Nadaya O
I am moving to Georgia next year with my children, and it is my first time moving to a different state. I do not know what part I'd like to move to yet. The factors for where I move will mostly or should I say extremely revolve around my children. An excellent school system is key, I do not want to deprive my kids of the best education there is. I'd like it to be a kid friendly neighborhood. No violence or drugs!!! I do not have a clue where to start all I know is what state I want to move to. When should I start making preparations, what will make this a smooth transition for me and my children. What will it cost me?? Any tips would be most appreciated Thank you
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Hi I have moved cross country several times and this is what I have learned.
Things to do before you go. I have moved to several states and here are some things that I have learned. Start looking for jobs now. Check out the local paper, local job websites, Monster, Yahoojobs, Hotjobs and every other site you can get your hands on. This lets you know what the market is like and if you are going to be able to get a job there. If you can start applying a few months before you move, try to set up phone interviews and get the ball rolling. Trust me it is much better to have the job before you move. Take a trip to the area a month or two before you move, look at houses, apartments and areas that you want to live in. You will want to have a place to stay before you go! Be prepared to make a few trips there before you move to sign papers and that kind of thing. Save up a lot of cash before you go. You will want to have at least 4 months of living expenses saved up before you go. Things happen and if you move before you have a job it can be tough to find one. It is better to be prepared. Make sure you have your closing cost, cost of movers, deposit for utilities and so on saved! Start calling the utility companies now and find out what it takes to get them turned on and approx cost to have them each month. In STL gas is like $20 during the summer of course more in winter. Electric is like$100 in summer and $20 in winter and water was like $40. Donât forget sewer, phone, and subdivision annual fees. All these things start to add up! For extra cash sell your stuff on Ebay, yard sale or give it to charity and use it for a tax write off. Helps you get a little extra cash for your move.
Make a to do list and up date it each week, check off stuff as you go. Make a plan for each new week by looking at the sheet and get at least 3 things done that week. Makes it much easier in the long run if you start in advance and keep up with things. List help so start getting used to them ha ha ha.
You need to contact your bank and find out what you need to do to get your account moved. You need to contact your insurance company for both the house and the car and find out about rate changes and notify them of your new information. Also be sure to contact your health insurance company and inform them you are moving so the benefits can be transferred to that area. HMOâs have a limited area so you want to notify so you are covered. You need to notify all of your Credit Card companies and update your information, this also keeps them from freezing your account. I would also call the cell company, and any other âcardsâ you might have like Blockbuster and let them know. Make sure you fill out a change of address form with the post office at least 3 weeks in advance so you get your mail. Notify friends and family of the move, that includes people that you only talk to once a year and let them know so they are not sending things to the old place. You can always just send out just moved postcards. Since you will need child care start researching now it never hurts! Get ride of stuff now! The more you can get ride of the less it cost to move. If you havenât used it in years, can live without it, or buy new get rid of it. Trust me the movers will cost you less or you can rent a smaller UHAUL to get your stuff down there. All this saves money. Start your moving book now. I always do this very helpful and keeps you organized. Get a binder and make sections for things like housing, jobs, movers, utilities, important phone numbers and contracts. Put everything associated with the move in the book. Make sure you take this with you, that way if something goes wrong you have the information at your finger tips! Also start packing number your boxes and make a packing list of what is in each box. That way if one gets lost you know what is in it, this is really helpful if you are using movers, also helps you when you unpack because you will know what are the most important boxes. Make sure you move all important documents (taxes, contracts ect) with you, have them in the vehicle that you are taking. This is your personal information and it is hard to get copies of this stuff so make sure you take it! Donât trust the movers!
Contact the Chamber of Commerce and ask for your FREE relocation packet, this has everything you need to get you started. It has info on jobs in the area, cost of living, phone numbers, stats on crime, schools and more. This is one of the most helpful things you can do for your move! I have done it for every move and I cannot stress how helpful it is.
If you currently own a house get it ready for the market! Talk with a realtor and find out how long most houses in the area are taking to sell. Check your local real estate sites, chamber of commerce and listings in the area. Price your house to sell, do your fix ups now. The housing market is real bad right now, where I live houses used to sell in two days now we are looking at 4 months. You donât want a house in one state and another payment in your state, find apartments that will rent month by month and get rid of the house before you go. Plan, plan, plan, organize, organize and organize some more. I cannot stress to you enough that when moving from state to state you cannot plan enough. Be sure to triple check everything, make out a to-do list and get yourself a time table set up. This will keep you on task and you will have a visual aid to let you know that everything has been taken care of. Trust me I have moved the wrong way and regret it and I have moved the right way and everything went as planned.
Good Luck to you on your move, do your research, take your time, save your cash, plan and organize and everything will go well!
social studies project?
=P
i need help
i mean i've never done a Social studies project
i've never even heard of one!!
anyways i HAVE to do this project in order to graduate 8th grade
so i need some help
my teacher told me that we r suppose to do something about inventions that change history
so the topic that i chose was the light bulb i was ganna pick the telescope but apparently this bitch took it from me
so in the last moment i had to pick something,
anyways how am i suppose to do this??
i know i have to include the history but what else should i put???
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Dear startist2,
Fear not, for help is on the way! In Boston, there is a light bulb that has been burning continuously for 109 years! I'll bet if you go to the Boston Fired Department's web site, you will find information about it. In the meantime, here are a couple of light bulb links, and another long burning bulb.
Somethin Bizarre: World's oldest lightbulb still burning bright ...
14 Jan 2010 ... The world's oldest light bulb has been burning for 109 years - so little wonder it has a fan club with thousands of members and its own ...
somethinbizarre.blogspot.com/.../worlds-oldest-lightbulb-still-burning.html - Cached
Ft. Worth light bulb's 100th anniversary! « Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
20 Jul 2008 ... So, the second-oldest light bulb, the famous Ft. Worth, Texas, Palace Theater .... Boston 1775 · Charters of Freedom (National Archives) ...
timpanogos.wordpress.com/.../ft-worth-light-bulbs-100th-anniversary/ - Cached
Now, before you go throwing another hissy fit LOL, about the exotic 'telescope' theft, relax - it is only a project, and actually, yours is going to take you down paths you never imagined.
Think, and make a list of all the things that use light bulbs, and think paradigm - not just light bulbs in houses, but any kind of light bulb.
Before you start though, remember that your course title is 'Social Studies' - (basically, a study of how things affect society), as the instructions said.
Let me give you an example or several to think about.
As you go through all the examples you are going to find, don't forget to contact big firms like Westinghouse, or General Electric (and whichever firm made the long burning light bulbs). Also, try to get examples of the devices - a car headlight, a miner's helmet, etc,etc, a scope device that some doctor is planning to throw out (contact the biggest hospitals to see if there is any equipment slated for the dumpster, that you could use in your presentation)
Cars use lights at night,
Police use flashlights at night to look for bad guys, and specialized flashlights in forensics work - you could visit your local police department and ask to be shown some of these, and find out what there purposes are.
If you have ever heard the musical Cats - the line in it goes "and the street lights gutter" - that meant that the candle in it, or the wick dipped in some fuel - flickered, and gave an uneven light, before light bulbs. maybe the city you live in has some archival information you can get hold of, to show the kids what life used to be like.
Farmers can farm at night, because of light bulbs for their tractors - how did that alter the number of people or the time required, to run a farm?
Miners can mine precious minerals more safely, because of specialized lights in their helmets. they used to use lamps, and sometimes, that would ignite the fumes in the mine. That was why they took canaries down with them, so that if the canary stopped singing, they knew to get the heck out before they succumbed to carbon monoxide.
Fire safety is enhanced, becuase light bulbs don't set Christmas trees on fire any more, like the actual small candles that were used a century ago.
Are you getting the picture here?
You are probably too young to remember flash bulbs in cameras, since everything is electronic now, but flash bulb photography made taking pictures possible when there were very low levels of light. If you visit a camera store, or contact a major company, like Kodak, you might be able to get some examples of the old cameras and bulbs.
So, with these examples, and the thousands you are going to think of LOL, you make a chart, and on it, say what:
a) the purpose of a particular light bulb is
b) the benefit to society of the fact that that type of light bulb can be used in its particular application
c) how safety has been affected
d) how much less eye strain has occurred (the old coal oil lamps were romantic, but caused eye strain)
e) how plice investigations have been enhanced
f) etc
g) etc
h )etc
i) etc
j) etc
You should always try to contact whichever organization or company ahd anythign to do with the example you are talking about (fire department for christmas tree fire statistics for example) and ask for information sheets (enough for the class), examples of old equipment if possible
You could begin with something like:
The light bulb - it is something we all take for granted, but actually, it packs a lot of punch for its size. It emits light, of course, but it also (verb) something, (verb) something else, (verb) something else, (verb) somethign else
(you need to make sure you use different verbs, so you don't bore people - use vebs like prevents, promotes, facilitates, aids, etc, etc, etc, etc
Do you get the idea? There is really nothing to a project, except organization, and then drawing some neat conclusions
You can end with something like:
Where would doctors be without specialized scopes that shed light on the innermost recesses of our bodies,
Where would drivers be without the ability to see animals more easily at night
>>>As you last comment>>Where would any of us be, if we had to give up light for a week? (Then, walk over, turn out all the lights, and have somebody in the class close all the blinds (prearrange that, so that as you say 'nod your head' at them, they all lower them together, putting the room into total darkness as much as possible.
Hope this helps. Best of Luck! I'm sure you will come up with 'some bright ideas'!
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