About 80 mins from my parents, an hour from my in-laws, and 45 mins from my brother-in-law and his wife & kids. All of my other family are farther away and irrelevant anyway.
If my parents and in-laws were younger, my husband and I probably would've left the country by now, but our parents are aging and they need us within driving distance.
I quit my PhD program in Physics because the misery wasn't going to be worth the eventual paycheck, especially because I refused to work for contractors in the military-industrial complex. I ended up working for a while and got an MS in Applied Statistics, which is meh. Physics actually interested me. Statistics bored the shit out of me but it was useful for the field I ended up in. But now I'm retired, which is pretty satisfying!
Oh wow, complete opposite here - I thought Prometheus was hot garbage.
"Hey everybody, let's just remove our helmets in this totally unvetted environment, we're all scientists but trust me, this is supes safe!"
"Aw look at the little alien snake, so cute, better get real close!"
"I'm clearly showing symptoms of exposure to some alien pathogen, but let's just hide it from the entire crew, including my girlfriend, who I will be fucking."
"Oh, a huge ring is rolling toward me and I'm gonna get crushed, better keep running in a straight line!"
About 80 mins from my parents, an hour from my in-laws, and 45 mins from my brother-in-law and his wife & kids. All of my other family are farther away and irrelevant anyway.
If my parents and in-laws were younger, my husband and I probably would've left the country by now, but our parents are aging and they need us within driving distance.