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Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench?
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In some towns in Finland, one-person households are now a majority
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Downtown Oakland is booming
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A writer’s prefab retreat sits lightly upon the land in Joshua Tree
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The homeownership obsession - How buying homes became a part of the American dream—and also a nightmare
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Roads from the Past - a short animated history of Britain's Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers
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I accidentally uncovered a nationwide scam on Airbnb
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Denmark's ghettos – How one of Europe's most open countries took a hard line on immigration
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Preparing for our prefab future
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University of Virginia health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens on homes
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Houses are assets not goods: What the difference between bulbs and flowers tells us about the housing market
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How a federal court ruling on Boise’s homeless camping ban has rippled across the West
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Oregon woman turns school buses into tiny homes for working homeless families
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How do you achieve an efficient house move?
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time...
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time with a lot more stuff.
I'm in a situation where I have to plan how I proceed carefully, since the elevator isn't working yet at the new place, and I have to carry everything up 7 flights of stairs.Every single time I've done a house move in the past it's been a disaster; didn't plan at all, just stuffed things into my car and left for the new place when it was full; rinse and repeat. I'm positive I did at least double the number of trips I actually needed.
I want to think ahead on this one since the number of trips matter a lot.
What are your tips for house moving? Any weird but efficient way of packing/labeling/sorting/whatever?
Also interested in hearing the stories of your most horrible (or most enjoyable -- although I can't imagine this being the case) house moves.
PS: don't want to hire a moving company, I like doing things like this on my own.
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Finland's 'Housing First' policy proves that homelessness is avoidable
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Here’s what San Francisco’s most expensive home on the market looks like
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Swedes typically stop living with their parents earlier than anywhere else in Europe – but can leaving home at a young age have a dark side?
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IKEA and the Queen of Sweden are designing homes for people with dementia
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How private equity eroded the right to housing
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Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
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‘Vehicle ranching’ in Seattle: Inside the underground market of renting RVs to homeless people
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Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 6: Public Housing Part 2
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New York landlords call rent control laws an 'illegal taking' in new Federal lawsuit
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Albuquerque takes steps to meet the needs of Native American residents
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When affordable housing in Shanghai is a bed in the kitchen
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Denmark's housing minister wants to scrap ghetto label for underprivileged areas
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The movable tent cities of the Ottoman Empire
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Conservatives are nudging the Supreme Court to dismantle affordable housing policies
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Rent and its discontents: Against the landlords and the police, in cities poisoned by wealth
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Oregon just voted to legalize duplexes on almost every city lot
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In gentrifying Washington, a family inheritance becomes LGBT housing
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IKEA is bringing its low-cost modular housing units to the UK
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Minimum wage still can’t pay for a two-bedroom apartment anywhere
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The fight for rent control
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A Housing Economy for the Many: To deal with the housing crisis, we need to roll back the financialization of housing.
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Amid safety complaints, police launch crackdown on illegal homeless camps in Kakaako
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'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness
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These millennials got new roommates. They’re nuns
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"I got mine": Like college debt and climate change, the US housing affordability crisis is generational warfare
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Protesters nearly run over by front-end loader outside PHA headquarters
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The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
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Here comes the neighborhood: Many US cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
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People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
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Coming of age in cohousing: Growing up communally brings exposure to the world of adults—and lessons in interdependence
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Separated by design: How some of America’s richest towns fight affordable housing
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