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Long Distance Moves
The excitement of a move can sometimes be overshadowed by the stress of moving. Moves can take us hundreds of miles from our home town – to new states, countries or continents. These moves are harder to plan for, and require much more stringent assessment of belongings, so that you can afford the move itself.
If you're moving a long distance, you need to make the decision to move your belongings or sell everything you can and start fresh at your new home. Many times the cost of movers, the van and the distance make it easier to start fresh. If you decide to sell everything, give yourself several weeks and many yard sales to get everything out.
Get organized and decide what things you will keep until the last minute and what can go now. Give yourself a limit as to how much stuff you will take and stick to that.
Long distance moves are harder on families who are used to supporting one another – you'll often find that your phone bill increases and that you'll have more problems adjusting if you're moving away from familial support – if you're moving TO your family though, you can be sure that things may get easier – if a little nutty. Moving back to one, or both families guarantees that your life will probably be filled with help – or interference.
A long move such as over several hundred miles may also change schooling arrangements, or your job – uprooting over a distance of hundreds of miles can lead to new opportunities – or the loss better ones back where you were – so you have to carefully evaluate what you want from your life, and whether it would be best served by moving to a whole new part of the world.
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