(OT) How many times have you moved?

oleg · #1 June 19th, 2003, 01:34 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
Distance doesn't mean anything these days.
A flight from Australia to the US is only 8-12 hours, which just happens to be the same amount of time that it takes to drive from Melbourne to Sydney, a distance of only 1000KM (600 miles???).

For travel, but not for moving the household ! You can rent a truck, load your stuff, drive to Sydney and unpack, all in 2-3 days and a cost of ~ $100. Now, move to US for example

minipol · #2 June 19th, 2003, 01:35 AM

True but i'm not used to such distances. Like i said, belgium is a very small country.

Oh yeah 1000 km = 621.371192237334 miles

I use Metric Converter to do these kind of conVersions. It's a very small and handy app. It converts speed, acceleration, volume,... To much to mention.

Ragnarok · #3 June 18th, 2003, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by minipol:

I use Metric Converter to do these kind of conVersions. It's a very small and handy app. It converts speed, acceleration, volume,... To much to mention.

Or you could do it the old way as for every mile you go you travel 1.6 KM. So just take 1000KM and devide that by 1.6. It came out with 625 miles which is not 100% accurate according to your calculations but it was close.

Stone Mill · #4 June 18th, 2003, 04:04 PM

Good luck minipol... I just dug my heels in as well. It feels like I struck gold - but - goodness gracious, the work never stops. I hope you have some favors to call friends on- to help out with some of the bigger projects.

Take your time. From what I hear the house will take you about 2 years to get it where you like it.

Taera · #5 June 18th, 2003, 07:28 PM

i've moved twice back in Ukraine, then i moved to israel. There we moved twice and then we moved to Canada. Now we're here.

minipol · #6 June 19th, 2003, 12:50 AM

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Good luck minipol... I just dug my heels in as well. It feels like I struck gold - but - goodness gracious, the work never stops. I hope you have some favors to call friends on- to help out with some of the bigger projects.

Take your time. From what I hear the house will take you about 2 years to get it where you like it.

Hehehe good one. Yeah something like that. We are doing it in steps but we are going to live in it even while it's not finished. I'm so happy i can move that i even would have been happen if i moved to a cave (as long as it has internet connection :-)

We had some friends over to paint but there are reprecussions in doing so. If 10 people come over to help this will probably mean you will need to help those 10 people somewhere in the future too and since i don't like painting to begin with, i took the easy way out: i painted everything myself

It doesn't look to bad although an experienced painter might laugh at my "accomplishmlents" but "i did it my way"

So, how many years are you going to be painting ?

Stone Mill · #7 June 19th, 2003, 04:11 AM

Just finished painting... except for touch-ups. Who knows when I'll get to them? Probably after the shoe molding.

We lived in here amongst boxes for quite a bit. A few of them still serve as furniture. So funny: we got a Tiffany's vase as a special present... and we'll probably put it on a cardboard box...