Moving across the country. Amy idea on costs?

[gmc72]

My wife is from Newfoundland and has been thinking about moving back. Since my company is fully WHF, there is no issue on my end. I am just wondering if anyone else has done a cross-country move, and what the costs associated with it might be.

Thanks.

[SJW]

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My wife is from Newfoundland and has been thinking about moving back. Since my company is fully WHF, there is no issue on my end. I am just wondering if anyone else has done a cross-country move, and what the costs associated with it might be.

Thanks.

My brother moved from Manitoba out there but that was 6 years ago so might be outdated. I'll ask him.

[Cagare]

Depends how much you are moving and how little work you want to do.

Paying someone to move a 3 bedroom house, and just driving your cars across budget $10-20k just in move related expenses. Want to do it with UHAUL and one car trailer considerably cheaper, but still in the $5-10k range I am betting. It will really come down to how convenient you want the move to be. I have done two cross Country moves, they have cost about the same both times. Last time was in 2018. If I were to do it again, I would sell everything and just drive across with what I can carry and buy all new.

Also, this is not considering your real estate related costs, depending if you own out here or are buying out there.

[gmc72]

Thanks.

We would most likely sell a lot of our stuff here, and just take essentials. We would sell our place here and buy a place out there (property values are less there).

[ThePenIsMightier]

Companies can and will change their mind about WfH personnel at a moment's notice. Ensure that your employment agreement explicitly covers this before moving and finding yourself out of work in a foreign place.

Also consider a massive culture shock.

Also consider 3hr time difference. I don't care what anyone says, you will be strictly adhering to the company schedule and not the place where you live.
I've done it with Vancouver and that's how it is.

[Cagare]

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Companies can and will change their mind about WfH personnel at a moment's notice. Ensure that your employment agreement explicitly covers this before moving and finding yourself out of work in a foreign place.

Also consider a massive culture shock.

Also consider 3hr time difference. I don't care what anyone says, you will be strictly adhering to the company schedule and not the place where you live.
I've done it with Vancouver and that's how it is.

Yeah, that's all incredibly valid right here. Also, when it comes to salary negotiations if you are not in the area will they use that as leverage to give you less, I mean all of those things.

If you are selling everything just the move expenses figure $5-10k. Get your wife to get a job before you move and then you can claim all of your moving expenses on your taxes. You can only claim if you move for work/school.

[suntan]

Keep in mind too if you're an employee your employer will have to remit payroll to the newfie gov't.

[gmc72]

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Companies can and will change their mind about WfH personnel at a moment's notice. Ensure that your employment agreement explicitly covers this before moving and finding yourself out of work in a foreign place.

Also consider a massive culture shock.

Also consider 3hr time difference. I don't care what anyone says, you will be strictly adhering to the company schedule and not the place where you live.
I've done it with Vancouver and that's how it is.

I currently work for a company in Toronto, but I am here in Calgary. The time difference isn't that big of a deal, as I will actually be closer.

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Keep in mind too if you're an employee your employer will have to remit payroll to the newfie gov't.

I am sure it will be similar to the way it is now, just with Newfoundland instead of Alberta.

[2Legit2Quit]

I moved to PEI in 2017 and back to Alberta in 2019, drove across the country both times.

You are either looking at a few options, if you have a truck already then you have the option of buying an enclosed trailer and filling it as much as possible and driving across the country and taking the ferry over. From here you have the option of keeping said trailer or selling it once you're there.

Otherwise for the self trailer move you have the Uhaul option, which is what we did both ways with the 6x12 trailer. We sold and gave away as much as we could, took more or less zero furniture with us and took only what we could and packed both our vehicles to the gills. The Uhaul trailer does not fit much so you really really have to downsize if you don't compensate with sending your property out via other means.

With either then you are looking at gas costs to which you can guesstimate based on your fuel economy and factor in the towing aspect and you will be driving through some very hilly/mountainous areas once you hit northern Ontario and other areas. Then just food/hotel/extra expenditures.

I can say driving across the country fucking sucks, more so towing a trailer packed to the nines. We did the move east in 4 days during May and they were solid 12-15 hour days of driving, very mentally/physically taxing. The drive West we did in November and it took us 5 or 6 days, a few winter storms screwed us over pretty hard, easily one of the worst experiences of my life.

Alternatively you go with the full paying someone to move you and depending on how much you want to move, as others have said, it would be an easy $10k-20k, I would guess on the higher end of the spectrum. This will be the best and easiest option however, moving in general fucking sucks and the less you have to deal with, the better.

Moving containers are worth looking into, we used Big Steel Box last year with our move out of Calgary, really good experience as you can choose when to get the container dropped off and picked up, was nice to take our time loading the container and then just have it picked up and delivered at our new home on our desired date. The container rental cost is not a big deal, the distance it travels is where the $$$ resides, also more so depends on how rural of an area you may be moving to as some container services will only ship to more populous towns/cities.

I've moved 6 times in the past 10 years so I'm way too versed in moving and what goes along with it than I'd like to be haha.

[killramos]

Does Newfoundland still do 30 minute daylight savings?

That’s going to be hilarious

[ExtraSlow]

While lots of companies permit permanent WFH, it's a paperwork hassle for them to have employees in a new province. Changes more than payroll deductions on their end. Maybe they are set up to handle it, maybe not.

Also are you ready to pay 50% more income tax and 3x sales tax? Because that will eat into the savings you are banking on.

[killramos]

Plus. You have to live in newfoundland

[vengie]

Sounds like a terrible idea

[gmc72]

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Plus. You have to live in newfoundland

Meh, Happy wife, happy life.

[killramos]

Rip

[vengie]

If my wife asked me to move back to her home province of Saskatchewan she would be going alone.

Perhaps you're a better man than I, but fuck that... let alone moving to Newfoundland.

[killramos]

Have you considered a test run for a month or 2?

Hell of a lot cheaper than either a divorce or having to move back after you realize the newfies leave for a reason.

[ExtraSlow]

VRBO a place for 2 months in winter and see how it goes.

[JRSC00LUDE]

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Meh, Happy wife, happy life.

What an awful way to live, I hope that was said in jest.

Newfoundland is pretty though.

[ExtraSlow]

Happy wife happy life is a useful philosophy when you have no other overriding concerns or are generally ambivalent. This situation requires a little more thought than that.