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.
Current, about 300 meters. I live in an apartment a block over from the hospital I was born at.
Damn, got me beat. I’m a little over 2 miles away.
I think we’re the two closest, though!
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.
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1 and some change miles away. 3 closest 😎
Darn you have me beat, same but a bit more.
You can reset your spawn point by sleeping in a bed.
Spawn Point =/= Respawn Point
you can use the “/setworldspawn” command to change the world spawn point.
Edit - spelling, because autocorrect is great.
~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
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.
I’ve met so many fellow members of the Ohio diaspora that we came up with a saying: Ohio is a great place to be from. Far from.
OR{egon} is
on fireOregon is fantastic and I’m not sure I’ll ever leave.
Ohio feels like if depression was a state
About 120 miles, which in the UK is like a weekend trip at least
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.
Holy shit, someone that traveled further than me? 😅
18,000kms here
About 14k km away. Born in Mexico. Reside in Taiwan for now(work).
Oh wow you are now so close to where I was born, it’s just across the strait. 😁
Is my spawn point the bathtub I was born in or the alley behind the bowling alley that I was conceived in?
Bathtub.
Depending on your philosophical/political view. 👀
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.
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.
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.
About 15 metres. I was a home birth and am currently staying with my parents.
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.
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.
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… 🤷♂️
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.
About 250 meters, as the crow flies. My wife, as well. It is no longer a hospital, though.
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!
8,130km. Neither current location not spawn point feel like home. That would be 1,667km from spawn and 9,788km from here.
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.
I’m about 80 miles from where I was hatched. Moved away when I had kids because I didn’t want to raise them in Winnipeg (Canada) because… well… Winnipeg.
It’ll always be my home town, but I now live in an area with a population density of 7 ppl per square mile, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. (The loudest things out here are the birds, and it’s nice and peaceful.)
