each other back to NY Eve Nineteen70 when we kissed under the mistletoe
He was born in West Palm Beach, FL I was born in Washington DC at old Sibley Hospital. I started kindergarden at Benjamin Stoddard School in DC where President Carter’s daughter Amy also went to school. We moved first to S Arlington VA then to Springfield VA pre-Capitol Beltway (I 495)