>> Nowadays parents of small children often live far away from their extended family > To point out the obvious, this is a choice It may have been a choice fo

>> Nowadays parents of small children often live far away from their extended family > To point out the obvious, this is a choice It may have been a choice for you, but it is not a choice for everybody. Both my and my wife's extended families continue moving from one place to another for various reasons, often for work, so it's not like us moving closer to them today would guarantee any sort of proximity in the future either. This is not an uncommon situation nowadays.