相信我吧, 楼上的回答都不太对.... It is great to have so many distant friends around us.... It is a delight to have so many friends from afar here... I'm so happy to see so many friends from distant places here...

我来说说我的 There friends come far away, so happy we are.

i think it's "We shall be glad to have friends coming all the way here."

Is it not a joyous occasion if a friend from far away came to visit you?

isn‘t a delight after all to have friends come from afar？（the first text i recited .it‘s from the speech bid for 2008 Beijing Olympic by Li Langqing） i think Richard’s examples are quite good！