when 20 is better than 40
we had our first estimate for our move by allied international today. very professional and gave a strong sense that they had experience with nz moves. it won’t be cheap, but it could have been much worse. thanks to w’s…
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36 hours
we got our first offer on the house (framingham) today. after less than 36 hours on the market. it is a very good offer and i have no regrets that perhaps we priced the house too low. sometimes good is…
no pushing please
both houses went on the market today. i’ll be sitting next to the phone to receive the offers as they come flooding in.
let’s meet for coffee at the cafe…
…you know the place – the one down the street a bit – just head 9000 miles northeast and it’s on the left. i met the cto of company e in boston today. unfortunately we were scheduled to connect on…
21,600 lbs
one of my pedro projects is to landscape the side yard, solving a drainage problem we’ve had since we moved in. (yet another case of dealing with a problem for the 7 years we lived there only to fix it…
too much stuff
today we started making a list of everything we own trying to decide what we take with us on the plane, what is shipped to nz in the container, what we put in storage and we we sell / give…
luxury accommodation – 8 sq ft
gromit’s immigration agent strongly suggested that we get his travel crate as soon as possible to begin the acclimation process. lots of rule on the crate including amount of ventilation, sturdiness of closures and size. the crate has to be…
immigration agent hired
not for jackie or me – but for gromit. after reading the nz emigration forum for almost a year now i don’t think i’ve seen a single person who has hired an immigration agency to help them with their application…
canis familiaris
probably should have been no surprise, but the process of getting gromit into nz is almost as complicated as it is for us. nz biosecurity and nz maf (ministry of agriculture and forestry) are responsible for regulating the process. the…