Do you have family that live nearby?
My answer used to be no, but my parents are in the process of putting their house on the market and are moving back here (to VA, about an hour or so away from where we live)! I can't tell you how excited I am!!! We are going house hunting with them next weekend. 
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
@BandDmommy: that's awesome!!
My parents are 2.5 hours away and his are 12 hours away.
pineapple / 12566 posts
Nope! My ILs are at least on the same continent, but in a different country.
apricot / 428 posts
@BandDmommy: fun! the inlaws live about an hour away so we see them almost every weekend. it's just far and close enough.
cantaloupe / 6885 posts
Yes, my parents live 2 mins away. I'm so lucky! We also have lots of aunts, uncles, cousins in the area. My sisters have all moved away 
but they come home regularly.
pomelo / 5298 posts
Unfortunately, no. I wish my parents and/or sister lived closer. They all drive me a little batty but there is a huge mutual love between them and my kids. I wish my kids had more time with them.
pomelo / 5660 posts
@mediagirl: I know, I'm so excited! I have been trying to convince them to move back ever since they left. I finally won! 
pomegranate / 3779 posts
My sister lives about 25 minutes away, and my other sister lived about the same until she decided to take a sabbatical and is currently living with my ILs in South America. My parents live just under 2 hrs away.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
My mom moved in with us a few months ago, which has so far worked out incredibly well.
My ILs live about 40 minutes away, and then the next closest (BIL) is 2.5 hours away. The rest of my family is across the country.
grapefruit / 4085 posts
Yes, my MIL is 15 min and my parents about an hour. We see each at least once a week.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Great news!
My parents are 15-20 min away, my in-laws are 30 min away.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
Yep, my parents are in town. It's a blessing because they really do so much, I wouldn't be able to do what I do without their help and support.
apricot / 320 posts
No. We're about halfway between both sets of parents (and our respective siblings). I live in the area where I grew up and my parents and sibling moved away. It's tough!
honeydew / 7811 posts
@BandDmommy: aww that's wonderful!
My mom and sister are both here, only 10 minutes away. My dad died almost a year ago.
My in laws moved here when I was pregnant with my first, stayed for two years and then moved to Florida at the end of July. Don't know when we will see them again!
pomegranate / 3275 posts
Nope! We are in TX, my whole family is in NY and my in laws are in FL.
pear / 1586 posts
All of my siblings live nearby, and one of my BILs does, too. Baby-sitters galore!
grapefruit / 4663 posts
We just moved so that we would. We felt it was important for our kids growing up, (and for us too 
)
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
Yep, my parents are 20 minutes away and his parents are 45 minutes away. Almost our entire extended family live here, too.
nectarine / 2987 posts
Yep. All the in laws live 3-8 hours away. My family and extended family live 10-40 minutes away.
pomegranate / 3314 posts
Nope. My family is in the Midwest, his is on England and we are in the suburbs of NYC. I would LOVE to move closer to my family.
pomelo / 5720 posts
Kind of? They live in a neighboring state but it is only about 1.5 hrs away. Close enough that we are able to get together for birthdays, holidays, or just because, but not close enough that they can help at all with childcare.
grapefruit / 4321 posts
Nope. All of our family is a plane ride away. I'm trying to get my parents to move here when my mom retires in a couple years.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
All of my in laws but we don't see each other a lot!
pomelo / 5660 posts
@Truth Bombs: My mom is retiring (again!) and that was the push she needed to move back to the area. They moved to Savannah, GA because of all the amenities (golf, tennis, boating, etc) but once they got there my mom got really homesick and wants to be around her grandkids. There is tennis, golf, boating, etc around here so no reason they can't find a similar community closer to their grandkids. 
pomelo / 5573 posts
My parents are about 3.5 hours away, but they have no problem with the drive and come down pretty routinely, which is convenient because it lets us go out for dinner/a movie every so often. My in-laws live in England, so we only see them in person once or twice a year.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Not really. My in laws live 1.5 hours away while my family lives 3 hours away.
nectarine / 2115 posts
My sister is about 1.5 hours away, and my BIL and his wife are about 2 hours away. Considerably closer than our parents and extended families!
kiwi / 661 posts
ummm close-ish. my parents are 1.25 hours away which is fine with me most of the time. Now that I'm pregnant with number two I wish they were closer b/c I don't have someone to leave the baby with if there is an emergency with this pregnancy eeek.
pomelo / 5660 posts
@Alivoo01: hahaha, I'd say that's close. My parents are 8 hours away now and moving to about an hour or so away. I guess because I live in a suburb of a very large city anything around an hour feels close.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
We relocated last year and being near my family was the main reason. It's the first time since high school I've lived in the same state as any of my family! I really miss my inlaws though. They live across the country from us now.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
No, my parents are about 7 hours away and my MIL is 4 hours away. MIL is moving here next year though.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Yep! My parents are 10 min away, inlaws 20 min drive! They're the main reasons we choose to stay here.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@BandDmommy: oh. Well then, yes! lol
Even though they live 1.5 hours away, we don't see them very often. Boo!
eggplant / 11716 posts
Nope. Inlaws live about 8 hours away and my mom lives 15 hours south. My siblings are really scattered but none are close.
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