The US tends to be a lot more spread out than Europe and the rest of the world. It seems like we’re also more likely to move long distances for jobs and the like.
I’m pretty close to most family, 10 to 40 minute drives for everyone that doesn’t live out of state
We’re on different coasts.
Amateurs
I live in Australia
Part of my family is in South America
The other part is in Europe
(I know it’s a US community but it was hard to not flex)
Have you ever managed to get everyone together in one place?
I moved over 1,000 miles away to escape the hellish politics of my home state. My family all hates the politics there, too, but not enough to up and move.
About 3h30 by train (2 changes), roughly 350km
In the UK
Edit: lol, just seen the community name. Well here’s an unsolicited outsider perspective
It’s good you clarified the UK. 3h30 on a train in the US gets you to about the next town over 😢
It’s not quite that bad, but I’ve really wanted to take Amtrak cross country, which should in theory be easy to do because of all our open land. And yet, it would take like a week or something ridiculous like that.
If I lived in mainland Europe the journey would probably be a bit quicker for a journey of similar distance, everything seems to go via London in this country and we’ve got some creaking infrastructure. However I’ve heard the trains in the US are particularly under funded, so this might be a tiny violin situation
Too damn close sometimes.
I loved my parents when they still lived, and will love their memory until my last day. But I was glad to live a few hours away by car.
For the last 13 years we lived about 2500 miles apart. You can make the drive in 4 days driving about 10 hours a day.
We recently moved back to our home state though, so it’s about 30 minutes drive to my in laws and 2 hours to my mom’s now
oh please, 2 days, for a measly 10 hour drive? that can’t be further than 700 miles, lol. I make a 15 hour drive (~roughly 980miles) yearly for our family Xmas get together.
granted that IS mostly just all flat land and pastures but still, put on an audiobook or two and you’re there before the second one ends lol
My parents and 4/5 siblings all live 1000 miles away. It’s cold where they live and I can’t stand the long winters.
My extended family is in Europe.
My sister is in Tennessee. I’m in Utah. Our parents are in California. We’re all a time zone apart. I’m an 11 hour drive from my parents. Or a 2 ish hour direct flight. 5-6 hour trip with connections and such. They’re an hour from the nearest airport. My sister has a harder time making the trip.
Everyone I work with is much better to family and it’s a little strange.
The lack of PTO is especially rough when my family is abroad.
Not far enough
We all lived in the same state except one uncle until I left (3-4 hour plane ride away) and then went further (15 hours+ across two flights). Mom and stepfather moved south to be warmer on retiring not far from where that uncle had gone. I still live in Japan and everyone else still lives in the state I grew up.
For me, visiting family is now a more time-consuming and expensive adventure, particularly because the one airport anywhere near mom only has a couple of flights a day.
As for the in-laws in Japan, a few hours away from SiL who lives in Tokyo and about an hour away from her parents by billet train.
About 20 minutes away. I wish it was farther sometimes.
>1000 miles (that’s 1600 km to “edumacashiated” people) so ~2 days drive (or one REALLY long haul). And other family is 3x as far away. The USA is freaking YUGE!
2500 miles.
My mother is about 20 to 40 minutes away, depending on traffic. My identical twin is in the same household.
Every single other person I might be related to is likely several hundred miles away, unsure. I only saw them all like 2 times. A family reunion on each side of the family.
7 hours from my Dad, unfortunately, and 7.5 hours from my in-laws. Most likely 9 hours from my Mom, but that’s only if I trust the rumors. Still keeping the doors locked, just in case.
