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I can pop back home to check up on the cat when I camp close to home. Save on cattery fee, and she hates going to the cattery.

DK

For short breaks, we never travel much more than 1 hour from home. We have been as near as 15 miles away but it could have been 100s of miles away.

I used to live in a city so getting out to the countryside no matter how near was fantastic and I understand how city and town dwellers must feel. 

Unfortunately, or fortunately whichever way you look at it, I now live in a village surrounded by miles of countryside so one field is pretty much the same as the next to me and I need to get away to somewhere completely different to feel that I have had a break.

...I suppose I could book a B&B in a city, that would be different  

I suppose it depends on why you camp.

If you use camping as a means of seeing different parts of the counrty and use the site as a base then I suppose camping close to home isn't as appealing. However, if you camp to enjoy the simple things like lying snug in a sleeping bag listening to the rain on the canvas, being in the fresh air, and generally getting away from it all, then there's no such thing as too close to home.

I love camping in the garden - if I can't get away anywhere then I give in to my camping cravings by pitching in the garden and sleeping in the tent!! Can't get much closer to home but that doesn't bother me.

For so many camping five miles up the road means that they can still get away, yet be close to home if need be.
Over the past few years even our main holidays have been no more than about an hour and a half (two towing) away from home because of so many members of the family being seriously ill, and the need for one of us to get back if needed.      The fact that we were closeish mean that the other person could have stayed on site with the kids and the one who had to go home, come back later even if it was only to help pack up.

Although we are now free to go further, we will hopefully be taking a couple of short breaks just down the road.