I am 850 miles away from my parents, and my sister and her family.
It’s not heartbreaking, or anything, but I do wish I could see my parents more, and that my son could know his grandparents and cousins better. I went far away for college and pretty much knew, at that point, that life would probably keep me at a distance. It would be easier to swing visits if they didn’t live 2 hours from any major airport. I get home 1-2 times a year, and they try to come out our way to visit at least once.
One sister bought a house three hundred feet from mine, do I win a dependancy prize? 
Growing up, all the grandparents and aunts/uncles were within five miles from us, in fact when Grandma 1 purchases a bigger place a few miles closer, Grandma 2 sold her house and moved into the upstairs apartment. The great-grandkids all grew up calling them Grandma Up and Grandma Down. They’ve passed on, and when my parents retired they moved 250 miles away. Huge adjustment from seeing them on a near-daily basis, but they come down or we go up at least once a month. All the cousins in my generation started out in the same city, but many have moved upward to more affluent communities as they got older. Most of us are within a twenty-mile circle though.
I’ve got a sibling I don’t much like five miles away, and the last sibling, the one I actually like spending time with the most, 350 miles away. That makes me sad, I only get to see those neices and nephews maybe once a year and my own son has to be reminded who that Aunt is before each visit, I wish we were closer.
My in-laws, my parents and my brother all live mere blocks from us in a less-than two kilometre radius. To counter that, my father-in-law and his new wife, their children and my brother-in-law all live in Scotland which is something in the vicinity of 16,925km away.
[pointless addition]My husband, being sarcastic, asked me why I didn’t just Ask Jeeves instead of using Google, so I did and Jeeves told me the exact distance from my small Australian town to my BIL/FIL’s small Scottish town. That is so cool! I never knew Jeeves had that feature.[/pointless addition]
No, because I forgot to say above that we’re hoping to purchase half of my parents’ property and build on it. They have two acres, so we want to buy the back acre. So I think that puts us at a tie. 
My parents are easy to live with, so being right behind them wouldn’t be horrible.
(What’s stopping us, you ask, from doing it now? Answer: the next-door neighbors’ son runs his trucking company from their back acre. He owns other land and is supposed to be moving his shop out there. :dubious: That isn’t happening quite as soon as we’d like.)
My family is all scattered from each other (none even live in the same state) but the average is about 1700 miles.
I live about five miles from my parents and two sisters. One of those sisters lived next door to me until a month ago. My brother is about 25-30 miles away. Also living close by are an aunt, uncle and 2 cousins ( about six blocks away), two great aunts ( 5 blocks away) ,two more cousins within 2 miles, three cousins near my parent’s house and another one about 10 miles away. My grandfather lived with my mother until he died , and another aunt,uncle and cousin moved away within the past couple of years. Most of my husband’s family is just as close, except for his brother who’s about 400 miles away
I like the closeness. My kids are close in age to my brother’s daughter, sister’s son, and my sister-in-law’s daughter , so they get along almost as if they were siblings- actually better, since they don’t live in the same house. My kids know their aunts, uncles ,grandparent’s and cousins well. They knew their great-grandfather. They even know their great-aunts and uncles, two great-great aunts, and their second cousins.
2,500 miles, give or take. I’m in the Salem, Oregon area and all my family is in the Chattanooga, Tennessee area.
I’ve not seen any of them since I moved in January and, honestly, I don’t miss them that much. I am not sure if that makes me a bad person or not but it’s the way I feel. Sure, I still love them, but I’m the kind of person that tends to forget after a while. Out of sight, out of mind.
I still talk to them every week or two though.
I’m about 10 miles from my dad and step-mom and about 15 miles from my mom. My sister and brother-in-law and two of my nieces live 12 miles away, as does my paternal grandmother. Another sister, brother-in-law and two nephews live about 20 miles away. My third sister, brother-in-law, niece and nephew live about 150 miles away. My maternal grandma is about 40 miles away.
My in-laws live about 25 miles from us. My sister-in-law and her son live about 30 miles away. My other sister-in-law, husband, and kids live about 300 miles away right now, but will soon be moving farther away. My husband’s third sister, husband, and kids live in Florida.
I love having my family close by. Right now, we’re close enough to family that we can see them whenever we want, but we don’t feel smothered. I like being able to just “run out to dad’s” or spend the day with my mom whenver I like. My 15-year-old nephew goes to high school in the town where I live, and he often stops in and brings friends. I love having that close relationship with him.
I live in the same town as all of my immediate family. My parents and one of my brothers live less than 2 miles from me. The one brother that lives in a different town is all of maybe 15 miles away.
Additionally, I have both grandmothers (grandfathers have passed away), several aunts, and cousins out the whahoo that live in the same town. My aunts and uncles who don’t live in town come to visit at least a few times a year.
I like living close to everyone. We socialize with my parents and brothers at least once a week or so - some weeks more. This weekend, for example, we’re putting a new roof on the family cabin (a whopping 10 miles out of town, in the wilderness!) and I’m guessing most of the immediate family will be there to help. Just like an Amish barn-raising, except with more beer and power tools
My parents live 145 miles away, but its interstate and highway the whole way to see them so its only about a 2.5 hour trip. My brother lives in the same town as my parents. My brother’s wifes whole family more or less still lives in the same town. I hope when I graduate that I can find a job in Indianapolis so I will only be 1.5 hours and 80 miles away from my family. That would be a dream and I’d gladly take a lower paying job (24k vs 35k) in order to make that happen.
My immediate family all lives close by. I’m less than a half mile from my Mom and Dad. One of my sisters lives about three miles away and my other sister lives about 12 miles from me. My grandfather lives about 20 miles away. Most of my aunts and uncles are within 50 miles. A few live in the neighboring states of Oregon and Washington. The furthest ones from me live in Pennsylvania and Florida. I also have one uncle in Kansas.
Most of my immediate family lives in the DC area. My parents live about 20 miles from me and my brother is less than 10 minutes from me (but I don’t get to see him enough). I love having my family close by, it will be even more important when I have kids someday.
According to Mapquest, I’m 2912.04 miles away from my parents. We talk about once a week, and I try to go see them once or twice a year. The distance doesn’t really bother me.
My closest relative is my uncle who lives about 400 miles away.
My family:
Grandparents - next door
Parents - 5 miles
Sister #1 - 7 miles
Sister #2 - 15 miles
Aunt - 10 miles
Uncle - 25 miles
My wife’s family:
Dad - 100 miles
Mom - 300 miles
Brother - Uhm, we’re not sure. He pops into the picture about every other year.
As you can see, my family are very much homebodies. We’ve been in this immediate area for about 250 years (well, not us personally but the family line)and nobody seems to be in any hurry to leave.
It takes about 2.5 hours to drive to my mom’s house when traffic is bad, maybe 15 minutes less if it’s good. One of my sisters lives about 6 miles from Mom - I pass her place on the way. My brother’s place is probably about the same, time-wise. My youngest sister lives in East Baltimore - maybe 1:45-2 hours, again, depending on traffic. The other sister is about an hour and a half away.
My daughter is 800+ miles away, and I really hate that. My inlaws are pretty much that far away also, but in a different part of Florida from my kid. My husband’s brothers are both within an hour of his folks.
Almost all my family is in Florida and I’m in Texas. That’s about a thousand miles away. My borther did live here in Austin when I moved here but he’s moved back to Gainesville too. I’m not super close to my family but I don’t like being so far away. I have a lot friends here but no SO or roots so I’m thinking about moving back to Gainesville. There’s just something about knowing there’s someone you can call if you wind up stranded on the side of the road at 3 am…
Youngest sister is in Longview Texas, 1542 miles away from me.
Younger sister is in Victor New York, 2312 miles away from me.
My Mother is in Kamiah Idaho, a mere 631 miles away.
On the other hand, my middle son lives in Galt, 21 miles away.
My eldest son lives in Davis, 47 miles away. And my youngest is in Roseville, 54 miles away.
When I was growing up, I had three grandparents, several aunts and uncles and a covey of cousins all within seven miles. In fact the first house I remember was down the block from one set of grandparents, and nearly across the street from Grandma Lil.
Interesting to work this out.
I live in NE Ohio.
My parents are in a suburb of Chicago, about 350 mi away.
My grandma also lives about the same distance, being about 20 min. from my parents.
My brother is in California, so he’s several thousand miles away.
My g/f is in western PA, about 189 mi away.
My mom and dad, two brothers, and my sister all still live in my hometown which is 14 miles from Indianapolis. I feel lucky that we live so close. We are a very close family and I can’t imagine living much farther than this from them.
I do have an aunt and uncle who live 3000 miles away, but they moved so long ago that they don’t even feel like part of our family. I never got to know my cousins, and neither has my grandmother, who is the main person I feel has missed the opportunity.
They don’t even make any attempts to come for the holidays. They always tell us to come visit them, but it doesn’t really make sense for all of us to pack up and fly out there, get a hotel, etc. when they could easily come and see both of their families and really make their parents happy. But, I guess they’ve shown us that they don’t really value family and it isn’t their priority to have a relationship with us.
My mom is about a 3 hour drive away. She is the only family member I have that I care about…