How to settle quickly into a new city
Whether it is a new city or even a new country, it is crucial to integrate quickly with the new environment.
How do you do that? We asked Laura Poggioli, CEO and Founder of La Relocation.
The idea of moving house is in most cases exciting… until you start thinking about having to lock up your life lived up to that point in many boxes, organize transportation, think about cleaning the old and new house, and last but not least: settling into a new city.
Most of the inconveniences, especially when one comes from another place or even another country are precisely related to managing the new everyday life and integration, especially when one does not orient oneself in crucial decisions such as the new school for the children, bureaucratic and administrative rigmarole, and different habits.
Then add to that, new difficulties in even the most mundane daily actions and needs: still not knowing where to find the supermarket with the best products at the best prices, where to go to get new keys made or even just a photocopy, not knowing where to take the children to play in their free time… and the list is still very long.
These seem like superficial aspects, yet for each person in the household these issues can have a significant, sometimes even critical, emotional impact.
In fact, if our children do not integrate quickly into the new community and its dynamics because of, for example, a different language, different habits, different cultural traditions, it will certainly be difficult for them to settle in peacefully.
The equivalent also applies to adults: in a new city, without references and fixed points, it often happens to feel lonely and lost.
Yet, there are solutions that cancel out the normal discomforts associated with a move.
“Unpacking one’s life” and finding it elsewhere: discomfort is not only related to physical fatigue, but is often emotional.
Whether it is a voluntary “escape” or a forced relocation, for work reasons or personal choice, in relocation one encounters practical difficulties that are often also related to emotionality.
“It often happened to us,” Laura Poggioli tells us, “that in helping people even trivially to unpack their belongings and choose where to place them in their new home, there was a strong sense of discomfort and confusion. In this sense, I seemed to pick up on a kind of lack of lucidity, probably due to the physical and emotional stress of the move.”
It is indisputable that moving house is no picnic, and that this discomfort is combined with the additional discomfort of being in a place about which one knows almost nothing and no one.
To this situation of bewilderment, one should respond by asking for help:
“Having confusion mixed with discomfort and also having to deal with placing furniture, cleaning, fixing the window that is a bit broken or the boiler that you can’t turn on… is adding stress to stress.
Instead, you must stop, breathe, and delegate these tasks to capable people who know the right references in the area and with speed solve these small and big problems.”
In this sense, La Relocation among its services also provides help in cleaning the house, assembling furniture and carrying out small and large house rearrangements, so as to eliminate this initial impact discomfort.
“Let’s not mention the hassle of having to take care of all the bureaucratic and administrative stuff yourself: contracting, utilities, permits, car exporting and whatnot. These are also factors of ordinary administration, but in the total unawareness of references in the new territory, they are certainly a great waste of time and a source of stress. For this reason, our clients delegate bureaucratic management to their Relocation Manager, devoting priority to dialogue about all needs and desires.
La Relocation is a facilitator: it simplifies all stages of relocation and gives serenity in integration.”
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