Trust Me I Should Know Where someone with years of hard-won personal experience, and lots of trial and error, shares everything they’ve learned. Read more here . Illustration: Jackson Gibbs Ever wondered which city in the world is located the farthest distance from New York? That’d be my hometown Perth, Western Australia , which sits on the coast of the Indian Ocean (on the opposite side of the country to Sydney and Melbourne), around 11,633 miles (or approximately 24 hours of flying, spread