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For me it's 10 miles Mrs Zip it's 5 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:43 am
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50 miles


 
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175 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:46 am
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181 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:47 am
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130 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:47 am
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238 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:48 am
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17,403.35 km or 10,813.94 miles roughly


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:49 am
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45 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:49 am
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150, 250 for the mrs


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:50 am
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125 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:51 am
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Not sure how far it is as the crow flies but Google maps thinks it's 8264km to walk from Hemel Hempstead to Ahmedabad in India and apparently it'll take about 67 days and 21 hours.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:51 am
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According to Google, 8601.9 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:51 am
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300mtrs, to the very hospital, which is now a housing estate 🙄


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:53 am
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I can see the hospital from my house. And I work there.......


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:54 am
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5 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:55 am
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1.8 miles here.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:55 am
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why?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:57 am
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20 miles.


 
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About half a mile from where the maternity home used to be. Now housing. It was Overdene in Saltburn.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 8:59 am
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170 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:03 am
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140 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:04 am
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About 6 miles at the moment. But I work about 500 metres away from the hospital where I was born in Bristol.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:04 am
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why?

Went to visit my oldest relations in my family village. My auntie married someone from 3 doors down. Most of my family are still in the area.
Was interested to see in this world that is radically different to their's how much people have taken advantage of modern mobility.
I've ended up near where I started after living 10000 miles away and then 70.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:04 am
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18,285 km or 11,362 miles from the hospital to my house.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:11 am
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About 30 miles.

Had a flat for a short while next to the hospital I was born in.

Mrs and I grew up within a couple of miles of each other but had never met in 35 years.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:11 am
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100 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:12 am
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175 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:13 am
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10,860km according to Google. And I've still not won!


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:15 am
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Less than 3 miles from the hospital. 500 metres from its replacement.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:18 am
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About 12 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:33 am
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3240 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:48 am
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150 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:49 am
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12 miles away. My mum is 199 miles from her birthplace Edinburgh.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:51 am
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11,675 Miles.

I've never won anything before so can this thread stop now please.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:53 am
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Not far enough.....


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:54 am
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297 miles from Newton Abbot to Ely according to Google Maps


 
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And a quick check of the maximum let me know I'm 2,600 Km from the maximum possible 😮


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 9:56 am
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25 now but I have lived upto 250 away.

Currently want to go and live as far away as possible.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:01 am
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Managed 2980km for 12yrs until the ex decided she wanted to be back here......
Managing to be 200kms away now and that'll do for the time being.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:06 am
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10,920km


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:16 am
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62 and a bit


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:18 am
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10573 kms. It's warmer there.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:27 am
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7644km.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:34 am
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About 13 miles, and 30 years...


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:39 am
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500 - too far


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:40 am
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At one stage a few thousand miles away.
These days, 15 miles & I go to work there 5 days a week...


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:41 am
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37 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:42 am
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About 15 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:44 am
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Yes


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:52 am
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3673 miles apparently.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 10:53 am
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Less than a 10 minute walk.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:02 am
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0m (That's Zero metres)

I was born in the house I'm living in 🙂

Furthest I'd moved away, apart from Uni, was 15 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:04 am
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6048 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:15 am
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14,515 km give or take according to google.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:22 am
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from here:

to here:

is 17087.46 kilometers (km)


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:23 am
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Though i suspect the time dilation effect caused by perth being stuck in 1962 means i win?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:24 am
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6 months ago it was 11680 miles. currently its 11 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 11:59 am
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Hm, about a mile I think! - strictly I was born in Aberdeen, but that was an ambulance through and then return once I'd been born (in the snows of 1963 winter, apparently no heating in ambulance so was wrapped in my aunt's fur coat 🙂

Usual stuff of going away to study, work but returned to home town to look out for my elderly parents.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:23 pm
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1.78 miles as the crow flies.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:35 pm
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208 further north according to Google... But despite how long I've lived in the North, I'll still be an incomer!


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:35 pm
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10553 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:38 pm
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Not sure how far it is as the crow flies but Google maps thinks it's 8264km to walk from Hemel Hempstead to Ahmedabad in India and apparently it'll take about 67 days and 21 hours.

I was born in Hemel hempstead too living 170 miles away now


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:45 pm
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80 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:55 pm
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47 parsecs


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 12:55 pm
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642.5 light years.

Now, where did I put my towel?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:03 pm
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88.1 miles 🙂


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:07 pm
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150 miles


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:16 pm
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219 miles and 50 years so it could be as far away as say..Islamabad.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:22 pm
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18,399 km, which is 11,433 miles. Not sure if you could get much further...


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:28 pm
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About 60 miles the wife 7 miles I'd like the numbers to swap around but the wife doesn't agree.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:42 pm
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50 miles, closest, I have been since leaving home 22 years ago. Only 1 other of my extended family have moved from where they grew up. 50 miles is close but not too close.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:47 pm
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11771miles/18943km.

Surprised it's more than Hels.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:47 pm
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73 miles.

Wife is 11,411 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 1:51 pm
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139 miles from the hospital.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:08 pm
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508 miles.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 2:14 pm
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4579 miles and a 72 he drive according to Google.

27 minutes faster going through southern Europe though 🙂


 
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about 7 miles, it's now houses. Ronnie O'Sullivan was born there too, bit odd cus he's a southerner?


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 5:01 pm
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2.2 miles if the crow is on a niche single speed.


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 5:18 pm
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1648 miles. Only ever been back once when I was 16


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 5:31 pm
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2 miles according to google maps 🙁


 
Posted : 10/07/2016 5:36 pm
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