Ulukai on 5/3/2009 at 23:13
Ahaha! I see you peeking in here. Get in. Even Stevie Wonder has noticed you can't post in Comm Chat right now unless you want to talk about faghats, dead people, people with pens and fighty men with guns, Hagues and crotchety weasels. Strontium Dog has gone AWOL so we can't even have a good debate about the merits of Liverpool and how we wouldn't choose to live there even though some men said it was capital of culture which must be true. This is a shitty situation.
I don't want to post in any of those threads, except the one about crotchety weasels, which in fact
doesn't exist, so I'm making a new one.
<-- Actual Content Start -->After reading something a while back that stated the average American dies less than 100 miles away from where they were born (No, I can't find the source, benefit of doubt please), how well travelled are you, TTLG? I'm not talking tourism.
So we now know where we (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125159) are, but where did we come from, and how did we get there? Here I've plotted everywhere I've lived for six weeks or more with the help of Google maps:
Inline Image:
http://www.zen80200.zen.co.uk/lifemap.jpgThe above island is the United Kingdom, for the geographically challenged. I've gone to a lot of trouble with my map. No pressure.
So it turns out that I currently live a little over 100 miles from where I was born.
I've shown you mine, show me yours. Obviously,
some people wisely decided to leave the place where it's ok for men to wear skirts and travelled literally thousands of miles to escape, but I want to get a feel for what's average :cool:
Here's how. To add waypoints with Google maps:
[INDENT]- Go to your localised version of (
http://maps.google.com) http://maps.google.com
- Click
Get Directions- Add your first two places in the boxes provided
- Click Add Destination to get more boxes
- Zoom out to a suitable level, and take a screenshot[/INDENT]
Kolya on 5/3/2009 at 23:23
I wasn't too interested where people currently keep their meat to dry and I care less for where they once knew a girl. But hey, we both know this won't keep people from making their personal history into a post, so more power to you I guess.
Ulukai on 5/3/2009 at 23:27
Hey shagbat, I don't care where you took it out either :D
I thought I made it quite clear I'm not interested in the trailer-park sob stories side of it.
Cold hard facts, man.
demagogue on 5/3/2009 at 23:35
Here's mine.
Even low Earth orbit is a little too close. I'll need to do some cropping.
Inline Image:
http://i42.tinypic.com/i2ppjo.jpgEdit: As for distance, 7073 miles (11382 km) for Haifa and ~6800 mi (~10900 km) for my island.
crunchy on 5/3/2009 at 23:39
Can't be arsed making a map.
Born: Adelaide
Live: Canberra
Distance: ~1200km
Scots Taffer on 5/3/2009 at 23:57
Google maps literally shits itself when I ask it to go from Oxford or Glasgow to Australia. But essentially I moved back to Glasgow for a year before I left. I lived in the house I was born in for 22 years.
JACKofTrades on 5/3/2009 at 23:57
I've certainly lost this game. My house is roughly 1.5 miles from the house I grew up in.
june gloom on 6/3/2009 at 00:08
Born in Ann Arbor, MI, spent my formative years in Lansing, MI, moved to the Greater Cincinnati (OH) area some 19 years ago (with two more intervening, but short moves, three if you count the summer I spent in my grandparents' house after my folks split) and have spent much of that time trying to leave.
Shug on 6/3/2009 at 00:22
I live about 15km from where I was born (as in, literally, the hospital). That also happens to be about 500m away from the house I grew up in.
ADVENTURE'S MY MIDDLE NAME
jtr7 on 6/3/2009 at 00:30
I've lived in twenty-one different residences, counting only the places I packed up, moved in, and stayed at least one month--usually fully expecting to stay longer than that. I was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, and this is my home, but I went into the Navy to the Great Lakes region of Illinois, transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, transferred to Damneck (which is near Virginia Beach), and transferred to Ferndale, California. After the Navy I was in Phoenix (specifically Scottsdale, Glendale, Tempe, and Mesa) for 13 months, before coming back to Flagstaff, and here I remain.
