https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:02:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302657 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:24:33 +0000 regberadaisy 302657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My family lives a good 6/7 hour drive away so when we go it's usually a quick weekend trip. Currently the ILs are a good 20hr/2-4hr plane ride away. When we go visit them it's usually a week trip. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302649 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:20:39 +0000 Turd Ferguson 302649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I answered the poll for my parents, who are about a 5 minute drive from us. Fiance's parents are 2 hours up north, which still isn't horrible! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302504 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:14:25 +0000 pinkcupcake 302504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents live like 15 minutes away from me (drive), so I see them really often (like every other day or so). My in-laws live across the country though, so we only get to see them for holidays. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302503 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:14:20 +0000 Mrs. Pen 302503@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are 15-20 minutes north of me. </p> <p>IL's are 3 hours by plane. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302499 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:12:43 +0000 DigAPony 302499@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are a seven-hour drive away from my husband's parents, and a three-hour flight from my parents and the rest of our extended family. We're in Oregon, in-laws in Washington, rest of the fam in Arizona. I wish we were closer to my parents, but I love Oregon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302450 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:45:14 +0000 JennyLayneAZ 302450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All my immediate family lives in the same city as me. My sister is a 5-10 minute drive, my parents about 15 minutes. My fiance's mom, 1 grandma, cousin, and other set of grandparents live about an hour to hour and a half drive away. His brother lives in a different state. And then all of our other extended family is kind of spread out across the US from West coast to the East coast. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302449 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:44:46 +0000 littlebug 302449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both sets of parents are only 1.5 hours away. It's an easy day trip! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302437 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:36:55 +0000 Mommy Finger 302437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm lucky that my parents are about 30-45 minutes (depending on traffic) away from us so it's easy to head out to see them. DH's family is about a 2 1/2 hour drive so when we go there, we stay the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302375 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:53:36 +0000 futuremama 302375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our families are both about a 5.5 hour drive from us. We love where we live, but we still go back to our home fairly often, and it's far enough that it makes for a pretty crazy weekend if we dont take any time off from work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302326 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:23:02 +0000 immabeetoo 302326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My side of the family, the closest is 6 hours - parents are 8, sister is.. gosh probably 15+, brother is 8.</p> <p>Inlaws are all 7 (all live in the same area).</p> <p>We've moved every year for my husband's work the past 3 - and all our college friends are spread across the Midwest as well! Anticipating our next move this winter - hoping we're a little closer to my parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302316 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:18:41 +0000 PearlBee 302316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are close enough that we can go see them for lunch, dinner, or just the afternoon. My husband's parents are within that range too. I like it that way. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302310 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:15:24 +0000 Cole 302310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of out parents are an 8 hour car ride so we need at last a long weekend. The flight is only a little over an hour but both we and our parents live relatively far from the airport so in some cases out makes more sense just to drive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302275 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:55:58 +0000 Minnie_Girl 302275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of the immediate family lives in the area. My parents/brother are 15-25 minutes away; my maternal grandmother is 5 minutes away; all 3 of my sisters are within an hour's drive. Much of DH's family lives 45 minutes away. I'm so glad we chose to buy a house that's centrally located, especially with baby on the way! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302222 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:28:37 +0000 Honeybee 302222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are about 5 hours' drive away; my in-laws are about 16 hours' drive away. We see my parents about once a month; we see my in-laws a couple times a year.</p> <p>Hopefully we'll relocate soon so it's a little more even, though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302187 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:09:51 +0000 blackbird 302187@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents live about a 4-5 hour car ride away and DH's family live about 30 min away </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302186 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:09:34 +0000 Alivoo01 302186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents live 3.5 hours away and my in laws live 1.5 hours away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302170 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:04:04 +0000 littlek 302170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Northern VA, my parents live in Savannah, GA. DH mom lives in Atlanta, GA and his dad lives in Hawaii. My parents used to live in Northern VA but retired to Savannah about 5 years ago. :( My brother is in Houston. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302154 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:57:56 +0000 loveisstrange 302154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live north of London. Our family, for the most part, lives in St. Louis, MO. It usually takes almost 24 hours to get home with travel time to and from the airport and layovers. Last time, I left my house here in the UK at 4:30am and got home at 10pm St. Louis time.... which is 4am London time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302153 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:57:41 +0000 hilsy85 302153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both of our parents are about 40 minutes away by subway (public transportation) or 25-30 minutes away by car. It's nice to have them close, but sometimes it's TOO close. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302149 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:56:14 +0000 LuLu Mom 302149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both sets of parents are a 20-25 minute drive. My siblings are a 30 minute drive, and DH's brother is a 45 minute drive. So we are lucky and get to see our immediate families a couple times a month! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302147 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:55:00 +0000 spaniellove 302147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live on the East Coast, my family lives on the West Coast. ILs live about 45 minutes away but we only see them a few times a year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302138 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:52:02 +0000 wheres_c 302138@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dad is 3 hours by plane (Ontario, Canada)<br /> Mom is 2 hours by plane (Baltimore, Maryland)<br /> FIL is 6 hours by plane (Lima, Peru)<br /> MIL is closer than I would like :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302114 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:41:49 +0000 oliviaoblivia 302114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sorrycharlie: I would LOVE that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302109 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:40:19 +0000 sorrycharlie 302109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@oliviaoblivia: I live in RI! if you ever come down to visit, we should try to plan a little RI/MA meetup! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302106 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:39:25 +0000 oliviaoblivia 302106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in Ontario and my family is in Rhode Island. Too far for me :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302092 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:34:22 +0000 bpcmarj 302092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am in MA. Mom, step-dad, and youngest siblings are in NC. Dad is in LA, and my sisters are in CA. I hate that they are so far away. One of my sisters is coming for a week in October and I can't wait. We'll probably go to NC for Thanksgiving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302084 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:29:28 +0000 pastemoo 302084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aww, so much travel! I was beginning to think we were mostly far from family. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302083 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:28:13 +0000 chopsuey 302083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine lives 4.5 hours by plane! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302082 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:27:16 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 302082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both our parents live in the same town, about 3 hours away from where we moved to for work after school was done. I wish we were closer.. we are constantly going back for weekends and it is such a pain! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-live-far-away-from-your-family#post-302074 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:24:23 +0000 anniegurumi 302074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Shanghai, our family lives in NYC. :( quite far. </p>