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How far do you currently live from the town where you grew up?

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less than 60 mi or 100 km
  41% 12 votes
greater than that, but less than 300 mi or 500 km
  13% 4 votes
greater than the above, but less than 600 mi or 1,000 km
  6% 2 votes
greater than the above, but less than 3,000 mi or 5,000 km
  13% 4 votes
greater than the above, but less than 6,000 mi or 10,000 km
  6% 2 votes
greater than the above, but less than 12,000 mi or 20,000 km
  6% 2 votes
greater than 12,000 mi or 20,000 km (the truth is out there)
0% 0 votes
I never grew up, you insensitive clod!
  10% 3 votes
29 total votes.
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  • Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
  • Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
  • This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Monday December 15, @10:34AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 15, @10:34AM (#1426890) Journal

    I have lived for a period of at least 1 year in England, Scotland, France(19 years), Germany (total of 3 years), Russia (3 years), Gibraltar (5 years), and for lesser periods in Bosnia, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and Iraq.

    I lived in England until I was 22, but I have now lived in my current home in France since 2007. Moving home is always stressful.

    It gets harder to learn a new foreign language with each passing year but I have at various times spoken reasonably fluent French, German, Russian and Serbo-Croat (as the language was called at that time). There are dialects of English which are more difficult to master than some foreign languages.

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    [nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday December 15, @11:46AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday December 15, @11:46AM (#1426898)

    Even if you come back later, say, to take care of an aging parent, the act of leaving your hometown (assuming you can afford it of course) will change the way you think about "normal". Because a lot of what you think of as "normal" isn't statistically normal at all, and the only reason you think it is is that you haven't seen anything else. Check out places different from where you grew up: If you lived in a city, try living out in the country at least for a few years. If you were a country kid, try out a major city and see what that's really like. If you grew up near one of the seacoasts, try the middle of the country, and vice versa.

    As an added bonus, it will get you well away from your school mates whose ambitions are limited to doing a crappy job to pay the bills, staying out of prison, and getting drunk on the weekends for the next 45 years or so.

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    "Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
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