My wife's family (mom and two sisters) lives within 5 mins of us. My family all live in the bay area, about 2 hrs away. It's ok for me because I can actually stand my in laws, even though they have a crap load of kids. But for my wife, she gets annoyed pretty often being so close. I'm just the right distance from my family, close enough in case SHTF of just want to do a weekend visit. I have a step son and the court order says we can't move out of county without them going back to court. We're thinking of moving to either the Sac area or SoCal when my step son graduates.