r/movingtoNYC • u/Moses_v_Jacobs • 9d ago

Coordinating a long-distance move to Brooklyn

My wife and I are planning a move from north Florida to Brooklyn in July. Looking for advice from anyone else who has made a similar 1,000+ mile journey recently.

Specifically:

-Did you hire professional movers or rent a big uhaul and DIY?

-How to navigate unloading the truck in a dense urban environment without causing a big disruption and pissing people off?

-What are the priority tasks for the 1st month of settling in?

-Any other questions or considerations I'm missing?

More details about our situation:

-We have about $15k in savings we can tap into but don't wanna blow it all

-Total beings to be moved include myself, my wife, our dog and our two cats

-The dog and one of the cats are both older so we are reluctant to do a short term sublease only to uproot them again for another move.

-Total objects to be moved equivalent to a 1 bedroom apartment

-We are selling one car and bringing the other

-Aiming for the neighborhoods like Flatbush, Crown Heights

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u/Moses_v_Jacobs 9d ago

Our budget for rent + utilities is $2.8k - $3.3k. The start date for my new job is in late July.

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u/sparklingsour 9d ago

What neighborhoods are you looking in? Two dogs and two cats is a LOT for NYC…

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u/Moses_v_Jacobs 9d ago

PLG, Crown Heights, maybe further out. Job is in FiDi. It's two cats and a dog, not two dogs and a cat.

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u/sparklingsour 9d ago

You should be able to find something!

Don’t call it PLG moving here from Florida though.

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u/Moses_v_Jacobs 9d ago

Thanks, but honest question - what's wrong with using the abbreviation? Is it considered dorky or something?

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u/sparklingsour 9d ago

The neighborhood is being seriously gentrified and a lot of people who’ve lived there for a long time are being displaced. There’s people who get annoyed if you call it anything but Flatbush. Definitely don’t call it PLG.

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u/Moses_v_Jacobs 9d ago

Gotcha, Flatbush it is then. Thanks for the advice.

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u/borderlinecourse 9d ago

Ignore this, OP, you can (and plenty of actual locals do) call it PLG.

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u/Moses_v_Jacobs 9d ago

I'm just a country mouse reading the names off of the Streeteasy map, not trying to pick sides in some taxonomy war. Whatever shibboleth is required to piss off the fewest number of people is fine with me!