Chart comes from a 2015 NYT article

Dec 16, 2024
8:22:20am

Underhill All-American

The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom

The popular perception of Americans is that they are independent and rootless, but the reality is that people tend not to move very far from their parents.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

It comes from a survey of older adults.

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Underhill

Previous username: ColoSpgs
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Last login: Dec 16, 2024
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Currently 675 miles. I raise the average

Longseason

5:01am

1300 miles for me. I raise the mean for the Midwest region

The Dark Knight

5:24am

It's not showing the mean. It's showing the median

Greg4BYU

7:12am

I understand that, and my distance affects the median very little if at all.

The Dark Knight

7:56am

My mom is dead and I live 3,000 miles from her grave.

Sea Chicken

5:28am

0.4 miles.

tevye

5:37am

Based on the average Utah home, I assume you share a house

Longseason

5:41am

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reagan21

9:13am

I lived ~1000 miles from my mom at the time she died and for the 15 years previous.

cruiserhead

5:39am

Did you move closer to her after she died?

Yukon

6:18am

Well, further actually. By about 4000 miles (we moved to England shortly after she died). Came back after a few years.

cruiserhead

6:22am

Me too. 7,700 miles away.

HugoStiglitz

5:43am

~2100 Miles straight line. ~2600 to drive.

SWKTNative

5:44am

Most of CB would be higher than the average, I would assume it’s positively

Martin Van Nostrand

5:44am

Culture as well. Encouraged to leave.

Longseason

5:49am

Who is "encouraged to leave"? And by whom?

CommodoreCoug

7:00am

Serving a mission, for example. Or attending BYU, BYUI, BYUH.

dtownCoug

7:07am

It's not showing the average. It's showing the median

Greg4BYU

7:14am

Those numbers seem too low

Covid-19

5:45am

Though my wife lives 15 from her's (I live 673 from mine)

Covid-19

5:57am

It's showing the median not the mean

Greg4BYU

7:29am

Simple. It's the 80 bazillion LDS guys who went away to dental school because there wasn't one in the red states at the

unctoothman

5:49am

1721 ish

ral1988

5:55am

This entire thread is a weird flex

machete

5:58am

I’ll put you down as still living with your mom 😉

Longseason

6:05am

Lot's of people with childhood trauma they haven't gotten past.

maYbe

6:16am

I think if you think anyone is flexing you are extra sensitive to living close to your mom

Baron

6:27am

Not at all. I live 50 miles from my parents and still wish I lived much closer

machete

10:31am

Most people live close to home. Areas with more population density have smaller distances.

Baron

6:00am

500 and it’s still too close

molodyets

6:03am

1,672 miles for me

MotorCityCoug

6:09am

What about your siblings?

Greg4BYU

7:51am

One is ~3000 miles away and the others are within 50miles of my mom

MotorCityCoug

8:17am

So the median is less than 50

Greg4BYU

10:34am

I clock in at 1,445

Texas Hammer

6:16am

75 miles

cedar cougar

6:16am

26 miles for me. A full marathon.

Yukon

6:21am

2870

El Careeb

6:29am

Contrary to the CB narrative that Utah folks are more likely to refuse to

fattycoug

6:30am

This doesn’t disprove that at all. The distance from Provo to SLC is 45 miles,

garyfan

6:59am

But the fact that other regions are closer points to those folks not leaving

fattycoug

7:05am

The narrative I've heard my whole life isnt that they wont move away, its that

LeonMarek

7:43am

Well, even if that's the case, this map suggests that people from other

fattycoug

7:44am

Not any of our kids live within 600 miles of us.

Blue Heart

6:43am

I need to know what the age cutoff is for which children count in this map. Is this counting all children or only the

SingleStrapBackpack

6:45am

Also, does the state correspond to where the mother lives or the child? There are going to be lots of people for whom

SingleStrapBackpack

7:27am

This graph says more about population density than anything else. Here’s a map:

garyfan

6:56am

825 miles for me, 5012 miles for my wife.

RedHeadedStranger

6:59am

About 30 yards

HimmerFredette

7:06am

When I ride my bike to her house with the kids it’s about 7.5 miles for me

Powerbait DPM

7:19am

In surprised Utah area is such a large number compared to other areas

Powerbait DPM

7:20am

By state would be more interesting.

WDaddy

7:56am

1300 mi away now, closest I've been since leaving home is 200mi

byujag

7:21am

15 miles, 24 by car

Colorado

7:23am

About 5,600 miles. Helps when parents are on a mission in Germany.

paulb

7:25am

I have 7 children. One 2000 miles away. One 80 miles away. One 60 miles away

Greg4BYU

7:26am

520,000 miles

Nikomedes

7:35am

how does your mom like living on the moon?

byujag

8:33am

Is this for women? I'd love to see one for MIL.

GfB

7:41am

Median vs Average. Would be a more interesting graph if average was used IMO.

SpudNut

7:41am

1.5 miles for me

RC Vikings

7:48am

My mom lives 4900 miles away from me

WDaddy

7:53am

Out of state members come to Utah to go to school and wind up staying here.

Spiff

7:56am

Is there one of these for mother-in-laws?

KCFan85

8:00am

I’m the closest I’ve been since high school, by far, and I’m 694 miles away.

Japan Coug

8:13am

Percentage of children in the population has a big impact

Underhill

8:16am

Chart comes from a 2015 NYT article

Underhill

8:22am

932 mi.

ninja math

8:57am

You probably don't raise it.

molodyets

9:02am

3.5 miles

reagan21

9:14am

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