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I wrote something about this subject (families and closeness) and how I think it is more regionalized in the northeast US in a thread in the general forum:
If you read through this thread, you see what I mean. Lots of people who live close to their birthplace are from the northeast. Where I live now, it's not that way at all. Everyone (anyone who is Anglo anyway), and I mean everyone, is from somewhere else.
The faster I can get away from my family, the happier and better off I'll be.