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What surprised me with the American move: the experience of an immigrant

Alena Dyakova

Blog author @dyakova_alena

'08.11.2020'

Only a day has passed since our neighbors moved out, and I already miss them ... There is no more reason, as in detective films, to push apart the strips of blinds with your fingers and squint at what is happening there. To speculate why the police came to them ... To envy the smell of fried meat with the words "how we missed the barbecue." Outraged that their ivy has grown so much that it brazenly rolled over to our side of the fence ...

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That the neighbors were planning something wrong, it became clear after on Saturday I (again, peeping out the window - yes, I will be a grandmother who always peeps and pokes her nose. But this will be when there will be) ... In general, on Saturday I saw that a neighbor gets out of the car a dozen brand new cardboard bases for boxes.

Although in the evening they sat for a long time at the table in the backyard, chatted with friends and, as they say, nothing foreshadowed their soon departure.

But on Sunday morning, a truck arrived with 5-7 workers, who began to wear the same bases in packs, as well as paper for wrapping, film with pimples ... you know, yes, such ... anti-stress film.

In the US, relocation is common, especially between states for work or life: rents, relocation due to school ratings, financial capabilities, retirement ... etc.

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And how we moved ... When my husband disassembled everything himself, we collected everything in boxes, my husband himself unloaded everything into a rented container, which did not fit, we immediately handed it out ... We ourselves drove this truck through the States to a new place, unloaded it ourselves and took apart the boxes. In general, this is not accepted here ...

Guys come to you, they themselves put everything in boxes, pack all the furniture, appliances, interior items in accordance with all the rules for safe transportation. It took them only a day to prepare a house with five rooms and things accumulated over the years.

The next morning, the workers loaded all the boxes into a large truck and the truck set off to the new address. In the new house, all things will be taken to the right rooms, the furniture will be assembled, and you will only have to arrange things in the right places.

There are, of course, drawbacks to this system. Since Americans are very active in moving around the country, there are delays in the work of such moving companies, sometimes for several weeks. And this despite the fact that while waiting for the move, you can also spend from a couple of weeks to a couple of months per season. That is, you will have to sign up for a move in August in May.

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With the spontaneity inherent in our family, I can't really imagine that. But looking at how yesterday our neighbor walked and only handed out instructions ... I really wanted my husband to no longer have to deal with the move almost alone.

Original column published on the blog. Alena Dyakova on Instagram.

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