I am often intrigued by how widespread a lot of extended and even non-extended families are, and it’s fascinating to think of family members coming from different places to visit each other and having family gatherings with a bunch of different accents. What countries do you have known family members in?

    • Botzo@lemmy.world
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      Well, each of my parents has 5 siblings who all had kids, so I have 2 siblings who have significant others and 2 kids each, and 17 1st cousins on my mom’s side and 14 on my dad’s side, many of whom now have their own children (I think we’re at 18 or 19 now, but I don’t facebook, so it could be over 20), plus the 12 uncles and aunts, and then there are the in-laws who have a less tidy structure, with 4 parents, 1 full sibling with 4 kids and 2 step-kids and 3 grand kids, 2 half siblings with 2 kids and a step kid, and 2 step siblings with 3 kids. And her mom had 4 siblings…

      The big reunions I remember as a kid (for my great grandparent’s families) were well over 100 people. Because they all had 4-6 kids because that’s how you ran a family farm.

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          Hah, can confirm that they aren’t amazing. Or at least mine isn’t. Let’s just say I sent video of one cousin at the capitol on Jan 6 to the FBI.

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    Literally every family member I know of (including very extended family) lives in the USA. The vast, vast majority all live in Ohio.

    We did talk about how my grandma’s grandchildren all live rather far away from her. Her sisters on the other hand…pretty much all their grandchildren live like a 10 minute drive away. Somehow we got the gumption to move away from the rural area we were from. They did not.

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    Germany, Bahrain, Belgium, France, and Qatar.

    I actually wanna move to Belgium one day, so it’s nice that I can get some help and advice from a family member whenever I need it.

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    My family is all in the US, though some cousins have done semesters/years in Japan and Germany. Extended family (branches from my grandfather’s family) in Italy.

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    If we don’t count cruises and one day port visits, I might not have any living family members who have ever left the US.

    Although, I had one half of my family all move to the South, so they bring back various accents when they visit.