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OT: I Heard 72% of Adults Live Within......

About 800 miles. Pittsburgh to Central Alabama. Been here for about half my life so far. Hope to get a bit more .
 
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I was mostly between 20 and 30 miles - Union NJ to New Brunswick / East Brunswick / Edgewater / back to East Brunswick and then South Bound Brook for 23 years. Been in Tucson, AZ for 10. 2388 miles driving.
 
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Looks like the 'yarders are the exception...

But I comfortably fit:

Both my first apt on Decatur Ave in the Bronx and my adolescent house on 178th St in Flushing/Fresh Meadows/Jamaica Estates North....are within 15 miles of my Greenwich Village apt (we're happy to be back after a nearly 2 year exile in Vermont)

Although I must admit to enjoying that (St J) as well...I probably could live anywhere, having been happy in Wellington and Aukland NZ, and Beijing and Xiamen, China.as well as many places we've traveled to...especially most of Italy.
 
KnightBridgeAZ said:
I was mostly between 20 and 30 miles - Union NJ to New Brunswick / East Brunswick / Edgewater / back to East Brunswick and then South Bound Brook for 23 years. Been in Tucson, AZ for 10. 2388 miles driving.
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135 miles, NJ to CT. Went to school in Union NJ, now called Kean University. My second favorite team. Oops, I'm mixing threads....
 
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Blakeon18 said:
Bald Huskie: are you in hotel/restaurant management...given your college up here?
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Was, future wife convinced me to transfer to University of New Haven and into Business course. Had a chance to attend UNLV for restaurant/Hotel management, but she was too convincing. Sometimes I wonder "what if". LOL
 
From New Hartford to Summerfield ,FL and now in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Types like us are referred to as "half-backs".
 
Presently, 2,695 miles, per Google maps. But I haven't lived closer than 600 miles from home since I left for college, a natural consequence of being ambitious but growing up in the sticks!
 
Post-college, I moved 100 miles away from home, but since it was in New England, it seemed "close." Twenty seven years later, I moved to FL, first as a snowbird, then a few years later, became virtually a full-timer.
 
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Bald Huskie said:
Was, future wife convinced me to transfer to University of New Haven and into Business course. Had a chance to attend UNLV for restaurant/Hotel management, but she was too convincing. Sometimes I wonder "what if". LOL
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You would most likely have been employed by one of the fine casinos here in Vegas and depending on how long ago that was you could either be in the upper echelon of hotel management or in charge of the many restaurants in a casino.
 
MSGRET said:
You would most likely have been employed by one of the fine casinos here in Vegas and depending on how long ago that was you could either be in the upper echelon of hotel management or in charge of the many restaurants in a casino.
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oh man, the DI. as a kid, i was forced (twice! lol) to go along with the family out there. that place was magic, and i can still smell the wood from the inside. seems like it was a friendly destination for certain folks from Bridgeport, New Jersey, Brooklyn, ... (hmmmmm). long past the time that one of my heros lived there, i would run around pestering the staff 'what did howard do here,' and such. of course, most were not there in his time, but some did know that folks would gather up top to watch the nukes explode. unique place, in sooo many ways.
methinks the Fountain Blue down on Collins was/is part of some kind of 'secret but well known circuit.' i was born too late for all of this stuff. heck, they just blew up the Plaza in ac. there had better be some new places where exciting knuckleheads throw down like in old days (some isolated island in the carib or such doesn't seem like 'it'), or the likes of me, feeling cheated, will get very mad, and then have to write an angry letter... 'to whom it may concern. i was cheated. could u please up ur game? boring is not a good look... where's the scandals? where's the guy dancing on the piano wearing someone's bikini on his head? howcum there's no helicopter landing in the parking lot?' as i understand it, even the what-used-to-be terra mar in saybrook was a stop for that rat pack thing. i got hosed. all i get is books, movies, and tales, which don't cut it. well, at least the biltmore and beverly hills hotel are still around, i think. mebbe the new ocean house in westerly will get some soul.
 
10 miles. Bloomfield, CT to South Windsor, CT. As native as they come. Born in Hartford Hospital. Waiting a few more years for retirement to get the heck out of Connecticut! I guess I'm part of the majority, for now.
 
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ClifSpliffy said:
aboot 40 miles from The Park City, after a gazillion miles of checking out what's out there. never expected to find anything better for me, looked around anyway, and i didn't.
HEY! summer is settin in, i highly rec a week down in ac. a little room service, a dip in the surf, mebbe some golf, 24 oz ribeyes, dancin in the clubs, the whole shebang. these homers seem to be havin a grand old time there recently.
home boys and girls are usually the happiest folks cuz they know what to expect, ergo the 20 mile thing.
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Park city = Bridgeport ct? if yes, where abouts? I grew up in the Hollow.
 
I live a mile or 2 from where I was probably conceived. Didn't ask for too many details.

Maybe 3 or 4 miles from where I grew up.
 
AmeriConn said:
I heard 72% of adults live within 20 miles of where they grew up. How far are you from home?
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This is a North American Van Lines story. Most reputable surveys say the number is in the 40-50% range.
 
MSGRET said:
You would most likely have been employed by one of the fine casinos here in Vegas and depending on how long ago that was you could either be in the upper echelon of hotel management or in charge of the many restaurants in a casino.
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I know I know I know
 
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