Topic: How Far Do You Live From Where You Were Born?
Topic Posted by: sulla
Date Posted: Fri Nov 6 16:53:18 2009
Additional Comments:
The hospital is no longer there, but I'm about 6 or 7 miles from where I was born.
How far away are you?
Posted by: Carissa Date posted: Mon Nov 9 18:33:23 2009
Message:
The hospital where I was born is still there, although the part of the building I was born in is now used for offices or storage or something; the building has been added on to dozens of times and is way bigger than when I was born there.
How cool is this? Both of my kids were born there, too!
I now live about 15 miles away.
Excellent topic! I haven't been around much lately so I am just now replying :-)
Posted by: Blondie Date posted: Mon Nov 9 9:56:30 2009
Message: The hospital I was born in was torn down many years ago. A Village Pantry is now there. I live about 8 miles from it.
Posted by: Silva Date posted: Mon Nov 9 8:39:56 2009
Message: I am about 300 miles from where I was born (but still in the same state). I was born in west Texas and now live in central Texas.
Posted by: KarenH Date posted: Sun Nov 8 15:17:53 2009
Message: I am about 160 miles away from where I was born. The hospital is still there, but has a different name.
Posted by: toader Date posted: Sun Nov 8 14:46:23 2009
Message: Four hundred fifty miles away. The hospital is still there.
Posted by: Cettie Date posted: Sat Nov 7 21:07:47 2009
Message: Just 38 miles down the road, still in western New York state. The hospital I was born in used to be an old mansion and now is a parking lot for the fire hall.
Posted by: CA-Julie Date posted: Sat Nov 7 20:02:24 2009
Message: I'm a little under 300 miles from the hospital where I was born. I was born in Northern California (about an hour below the Oregon border). I now live in Merced, CA.
The hospital where I was born, I think is now an assisted living facility.
Posted by: Bella47 Date posted: Sat Nov 7 20:00:37 2009
Message: I don't know the miles exactly, but it takes about 4 hours to get from Columbus to Fort Gay, W.Va. So, that's how far away I am from home where I was born. I visit often, I have alot of family still there. I love it,too! It's beautiful right now in W.Va., as always! LOL :)
Posted by: Liljana Date posted: Sat Nov 7 19:29:49 2009
Message: I might have the high number...Sarajevo, Bosnia to the Palm Beach area of FL. Geobytes says 5358 miles.
Posted by: Holly Sarah Date posted: Sat Nov 7 15:04:11 2009
Message:
According to Mapquest, I am 1001.56 miles from the hospital (St. Francis in Hartford, CT) I was born at to where I'm currently living (Manchester, TN). 16 hours and 46 minutes...seems about right :)
Best thing about where I live right now is it's only an hour south of Nashville!! Since I became a fan of country music back when I was 10, I always said I wanted to move to Nashville and I'm pretty close now :) LOVE it!!
Posted by: Jennifer Date posted: Sat Nov 7 14:48:56 2009
Message: According to Geobytes, 600 miles - Meridian, MS was where I was born; I now live in Roanoke, VA.
Posted by: Scottie Date posted: Sat Nov 7 12:33:31 2009
Message: I was born in St.Andrews, on the east coat of Scotland, and now live in Toronto, Canada, but not sure of the actual mileage between.
Posted by: JanB Date posted: Sat Nov 7 10:15:02 2009
Message: I currently live about 20-25 miles from where I was born. The hospital became an apartment building many years ago. I moved to St. Louis when I was just out of college and lived there for 21 years. I moved back home when my parents became ill and elderly so I was able to assist them and keep them in their home until we lost them both after long illnesses. I moved to the next city up the highway because my sister and her husband and grandgirls are in the area.
Posted by: Joanne A. Date posted: Sat Nov 7 9:36:04 2009
Message: Like Auntie en I was born in a small town in Germany, roughly 5,000 some miles from OK. They didn't even have my town as a choice at that geobites site so I picked Berlin just for something to compare it with.
Posted by: SherylM Date posted: Sat Nov 7 7:55:37 2009
Message: It's about 365 miles and in another state and yes, Akron City Hospital is still up and running!
Posted by: MLynn Date posted: Sat Nov 7 7:46:15 2009
Message: The hospital is still there but turned into apartments...I've heard from many it's haunted. :-/ I'm about ten miles from it...I've had the same zipcode all my life!
Posted by: Bonk5 Date posted: Sat Nov 7 1:01:41 2009
Message: I live in the same town, I was born in. The hospital is currently 8 to 10 miles from my home here. But when my parents had me it was 3 miles. Same for my husband he was born here and at same hospital as I was!!
Posted by: cc Date posted: Fri Nov 6 23:58:00 2009
Message: 1032 according to the website others used. I thought it was a little farther than that. Times I wish I was at home and other times I think there is no way I could live there!
Posted by: Nicki Date posted: Fri Nov 6 23:08:42 2009
Message: All the way across the country....I was born in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and now live in Vancouver Canada.
Posted by: Ralphi Date posted: Fri Nov 6 22:48:49 2009
Message: I'm probably about 2 miles from where I was born. The hospital is still there but they've since expanded and the section I was born in is now a community health clinic and specialty clinic. The expansion is still part of the building but people now give birth in the new section. It would probably take me about 3-4 minutes to drive there.
Posted by: pickles Date posted: Fri Nov 6 22:02:09 2009
Message: Though the hospital shut down a few years ago, it's still there. I live only a few minutes away. I could easily walk there! lol
Posted by: lifetimeviewer Date posted: Fri Nov 6 20:37:01 2009
Message: Like you, the hospital where I was born is long gone. The site where it stood is about 15 miles from where I live now.
Posted by: Mrs. Betty Slocombe Date posted: Fri Nov 6 20:25:47 2009
Message: About a 5 minute drive or so. The hospital is no longer a hospital, but is being turned into a elderly home.
Even though I live in the same metro area I do not live in the same city I was born in. The city I live in (Thunder Bay) used to be two separate cities (Fort William and Port Arthur). The two of them merged in 1970 and I was born in 1968 in Fort William. When that happened some street names had to be changed as there were some duplicates. There are plenty of people here who still see it as separate cities...or areas at least. It's somewhat of a mess as a lot of municipal offices are either in one side or the other, with the intercity area filled with mostly shopping malls/centres.