The Top 5 Things I Forgot When I Moved to a New Country
I just moved from the USA to Canada, and here are the top things I regret not having right now, in my empty apartment.
My new city, Montreal, located directly north of New York and Vermont in the province of Quebec, is pretty great — although I’ve only been here about 48 hours. New apartment, new country, new language: it’s a lot to deal with. And as a Type A kind of person, I like to hyper-organize my life and prepare for every eventuality. I thought I had set myself up perfectly to move to Montreal without any hitches or bumps in the metaphorical road.
Boy, was I wrong.
Turns out, you can never prepare for every eventuality when you move as far as I did, across the entire US and then up north into eastern Canada. So here’s the stuff I’m wishing I had organized sooner, the things I’m noticing that I don’t have and that are really inconveniencing me.
1. Wifi
This is the big one. I investigated wifi services before moving but never got around to oragnizing it in advance. And with the type of phone plan I have, I only get 0.5 GB of roaming data in Canada and Mexico (Thanks, Verizon), which isn’t enough to function here every day. After I use it all up, my phone stops loading, well, everything. I can text and call, and that’s about it. When I…
