Poll for Parents and grown children

[ThomWV]

Poll question: Poll for Parents and grown children

How far do you live from your parents if you are an adult or if you are a parent how far, on average, do your children live from you?

Basic question - how far apart do people live from their parents or the other way around.

[Lebam in LA]

1. One lives next door

and the other about 30 miles away.

[LostinVA]

2. About 725 miles from my parents

[FrenchieCat]

3. I live about an hour drive away from my parents.

[margotb822]

4. With DC traffic

it seems like more than 35 miles...

ETA: My parents moved from where I grew up. I was actually in the area first and they liked it so much while visiting, they moved.

[SheilaT]

5. I moved to Santa Fe

after a divorce last year. One son is graduating from the University of Tulsa on Saturday, the other lives in Overland Park, KS.

[madmom]

6. I have one child that lives about 1/2 hour away, another that lives

about 4 hours away (in college) and I live in another state about 8 hours away from my parents.

[northofdenali]

7. Abou 4000 from mom,

3500 from daughter.

[truebrit71]

8. 4000 miles...and that's juuuuuuuuuuust about the right distance...

..

[NEOhiodemocrat]

9. 4 out of 5 children live between 100-500 miles away

youngest in college 45 minute drive away.

[Speck Tater]

10. Which answer do you want?

My mom is 7 miles away and my three kids are 480 miles, 1500 miles, and 5400 miles away. My oldest granddaughter and her S.O. rent part of my duplex from me, at about 150 feet away.

[virgogal]

11. I didn't participate in the poll because my 6 kids are all

over the place.

[Lugnut]

12. I have two grown kids.

The older one lives 40 miles away and the younger one lives 85 miles away. I need to make two selections.

[Lyric]

13. About 13 miles, according to Mapquest.

I live near Van Voorhis Road in Morgantown, and my Mom lives out near Hildebrand Lock & Dam--you can literally see the dam itself from her driveway. If I were to count miles as the crow flies, it's probably more like 7 or 8, though.

[Soylent Brice]

14. more than 2,000 from one, and more than 1,000 from the other.

my parents.

[Ikonoklast]

15. Mom and Dad live three miles from me.

They moved back from Florida to be closer to the family.

Son #1 lives seven miles away, with SO. Both kids work and go to school, and needed to be closer to both places.

Son #2 and Daughter live with me, as they are both working and going to school, and need a place to live. I am glad they live here at home with me.

[WCIL]

16. I live about 2 miles away from my parents

and my children attend college in a town about 75 miles away.