What are the First steps you Take when you are Planning to Move out of your Place into another One?

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A): Purge, Paris!

B): Get Boxes, Paris!

C): I let Others do it for Me, Paris!

D): Other, Paris!

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Answer 1

abc3643 | 5.3K opinions shared on Other topic.

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Lots of factors...
Depends on where you are moving to and who with.

For instance, once you know the new address and the move date:
0. Give yourself at least 2 months to move. Try to know as far as you can in advance when you are going to move because you are going to need to have money. So, either pay down debt like credit cards and/or save as much as you can. Moving across country with a full home's worth of stuff will cost $1000s.
1. Call the utility companies (power, water, electric, landline phone, Internet, etc.) and:
A) Alert them when you want service at the new place.
B) When you will end service at the old place.
2. Contact all bill companies (utilities, credit cards, subscriptions, etc.) that rely on a mailing address and do the same thing.
3. Go to the Post Office and deal with Change of Address forms.
4. If you are going to move far away and may not even know your exact address yet, consider getting a PO Box. I did that whenever I moved across the country.
5. If you are going to use a moving company, shop around. Consider packing yourself though because movers don't really give a shit about your stuff.
6. Register to vote as soon as you are moved.
7. Update your driver's license and/or get a new one. HOWEVER!! BE CAREFUL!
>>>> WHEN YOU EVEN ___ATTEMPT___ TO GET A NEW LICENSE IN ANOTHER STATE, YOU ARE SURRENDERING YOUR LICENSE FROM THE OLD STATE. IF YOU HAVE UNPAID TICKETS IN THE OLD STATE AND THING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH NOT PAYING, THINK AGAIN. THE OLD STATE WILL SUSPEND YOUR OLD LICENSE AND THE NEW STATE WILL ____NOT____ GIVE YOU A NEW ONE UNTIL THE OLD STATE SAYS IT'S OK.
I learned this lesson the hard way and faced misdemeanor charges for aggravated driving without a license. I did not know that my old license was no good the moment I unsuccessfully tried to get a new license.
8. Not sure, but you may need to update your passport.
9. Understand some of the critical legal differences between where you used to live and where you will live. For instance, in NY, you don't pay property tax on cars, but in many other states you do and you have to pay that tax each year (often a few hundred $) before you can even register your car for another year.
10. Keep in mind other things about your new home:
A) Does the new state have electoral fusion?
B) Is it in a different time zone and do they observe Daylight Savings Time?
C) Is the geography and/or weather significantly different?
Things like this can really affect a person when they move and are not prepared for cultural differences.
For instance, I grew up in NY in the Eastern Time Zone and moved to LA when I was 29. I was used to a 1PM ET NFL game and then a 4PM ET NFL game on Sundays followed by Monday Night Football. In California, they don't show the early NFL games because 1PM ET = 10AM PT so Sunday morning political talk shows or preachers are on TV. So the first game is done at around 1PM PT = 4PM ET and that's the only game they show. At 4 PM PT, there's no more football (this was before Sunday Night Football) and so they just show old bad movies. Very lame. Mondays in California means Monday Late Afternoon Football and you have to rush home from work to not miss any of it.
Another thing... "coastal dyslexia". If you move to the opposite coast, your snese of East and West gets switched in you head when driving. If you are from the East then "East = toward the ocean and West = inland". On the West Coast, then "East = Inland and West = toward the ocean". Many a time when I lived in LA, I took the wrong East/West exist until I got familiar with the roads and adjusted. I know other Easterners who suffered this same thing.
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abc3643

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I also grew up in a flat area near the Atlantic Ocean. No rivers really and no hills and not much snow. When I moved to upstate NY, there were rivers and no ocean and hills that I had to be careful driving on in the snow. Also, because I grew up in the NYC area, I was used to airplanes being in the sky all the time. When I moved upstate, I rarely saw planes. It was unnerving at first.

And mustard! In the NYC area, people don't put mustard on hamburgers. You buy a McD's hamburger and there's no mustard, just ketchup. Go upstate, and mustard is on the burger with the ketchup. I had to get used to that and learned that I liked it.

Then there's pop/soda and other vocabulary / local jargon that you need to master... and the accent. You will want to "fit in" and may want to adjust your accent. For instance, as a native NYer, I say "cawfee", "dawg", "Awfice" for "coffee", "dog", "office". Once I moved upstate, that faded and I only speak like a New Yorker again when I get emotional or visit NYC. Where I live now in Missouri, people say the capital of the USA is "Warshington, DC". When I am doing laundry, I am not "Doing the wash" but "Doing the warsh". And, because my wife is a native Missourian, I speak like that too with her.

ANYWAY...
My point in bringing all this other stuff up is that moving far from home can be a bit traumatic in a way. The more you know about your new home and the differences it will have compared to your own home, the easier the transistion will be and the less homesick you will be for your old home.

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Paris13

1 mo
lol None at At All. Been There, Done it All. Thanks!!! xx

Answer 2

abc3643

I also grew up in a flat area near the Atlantic Ocean. No rivers really and no hills and not much snow. When I moved to upstate NY, there were rivers and no ocean and hills that I had to be careful driving on in the snow. Also, because I grew up in the NYC area, I was used to airplanes being in the sky all the time. When I moved upstate, I rarely saw planes. It was unnerving at first.

And mustard! In the NYC area, people don't put mustard on hamburgers. You buy a McD's hamburger and there's no mustard, just ketchup. Go upstate, and mustard is on the burger with the ketchup. I had to get used to that and learned that I liked it.

Then there's pop/soda and other vocabulary / local jargon that you need to master... and the accent. You will want to "fit in" and may want to adjust your accent. For instance, as a native NYer, I say "cawfee", "dawg", "Awfice" for "coffee", "dog", "office". Once I moved upstate, that faded and I only speak like a New Yorker again when I get emotional or visit NYC. Where I live now in Missouri, people say the capital of the USA is "Warshington, DC". When I am doing laundry, I am not "Doing the wash" but "Doing the warsh". And, because my wife is a native Missourian, I speak like that too with her.

ANYWAY...
My point in bringing all this other stuff up is that moving far from home can be a bit traumatic in a way. The more you know about your new home and the differences it will have compared to your own home, the easier the transistion will be and the less homesick you will be for your old home.

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