Congrats, Hil!

Thanks!

Anybody have any advice on how to move a few hundred miles in less than a month? I'm figuring I'll hire movers (for moving down here, we rented a U-Haul and my dad and I moved everything, but I've got way more stuff now and I'm less able to do heavy lifting.) I know I'm going to end up paying rent on both the old and the new apartment for August. I can maybe drive out there and go look at apartments this weekend, or I could throw caution to the wind and rent something that I've only seen on the internet. I need to buy a car. I also need some new clothes, since, aside from a few interview outfits, I own almost nothing work-appropriate right now.

Congrats, Hil! I'm so glad to hear you got the job!

Nora could probably give you some tips!

Congrats, Hil!

I moved over 2000 miles on one week's notice when I left for grad school.

Go there this weekend and go apartment hunting, if you spend a full weekend at it there is a good chance you can find something.

Use a moving company. If you can afford it have them pack the annoying stuff like your kitchen, and you just box the other stuff. Don't move any cheap furniture, it will cost more to move it than to sell or donate it and replace it when you there. Things like bookcases and dressers that were purchased cheaply can easily be replaced from something from Target or Ikea.

Do a clothes shopping trip after you move so that there are less items to relocate. Also purchase the car after you have moved so that you don't have to worry about transferring the registration and insurance after you have moved.

Everything NoiseDesign said.

Huge congrats, Hil! Also, moving ~ma.

I generally think it is a mistake to rent a place you have not seen. So many things you could miss either through deliberate deceit or because stuff that is important to you is not important to whoever compiles the info. Would it be easier on you if friend or family chauferred you? Or your muscle problems such that being driven and driving are equal in terms of muscle strain. Also do you have friends who know the area. If you don't want to post on board maybe you can email people you trust offlist. Cause, for example I don't know anyone in Philly, but I know people who probably know people in Philly. And find a place quickly is easier with someone who knows the area. An alternative is an agency, but there are all sorts of tricks an agency can use to stick you with a bad apartment if they don't consider finding you a place you are happy with part of their business model. So even using an agency you would want recs on a decent one who who considers getting you a place that meets your criteria and where you will be happy important, and getting their fee from the landlord not their only goal.

That is such wonderful news, Hil!!