All sorts of things come into play with the choices of where you end up living. In our family my parents generation gradually moved out of the area in London where they had been brought up and went in different directions. Some of my cousins did not go too far and are still in visiting distance of each other but most of us are miles away from each other. Few people that I went to school with are where we grew up.
Dd and I were talking about it yesterday - DGD has married into a family who still live within spitting distance of each other whereas ours are scattered mainly due to job location. We miss being able to see everyone even for a coffee on a regular basis. Smaller families also have a bearing on this. My parents had five or six siblings each whereas I had one who never married and I had two children - one emigrated for work - and both of mine have two children but of course the cousins have not grown up in the same vicinity - families soon become much more fragmented. To have family close by must be great but unfortunately not everyone can have that - it has become much more apparent with the lockdown and so many people isolated from family.
Alphabetical girls and boys names January 2024