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[quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read the whole thread but geography of families is very different now than it was a generation or two ago, as is family structure.

In my grandmother’s generation, my grandmother lived a 2-day drive from her hometown, but all 4 of her sisters raised their kids within a 4-hour drive of their childhood home.  In circumstances like that, it made sense for everyone to travel to one central location, namely, the hometown that everyone lived relatively close to.

In my mother’s generation, her parents moved away from the home where they raised their kids and to a new state.  Her parents ended up in CA, my mom was in Virginia, and her three brothers were in Arizona, Washington State, and Georgia.  There was no real central location as it became more common to move away from your hometown and follow job opportunities elsewhere.

In my generation, my parents divorced, so one lives in southern VA and one lives in New Mexico.  I live in DC and my brother lives in Seattle.  Not only is there no central location, but we have to alternate seeing parents.

So as society became more mobile and as family structures became more fluid, the idea of celebrating holidays in the same house year after year makes much less sense.[/quote]

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