Where are your family living?

We live in the E. Midlands; daughter in south Essex as are OH's two surviving cousins. I have a cousin in Australia but no other relations.

DD nearby (about 20 miles or 30 minute drive), DS1 still at home (!) and DS2 in Cork!

We are in SW London, both dds in Oxford/Oxfordshire. An easy enough drive for there and back in a day, though we do often stay over.
No parents still living, they all lived 1-2 hours' drive away.

My parents never had any family around the corner, either. It was always a fair drive or (before they had a car) train journey to see any of them.

For some 13 years Dh and I lived an 8 hour flight from any of our UK families, though I would come back with dds for 2 months every summer to escape the worst of the heat, and both our sets of parents came to visit more than once in December, when the weather was lovely.

My daughter and granddaughter live three miles away (practically next door to my office), my oldest son lives with us (don't think we'll EVER get him fledged from the nest!) and my youngest son lives 25 miles away in London.

I have paternal cousins in Norfolk and Edinburgh (no contact with them) and maternal cousins in London (only in sporadic contact with one of them)

My daughter lives a 15-minute drive away, but we had to travel halfway round the world to where we live now.

GDs in Cambridge, Berkshire, London, Sussex. GSs in Cambs, London, Stirling, IoM, Hants. Phew!

Me S Surrey, daughters in York (city) Powys and Norfolk, sons in Dubai/London and W Sussex. Ex in Ireland/Monaco/Italy, OH in S Surrey. Brother and one first cousin in Canada, other brother in W London. 2 cousins in N Zealand North & South islands. Sister in Jersey.

I'm so happy these days, DD1 lives in the Peak District, an hour away, DD2 in the same town, 5 mins away :-)

A few years ago we lived in France, I worked between UK and UAE. DD1 lived in New Zealand and DD2 lived on Mainland, Orkney. So I always seemed to be in a car or on a plane. Just love retirement :-)

We live in South Yorkshire - one son lives in Bedfordshire the other in NZ. Husband's siblings in East Yorks my cousins are all in County Durham. No one near us to call in for coffee

My d lives round the corner from us we live in Shooters hill. London. I have family in Plumstead London, Berkshire, Australia.

DD is five minutes away and DS five hours. BiLs and SiLs all over the world.

We live in Portugal with one DS living about 80 miles away but we rarely see them unless we go there. The other 7 DC live in England with the eldest DS living in London with with DIL and 2 DGC. The rest live in East Anglia but 100 miles apart. One DGS lives with his partner and DGGS in Nottingham. My DH and I have no siblings left but I do have just 2 cousins left, one in Cheshire and one in Surrey. We are not popular because we chose to retire abroad. As one DD said to her siblings 'why should we use our holidays to go and visit our parents abroad'. 0h well.......

I have 25 first cousins from one side of my family and they are scattered across the globe in Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. I keep up with quite a few of them but they are mostly some years older and went away during the 60's. Our own children and GC are local, as are OH's family, but my only sibling is about four hours drive away.

We're in the West Midlands, both sons and their families live around 1.5 hours' drive away. Brother is in Cheshire, sister in Surrey, BiL and family in Leicestershire. All within a 2/3 hour drive. Even so, I sometimes wish we (or they) were nearer.

Until recently I lived in Scotland with DDs in Devon, Wiltshire and Sydney. I'm now in the same village as DD1 in Wilts which is amazing after all those years being so distant. I've even been on chicken pox duty this week; 2 hours from Devon and still 24 hours from Sydney. No parents or inlaws. Just an amazing Aunt of 102 in Sussex and some older cousins dotted around the SE. Sadly both late DH and I were only children. I was determined to have more than one ...

We live in West Midlands and dd is in Bristol. I have 3 sisters in Devon where I originate from, and 1 in Jersey, Channel Islands. My in laws live in East Yorkshire.

One in the loft, one ten miles away, one 10000 miles away, oh well!

Our 5 children and their families are well scattered - Italy, Morocco, north of Scotland, Peterborough and, thankfully, a 10 minute walk up the road.

My family are an hour away.....but we're thinking of moving nearer now as we're "knocking on a bit"

They want us to do that too.

Parents all dead now. One son lives a couple of miles away with new partner. his children our grandchildren a couple of miles in other direction with mother and her new partner, ok relationship with his ex (touch wood) Younger son and girlfriend have bought house 40 or so miles away but stay with us overnight on a fairly regular basis. Step daughter 40 miles or so away, see her frequently we are close, and also close to step daughter in law and step grandchildren, my husband's children by his son who died, they are about ten miles away. Some of them are coming to lunch tomorrow. Other than that sister in law and brother in law 40 or so miles away. Ditto niece and nephew. Nephew, niece in law and children live in Germany. My extended family 3 cousins here in the UK and their families 30 to 40 miles away, hardly ever see them. Most of my cousins are in France, one I'm in regular touch with. More cousins in Canada one who I have visited there and then she and her husband stayed with us when they came over. One cousin in Australia who I last saw as a child.

One DD and three DGC a fifteen minute drive and other DD and two DGD two and a half hour drive. Interestingly, a couple of friends who visit DC and DGC in Australia and Canada for three to six weeks at a time might actually spend more hours in a year with those families than we do wi th those who are two hundred miles away, it is very condensed time of course. I have one brother who lives by himself about three miles away and close cousins also all here in the city. I do keep in touch with cousins in USA, and we have visited, though due to their age, they probably won't come here again. Their grandsons are very proud of their Scottish heritage, and I think they will be staying in touch, and coming to visit. I think though, that as the generations pass, people may not make the same efforts.

USA, UK; Midlands & South, plus Australia. And we're in NW England.

Our children and grandchildren live within 3 miles of us and we see them frequently. My Mum lives 60 miles away and I visit every week.

I have no other close relatives, save for the widow of my cousin who lives about 15 miles away and who I meet up with occasionally and get on well with. I have two cousins living in the north east who are very nice but because of the distance I see them very rarely.

My husband's parents are both dead and none of his siblings, etc., live in this country.

We live in south Scotland, DD1 and family are a four hour drive to near Aberdeen, DD2 in Orkney 7 hour drive plus ferry trip, DD3 and family a 2hour drive and DS and family in Orkney also. But they are all still in Scotland!

We live in north Worcestershire. Son and family are in Cambridge. Grandson and his mother are in Bristol.