Misc. Questions about Moving and Jobs

When I moved cross-country I UPSed all my stuff and flew (with kitty on board) but I don't know if they let you bring cats on any more and anyway you're not moving that far... But I'd let them meow. Meow meow meow.

still, i need to know this too, as i will be relocating and will be also looking for a job. it'll be great if there's something there waiting for me, but it's also a lot easier to get a job when you're local.

Feel your pain (and impending backache), so good luck;>!

2. JOB CATCH 22:
Do you think it's crazy for me to fret over us moving to a new city and not having jobs lined up? I just remember those 3 months in 2001 when I was jobless. I went to loads of interviews. I developed weird routines. I took up temping. It made me depressed.
Nick asks how I'd feel if by January we were still living here, possibly still with the same jobs, only because we couldn't find something in Chicago. Wouldn't I rather be job-less there than here with my stupid job? Hmmm...

3. As for the CATS, I'm all for meowing. I think it's scary drugging them. They drool alot, for starters.

Yeah, but this is one of the few good things about today's shitty job economy... I don't think landlords really care too much about that these days.

Now, they might ask for a higher security deposit if you don't have a job; but, any landlord that just flat out doesn't rent out to unemployed people with good credit is a sucker who's going to eat rent in his partially occupied slab o' wood and nails.

(Except Boston and much of NYC, apparently. Landlords there have an eternally inflated sense of self worth there, last I heard talking to friends living there... so, uh, be happy you're not moving there, I guess)

And rent isn't as bad there as it is in L.A. or NYC, i.e. you can still get a kick ass apartment in a cool neighborhood for a decent price. A friend of mine who just moved to Seattle left behind a two-bedroom place in Logan Square, a second floor apartment in a walkup. 2 bedrooms, long hallway leading to a kitchen in the back, hardwood floors, high ceilings, a living room up front with three windows overlooking the blvd....she and her roomie were paying a total of 900.

i really need to get a move on this one of these days.

LOGAN SQUARE. AVAILABLE now! Completely remodeled 2 br, hardwood floors, laundry in bldg. $800 plus security deposit. New Heritage Realty. 773-342-7430. E-mail: newheritageinc.com.

there were dozens just like it.

Nick is helping me edit my cover letter. Boo yah.

To keep the cost down, I agreed to have my stuff put on as a partial load. Often a moving company will have only part of a truck spoken for, and they'll cut you a deal just to fill up the truck for a haul they have to make anyway. It gives you somewhat less flexibility in terms of when your stuff is picked up/delivered, but for my moves they managed to fit both pick up and delivery into a couple-of-day window. I also packed everything myself, but I could pack stuff into drawers and that would just get moved by the big burly men. That saved a ton of dough, too.

When I moved from Texas to Pennsylvania and from PA to D.C., I used the same moving company and they gave me a 20% repeat customer discound. I will never, ever move myself again. I just found that it was worth every extra penny (and not too many pennies, at that) to have someone else do the heavy lifting and driving.

I was thinking Penske, as far as self-moving goes, just based on what little online research I did today.