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

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    ~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

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    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.

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    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.

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    I work 20ish miles from the hospital I was born in. I live probably 5 minutes from it driving. I have probably lived half my life here. I call it home but I live in a world that my younger self would never recognize. I was ultra poor growing up and now I mingle with the town elite and have one of the historic houses that is iconic for lots of people here.

    I lived 20+ years 300 miles away from my hometown and thought I would never live here again. But life is funny like that.

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    I was born at the north end of a valley, went to collage in the middle of the valley (maybe 2/3rds down), and then settled down at south end of the valley. About 100mi / 160km. Where I live now is home, my spawn point hasn’t been my home in over half my life.

    Though I’ve lived for months at a time in a few more distant cities, all in the US.

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      Urban or Rural?

      In my ancestral village, I think home births were commons, but my parents were in the city at the time when they had me so it was hospital birth for me.

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        Urban. My siblings were hospital births, but my mom always has been a proponent of more ‘natural’ solutions so I think she wanted to try the less clinical way. She had a midwife there for the birth.

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          Oh, I thought it was more of a “we don’t have a hospital nearby” situation. The idea of “natural” solutions is kinda weird… I mean… most of the food today is artificially bred…

          Welp, conservatives being conservatives… 🤷‍♂️

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            She’s actually fairly progressive (socially, at least), but on some topics like health she gets kinda nutty… still have not quite beaten the anti-vax out of her although I am happy to say she’s not as bad as she used to be. And she did get vaxxed during Covid after our entire family all got it and pushed her on it.

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      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!

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