I was born in Kiev, Ukraine (or, rather, the Soviet Union, as it was back then :) ) , and moved to Toulouse, France with my parents when I was eleven.
When I sometimes go home, it takes me around 3.5 - 4 hours to get there by plane, not including the wait between the two planes (there are no direct flights, so I often change planes in Munich or Frankfurt, Germany) . It's not bad, especially considering whatmy family had to do when we couldn't afford travelling by plane: travelling by bus. It was 2 whole days in the bus going from Kiev to Paris, and then 5 or 6 hours to get to Toulouse by train.