Do you live near family?

United States
October 27, 2006 8:38am CST
Do you live by your family? Or no? If not, then why? did you move away or did they? Do you miss them? is it hard to see them? Just wondering because eventually we will be moving (not suer when at least another 3-4 years)
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14 responses
@ddsully (1062)
• United States
27 Oct 06
i live about 30 minutes away from my sisters and brothers, they all live in the same town, one day ill move there, but the school district that im in is great and i dont want to pull my daughter out of the school, but a hald hour is not that bad
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• United States
27 Oct 06
thanks for your response =) Good schools are important!! If we stay here in Toledo, i want my son to go to the same school that i did because i know they are good schools
@wahmbuddy (391)
• Canada
27 Oct 06
Yes I live 2 blocks away (can't get much closer than that). I will be moving though within the next 6 months. I'm looking to buy an acreage. It's only about a 5 minute drive out of town so that still pretty close.
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• United States
27 Oct 06
thanks for your response =)
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
27 Oct 06
I live close to some members and far away from others. I prefer to live close. My daughter and grandchildren just moved about 30 minutes from me. I miss them, they used to live within walking distance. The grandkids would walk over all the time. I really miss that.
• United States
27 Oct 06
Thanks for your response =) I was close with my grandmother like that too. Seen her every single day =)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Yes I do. I live 10 minutes from my brother Ben, and only 15 minutes from my sister Lina and My parents who live across the road from each other. We are planning on moving come the new year though and then I will probably be at least a hour or more away and I am sure I will miss the convenience of being so close to them now. We are moving so we can have better income and educational opportunities for us and our kids.
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• United States
27 Oct 06
thanks for your response =)
@Cortney (3980)
• United States
28 Oct 06
Just about all of my family lives here... we are all within 30 miles of eachother.. there are a few that live out of state
• United States
28 Oct 06
Thats good, if we move i know i'm gonna miss my sister and her kids, they live about 2 1/2 hours away, it will be a longer drive if we move where we want to...
• United States
27 Oct 06
I live in California, and I'm from Pennsylvania. I moved away when I graduated high school to get away from the small town life, then I got married so I ended up staying here.
• United States
27 Oct 06
My biological fathers family is from a little itty bitty town called Willow Hill in Illinois. No joke, my family takes up the entire town, thats how small it is. My biological father moved from there and my brothers and sister dont go back there very often due to how it is there. I dont think i could have lived in such a small town. I think there is about 5 roads there lol
@AMIR_AK (594)
• India
27 Oct 06
i live with my family not near my family
• United States
27 Oct 06
thanks for your response =)
@ansarkhan (2426)
• Pakistan
28 Oct 06
yes
@svalbard (383)
• Norway
27 Oct 06
No, I don't. I have moved around because I've taken different educations, so the past 7 years I've never lived closer to my parents than a 6 hour drive. I'm done with my education now, but we are planning to move to where my girlfriends family lives, which is even further away from my family. Guess you have to make some choises in life... I wouldn't mind having my family closer by, but since that's not possible, I'll just have to take my time to visit whenever I can.
• United States
27 Oct 06
thanks for your response =)
@sbeauty (5865)
• United States
27 Oct 06
We live 12 miles from our daughter, 1 1/2 hours from our son, and 2 1/2 hours from my mother. For the past 4 years we lived in Tennessee. We liked it there, but we were so far away from our loved ones. I think it would have been easier if we had had our children with us. Anyway, we finally decided to move back to Iowa where we could see everyone more than once or twice a year.
• United States
27 Oct 06
Thanks for your response =)
@POOHGIRL (213)
• United States
27 Oct 06
YES I DO
• United States
27 Oct 06
Thanks for your response =)
• United States
28 Oct 06
I live about 5 hours away from my mother. I actually moved to this town because she wanted me to be closer to her and then she moved! LOL! I think it worked out for the best. For a while there she was just a little too close.
@saphire539 (1639)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Yes we live with my parents right now and close to my husbands mom and sister,my two oldest daughters also live close by.My two sisters live in Florida with there families i miss them and hardly ever get to see them.We used to live in Florida till we moved back to Indiana in 2001.I would love to live back in Florida but don't want to leave my daughters behind in Indiana and don't think they would go back to Florida.
• United States
27 Oct 06
We live with my mom right now too. Its good this way because we both go to school and she gets to see her grandson every day. Besides my mom would get lonely by herself. lol. We are moving out this summer sometime.
@eoconn03 (152)
• United States
27 Oct 06
No, I do not live near my family. I am engaged to someone in the military. He has been stationed in several different states as well as a different country. I moved along with him to these different states. The good thing is both our families live in the same state. So we can go back and visit any time. They can come out here any time as well. Of course airline tickets are expensive so it is hard, but as far as me seeing my own family, when he is shipped out to another state I often fly home to visit.
• United States
27 Oct 06
Well thats nice that both families live near eachother.