My parents were both teachers. When I was born, they were stationed in my dad's home village. We just lived with the whole family. It was village of cousins. W

My parents were both teachers. When I was born, they were stationed in my dad's home village. We just lived with the whole family. It was village of cousins. We moved to town which is 60km (40miles) away when my dad got a job working in a mine. From then I went to school in town and only spent holidays in the village. To this day we still own our own cows and our home still stands. To answer your questions, yes more than half my relatives are still in the same village. We talking a village of 60 odd people. I organise a gathering every other Christmas, we slaughter a cow (apologies to the sensitive) and talk about the good old days. Times have changed even in the village. Everyone has a cellphone even in the village :-).