How far do you live from your parents?

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Oh, you know, right down the hall.

[gemini9961]

About 20 minutes away from my parents and 10 minutes from the in-laws. All of my family lives pretty close to each other, the furthest away is an hour.

[krazyaboutkatz]

I live about 20 minutes away from my parents. My two brothers live much farther away. One lives in Texas and the other one lives in San Diego which would be 8-10 hours away I think. They do have another home in San Clemete which is about 45 minutes from my brother in San Diego. When my parents are in town, I have dinner with them every Sunday.

[Miranda_Rae]

Right now i live in their basement (gosh that sounds HORRIBLE) but in three months I'll be moving 3 hours away from them, and closer to the inlaws. oh for joy!

[Donnaj4962]

My folks CHOSE to move AWAY from their kids! They retired from Indiana to Florida! So, we are about 18 hours away by car.... but only about 3 hours by plane! We always try to visit when we can, and they ALWAYS come to Indiana for a wedding, Christmas, and usually once a summer. We miss one another, but as others have said, fortunately we live in the age of technology, and we are only a phone call/email away from one another. I talk to my folks probably 3 or 4 times a week, and the emails can be even more frequent.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I only live a little over an our from both my parents and my husband's parents. We don't live here because of our parents though, we live here because this is where my husband's job is.

My husband has 2 sisters, one is a 9 hour drive away, and the other is a 24 or so hour drive away. The one that lives 9 hours away visits a few times a year, the other visits for a couple weeks every summer (she and her son fly down). My in-laws also visit each of their daughters a couple times a year.

[anna_66]

I wish I was only 4 hours from my parents, that would be awesome!

They live in South Carolina which is about 530 miles from here. It is of course better than the 1050 miles we used to live from them.

[Genny]

I live w/ my parents. Or my mom I mean. My dad lives about 20 min. away. I live w/ my mom cause I have no reason not to...I don't have a husband or any kids...I help my mom out w/ payments sometimes...and she doesn't mind it so it just works out for us I dunno when I'll ever move out...guess when I get married and have to lol.

But I don't think just because you're moving it means you love your mom any less. I bet she's just gonna miss you a bunch and the thought of her daughter being 4 hours away might be a little scary or somethin! She'll get use to it, don't feel bad.

[finn's mom]

As for why I moved, it was to be with my husband (we started dating in 2006, and I moved to Texas to be with him). My mother was saddened by my leaving, as was I. But, she is and always been very supportive and encouraging in me creating my own family. And, sometimes that means being apart from them. In a perfect world, we'd all live within an hour of each other. David would be fine with moving to the Carolinas but the work just isnt there for him.

[Seravieve]

I live about 15 minutes from my mom, 25 min from my dad. J's mom is about 20 min away and her dad is... 2 days of driving.. MO to AZ. He would have been 5 seconds away before they moved to AZ.

I was 3 hours away from here when I went to college. It was nice, but then it wasn't. I'm really close to my mom, so wanting to come home for things didnt happen as often because 6 hours of driving total usually outweighed whatever was happening.

It's hard to decide to move away from the family... J and I were considering moving to CO about a year and half ago. It would have been really hard on me to not see my mom as much, I think. It's all up to you though. Don't stay for her... you'll regret it later. And if you do move, I'm sure she'd realize it's not because of her that you're moving. Even if it does take a while, I'm sure she'd figure it out.

[emily_the_spoiled]

We never had much choice but to move away when we finished high school. The closest university was 1.5 hours away from my parents, then when I graduated there were no jobs in either city, so I ended up moving 6 hours away. Since that time I have immigrated to a different country and we now measure our distance by time zones and not miles. To do the drive it is 12 hours a day for 3 days or you can fly but it still take a full day.

There are advantages and disadvantages to this, but I guess it depends on what you are looking for