How far away from family do you live? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/AskUSA@discuss.online

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The US tends to be a lot more spread out than Europe and the rest of the world. It seems like we're also more likely to move long distances for jobs and the like.

I'm pretty close to most family, 10 to 40 minute drives for everyone that doesn't live out of state

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[-] odium@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

parents, siblings: 16 hour drive

grandparents, their other children, their other grandchildren: 24 hour flight

I think the Australian lemming has me beat.

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