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I’m moving right now and can confirm. We have a two week gap between leases so we’re also lacking permanent shelter and just couch surfing for the time being. Shit is terrible
Moving is a top 5 stressful activity for basically everyone except the ultra wealthy
I heard it was top 3, after death in immediate family and divorce. just a wildly, immediate and visceral disruption. I’ve moved 9 times in 20 years. I’ve got maybe 1 more in me.
I’ve got a hatchback -the truck of the proletariat- no, I can’t help you move, but if you have an hour I’d love to tell you about how it has a surprising amount of cargo you can fit in it
I hated almost everything about the Prius I drove for seven years, but I moved with it three times and it worked staggeringly well.
Oh no! I love pretty much everything about mine! Except being forced to drive it to work daily :/ but it’s a new ish one and my old car was reeeeeeeeeeeeeeal old
The worst part was the way I was treated while I was driving it. It was clear that 99% of Prius drivers make the other 1% look bad, because I’ve never seen more people drive under the speed limit, clip curbs, back up at green lights instead of moving forward, or just lose situational awareness while behind the wheel than Prius drivers. Maybe some of that is confirmation bias, but I know from driving mine that it isn’t because the car itself isn’t capable of going the speed limit. The blind spots are minimal, it has pickup if you even try to give it any, and shifting gears is easier than in any other car I’ve driven (thank you, swattable stick shift).
I got mine to 283k miles before I found some guy who seems to have bought it for a single part. Since I sold it, I’ve had cops call me three times to ask who I sold it to, because he abandoned it in two different parking lots, and it’s still in one of them as far as I know. Friends will still send me pictures of it from the local Home Depot, and I sold it a year and a half ago.
Moving is the best or worst way to make you realize that half that shit you own isn’t worth carrying around any more.
An old Russian once told me ‘a single move is half a fire’
Man that rings true. When I contemplate what it would be like to extract myself from my current home, it overwhelms me and my brain just defaults to: “I would prefer to be forced to flee and live with almost nothing rather than go through trying to package and move everything”
Yup
I moved from the Midwest to [Redacted] and it was quite possibly the single most stressful moment of my life
If we count different dorms in college I’ve moved over a dozen times in my life, and it’s still always so fucking terrible. There’s just no way to make it less painful without dropping thousands to pay for someone to do it for you. So, I feel your pain, good luck with the move🫡
Its actually my my partner moving in with me, but with everything that entails, its still a ton, even if we started doing shit piecemeal starting 2 months ago
Oh yeah, that’s still basically a full move’s worth of stress. I think the piece-meal approach is the way to go, if you can swing it. It drags things out, but prevents a whole few days of overwhelming stress.
I’d offer to help but my back already hurts from helping someone else move
it’s actually one of the worst non-disaster things to experience.
cant wait for my lease to be up in december and have to find a new place because the rent goes up 20%
I both work and volunteer as a mover and yeah everyone hates it, can confirm.
I remember the time I moved I dropped a multihundred pound couch on my pinkie toe and [redacted bc of oweie oof]
ive moved 4 times in the last 6 years. the 2 years i didnt move i was living at home with my family
