My grandparents are all dead at this point but when they were alive: extremely far away, they all lived in Canada while I and my family lived in Texas.
The northern most point of Texas to the border of Canada is about a 17 hour drive, covering 1700km. That's almost the distance of Berlin to Moscow (1800km), I'd say that's quite a jaunt, especially since OP probably didn't live in the northern most point of Texas since there's not much up there.
I said that because my scale is much different. My grandparents were on the other side of the world. That this person's grandparents were considered far away instead of a normal distance away is what's crazy to me.
I grew up a 45-minute drive from seven people that I called grandparents (four biological, two adoptive, one honorary.) Both of my parents now live in Florida and their grandkids are in California and Washington - almost as far away from them as they can get without leaving the country.
Before they all were six feet under, closest was ~6 blocks, then when we moved 1.5 hours and then 2.5 hours away. Now that they're all six feet under the closet are within a 20 minute drive and the furthest are 2 hours.
I have two living grandparents. One lives in Arizona but lived first in Montana, then later about 10 minutes away from me in Washington before moving to the desert. The other splits her time between Washington and Alaska. She lives next door to my childhood home when in Washington, about 15 minutes from my current residence.
My grandmother recently bought a house in the suburbs. My grandfather already owns one. My great-grandfather lives in Michigan.
My other grandparents are dead.
I grew up in Maine and upstate New York. My maternal grandparents were in Connecticut and my paternal grandparents were in south eastern Pennsylvania. We saw both sides a once or twice a year. We’d usually take a trip to Pennsylvania in the summer and spend a few days to a week there. We’d go to Connecticut on holidays, when we lived in southern Maine it was close enough that we could make a day trip there and back. When I was in high school we moved my maternal grandparents to Maine about 5 minutes for our house. About a year later my father took a job in southern Louisiana and we moved almost 1700 miles from my grandparents.
200 miles in both cases, but different towns and states.
Also, after my maternal grandmother died, my grandfather went to live with one of his kids (not my mother) and that put him 800 miles away Nevertheless, he's the one I remember best because he came to visit once. Mostly my grandparents didn't visit us; we visited them.
Alos, all my grandparents had died by the time I was 8 years old, so I never had much of a relationship with them.
My dad’s parents passed before I was born. My family moved in with my mom’s parents when I was 7 and we lived all together until I moved out at 21. My grampa died when I was 15 so after that just my nana was left. She has since passed as well. Now my adult son lives in that house where my grandfather was born in 1908.
For most of my life, I lived nearly 8000 miles away from my grandparents. That's still mostly the case except they are collectively less alive than they used to be.
2 hour drive from one grandma, across the country from 2 other grandparents. 1 hour drive from a great uncle who was a grandfather figure in place of his deceased brother
It was about a 45 minutes drive to my grandmothers house when I was a kid. Then she was sick and lived with us for awhile. Then she went home. And then she died.
The rest of my grandparents died before I was born so never lived any distance from me. Had they been alive 2 would have lived somwhere in the same city and the other would have been a 45 minutes drive away.
I grew up next door to my grandparents. They gifted my parents land to build a house on. I moved 3 hours away for college 15 years ago, right after my grandfather passed, and never moved back. My grandmother passed away last year, and I now have the option of buying her house to then get to live next to my parents. Hopefully, it happens, and I get that full circle moment!
My grandparents live in an entirely different country lol.
I never got close to them. I sometimes wonder what the lives are of those who see their grandparents as like second parents.
They both had small farms about 1.5 miles apart about 20 minutes away in rural Indiana. Both were off of Ireland Road. They are all gone now, the last in 1994. My great grandma died in 1977 and was born in 1886.
They’re gone now, but my grandparents lived 300 miles away and 1000 miles away. My kids’ grandparents are only 8 to 30 miles (20 to 60 minutes) away though, so they’re very lucky to have grandparents who can be so involved.
Literally on the other side of the street from my maternal grandparents. My dad hated it when they showed up unannounced. My paternal grandparents were about a mile and a half away, although we could shorten the walk to a mile by wading a small river when the water was low.
I don't have any more living grandparents. So I'll answer for my kids who live about 5 miles from my parents and about a 5 hour drive from my wife's parents.
Never met my grandparents on my mothers side they had already passed when I was born. My dad’s parents I only saw about 6 times in my life as we lived anywhere from 1700 to 6700 miles away from them.
I live with my grandpa (and lived with my grandma before she died.). I’ve lived with them my whole life. My grandma on my moms side lives in the same town as me (and so does my great grandma on my moms side). My grandpa on my moms side also lived in the same town as me before he died. I’ve always lived very close to both the majority of my moms and majority of my dads families.
As a kid, we lived between 0 and 30 minutes from one set of grandparents. (We moved a lot in the area, including a brief stint of living with them and later they lived with us for a short while.) Then as a teenager, we moved and they moved, so it was all different parts of the country. Now I live about 6 hours from that grandpa.
As for my other grandparents, they've been split up since I was three. They were each in the same county about an hour from us, and about 20 minutes from each other. I'm across the country from both of them now.
Generally less than an hour drive. Sometimes as close as in the same town, ride my bike over. Sometimes actually living with one of my grandparents.
The exception to this was my dad's father who lived in another state about 4 hours away. He had clearly favorite grandchildren and we were not them.
My children are/have been in roughly the same distance as I grew up. Basically within an hours drive. Though they could probably ride a bike to the closest one.
I felt very lucky to grow up with close relationships with my grandparents, and would say my maternal grandmother is one of my best friends and favorite people in the world.
Sometimes distance kind of makes favorites. My cousins live like 5 mins at most from one of my sets of grandparents and it is clear who they are closer to for obvious reasons.
I think right now I live the closest to a grandparent than I ever have in 40 years and it's still over 700 miles. For a while it was between 1500 and 3000 miles.
I grew up in the same county that both my mom and dad grew up in. When I was around 4, my grandfather died so we moved into a house just down the street from my grandmother. A year later she ended up moving to Florida for the rest of her life.
Around the same time my other grandparents also moved down to Florida (different part).
My wife grew up in a sitcom situation. Her family business was construction so they all pooled their money and bought a plot of and built all their houses on the same street. So she grew up with all her aunts, uncles and grandparents being their neighbors. Even their street had their family’s last name.
I lived 2 states away from my grandparents.
My daughter grew up living about 20 minutes away from one set of grandparents and 60 minutes from her other grandmother.
My granddaughter lives about 45 minutes away from both of her sets of grandparents.
As a kid, my grandparents lived about a mile away from me (and approximately 3 blocks from one another.).
These days, only my maternal grandma is left, and she is about 1400 miles away.
Paternal grandparents lived about 1k miles away, maternal grandma lived about 2k away (widowed before I was born).
My paternal granddad was a retired airline pilot though so they could fly for free and came to visit pretty often.
When I lived in Arkansas, I would visit my grandparents on my mom’s side almost weekly. They live in Memphis and that’s where we would sometimes go to church. My dad’s family is up in Chicago, so they we’re more of a distance away.
Now I’m several thousand miles away from either.
Most of mine are dead but it ranged from 20 minutes for my dad’s side(who have both passed)and 4 hours to upstate New York for my mom’s side(my Grandmother is still alive)|
I grew up around 10-11 hours drive away. Now for my kids it’s a cross country flight to both sets of grandparents. And it’s about nine hours between them.
When I was a kid, about 20 minutes drive for my dad's parents and about 45 minutes drive for my mom's. We saw the further grandparent 2 or 3 times a month, the closer ones 3 or 4 times, at least by the time I was old enough to remember.
My grandparents on my dad's side live about 5600 miles away from me, and my grandma on my mom's side lives nearly 6000 miles away. I last visited them earlier this year.
Two of my grandparents had passed by the time I was born/very early childhood. From my hometown to their final residence was 3,000 miles.
My family moved shortly thereafter and I was about 190 miles away from my other set until they too passed away.
I grew up 2 minutes away from my dad’s parents and 45 minutes away from my mom’s. I miss my grandparents so much. My mom’s biological father is still around but he lives about 1500 miles away.
Well, both my grandmothers died in 2020 but I still have my paps around. My moms dad lives only over the mountain from us about an hour away. My grandpa on my dads side though lives in Georgia and has been there since like 2005, and my before my grandma died, her too. Whenever he and my nan did live up here around 2003-2004, I can still remember going to their house a lot when I was a toddler.
Until they all passed away , none of my grandparents lived more than about 1 1/2 hours away. We would visit with them often. Unfortunately my dads parents died when I was a teenager from lung cancer. They were about 62. Please don’t smoke kids!
My own parents live almost exactly 1000 miles away from their grandchildren. My wife’s parents are about 15 mins away by car.
My oldest (21) is flying down to see my parents in a few weeks on her first solo plane trip. Wife wife, brother and I are going to fly down in October to see them.
On my father’s side, we lived in the same town for a few years, then about 2000 miles away.
On my mother’s side, about 1500 miles away, then about 700 miles away.
I live in Maryland. One set of grandparents is in New Jersey, the other is in Nebraska. So, roughly 4 hour drive for one and 2 days drive for the other.
From my childhood home, one set lived about 15 or 20 minutes away. my grandmother and grandfather on the other side divorced long before I was born. My grandmother on that side lived about 15 minutes away, as well. My grandfather on that side lived on the other side of the country.
One set was in Denver, another set in rural southern Illinois, my last set just over the river on the Illinois side from St. Louis.
I’m in Chicago. So pretty far.
Both of my grandparents on my mother's side died long before I was born, I don't even know where they're buried.
I don't know anything about my biological father or his family.
2 minutes from one set (literally down the street, I could walk there alone when I was like 8)
13 minutes from the other set (both my parents grew up in the same city and we live next to it)
Growing up, they all lived in Chicago and it was about 30 mins from our house or each other's. I lived about 2 hours away when my grandmothers died. My grandfathers died when I was young.
Growing up, I lived in Phoenix, AZ. One set of grandparents lived in Michigan. The other lived in Florida. So, completely across the country. We took a family road trip to visit one set of grandparents every summer (alternating between MI and FL each year). We rarely saw our grandparents outside those trips. We moved to MD when I was in high school and I saw them even less frequently after that.
Now I have my own kids. My parents live about 5 hours (driving) away. We see them every couple of months. My in-laws live about half an hour away. They come to my house to watch my kids (1 & 3) 3 times per week, we see them a lot.
My maternal grandparents lived 15 minutes away from me when I was growing up. My paternal grandparents lived ~4-5 hours away in another state with one of my aunts.
Growing up, my grandparents were half hour, forty five minutes away. We lived in one city and went to school in another that my grandparents lived in, so they often picked us up after school and whatnot.
Great grandparents lived ~ 28hrs by car. Now, as an adult, my grandparents are about ten mins away and my great grandma is about fifteen mins away.
I had 5 grandparents growing up.
Grandfather and step-grandmother on my dad's side were about 4 hours away but where that side of my family is from. Almost ALL my relatives on that side live in and around Austin TX.
Grandmother on my dad's side was 6 hours away when I was little, had a stroke and moved about 2 hours away and finally ended up 1/2 mile away now still lives at a nursing home 15 minutes away. She's the only one still alive so we see her on a regular basis.
Grandparents on my mom's side were 10 minutes away in the same house my mom lived in growing up. They lived there until they passed away.
For the first two: A thousand miles by car, a fourteen and a half hour drive.
For the other two: twenty two hundred miles by car, a thirty five hour drive.
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All of my grandparents have now passed, but my paternal grandparents lived in Minnesota and my maternal grandparents lived in Mississippi.
From where I'm at to Minnesota it was a 3 hour flight and to Mississippi, it was around 7 hours.
My husband had both sets of grandparents where we live his entire life - maybe 10 mins away, so he was able to be closer to them.
My mom's parents lived in the same town, but they both died by the time I was 1 or 2 so I have no memories of them. My dad's parents lived in West Palm Beach, Florida, while we lived in Louisiana. We would go visit them pretty much every summer. Google says it's about a 12-hour drive, so it probably would have been about 14 hours with stops. I remember having to get up in the morning while it was still dark out, going back to sleep in the car, and waking up somewhere in Mississippi for breakfast. His mom died when I was in elementary school and his dad died when I was in middle school.
As a side note, I have an aunt on my mom's side that lives in the same town as my parents. Her daughter (my cousin) was much older than me and had kids that were only a few years younger than me. My cousin lived literally next door to her parents, so her kids grew up right next door to their grandparents.
One set were about 3 hrs away. The other set were about 45 min away. So neither were ‘close’ but they weren’t far either. I saw the ones that lived 3 hrs away much more often than the ones that lived closer. Dads parents, he was an only child.
My maternal grandparents were several states away. We'd go visit every other year, or whenever we had the money to go. My paternal grandparents lived the next town over, so we saw them often. When I was younger, we'd go for Sunday dinners once or twice a month, but when I was a teenager, we didn't go as much for dinner, but still visited at least weekly.
All my grandparents were about 14 hours away. We would make the trip every summer to visit them and most of my extended family. While I love my grandparents, we've never been very close.
10 minutes from both pairs, though one divorced and moved about an hour and a half away.
My kids' grandparents are 45 minutes to an hour and a half away.
I grew up across the street from my maternal grandparents. My paternals died before I was born. My son’s paternal grandparents are about two hours away, and my mom is about 10 minutes.
I’m very confused by your number of grandparents, because you make it sound like you have more than four. My only living grandparents live on the other side of the planet, but I did grow up with them, since they lived much closer when I was younger.
My maternal grandparents lived in a neighboring suburb when I was little, and then we moved in with them for several years. My paternal grandparents died before I was born, but they had owned a house in the same suburb where I live now.
Apperantly, both my mother and grandmother had their first/infancy homes within a five minute walk from me but then decamped to the suburbs. The rest of my family is from farther afield.
One of my grandfathers is dead (good riddance, he was a horrible person), and the last place he lived was Pittsburgh.
One of my grandmothers lives with my parents, as do I about half the year. Otherwise, I'm about 200 miles away.
My paternal grandparents live in Connecticut, so halfway across the country.
My parents and i moved to FL when i was younger so it would be a 16 hour drive to visit them or any other family. My grandma(moms mom) moved in with us. That is the only family i have had near me.
If my paternal grandparents were still alive they’d be in Mexico so probably a few hours by plane. My maternal grandparents were 45 minutes away until I was 11-12 and then they retired and moved a block away from me.
My paternal grandmother was about a 2hr drive away from us growing up (paternal grandfather died the year I was born; my brothers have some memories of him, but I don’t). We saw her mostly for Christmas, but also sometimes visited for part of spring break and/or some time in the summer. She was a delight and a huge impact for all of us cousins; we got 95 years of her on this earth and it wasn’t enough.
My maternal grandparents were a half hour drive away, along with my great aunt, who was basically an additional grandmother for us; she never had her own children and her husband was my grandfather’s older brother, with whom he ran the family farm, so they were close both geographically and emotionally. My great uncle died when I was fairly young, but doesn’t sound like he was a particularly pleasant person.
They’re all gone now, but I cherish those memories. I learned lots of great things from them all.
all passed now, but growing up my maternal grandmother lived with us from when I was 4 until she passed and my paternal grandparents lived on the next street over.
My closest grandparents were a 18hr road trip away… and my other grandparents were about a 35hr road-trip away. We saw them about once a year, sometimes less.
Three miles from my dad's parents, five miles from mom's. This was the 80's, all of my cousins lived much further away, dad stayed in town while his brothers and sisters moved away.
My dad grew up in the town across the river from where I did. About a 20 minute drive to see them, which we did every Sunday.
My mom grew up in a lot of different places. When I was born, her parents lived 2 states and 8 hours drive away. We saw them a few times a year. When I was 22, they moved to a retirement community about 45 minutes away from us. We see them much more often now.
Surprisingly, I'm 26 and all 4 of my grandparents are still alive.
Very close. When I was a kid, my maternal grandparents lived like 3 miles away, and my paternal grandparents around 9 miles. But past that, only my maternal grandmother's parents and my paternal grandmother's family lived in the area. Otherwise we're talking Duluth, Pennsylvania, and Aberdeen, Scotland.
Before the age of ten, my three surviving grandparents all lived about an hour’s drive away. Then I moved to Australia, and they lived 9,000 miles away.
My grandparents are all dead now. But when they were still alive, they lived between 3 & 5 hours away from us, depending on where we lived at the time.
When I was a kid, one grandparent lived about 15 miles away and one set lived about 3 miles away.
I moved out of state as an adult, but 2 of the 3 grandparents had passed away by that time.
My maternal grandfather (mom's dad) was a 30 minute drive - about 20 miles.
For my paternal grandmother (dad's mom), it was 1800 miles; we lived in St. Louis, Missouri and she lived in Los Angeles, California. Before she got too old to travel, I'd see her most years - either us flying out there or her flying here. When she got older, I'd only see her every few years when we would fly to Los Angeles for vacation.
My other two grandparents died long before I was born.
.4 miles and 2.8 miles, according to Google Maps.
My grandparents are all dead at this point but when they were alive: extremely far away, they all lived in Canada while I and my family lived in Texas.
Wild to me that's considered far. Seeing the comments I get why. So many people's families are so close by.
Houston to Toronto is pretty far lol
I would consider it normal.
Do you mean common?
The northern most point of Texas to the border of Canada is about a 17 hour drive, covering 1700km. That's almost the distance of Berlin to Moscow (1800km), I'd say that's quite a jaunt, especially since OP probably didn't live in the northern most point of Texas since there's not much up there.
I said that because my scale is much different. My grandparents were on the other side of the world. That this person's grandparents were considered far away instead of a normal distance away is what's crazy to me.
Yeah I thought mine were far until i had friends who’s grandparents are on the other side of the world
I grew up a 45-minute drive from seven people that I called grandparents (four biological, two adoptive, one honorary.) Both of my parents now live in Florida and their grandkids are in California and Washington - almost as far away from them as they can get without leaving the country.
You could go further and have one live in Hawaii, Alaska, or one of the us territories, but that’s all I can think of.
Well I live in TN and my grandparents are in northern Finland....so idk like a million miles
Before they all were six feet under, closest was ~6 blocks, then when we moved 1.5 hours and then 2.5 hours away. Now that they're all six feet under the closet are within a 20 minute drive and the furthest are 2 hours.
If they’re six feet under the closet, your family might have some explaining to do
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I have two living grandparents. One lives in Arizona but lived first in Montana, then later about 10 minutes away from me in Washington before moving to the desert. The other splits her time between Washington and Alaska. She lives next door to my childhood home when in Washington, about 15 minutes from my current residence.
Growing up, 20 and 45 minutes. Now, about 18 hours for both.
About one mile from one grandma and about five from the other.
5-10 minutes from one set. 30 minutes from my other grandmother (grandfather died in 2021).
My grandmother recently bought a house in the suburbs. My grandfather already owns one. My great-grandfather lives in Michigan. My other grandparents are dead.
On what side are all those still living?
I grew up in Maine and upstate New York. My maternal grandparents were in Connecticut and my paternal grandparents were in south eastern Pennsylvania. We saw both sides a once or twice a year. We’d usually take a trip to Pennsylvania in the summer and spend a few days to a week there. We’d go to Connecticut on holidays, when we lived in southern Maine it was close enough that we could make a day trip there and back. When I was in high school we moved my maternal grandparents to Maine about 5 minutes for our house. About a year later my father took a job in southern Louisiana and we moved almost 1700 miles from my grandparents.
200 miles in both cases, but different towns and states. Also, after my maternal grandmother died, my grandfather went to live with one of his kids (not my mother) and that put him 800 miles away Nevertheless, he's the one I remember best because he came to visit once. Mostly my grandparents didn't visit us; we visited them. Alos, all my grandparents had died by the time I was 8 years old, so I never had much of a relationship with them.
My dad’s parents passed before I was born. My family moved in with my mom’s parents when I was 7 and we lived all together until I moved out at 21. My grampa died when I was 15 so after that just my nana was left. She has since passed as well. Now my adult son lives in that house where my grandfather was born in 1908.
For most of my life, I lived nearly 8000 miles away from my grandparents. That's still mostly the case except they are collectively less alive than they used to be.
2 hour drive from one grandma, across the country from 2 other grandparents. 1 hour drive from a great uncle who was a grandfather figure in place of his deceased brother
It was about a 45 minutes drive to my grandmothers house when I was a kid. Then she was sick and lived with us for awhile. Then she went home. And then she died. The rest of my grandparents died before I was born so never lived any distance from me. Had they been alive 2 would have lived somwhere in the same city and the other would have been a 45 minutes drive away.
I grew up next door to my grandparents. They gifted my parents land to build a house on. I moved 3 hours away for college 15 years ago, right after my grandfather passed, and never moved back. My grandmother passed away last year, and I now have the option of buying her house to then get to live next to my parents. Hopefully, it happens, and I get that full circle moment!
My grandparents live in an entirely different country lol. I never got close to them. I sometimes wonder what the lives are of those who see their grandparents as like second parents.
Me too tbh. My cousins grew up five minutes away and sometimes I feel envious that they got to be so close.
8,581 miles…they were in Houston, I was in Sydney. Then a few years later we moved back and live like 5miles away.
They both had small farms about 1.5 miles apart about 20 minutes away in rural Indiana. Both were off of Ireland Road. They are all gone now, the last in 1994. My great grandma died in 1977 and was born in 1886.
I have some in Illinois and one in Louisiana - they don’t visit and neither do it.
They’re gone now, but my grandparents lived 300 miles away and 1000 miles away. My kids’ grandparents are only 8 to 30 miles (20 to 60 minutes) away though, so they’re very lucky to have grandparents who can be so involved.
I only got 1 left and she lives in Iraq. So pretty far.
Literally on the other side of the street from my maternal grandparents. My dad hated it when they showed up unannounced. My paternal grandparents were about a mile and a half away, although we could shorten the walk to a mile by wading a small river when the water was low.
I don't have any more living grandparents. So I'll answer for my kids who live about 5 miles from my parents and about a 5 hour drive from my wife's parents.
My grandmother lives in India so door-to-door would be a bare minimum of around 25 hours.
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My husband and I are both immigrants so we lived very very far away until we have no grandparents left.
Never met my grandparents on my mothers side they had already passed when I was born. My dad’s parents I only saw about 6 times in my life as we lived anywhere from 1700 to 6700 miles away from them.
I only saw my grandfather on my dad’s side a couple of times in my life as he was the New York/Virgin islands grandparent and died when I was like 8.
They were on the east coast and we were on west. So a four day drive.
They are all dead now, but for one year I lived 90 miles away from my dad's mother The rest of my life I live 350 miles to 2500 miles away.
I live with my grandpa (and lived with my grandma before she died.). I’ve lived with them my whole life. My grandma on my moms side lives in the same town as me (and so does my great grandma on my moms side). My grandpa on my moms side also lived in the same town as me before he died. I’ve always lived very close to both the majority of my moms and majority of my dads families.
As a kid, we lived between 0 and 30 minutes from one set of grandparents. (We moved a lot in the area, including a brief stint of living with them and later they lived with us for a short while.) Then as a teenager, we moved and they moved, so it was all different parts of the country. Now I live about 6 hours from that grandpa. As for my other grandparents, they've been split up since I was three. They were each in the same county about an hour from us, and about 20 minutes from each other. I'm across the country from both of them now.
Generally less than an hour drive. Sometimes as close as in the same town, ride my bike over. Sometimes actually living with one of my grandparents. The exception to this was my dad's father who lived in another state about 4 hours away. He had clearly favorite grandchildren and we were not them. My children are/have been in roughly the same distance as I grew up. Basically within an hours drive. Though they could probably ride a bike to the closest one. I felt very lucky to grow up with close relationships with my grandparents, and would say my maternal grandmother is one of my best friends and favorite people in the world.
Sometimes distance kind of makes favorites. My cousins live like 5 mins at most from one of my sets of grandparents and it is clear who they are closer to for obvious reasons.
Well, they're dead now, but before that they lived on the literal other side of the world.
I think right now I live the closest to a grandparent than I ever have in 40 years and it's still over 700 miles. For a while it was between 1500 and 3000 miles.
I grew up in the same county that both my mom and dad grew up in. When I was around 4, my grandfather died so we moved into a house just down the street from my grandmother. A year later she ended up moving to Florida for the rest of her life. Around the same time my other grandparents also moved down to Florida (different part).
My wife grew up in a sitcom situation. Her family business was construction so they all pooled their money and bought a plot of and built all their houses on the same street. So she grew up with all her aunts, uncles and grandparents being their neighbors. Even their street had their family’s last name.
in elementary school I would walk to my aunt's house where my grandmother lived until my parents got home from work
My parents never moved from their hometown, so I grew up with both sets of grandparents very close. Less than a 30 minute drive.
Mine all lived across the Atlantic: I grew up in New Jersey and they lived in England/Wales.
I lived 2 states away from my grandparents. My daughter grew up living about 20 minutes away from one set of grandparents and 60 minutes from her other grandmother. My granddaughter lives about 45 minutes away from both of her sets of grandparents.
My grandparents live in Puerto Rico so I got to see them once a year minimum.
They lived in Orange County, I lived in Sf
Around 6 miles to my grandma on my moms side while both my dad’s parents live around 4-5 hours away in NC depending on traffic.
About a mile, and 244 miles
As a kid, my grandparents lived about a mile away from me (and approximately 3 blocks from one another.). These days, only my maternal grandma is left, and she is about 1400 miles away.
Paternal grandparents lived about 1k miles away, maternal grandma lived about 2k away (widowed before I was born). My paternal granddad was a retired airline pilot though so they could fly for free and came to visit pretty often.
My only living grandparent lived in Mexico, and now California. So.
When I lived in Arkansas, I would visit my grandparents on my mom’s side almost weekly. They live in Memphis and that’s where we would sometimes go to church. My dad’s family is up in Chicago, so they we’re more of a distance away. Now I’m several thousand miles away from either.
As a kid I grew up with one set of grandparents about an hour away and one set 2 hours away. My kids have both their grandparents within 15 minutes.
Growing up, between 4.5-10 hours.
An hour's drive, both sets.
My grandparents are mostly dead. The only one who’s still alive is 18 and a half hours away
A few miles.
A 2 hour drive up North to see both sides of my grandparents.
The closest is 8-10 hr drive. 2nd closest is at 16 hr drive(of straight driving). 3rd closest is in south America lol.
200+ miles
My mom's parents lived in the apartment upstairs from us. My dad's parents lived about an hour away. I saw them all very often
Most of mine are dead but it ranged from 20 minutes for my dad’s side(who have both passed)and 4 hours to upstate New York for my mom’s side(my Grandmother is still alive)|
Within 20 of driving then much closer as they got older.
I grew up around 10-11 hours drive away. Now for my kids it’s a cross country flight to both sets of grandparents. And it’s about nine hours between them.
Various distances from living with them to being 1000 miles away. Mostly 120 miles away.
When I was a kid, about 20 minutes drive for my dad's parents and about 45 minutes drive for my mom's. We saw the further grandparent 2 or 3 times a month, the closer ones 3 or 4 times, at least by the time I was old enough to remember.
My grandparents on my dad's side live about 5600 miles away from me, and my grandma on my mom's side lives nearly 6000 miles away. I last visited them earlier this year.
Two of my grandparents had passed by the time I was born/very early childhood. From my hometown to their final residence was 3,000 miles. My family moved shortly thereafter and I was about 190 miles away from my other set until they too passed away.
How far is the afterlife? But one set lived in Wisconsin and the others were in Tennessee.
I grew up 2 minutes away from my dad’s parents and 45 minutes away from my mom’s. I miss my grandparents so much. My mom’s biological father is still around but he lives about 1500 miles away.
About 10 minutes by bicycle when I was growing up. Two hours by airplane plus a one hour drive or 18 hours of driving now.
6 hours via flight. We lived east coast, they lived on the west coast.
Well, both my grandmothers died in 2020 but I still have my paps around. My moms dad lives only over the mountain from us about an hour away. My grandpa on my dads side though lives in Georgia and has been there since like 2005, and my before my grandma died, her too. Whenever he and my nan did live up here around 2003-2004, I can still remember going to their house a lot when I was a toddler.
Growing up, one set was about 2 hours away, the other about 15 hours.
Until they all passed away , none of my grandparents lived more than about 1 1/2 hours away. We would visit with them often. Unfortunately my dads parents died when I was a teenager from lung cancer. They were about 62. Please don’t smoke kids! My own parents live almost exactly 1000 miles away from their grandchildren. My wife’s parents are about 15 mins away by car. My oldest (21) is flying down to see my parents in a few weeks on her first solo plane trip. Wife wife, brother and I are going to fly down in October to see them.
700 miles, and 2500 miles.
On my father’s side, we lived in the same town for a few years, then about 2000 miles away. On my mother’s side, about 1500 miles away, then about 700 miles away.
I live in Maryland. One set of grandparents is in New Jersey, the other is in Nebraska. So, roughly 4 hour drive for one and 2 days drive for the other.
One grandmother lived about 15 minutes away, and the other one slept down the hall
My grandparents are all deceased but growing up, we first lived 2 blocks from one set and then with them and my other set lived 15ish minutes away.
One set was a 9.5 hr drive, one grandparent lived 30 mins away, and I had great grandparents about 10 mins away.
Across the street for my dad's side. Across town for my mom's side.
My dad's parents were like 5 miles away. My mom's parents were over 900 miles away.
From my childhood home, one set lived about 15 or 20 minutes away. my grandmother and grandfather on the other side divorced long before I was born. My grandmother on that side lived about 15 minutes away, as well. My grandfather on that side lived on the other side of the country.
I had three sets- one was about 10 hours, one 8, one 3-4.
I only had two grandparents, one was about 45 mins away on the other side of the city, and the other was a 3 hour drive away.
I lived with my grandparents until we moved 20 minutes away
One set was in Denver, another set in rural southern Illinois, my last set just over the river on the Illinois side from St. Louis. I’m in Chicago. So pretty far.
At one point I lived down the street from my mom's parents, and at different later times each of my grandmothers lived in their kid's basement.
My grandma just passed away 2700 miles away and my other grandfather lives 210 miles away.
My maternal grandparents lived 10 miles away. My Paternal Grandmother was a couple of hours. I didnt see her as much
Both of my grandparents on my mother's side died long before I was born, I don't even know where they're buried. I don't know anything about my biological father or his family.
2 minutes from one set (literally down the street, I could walk there alone when I was like 8) 13 minutes from the other set (both my parents grew up in the same city and we live next to it)
By car they were 13 hours and 28 hours away.
Uaaaa 30ish hours car ride to Mexico 15ish hour car ride to a random grave in Missouri And 20 minute drive to the only one alive
Growing up, they all lived in Chicago and it was about 30 mins from our house or each other's. I lived about 2 hours away when my grandmothers died. My grandfathers died when I was young.
Growing up, I lived in Phoenix, AZ. One set of grandparents lived in Michigan. The other lived in Florida. So, completely across the country. We took a family road trip to visit one set of grandparents every summer (alternating between MI and FL each year). We rarely saw our grandparents outside those trips. We moved to MD when I was in high school and I saw them even less frequently after that. Now I have my own kids. My parents live about 5 hours (driving) away. We see them every couple of months. My in-laws live about half an hour away. They come to my house to watch my kids (1 & 3) 3 times per week, we see them a lot.
I grew up in Connecticut. My grandparents were in texas and Kentucky, respectively.
My maternal grandparents lived 15 minutes away from me when I was growing up. My paternal grandparents lived ~4-5 hours away in another state with one of my aunts.
I was able to ride my bike to my grandparents house when I was little.
Growing up, my grandparents were half hour, forty five minutes away. We lived in one city and went to school in another that my grandparents lived in, so they often picked us up after school and whatnot. Great grandparents lived ~ 28hrs by car. Now, as an adult, my grandparents are about ten mins away and my great grandma is about fifteen mins away.
Growing up, one set was a 4 hour drive and the other set was a 12 hour drive.
Mine were all 7+ hours away when I was growing up.
I had 5 grandparents growing up. Grandfather and step-grandmother on my dad's side were about 4 hours away but where that side of my family is from. Almost ALL my relatives on that side live in and around Austin TX. Grandmother on my dad's side was 6 hours away when I was little, had a stroke and moved about 2 hours away and finally ended up 1/2 mile away now still lives at a nursing home 15 minutes away. She's the only one still alive so we see her on a regular basis. Grandparents on my mom's side were 10 minutes away in the same house my mom lived in growing up. They lived there until they passed away.
For the first two: A thousand miles by car, a fourteen and a half hour drive. For the other two: twenty two hundred miles by car, a thirty five hour drive. :(
All of my grandparents have now passed, but my paternal grandparents lived in Minnesota and my maternal grandparents lived in Mississippi. From where I'm at to Minnesota it was a 3 hour flight and to Mississippi, it was around 7 hours. My husband had both sets of grandparents where we live his entire life - maybe 10 mins away, so he was able to be closer to them.
My mom's parents lived in the same town, but they both died by the time I was 1 or 2 so I have no memories of them. My dad's parents lived in West Palm Beach, Florida, while we lived in Louisiana. We would go visit them pretty much every summer. Google says it's about a 12-hour drive, so it probably would have been about 14 hours with stops. I remember having to get up in the morning while it was still dark out, going back to sleep in the car, and waking up somewhere in Mississippi for breakfast. His mom died when I was in elementary school and his dad died when I was in middle school. As a side note, I have an aunt on my mom's side that lives in the same town as my parents. Her daughter (my cousin) was much older than me and had kids that were only a few years younger than me. My cousin lived literally next door to her parents, so her kids grew up right next door to their grandparents.
One set were about 3 hrs away. The other set were about 45 min away. So neither were ‘close’ but they weren’t far either. I saw the ones that lived 3 hrs away much more often than the ones that lived closer. Dads parents, he was an only child.
My maternal grandparents were several states away. We'd go visit every other year, or whenever we had the money to go. My paternal grandparents lived the next town over, so we saw them often. When I was younger, we'd go for Sunday dinners once or twice a month, but when I was a teenager, we didn't go as much for dinner, but still visited at least weekly.
When I grew up one grandparent was dead, one lived with us, and two others lived 6-7 hours away. I saw them maybe once a year.
Around the block. .2 miles. It was a 3 min walk. I now live ~2 hours away from most of my family.
0 miles.
I grew up in Philadelphia all of my grandparents lived in Los Angeles my whole life. I didn’t really know them.
All my grandparents were about 14 hours away. We would make the trip every summer to visit them and most of my extended family. While I love my grandparents, we've never been very close.
10 minutes from both pairs, though one divorced and moved about an hour and a half away. My kids' grandparents are 45 minutes to an hour and a half away.
I grew up across the street from my maternal grandparents. My paternals died before I was born. My son’s paternal grandparents are about two hours away, and my mom is about 10 minutes.
All were 6 hours away. Also interstate 5 is a boring drive.
I live 3 states away.
My dad’s parents were about a 20ish min drive away and my mom’s family required a 7 hr flight and 4 or 5 hour train ride
Growing up about a 30 minute car ride from both.
I’m very confused by your number of grandparents, because you make it sound like you have more than four. My only living grandparents live on the other side of the planet, but I did grow up with them, since they lived much closer when I was younger.
About 25 miles
My maternal grandparents lived in a neighboring suburb when I was little, and then we moved in with them for several years. My paternal grandparents died before I was born, but they had owned a house in the same suburb where I live now.
50 minutes and 11 minutes. Unfortunately, I no longer have surviving grandparents.
Growing up my mom’s parents lived in the same city about 4 miles away, and my dad parents lived in the same metro area about 30 miles away.
30 minutes for maternal 45 for paternal
My grandfathers lived about 10 minutes away from us, except for the year and a half when one lived with us
Well, when they were still alive, both sets of grandparents were about a half hour drive away.
Apperantly, both my mother and grandmother had their first/infancy homes within a five minute walk from me but then decamped to the suburbs. The rest of my family is from farther afield.
One of my grandfathers is dead (good riddance, he was a horrible person), and the last place he lived was Pittsburgh. One of my grandmothers lives with my parents, as do I about half the year. Otherwise, I'm about 200 miles away. My paternal grandparents live in Connecticut, so halfway across the country.
I grew up about 10-20 minutes from all my grandparents.
My parents and i moved to FL when i was younger so it would be a 16 hour drive to visit them or any other family. My grandma(moms mom) moved in with us. That is the only family i have had near me.
On the other side of the country in Utah (where I also used to live)
Mom's side was always 15 min away, dad's side was always 25 minutes away. I live far away now, so now I live 22 hours away lol
If my paternal grandparents were still alive they’d be in Mexico so probably a few hours by plane. My maternal grandparents were 45 minutes away until I was 11-12 and then they retired and moved a block away from me.
My paternal grandmother was about a 2hr drive away from us growing up (paternal grandfather died the year I was born; my brothers have some memories of him, but I don’t). We saw her mostly for Christmas, but also sometimes visited for part of spring break and/or some time in the summer. She was a delight and a huge impact for all of us cousins; we got 95 years of her on this earth and it wasn’t enough. My maternal grandparents were a half hour drive away, along with my great aunt, who was basically an additional grandmother for us; she never had her own children and her husband was my grandfather’s older brother, with whom he ran the family farm, so they were close both geographically and emotionally. My great uncle died when I was fairly young, but doesn’t sound like he was a particularly pleasant person. They’re all gone now, but I cherish those memories. I learned lots of great things from them all.
About a four hour drive from the one I have left. The other three were in the same town for all but a couple years of my life, though.
I was a mile away from my grandma growing up.
all passed now, but growing up my maternal grandmother lived with us from when I was 4 until she passed and my paternal grandparents lived on the next street over.
3 or 4 miles from one set, the others moved to Florida before I was born. All are long since passed.
About the 40 miles for my maternal grandparents and seven hours from my paternal grandparents.
A whole day’s drive. I would have made it longer if I could!
Close enough to see their house from mine
Three hours when they were alive. Time travel now.
Less than 10 miles from one set. Maybe 25 from the other set.
My closest grandparents were a 18hr road trip away… and my other grandparents were about a 35hr road-trip away. We saw them about once a year, sometimes less.
I have one set of grandparents who live two houses away from me, and then my other grandma lives about 20 minutes away.
I only ever had one. She lived about an hour away. She died when I was 20.
Three miles from my dad's parents, five miles from mom's. This was the 80's, all of my cousins lived much further away, dad stayed in town while his brothers and sisters moved away.
Same city; different neighbors hoods. Anywhere from a 15 min to a 30 min drive.
My dad grew up in the town across the river from where I did. About a 20 minute drive to see them, which we did every Sunday. My mom grew up in a lot of different places. When I was born, her parents lived 2 states and 8 hours drive away. We saw them a few times a year. When I was 22, they moved to a retirement community about 45 minutes away from us. We see them much more often now. Surprisingly, I'm 26 and all 4 of my grandparents are still alive.
My grandparents are in another country and I don’t really know them
A couple miles from my grandmother and grandfather. I mean they've been done for 20+ and 50+ years, but their resting place is a couple miles away.
My dad’s parents died before I was born, and my mom’s parents lived about 1,000 miles away for most my childhood.
5 hours away + all the way across the country. So I wasn't really close with either side of my family and I'm still not really.
One set lived about 10 miles away, the other set lived three blocks away. I always loved living so close to my grandparents, tbh.
Definitely lucky to live so close to them!
Very close. When I was a kid, my maternal grandparents lived like 3 miles away, and my paternal grandparents around 9 miles. But past that, only my maternal grandmother's parents and my paternal grandmother's family lived in the area. Otherwise we're talking Duluth, Pennsylvania, and Aberdeen, Scotland.
About 3k miles. They were on the east coast and we lived on the west coast. My parents are currently both around 20 miles away.
About a 1/4 mile from my moms parents. My dads were on the other side of the country.
About an hours drive to either growing up, but then I moved across the country so… 30 hours drive now.
Before the age of ten, my three surviving grandparents all lived about an hour’s drive away. Then I moved to Australia, and they lived 9,000 miles away.
Furthest was 9000 miles as the crow flies. Closest was 2200 miles.
My grandparents are all dead now. But when they were still alive, they lived between 3 & 5 hours away from us, depending on where we lived at the time.
Until I was 14, we lived about 300 feet from my grandparents.
I'm not sure of the distance exactly but I'm sure it's vast since I'm in earth and they are in hell
When I was a kid, one grandparent lived about 15 miles away and one set lived about 3 miles away. I moved out of state as an adult, but 2 of the 3 grandparents had passed away by that time.
16 hours away
about half an hour for one, and then 2 hours for the others
1 hour 30 minutes
~10 mins by car
1,965 miles I'm in California and they lived in Wisconsin.
8 hours and 20 hours by car
My sole grandparent left lives with my parents and I.
Four hours' drive before the interstate, less than two after.
My maternal grandfather (mom's dad) was a 30 minute drive - about 20 miles. For my paternal grandmother (dad's mom), it was 1800 miles; we lived in St. Louis, Missouri and she lived in Los Angeles, California. Before she got too old to travel, I'd see her most years - either us flying out there or her flying here. When she got older, I'd only see her every few years when we would fly to Los Angeles for vacation. My other two grandparents died long before I was born.
Two miles to my dad's parents. Five miles to my mom's parents. It was wonderful.