Moving is a chore. Everytime I think of moving to a different place, I get goosebumps. I have moved many times to different places within a city and to different cities and countries. Oh! the number of things that you need to worry about. Thankfully, at least we have these new bank rules that allow us to operate our accounts from different places without having to do any paperwork.
But not everything is that easy. There is no teleporting machine that could move all our stuff into the tube and recreate it at the other location.
What is most undesirable is the short-time moves that require you to be away for a couple of years. The time is long enough to have to have your things and short enough to not want to sell off the knick knacks you are attached to.
This just seems to be just the case now. A few weeks ago I had to decide if I was ready to move to Bangalore. The last encounter with this city was decades ago and I was just a kid then. I hardly remember anything. But I was told time and again that the weather is great – very similar to the place I live – and so is the traffic, really bad.
Bad traffic and long distances mean more pain in getting things to put your apartment together. Now I have been using Craigslist for some years and it has really helped me sell couches and smaller stuff. But another problem with moving is that you don’t necessarily have an Internet connection. Technology has solved that too. And well TV too. Quickr won’t let us forget how easy it is to sell things and buy again.
So here I was creating my account on Quickr for mission Bangalore. Hoping that this move will not cost me a lot of money. All this selling and giving away the old stuff and having to buy the same things again in a new place is unnecessary churn and waste of money. I installed the Quickr app went click . . click . . click … around the house to get most of the stuff on the sale board.
Leaving a town can be exciting and depressing, depending how you spent your time there. But I am sure Bangalore must be good too. After all, its just a matter of couple of years and I will be back as soon as I can get transferred back to this city, which has more or less become hometown for me.
So what’s the plan? First, is to hunt for a place. As soon as I get that down, it will be back to my friend Quickr for Bangalore to help me and get the essentials in through the weekend. Simple stuff like a coffee machine and the microwave should put the two basic necessities in place. And then come the things that need a little more deliberation, but that can happen later.
This post is a piece of fiction and is written in response to the ‘Let’s Go to Bangalore Quickr’ campaign in association with IndiBlogger.