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Do You Live Close to Your Family? Love it? Hate it?
After spending another weekend with my family, who live fairly close, I began thinking about how wonderful it's been to move back to the area after 4 years far, far away from my family. It was a decision my husband and I made, and I'm pretty happy about it.
It got me wondering about other twenty-somethings: Do you live near your family? As 20-somethings, we're now more mobile and have a say in where we live. Did you jet away as soon as possible? Would you hate living close to them? Do you wish you'd be closer? Are your parents down the street?
You can find my post about family and see other 20-somethings responses here: Just Like Everybody Loves Raymond. Except NOT.
It got me wondering about other twenty-somethings: Do you live near your family? As 20-somethings, we're now more mobile and have a say in where we live. Did you jet away as soon as possible? Would you hate living close to them? Do you wish you'd be closer? Are your parents down the street?
You can find my post about family and see other 20-somethings responses here: Just Like Everybody Loves Raymond. Except NOT.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by OurLittleAshley on -
And, you're in California, which is sort of awesomely sunny, right?
(Although, Alabama's probably not too bad!)
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Permalink Reply by Francesca 'Kika' on -
I miss my relatives in Italy but regarding my immediate family, being the product of divorced parents I have done the house shifting thing having spent time living in both mum and dads house as well as living overseas by myself. Every situation had it's pros and cons. I don't like living under the same roof as either parent. My family all live fairly close together and the good thing is despite them being so geographically close i can choose just how 'close' they are to me. Sometimes I go days, weeks, or sadly years without seeing some of my family even if they are only a few suburbs away. Personally I like the the small benefits of having family close e.g your car needs a service and you need to be picked up. They are pretty reliable for that. Yet being overseas totally alone was amazing. I felt closer to my family yet completely free and independent of them and any issues (and boy do we have plenty) we all have with each other. I prefer the latter. It gave us a chance to miss and appreciate each other...even if it only lasted a moment.
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Permalink Reply by Heather on -
I live 45 minutes from both Husband's and my family. I love it. It's just far enough away that they rarely stop over with out calling and gives us plenty of privacy to figure out the world on our own. But, it's not too far away that we can't see people for special ocassions or stop over for dinner.
This opinion may change once we have children.
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Permalink Reply by OurLittleAshley on
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I agree with the "plenty of privacy to figure out the world on our own" bit. Space is such a wonderful thing!
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Permalink Reply by Phyllis on -
my family is close...and i have a love/hate relationship with it. I love having them near by, i really do - but all of my friends (literally, all of them) are 2 hours away. which makes me resent my family for keeping my tied here.
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Permalink Reply by Adrienne Judy on -
I enjoy having family close by. Both my parents and my in-laws live about 10 minutes away so they dont just show up randomly to often. At times I think it would be great to live farther away, but since we are thinking of starting a family it will be nice to have close free baby sitters
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Permalink Reply by Barbara on -
I live about an hour away from my parents. It's nice to be close to them, but we hardly ever see each other because we are all very busy.
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Permalink Reply by kk on -
i live about forty-five minutes away from my family, and i love being close to them. i can't imagine moving far away.
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Permalink Reply by Punky Jo on -
I moved from California to New york for 3 years and only saw my family on holidays or sometimes less. I've finally moved back to my parents house last month while I get settled and I'm loving spending time with my parents, sister and brother. I didn't realize how much I missed them while I was away until I got back.
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Permalink Reply by Periodic Encounters on -
My parents live in the town I go to college in and both work at this university too. I actually love it because I can live on campus and have my distance, but go home for a homecooked meal or visit my mom at work and have a chat without feeling dependent on them.
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Permalink Reply by Ren Rexx on -
My mom and sisters live about 20 miles away. I see them about once a week at most, and my dad lives in Calfornia (we live in Houston) so he only comes during the holidays.
Apart from that, the rest of the family lives in Chile, brother/sister live in france, and some family lives in Spain, so everyone's everywhere.
I've learned to deal with it- I don't know any other way, so not growing up with cousins was ok. My family made good friends, and they became family.
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