My family (the extended one) rarely gets together Neal. My sister is in Leeds, I'm in Stafford - it's a three hour journey between us. My folks live about central.
We tend to to have one day a year (usually a week or two before Christmas) when we get together, but that's the only time.
Madame_Furie's family are mostly in Stafford, but we don't often get together for a meal or anything. I honestly don't know that many people who actually do now where all the kids have flown the coop.
the thing is, it's a chore to get together with my sister once a year at my parents. And that's only two families living three hours away. In the US you can have larger families, where getting together means a three hour
flight. I know that Madame_Jerry (EastCoasterGeneralesse?)'s family only live in New York, but it's still, what? Best part of an hour to get there Jerry?
The scales are completely out of proportion to over there, so it's much more of a necessity to have a specific time to organise things. Living close to someone there may mean within an hour's drive. Here it might mean a two minute drive or a ten minute walk.
[edit after many posts]Family_Furie eat pretty much all of our meals together around a table. However, that's just a single household - there's a big difference between a household family getting together regularly, or direct family getting together who live a log way apart.
Do you head home every Sunday then Neal?
