https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 19:13:07 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304370 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:39:59 +0000 mynoahbear 304370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Tokyo. My mom lives in Seattle. DH's mom lives in CA and his dad in ID. Grandparents on both sides are gone already. I'm actually ok with the distance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304357 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:05:20 +0000 Rosie Girl 304357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents and in laws are across town, about 12 miles away. I see my mom a lot. She actually babysits for me 2 days a week. My grandma lives 9 hrs away. I see her maybe once a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304355 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:50:25 +0000 softcream 304355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my parents are a 20- or 30-minute drive away, depending on traffic. i visit them about once a week.</p> <p>the in-laws are a 5-hour drive away but we see them at least once a month still. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304310 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:43:37 +0000 DigAPony 304310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Oregon. My in-laws are in Washington state. My parents and all of our grandparents are in Arizona (where we're originally from). I really wish we lived closer, especially because one of my grandfathers is sick right now. I wouldn't move back to AZ anytime soon, but I wish it were easier to see my parents and our extended families. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304304 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:28:11 +0000 Sweet T 304304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Hawaii and most of our family lives in Georgia. I really wish we lived closer. I've been so homesick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304116 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:55:42 +0000 pinkcupcake 304116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are a 15-minute drive away. His parents are across the country; so is his only living grandma. My only living grandma is in Korea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304102 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:50:35 +0000 mrsjyw 304102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>both sets of parents are 20 min drive away. my only grandma lives in korea :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-304071 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:43:24 +0000 MamaCate 304071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are a 4 hour plane ride away and my ILs are about a 2 hour drive. My one grandma is back east, and my DH's grandparents are 2 hours and 4 hours away, respectively. We are still having the conversation about if it makes sense to be closer to family if and when we add LO#2 to the mix--probably to my parents as they are more demographically available. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303955 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:59:42 +0000 littlecasita1122 303955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents live 90 minutes away from us and my in-laws (including hubby's grandparents) live an hour away. I wish everyone was about 30-45 minutes away instead so they could see LO every weekend instead of every other weekend. I remember going to my grandparents frequently when I was little since they only lived 20 minutes away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303954 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:59:26 +0000 petitstrawberry 303954@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pretty far! We live in Chicago, my parents and MIL live 10 minutes apart in Northern California, my FIL and both sets of my husband's grandparents live in Taiwan, and I have a grandma who travels between Malaysia and Australia. I wouldn't mind living closer to my dad, in-laws, and all of our grandparents, but am content with the current distance from my mother :/. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303944 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:55:40 +0000 MamaBehr 303944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents are in NY, we are in TX. DH's parents are in FL. We have no family around here :( I really don't like it. But, the kind of life we can give our babies here is not the kind of life they would get in NY (of FL but I really wouldn't want to live there). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303896 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:42:13 +0000 Running Elley 303896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live pretty close to everyone! My parents are 10 minutes away and my grandparents live in a house on the same property as my parents sooooo they're 10 minutes away too. MIL is 15 minutes away and FIL is 20 minutes away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303876 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:36:47 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 303876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Far! In laws are 2 hour flight, my parents are across the pond, so 20 hours in flight time. I definitely wish we were closer, and I know they would love to spend more time with LO and we would love having some family we can rely on close by. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303861 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:32:04 +0000 LemonLong 303861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in Colorado, my parents live in WI and his live in WA. I have one grandma who lives in TN. I wish my parents were closer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303832 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:26:31 +0000 yin 303832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live minutes away from my parents and about 25 minutes away from my in-laws. Of course my in-laws think that we live so far away from them, but DH passes their house everyday to work... so it's really not that far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303798 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:15:50 +0000 travelgirl1 303798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're in Canada and our parents our in England, so pretty far away. DH has lots of family in Spain too, but we've actually seen a lot of them over the past few years as we and several of DH's siblings got married in Spain. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303381 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:29:56 +0000 anonysquire 303381@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Me and my parents share a back fence. I have jumped the fence many a time to come for a visit ( I have since stopped because my dad got mad last time lol). My maternal grandma lives 20 minutes away, my paternal grandparents live 30 minutes away. My inlaws live 8-10 hours away. Heaven!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303372 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:27:24 +0000 DillonLion 303372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live about 15 minutes away from my parents and 25 minutes from my grandmother. I'm satisfied with our distance. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303365 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:25:55 +0000 lovehoneybee 303365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in PA, my parents live in TX and my grandparents live in TX and IA. DH's grandmother lives in NC, but his parents live about 30 minutes away from us, so we see them on a regular basis. I wouldn't mind my mother living closer, but I'm glad my dad and stepmom are so far away. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303362 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:25:14 +0000 Ree723 303362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're 10,200 miles away from DH's parents in the UK and 8900 miles away from my family in the US. Sigh, Australia is just so darn far from everywhere! We'll be moving to the UK (hopefully!) or US in the next year or two so at least we'll be closer to one set of grandparents for our DD. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303358 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:24:35 +0000 Mrs. Train 303358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I live next door to my parents and my in laws live in San Diego (we live in LA). My husband has a set of grandparents in Arizona. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303353 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:23:09 +0000 MrsCastro 303353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i am about a 15 minute walk or 3 minute drive from my parents..and about a 25 minute drive form my IL's...with my dad being sick lately i love how close i am to them in case of an emergency... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303344 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:20:41 +0000 kokobee 303344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we live 4 miles away from my parents! i can't ever see us living far away from them </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-close-do-you-live-to-your-parents-and-grandparents#post-303327 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:16:04 +0000 Mrs. Bee 303327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in New York, my parents live in Los Angeles, Mr. Bee's parents live in the Philippines, and he has a grandma in Japan. So our family is all very far away! </p> <p>How close are your parents/grandparents? Do you wish they lived closer? </p>