International Nesties
MouseInLux
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
texans come in :)
We're Visiting a friend who may move to Huston soon, she's asking about cost of living, any idea what a month's expenses would be?
Oh and anyone who can help with general moving to USA 101. They'll be there for 3 years.
Re: texans come in :)
Presumably one of them has a job lined up? Make sure they ask about health insurance. Europeans sometimes don't realize that there is absolutely NO public health coverage for most people in most situations here. They will want to make sure they are covered from the moment they land in the US and if they won't be they should arrange some sort of travel insurance that will cover them until they get it set up, just in case.
I've never been to Houston so I can't help there, but from what I have heard Texas has a relatively low COL even in the cities, compared to other metro areas like NYC, Boston, San Francisco, etc.
Living in Houston will require a car - probably two. If they're used to public transport - they're isn't any in Houston so that will be a change.
What their monthly bills are really depends on where they live. Buying a house? Renting a house? Renting a flat? Inside the loop? (more expensive than the 'burbs)
Bills they're likely to have: car insurance, gas (for the cars), electric, gas (for the house), water, trash, rent/mortgage, internet, phone, cable, property taxes (if they buy a house), groceries. I think a reasonable budget would be ~ $1,000 on rent and $1,000-$1,500 on the rest; depending on what lifestyle they like (i.e. the super cable package or no cable, etc), it could be more. Also some bills are sky high in summer - the electric because of the A/C but they're almost non-existent in winter.
ya know I have an empty, furnished house and two cars in Houston...just sayin'