what's the farthest away you've ever lived from your hometown where you grew up?
this is actually quite an interesting question because i've never ever actually grown up fully in a place. i was born in ipoh, malaysia and left for the capital, kuala lumpur when i was 10.
even after moving to kl, i never really ever stayed at home for an extended period of time - i grew up mostly in a boarding school and my piano teacher's house and student residences (my parents worked out of state/ overseas), so i never really had the privilege of feeling strongly attached to... home.
i guess this isn't exactly a bad thing because i've always managed to make myself comfortable wherever i was - i've never really felt homesick (unless when i'm feeling sorry for myself -_-, and i was 'sick' for the idea of home, rather than home itself)
anyway, to answer the question, the farthest away i've ever lived from ipoh was when i spent 6 weeks in baltimore, that was 17,780 km (or 11,047 miles) away. i would say that it wouldn't really count because i was only there for 6 weeks but i think that it actually does because i went over alone and had to fend for myself while i was there! HAHAH.
HOWEVER, for all the pedantic asses that so liberally litter the universe today, my next answer would be being 10748.5 km (or 6718 miles) from ipoh in dundee, scotland, where i have been now for the past 26 months. fair enough? haha.
honestly, i don't see the big deal about being 'far away' from home and having to be super 'independent' because your parents are literally more than 5000 miles away. you would be in the exact same situation if you were staying right at home with your parents two states away. ok maybe you wouldn't be so inconvenienced because they would be in the same country and time zone, but
i don't know lah.
sometimes i envy people who have a very strong sense of where home is, and what it should be.
