cookj5
Jul 12, 2009, 3:30 PM
Post #2 of 8
(4314 views)
Shortcut
|
Re: [brooklyn] cost of Moving to Lakeside
|
Can't Post | Private Reply
|
Brooklyn- in a previous post you mentioned moving down and renting for a year to test the waters. If so, you might give some serious consideration to what you really need to bring. The great majority of rental units here are fully furnished. Both the units we have lived in came with virtually everything we needed to live there, down to soap in the dish and paper towels in the dispenser. In fact, both had stuff we never even used, particularly kitchen stuff. If you bring a lot of furniture down, and the place you would like to rent is fully furnished, what are you going to do with your stuff? Particularly since a lot of rentals don't come with a bunch of storage space.
My advice would be to bring down the bare minimum you need. In our case, everything we brought fit into our Toyota Corolla. The essentials (for us) included our computer equipment, my camera equipment, a couple of boxes of our very favorite books, clothes (some of which we have never had occasion to wear in 2 years), a box of household tools (very useful), and every document we thought we might possibly need. We added some quilts for padding in the trunk and they turned out to be very useful during the chilly weather. That's about it.
Was there anything we wish we had brought? A few things: good cotton sheets (Mexican versions tend to be scratchy); a small portable TV for our bedroom (both apts we rented had TVs but in living room); my camping tent. That's about it. We have been able to get all these things locally, or have friends bring them down when they visit the States or Canada, so it hasn't really been a problem that we left them behind.
As far as clothing goes, leave the vast majority of your dress-up stuff behind. Few occasions to wear it. Good walking shoes and boots are essential with the cobble stone streets. Lots of casual short sleeved shirts and t-shirts, and shorts (the cargo pocket kind are very popular here). Think CASUAL.
Two years later, we still have a storage locker of stuff back in our home state, and we now sort of wish we had dumped it all. The cost of bringing it down would be several thousand dollars at the bare minimum, more than what it would cost to buy local stuff which is often more suited to the climate and style of life down here.
Hope all this helps in your planning. Good luck on the move!
|
Forums Index
Search Posts
Who's Online
Log In or Sign Up
