What is the cheapest way to move out of state?
Mar 16, 23, 8:16 am
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This probably isn't your best source of information. This forum is mostly about airline travel and other short-term trips. Sounds like you need to look for real estate / relocation sites focused on the country you live in. (I'm interpreting "out of state" in the U.S. sense here - moving within the country - not an expat context.)
Mar 17, 23, 10:03 am
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If there's a specific state you have in mind, try posting over in the relevant state/region forum via America - USA
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I know of someone that moved from California to Hawaii, and transported their entire household (no furniture) via checked baggage on their one-way flight. They just paid the excess bag fee for all of their extra boxes.
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I and my wife moved to Singapore 12 years ago with 1 carry-on and 2 checked suitcases for each and 10 years later did that in reverse with exactly the same setup. The only thing I need to pay for was slight overweight on return - less than $100.
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When I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Las Vegas, I paid double rent for a month.
I flew one-way SFO-LAS, rented a 12-passenger van at the airport, drove back, loaded up, and returned with my wife (with our two young adult sons remaining at the California apartment).
Every weekend I did the same. The final weekend I rented a small truck, for the bed, furniture, etc., from Penske in L.V., and our sons rode with me.
The distance between the states makes a big difference.
I flew one-way SFO-LAS, rented a 12-passenger van at the airport, drove back, loaded up, and returned with my wife (with our two young adult sons remaining at the California apartment).
Every weekend I did the same. The final weekend I rented a small truck, for the bed, furniture, etc., from Penske in L.V., and our sons rode with me.
The distance between the states makes a big difference.
Mar 19, 23, 12:55 pm
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When I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Las Vegas, I paid double rent for a month.
I flew one-way SFO-LAS, rented a 12-passenger van at the airport, drove back, loaded up, and returned with my wife (with our two young adult sons remaining at the California apartment).
Every weekend I did the same. The final weekend I rented a small truck, for the bed, furniture, etc., from Penske in L.V., and our sons rode with me.
The distance between the states makes a big difference.
I flew one-way SFO-LAS, rented a 12-passenger van at the airport, drove back, loaded up, and returned with my wife (with our two young adult sons remaining at the California apartment).
Every weekend I did the same. The final weekend I rented a small truck, for the bed, furniture, etc., from Penske in L.V., and our sons rode with me.
The distance between the states makes a big difference.
Mar 19, 23, 4:12 pm
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As with anything, it depends on a lot of factors. If you can fit everything in your existing automobile, then you're going to save a good chunk on transportation. However, if you want to bring your furniture (and save even more money in the long-run) you will need a large truck. U-haul is probably the best for most.
Mar 19, 23, 8:07 pm
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Not always. When I moved from Michigan to Las Vegas I did a ton of research. Renting a U-Haul and towing or shipping my car was way more expensive than just driving and shipping my stuff with an ABF-UPack.
That being said, unless you can pack everything into a car you already own, generally I think a POD or a U-Pak are generally the cheapest for longer trips.
That being said, unless you can pack everything into a car you already own, generally I think a POD or a U-Pak are generally the cheapest for longer trips.
Mar 20, 23, 8:38 am
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Not always. When I moved from Michigan to Las Vegas I did a ton of research. Renting a U-Haul and towing or shipping my car was way more expensive than just driving and shipping my stuff with an ABF-UPack.
That being said, unless you can pack everything into a car you already own, generally I think a POD or a U-Pak are generally the cheapest for longer trips.
That being said, unless you can pack everything into a car you already own, generally I think a POD or a U-Pak are generally the cheapest for longer trips.
The other thing that can help lower costs is finding a mover who has a partial truck that's heading in the direction you are going. If you can fit your stuff in the other part of the truck you can usually get a pretty good rate because the truck is already going that direction so it's just pure profit on top of an existing fixed cost. I did this when I moved from Chicago to DC -- I was living in apartment in downtown Chicago so a POD/U-Pak wasn't practical but was able to add my stuff into an existing truck that was going to the East Coast and it wasn't too expensive (helped that I was in an apartment so I didn't have that much stuff)
