Do you live under one roof with your entire family and extended family?

I live all alone and I prefer it that way. However I wish my family lived closer to me , or at least within the same country.
I was always more independent so I knew from an early age I would live on my own as soon as I was an adult. However family is very important , and as a kid I enjoyed that it was quite common to gather with both close and extended family,even for short periods of time (celebrations/holidays etc) . Those are probably some of my most fond memories.
That is not common anymore. None of my closest cousins nor my sibling have children and I don't think its something that will happen anytime soon,or at all. And if it does it's most probable to be limited to one In fact a lot of us are spread across different parts of the world with work/education so we hardly keep close contact ,least physical,for any events.
I do feel sad that this element is somewhat lost for many societies. At the same time I recognise how toxic keeping family that close had been for my parents at times , i.e. extended family members judging their parenting/career decisions/lifestyle etc. ,interfering,limiting their choices,and so on. So I believe in a way independency helps us break through those generational traumas. But it can be lonely and difficult in its own way
Anyway I'm diverging here haha

travelguy01 · 41-45, M

@PepsiColaP My family Is mostly all in the same area near where I live, however my mother and her siblings are not that close. I see my aunts, uncles, and cousins posting things on Facebook, but otherwise I only see them in person maybe once or so a year. When my grandmother was still alive, there used to be much more frequent gatherings at her house, and at other aunts'/uncles' houses during different occasions. Even after she passed and when my grandfather was still alive, there was still somewhat more occurrence of get-togethers of family. But after my grandfather passed, there was kind of a rift between my mom and her siblings over my grandfather's house. My mother's siblings wanted the house sold and the profits split, but my mother had been living in that house helping to take care of my grandfather (and she did the same with my grandmother before she passed) for 10 years. The rest of the siblings had hardly ever bothered to help with anything, they mostly only showed up whenever they wanted something from him, and would borrow things and never return them. My grandfather recognized this, and he changed his will to leave the house solely to my mother and I, and the rest of the siblings got minimal things after he passed. The house was my grandfather's to begin with, he was my grandmother's 2nd husband and not my biological grandfather, but he was a very nice and generous man. But he was not dumb, and the other siblings tried to play him like he was. My mother still lives in that house to this day.

I see the rest of the family usually whenever one of my cousins has a big get-together or party at his house and invites everyone. Otherwise, the rest of the family never bothers with us. I just visit with my mother on the weekends with my son. Her fiancé passed away from COVID in 2020 so it's just her and her dog there now. My son and I almost never see any of my aunts/uncles, my cousins, or their kids. That's not how things were when I was his age, but it's how they are now. Petty jealousy and greed are terrible things.

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

More and more of family might be moving back to the farm. With the economic times as bad as they are. The kids are all talking about moving back out to the farm