Not-so-distant relatives

My mother and father both have relatives in Australia, my Mum's nephew and his young family, my Dad's Uncle and his grown-up children and grandchildren. Whenever we discussed the Australian relatives we knew they all lived 'near Melbourne' but, considering the size of Australia, this never really narrowed it down! We knew my cousin (my mum's nephew) lived in a tiny little village called Bellbridge, population 358 which is actually 4 hours from Melbourne as we had sent letters and parcels on birthdays etc but when we actually came to visiting all the relatives, we discovered that it was going to be a lot easier than we originally anticipated as one of my Dad's cousins lived opposite but two houses down to my Mum's nephew?! And my Dad's Uncle lived just half an hour away in a retirement complex! I would also like to point out that my Mum's family are from Carlisle and my Dad's family from Bristol, 9 hours drive away. Out of the whole of Australia, my Mum's relatives and my Dad's relatives lived on the same street in the same tiny village?! Weird!!