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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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[-] Zatore@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

I think we're the two closest, though!

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

You can reset your spawn point by sleeping in a bed.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Spawn Point =/= Respawn Point

[-] Neondragon25@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you can use the "/setworldspawn" command to change the world spawn point.

Edit - spelling, because autocorrect is great.

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks 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

[-] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ohio feels like if depression was a state

[-] panathea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

About 250 meters, as the crow flies. My wife, as well. It is no longer a hospital, though.

[-] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks 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!

[-] simonced@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was born in France, now I live in Japan. France is not home anymore.

[-] paige@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

6k km almost precisely. Different continent. This will be my home.

[-] dfi@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

12005km from my place of birth where I still have family. But home is where I live

[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

In functional reality, I've lived in the same place all my life. In technical terms I'm less than 5 miles from the hospital where I was born.

I'm determined to be the short side of the 50 mile average.

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Life Pro Tip: Steal a spaceship right before you die. 😁

[-] GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Half a world away. It hasn’t been my home for more than 2 decades now.

[-] N00b22@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't feel like ~~doing the math~~ googling it, but I was born Brooklyn, NY, USA. Currently a few miles outside Atlanta, GA, but my journey here takes me up and down the east coast, plus a place further south. I can't really think of NY as home because I've only lived there maybe 1.5 years at most, and 1 of those was as an infant.

At 1 my family moved to GA, at 2 they moved to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (fathers home country), where my first memories are from. At 7 my mom left said father over his repeated cheating, so we moved back to Brooklyn for ~6 months (maybe less) then moved to Virginia until I hit 17 when I graduated highschool. Moved to Florida, lived there for years until 2017 and I moved to GA for a job.

I'm not sure I consider anywhere other than where I am now "home." I have fond memories of each place, but they just feel like phases of my past life, like elementary(well, 4 different elementary), middle, or highschool. I don't consider any of those schools any more of a school I went to than the others, and I generally treat "home" the same. It's just where I live now.

I also don't fully identify with any ethnic group either. I spoke without an accent in the island so never fully integrated, and then in the US I didn't quite have the same lived experience there either.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

~18 hours away. Yes, where I'm at currently is definitely home.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Spawn point LOL

About 1-1.5 hours

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

A few hours. For me home is always a few things: my current residence, the place I grew up, and any place I slept last night that I'll sleep again tonight.

They don't all mean the same thing, but let's go home could mean any of those.

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

~2250 miles

Visiting the area feels like going home. I don't belong in my current location and i hate it here.

[-] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Mine is 4,242 km (2,636 mi). I will never go back.

[-] shapis@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just checked on the map. There's a stretch of about 11 miles that I consider to be home. I lived most of my life smack in the middle of that stretch .So about 5 and a half miles radius?

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

about a 58 hour walk right now but at timed I am >10,000 miles out

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

375 miles away from spawn point, but my tutorial zone (where I actually grew up) was 215 miles away from there and 215 miles away from my current home point.

I lived in the city of my birth for a bit for a job, fucking hated that city, it was never home. Lived off and on where I grew up, and now have lived in my current for about 10 years.

Where I grew up is a complicated feeling. I miss the Ozark mountains, the flatlands I live in now I don't like despite liking the city. But the area has changed so much and so rapidly it's like coming to the bones of an animal where nature has rapidly overtaken the body and saying that's the animal. It's... recognizable if you squint at it, but it's dead and gone and now something completely different.

I'm not sure if where I live now is "home" still. But if where I grew up was home, I can never go back there. I can live in that place, but the farming town is now a metro that is unrecognizable.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hard to say, as my "spawn point," was decommissioned a few years ago, and is currently being dismantled. I suspect the medical deck is long gone from the ship.

"Home" has, for me, always referred to where I currently live.

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

About 30 miles, couple towns over. We moved away when I was 5, and back to roughly where I live now when I was 9. I consider my current city to be much more my home than my spawn point. Spawn point is in a pretty boring red county.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Home is where the close ones are.
Beside that, birth place is 151 km away.

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

16 miles right now.

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Over 10,000km. This is home, it's where my kids were born and are growing up. But there's also "back home", where I spent more than half of my life, where I met my wife, and where both our families are other than the two of us and our children.

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

285 miles, 459 km. But no, absolutely not. My home town is where I grew up, not where I was born.

[-] v01dworks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Currently not far, but I’m going to be moving to another country in a couple months and it will be about 5,000 miles away

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm almost at the antipode of my spawn point but I moved here late enough in life that, while the rest of my household call here home, I still think of my birthplace as home. Some days it's hard.

[-] trijste@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Feels like they langoliers in my mind

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Several thousand miles and no.

[-] QubaXR@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

8,130km. Neither current location not spawn point feel like home. That would be 1,667km from spawn and 9,788km from here.

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

74 miles/119km.

I don't consider that specific place home. While it's not particularly far, I have no memories of it and it is different culturally. The state in general though I do consider home.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.

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