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Other than while you attended college, have you ever lived more than 200 miles from the place you consider as your “home town”?

* If the answer is no, what would it take for you to leave?
* If you used to more than 200 miles away but have moved back, why did you move back?
* If you still live more than 200 miles away, what would it take for you to move back?

[Pillow]

I have never lived that far away from home. My college was less than 200 miles from home. I currently live less than 200 miles. And I have no intentions of moving further than I already am from my parents. Why? Cause my family is nearby. It's easy to make a "quick trip" home. :)

[sb_jim]

I live about 1,500 miles from my home town but since I made the move in 1984 I would say that I am now home.

It would take major global warming to get me to move back. There are other places that I would consider first, probably even farther away from where it all started.

[Actuarybert]

I live about 500 miles from my home town. I wanted to work for a large insurance company, and there aren't any large insurers within 200 miles of the town where I grew up. Unless a major insurance company decides to relocate to my home state (not very likely), I'll probably be staying here for the foreseeable future. Fortunately, it only takes a couple of hours for me to fly home to visit the family.

[Gandalf]

More than 200 for me; less than 200 for my wife. I personally still have some longings for the area where I grew up (including some family there), but wife and kids would never go for it. Wife's parents and siblings are all within 50 miles of us now.

[Don Quijote]

More than 200 (something like 4000). Why? When I married my wife, she said she wanted to travel. I think she regrets that now. More seriously, I follow the work. What would it take to move back - a good job.

[openminded]

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[Jack]

Those of us in the North East can move to an entirely different city and still be way less than 200 miles from our home town. Philly is only 80 miles from NY. Hartford , Albany, Providence (maybe?) are all less than 200 miles from NY.

[Kid Rock]

I lived about 5,000 miles from home. I moved there from 360 miles away from home. I moved back to 300 miles from home. Home is nice to visit, but I couldn't live there and neither could my wife. It would take stirking it rich and living there only a couple months out of the year. It is WAY too cold!

[Polly Nomial]

Since I turned 18, I have always lived more than 200 miles from home (NYC). I could never imagine raising kids in the city. Now that my kids are grown I suppose I could move back if I could make enough money, but then again, why would I? I love it here.[/b]

[egg]

Through college I lived about 3 miles away from home. After I graduated I moved about 250 miles away. I have no plans to move back to the area, nor do I know of anything that would get me to move back.

[Maine-iac]

I live about 180 miles from my home town. We did live about 1000 miles away for awhile, but moved back as soon as my husband had a chance at a good job closer to family. We only moved in the first place because it was necessary to relocate for him to advance. We also looked at spots closer to his hometown, but the openings in his field were far fewer there, and it is a crowded, urban area where quality of life is not as good as near my home.

We'd move even closer to family if the jobs were there, but this is not bad, as it's only about a 3 1/2 hour car trip.

[Franchise]

I only recently moved over 200 miles from my "home" town to take a new job, but I wouldn't have done it had my old job not disappeared. All it would take for me to move back is a job I could depend on existing for a reasonable time. I hate living this far from home.

Fortunately, my new job is a good one, and I do like where I'm at now. It's just such a hassle every time I want to see my family. I'm right on the edge of where flying would be better than driving given the constraints of getting to the airport early enough, and then retrieving baggage on the other end.

[Alya]

My college was about 30 miles from home, so I never really lived on campus. Now i am a bit over 4,200 mls from my home town and don't think anything can make me move back.

[Jed the Humanoid]

My college was about 30 miles from home, so I never really lived on campus. Now i am a bit over 4,200 mls from my home town and don't think anything can make me move back.


4,200 miles? This seems like a big distance. Anchorage to Bermudas? Cause it's not quite enough to cross the Atlantic from New York... mmmh

And I was all proud of my 2459 miles from home. Don't know if I'll go back. It's a perfect distance from the in-laws :)

[Alya]

4,200 miles? [...] Cause it's not quite enough to cross the Atlantic from New York... mmmh

It is more than enough:http://www.ar-group.com/calc.htm gives Paris to Boston as 3437.25 mls.

4,200 is actually western Russia to Boston.

[bertuary]

I'm currently about 120 miles from my hometown, but I've lived over 1000 away in the past. I'll admit when I was far from home it was kind of a pain so I'd really have to give it serious consideration before getting that far away again. The 2 hour drive I have now seems just about perfect! But I have a feeling I will someday end up back in my hometown which is fine by me. I always miss it a bit when I'm away.

[Kitten]

What's a home town? :P
I'm sure adip can relate to this...
Moving alot as a child creates an uncertainty with respect to these things. I'm not sure where I would consider my home town to be. Toronto is probably not 200 miles from the places I have lived, but I live here because I love the city, not because of its proximity to family or friends or hometown.

[The Mister]

My wife and I lived about 450-500 miles from home, but only for 8 weeks.

They unwisely transferred me, and I unwisely accepted. Both I and my employer discovered within a short time that it was not working out.

My wife was miserable, too, but the phone company was happy!

[MG]

I live about 250 miles from my hometown. It was a town of 7,000 in a semi-rural area and I'd probably have a commute of at least an hour to any actuarial employer.

My number one goal growing up was to move out of my parents' house as soon as possible, so I really have no motivation to go back. At this time, my family is going through some turmoil (there's a soon-to-be nasty divorce in progress) so it's nice to keep my distance from that. And, as the old adage goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder - it's amazing how much your family (allegedly) loves and appreciates you when you suddenly move far away.

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I live 2500 miles from my home town. Nothing short of a nuclear holocaust-style disaster that wiped out all other inhabitable regions of the earth could get me to go back (and even then, it would be a tough choice), for many of the reasons that others here have already mentioned: I come from a dreary, grimy, steel town. It's way too cold there. Almost all of my 100+ relatives still live there.I enjoy visiting my family now and then, especially since it's like "hey, 42 is home, let's get everybody together for a party/barbeque/whatever", so I get to see everybody all at once. And I get along well with everybody in my family. But, I swear, if I had to see them any more often than I do, we'd drive each other crazy! When they occasionally come to visit, I like to see them, but I like to see them leave too! :wink:

[Han Solo]

I still live in the same county (different city) that I grew up in. I think it would take a whole lot to get me to move, for several reasons:

1) With both my parents (both remarried) and my wife's parents, we never lack for babysitters. My mother is in fact caring for our 15 month old full time (she wanted to and loves it), and when we go to the hospital to have the second in about 3 weeks, my wife's parents will come stay at our house with our daughter.

2) Having family close is important to me, and means more to me than maybe earning more farther away.

3) I'm also kinda lazy, so I don't like to move. I am fortunate in that there are actuarial opportunities withing commuting distance (I drive about half an hour).

[Meshuga]

I live within 30 miles of where i grew up and am looking forward to moving away within the next year or two.

[L. Mo]

It's about 2800 miles, altho United claims it's about 2550 (I guess that's "how the crow flies")

I like it that way. All of my siblings moved away from home (mostly from Mom, who is, shall we say, "high maintenance"). At least I don't have to worry about stray relatives dropping in randomly, which is nice.

They would have to pay me serious amounts of cash to move back to the vicinity.

[jets fan]

I live within a forty-five minute drive of my hometown. Both my wife's parents and each of my parents live within that driving distance. Also, we both have friends (which is who we would miss most if we moved), that live in the area. I don't think we will ever move completely out of the area - it would take a significant amount of our friends to move to the same area that we'd be going to. We do get annoyed by parents sometimes - one time, my mother demanded I drive that distance down to her house because her cat had a tick on him!

[glenn]

I moved about 500 miles from home to go to university. My sister was bored with her job one day, so she quit and moved the 500 miles in with me for a bit until she got established. Then my brother did the same.

After I got married, my mother came the same 500 miles to move in with us temporarily while she got established. So my entire dang family followed me.

We then moved another 25 miles away out of the city. My mother and sister both proceeded to move into another small town 15 minutes away. Then my wife's parents moved in about 3 blocks away, from about 100 miles away. My wife's twin lives about 5 miles away (they're not from the area).

I keep threatening to move another 500 miles west, or maybe move back home to get away from them all.

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Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. :shake: You've gotta stop giving them your address when you move! :wink: (Works for me! :D )