So we recently moved houses, from our previous flat to our country side home to work on it full time (or full-ish, cause actual work), and… is so tiring!!
Personally is the first time I move homes in the same country without my parents. Let’s not count moving countries, that was more complicated 😅
Besides the space, the vans or cars you might need, you have to call _everyone_ to tell them you moved out: Your bank, your telephone operator, the post service, everyone. And you have to go register in your new city to get the address in your ID changed to the latest. If you happen to have a car you have to do the same as with your ID and change your plates to indicate the area you live in (for example if you were living in Berlin your Plate started with B, if you move to Hamburg it will change to HH)
And if you, like me, have an… i don’t know the translation for it, but like a temporary residence card then you have to go to the Ausländerbehörde to change the address on said card.
Something I have learned in Germany is that my dream is to work in that office, they open like 3 days a week and only take calls for like 2h a week, no matter where you are (we hoped the new office of our new city would be better but noooope, just the same).
There’s so much paperwork implied, and more if you were renting, cause they have to check the status of your previous flat to decide if you get your deposit back, of you have to renovate the flat by yourself or if you’re good to go. Thankfully the renters we had were great and fair, so we didn’t had to do much there 🙂
Also, a tip: Transporters are cheaper during work days than on weekends. I swear Germans have so many holidays a year cause they need them to deal with bureaucracy a lot 😅😂