DawnM Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) My mom's side of the family is on the East Coast and my dad's side of the family is on the West Coast. My husband's family is in Michigan and my family AZ/CA/OR/WA. My parents are in AZ. For the first 12 years of our marriage, my parents were overseas, so over 9,500 miles. What about you? Edited December 31, 2017 by DawnM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess in the Burbs Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) We are in WA state. Family lives in NC and SC. So almost 3000 miles away. Edited December 30, 2017 by tess in the burbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Alabama - Netherlands. 4683 miles, or something (I googled the distance to nearest big cities). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 5 miles All our main people are here. My family is just my mom. I have extended family on the West coast and in the Rockies. Dh has extended family about an hour from here and a few in grad school or college in places other then here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Both DH's and my family all live within an hour drive of each other, we're the only ones who moved away. Right now we're about 4.5 hours drive but we've been as much as 15 hours and one day I want to move out to the NW so... days away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebbyribs Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My mom's side of the family is on the East Coast and my dad's side of the family is on the West Coast. My husband's family is in Michigan and my family AZ/CA/OR/WA. My parents are in AZ. What about you? My parents are in Maryland, and my husband's parents are in New Mexico and Texas. My mom has never met either of his parents, and my dad has met his mom but not his dad. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loowit Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My family lives about 20 miles from me in the same house I grew up in. My siblings are all within 10-15 minutes drive from us. DH's parents used to live about 10 minutes from us, but have now sold their house and travel around in an RV. Right now they are a few hours away. They are planning to spend the winter within about a 200-300 mile radius of us I think, but they sometimes just decide last minute to head off places, so who knows. DH's siblings are about 2-3 hours from us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My parents are in NH. Dh's are in NC. We are in VA (obviously). Our son lives 2 hours from Dh's parents. Dh's parents used to live in FL, as I did with my parents (we met in high school at a church conference). Parents continued to move during the years of our marriage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 dh and I both grew up in the pnw, we live here. dh's sisters moved here, and his mother finally caved and moved here too. 2dd lives in texas, and I don't expect them to be moving here any time soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheres Toto Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My mother is 10 minutes away from us in Northern NJ, my dad is about 45 minutes from us in Northern NJ. My brother is in Florida. Dh's parents are about 3 hours from us in Southern NJ. He has one brother in that same area, and one that just moved from there to Florida. Once we get into cousins and aunts/uncles, they are scattered all over the country for both of us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I had to google it and it came to roughly 5800 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoggirl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Dh's parents are currently 200 miles away, but we're relocating and will soon be 1,000 miles away. I don't think they're very happy about it, but I am looking forward to having some distance between myself and fil. Both my parents died before I married, and I'm an only child, so really no family to speak of on my side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 We are mostly hyper-local. My mother and father were high school sweethearts and lived mere blocks from each other. Remaining family members on each side are all in MD. On my husband’s side, MIL was originally from the mid-west and FIL was born in D.C. MIL came to D.C. with her sisters in an amazingly forward-thinking arrangement by her father, who knew that being farmer’s wives was their only potential future back home. So he put them on a train to D.C., to live in a dormatory and learn business skills and work for the government. Her sisters all branched out to different places as they married, but her brothers remained in Missouri. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnE-girl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My parents and siblings are all within an hour and a half of us, mostly in the same very large metropolitan area. Dh’s parents are five hours away, two of his siblings are about an hour closer on the way to his parents, the other two are in opposite directions, each 5-6 hours away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My parents are divorced, so we have three families, in three different states. I popped it into google and their three locations make a triangle with 1200-1500 miles on each side (Virginia, Minnesota, and Texas). If we lived in southern Illinois or something we'd be right about equidistant from all three. But we don't! We live 500 miles outside the triangle. We don't see our families very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinevere Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 We are 300 miles from one, and 500 from the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Both my parents and my DH's family are in the same city, about 8 miles apart. But we are about 5,000 miles away from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 DH's parents, brother, and sister all live in DE. My parents live in MA and my brothers live in D.C. and Los Angeles. We live about an hour east of San Francisco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) My mom has passed, I rarely see my only sibling, and my extended family is pretty small. However, when my mom was alive she lived 20 minutes from my IL's. We lived near both. We both have extended family within three hours or less and we both have extended family out of state. My brother lives about 45 minutes from us. We aren't estranged, just not close. We only see each other a few times a year. We have a close relationship with my niece - my brother's only child - and her dh and 3 kids. They live about 5 minutes from FIL. Edited December 30, 2017 by Lady Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My in laws all live just over 1.5 hours away. We moved to the country. My sister is about the same distance away, as is my estranged mother. My dad lives in another state, Google tells me it's about 450 miles away. He and my step mother are retired so they visit us, about once a year. Although they are getting older, I don't know how much longer they can do the trip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My side is 3-5 hours away; most of dh's side are two full days of driving away, so we fly there once a year. When it was only one full day, we'd usually drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibiche Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 About 6 000 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Over 3,200 miles for one, nearly 2,000 for the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 1.5 hours and 12+ hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My mom and her husband, and dh's parents are both about five hours from us, in not-quite-opposite directions. My extended family is a little farther north than my mom, and dh doesn't really have any extended family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My dad is in on the east coast. My MIL is in Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissamomof5 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My parents live 2 miles away and my in-laws life about 45 minutes away. My parents go to Florida 3 months a year though so it is a nice balance ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 My family is mostly in England and Husband's family is mostly in Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raifta Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 10 minutes away from my parents and 25 minutes from DH's parents. And yet we hardly ever see MIL and FIL. My parents we see 2-3 times a week usually. My brother is on the west coast and we are prairies so we don't see him that often. DH's sister is 20 minutes away. My mother's family is also nearby but we don't see them much; my dad's family is spread out more across the western half of Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 All within 5 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaConquest Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) My parents are in Seattle and Boise. My sister is in Sonoma. My in-laws live about an hour outside Montreal, but they spend all winter whereever we live, which is currently San Diego. I would love for all of us to be closer, especially the cousins, but my sister really loves living in Nor Cal, and my husband and I are allergic to rain and cold. Edited December 31, 2017 by SeaConquest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 1000ish miles. We live about 100 miles from my inlaws. If we count siblings, they are all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbi in Texas Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My family is about four and a half hours away. Dh's family is about an hour away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I live on the west coast, my mother and siblings are in NJ/PA, my father & stepmother are in FL, my (ex) inlaws are in the UK, and ex-husband lives 1200 miles away in another state. It's been ~8 years since we visited the relatives in NJ/PA, 3 yrs since we saw my dad & stepmom in FL, 2 yrs since we visited my MIL and BIL in the UK, and 18 months since the kids have seen their dad (grrrr). My mother and MIL are both crazy (NPD), so the vast distances between us are not accidental. ;) Next fall DS will be 2500 miles away at college, though, and that may do me in. :crying: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMS83 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) 10 minutes. :laugh: We pass my IL's road every time we drive to my parent's house. Edited December 31, 2017 by CES2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Almost all of our family lives within 30 minutes of each other. MIL is the only one of our parents still living, and she's about fifteen minutes from us and about five minutes from DH's brother and SIL. When DS22 starts his full time job after graduation he'll be about 90 minutes from us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um_2_4 Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I have no family (all passed when I was in college) and DH's family all live overseas, so about 8000 miles as the crow flies. About a 23 hour plane ride with connections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solascriptura Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 8,000 miles. Definitely no stress about where to be for the holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 10 miles if that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My parents live 15 minutes from us as of a few months back....and dhs parents live about 4 1/2 hours away. He has siblings in CA and Mexico both of which are 1000s of miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) My parents and my husbands parents live about 120 miles apart, in the same state. We now live in the same town as my parents, and a little under 2.5 hours from his. Edited December 31, 2017 by sbgrace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 We live in the same area of the city as my dh's parents and 5 siblings, about 10 minutes driving. My whole family is across the country about 2000 miles away. They all live fairly close to each other (parents and 2 sibling). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellen Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 The nearest family is over 1100 miles away. That includes parents and siblings. There are a three cousins on my husband's side that are closer. The nearest is over 450 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My parents and DH’s were ten minutes across town from each other for over twenty years. Now my parents have moved so that they’re a bit over two hours from me, and my ILs are a little over three away from us but in a different direction from my parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My two sets of in laws, my mom and us live in cross shaped pattern centered around a main freeway that crosses the state in a straight line. We are each about 3 hours apart. My mom and I both live about 5 minutes off the freeway (just a couple hundred miles apart), so to travel to eachothers houses is the greatest distance between two families, but due to it being almost entirely freeway driving, it makes it the same travel time as my inlaws who are much closer in miles, but live in little towns in the mountains so it is slow going to drive there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 2500 miles away. And I’m not happy about it! I wish I could move to be near my family, but then I’d be breaking the hearts of my DH’s family. My New Year’s Resolution is to stop indulging in my sadness that I’m so far from the family I love. Not sure how to do that...but I’m gonna try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livetoread Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My parents, DH’s mother (and father when he was alive), and dh’s sister live in our neighborhood. We are all less than a mile from each other. None of us grew up in the neighborhood, though we did grow up in the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) DH is from Canada, and All his family live there thankfully. We are in Australia. so on the other side of the world, roughly 16686 km away as the crow flies.. All my family are in the same state as me, though spread out a bit. Edited December 31, 2017 by Melissa in Australia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 My parents are 600 miles in one direction, and my MIL is 1100 miles in the other direction. When we first got married, our parents lived about an hour apart on opposite sides of Washington, DC, and we lived about 650 miles away. My parents retired to Florida and my MIL moved back to her hometown in Minnesota to take care of her mom after my FIL passed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 (edited) We’re around 450 miles from DH’s family and 90 miles from mine. Edited December 31, 2017 by Word Nerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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