Will This Place Ever Feel Like Home? : Simple Advice for Settling in After Your Move
Moving to a new city can be both exciting and traumatic, and Levine, a speaker, writer, and marketing consultant, focuses on the traumatic. Her 12 chapters cover such topics as moving and continuing to work; relocating spouses and partners, pets and children; learning about the new environment; making friends; and moving in retirement. Much of this information echoes what a mature, intelligent adult would probably do as a matter of course. Considering that major moving companies give away pamphlets and checklists to their clients detailing important matters such as contacting utilities to establish service, licensing pets, and enrolling children in school, as well as lists of banks, churches, synagogues, TV and radio stations, and road maps, Levine's advice is hardly worth paying for. It is certainly possible, however, that some of the 16 percent of the U.S. population who move each year may find some useful, simple advice here. Recommended only for the most comprehensive public library collections.?Thomas K. Fry, Penrose Lib., Univ. of DenverCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.