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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you're being overly dramatic - that's provincial thinking. And it's a mindset other people avoid. They spread their wings and head out into the big, wide world.[/quote]

[b]It's always why Americans are increasingly lonely and we've seen a collapse of the family unit[/b]. Existing as islands in the big, wide world has had disastrous effects on society.

OP, I agree with you. Will push for my kids to stay on this coast. I moved away from home and it has been hard on my parents. My DH is not from the US and he finds the entire system completely insane. [/quote]

This.  Definitely this.  I LOVE that my now college age students are within a two/three hour (depending on traffic patterns) of our home.  They choose to be home for every family celebration, often bringing a group of friends with them. We are so unbelievably blessed to have such a close family unit (both extended and our own) and we do everything to nurture our family gatherings to the max.  Family is everything and we count our blessings that we did not "screw" up in the parenting department.[/quote]

If they’re ambitious, you have no guarantees they’ll stay local if they get job offers somewhere else. Also, people often move for spouses or spouses careers.[/quote]

We have moved around in our 33+ years of marriage. Lived in 5 places, with 3 of them being 5 years, 13 years and 10 years and counting.  We are in our final place now, have the retirement home(s).  We will just travel as needed to see the kids.  But we certainly didn't put our careers and aspirations on hold just to live nearby family.  God help us if we had as where our parents lived was not a tech hub (we are both techies).  We would have been miserable.  
Instead we did what we wanted, we travel to see family, when parents were able to travel we paid for them to come visit as often as they wanted.

Our kids are still close to their grandparents, even if they didn't see them weekly/daily growing up 
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