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Highlights
- Your post-move adaptation period will begin as soon as you step inside the new place.
- First, you’re going to have to adapt to the new home – something that may prove to be trickier than you think.
- And then, you should make an effort to adapt to the new town or city you just relocated to.
- Adjusting to a new environment is not easy but you can definitely do it as long as you know some great post-relocation adaptation tricks.
The home moving process is all about change, isn’t it?
In most cases, change is good. However, sometimes the relocation shift can be so sudden and drastic that you may feel completely unsettled, disorientated, and even shocked.
Nobody said that moving to a new home would be a walk in the park. Or if somebody did say it, then you can be sure that he or she must have been joking.
As soon as you step inside your new home, the adjustment period will start.
Just how long does it take to settle into a new house and get used to living in a new city? Nobody could possibly know that.
Maybe except you, that is.
It’s never easy to adapt to a brand-new set of physical surroundings and social norms and still stay true to who you are and what you believe in.
Hopefully, the following practical advice on how to adapt to a new environment will help you get back on track as fast as possible in order to reclaim the leading role in your own life.
How to adapt to the new home
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You open the door to your new apartment or house and, instead of sheer joy and excitement, you’re greeted by an eerie sense of unwelcoming non-belongingness.
In other words, you’re feeling unsettled in the new home. What’s happening?
The truth is that the post-relocation adaptation period has already begun.
- Use your new home as a temporary hideout. It’s okay to hide temporarily in your new home from the overwhelmingly unfamiliar and even strange surroundings. However, the entire hiding tactic should only last for a few days until you get your bearings. Eventually, you must go out from your hiding place and face the new reality head-on.
- Learn the secrets of your new home. How are you supposed to get used to the new home if that home is full of secrets? Exploration time! Do a careful inspection of the entire place, notice any visible signs of damage, check for water leaks, and locate the fuse box and the main water valve.
- Make sure your new place is secure. You won’t be able to fully relax in your new place unless you know for a fact that it is secure enough. You’re advised to change the locks on all outside doors. A burglar alarm is also an option, so consult a specialist. Check to see if all doors and windows close tight. Purchase one fire extinguisher per floor and consider installing smoke detectors in each room.
- Child-proof and pet-proof the new place. Adapting to your environment is only possible when you know that all the loved ones around you – persons and pets alike – are fine and taken proper care of. An unfamiliar home setting almost always hides specific dangers for small children and pets, so it’s your task to identify and eliminate all possible hazards for kids, dogs, cats.
- Unpack your stuff ASAP. Unpacking things that you know so well will introduce a strong sense of familiarity in a place that is still entirely strange to you. All packed boxes look the same and are rather soulless unless you open them up and start beautifying the space inside the home you just moved into. Unpack at your own pace to avoid stress and exhaustion.
- Arrange or re-arrange the furniture. A proven way to adjust to moving to a new place is to arrange your furniture pieces exactly like or very similar to how they were in your old home. That way, you can enjoy the familiar coziness of your former residence until the adaptation period is officially over and you get the courage to re-arrange your home to suit your new you.
- Clean up the new house or apartment. How do you expect to adapt to the new environment if that ambiance is not even clean enough to meet your standards? Before you even have the chance to learn exactly why you’re feeling unsettled after moving house, but after you’ve (partially) unpacked and arranged your furniture, use this Cleaning Checklist to give your new place a thorough cleaning to start things afresh.
- Make your place feel like home. The sooner you manage to make the new place feel like home, the faster you’ll go through the new home adjustment period. Arrange it just the way you like it, add colorful decorations and vitality, and don’t forget about the final finishing touches such as hanging photos and paintings on the walls and playing with light sources to introduce balance and harmony.
Is living moving?
We moved 1 year ago. I love the city, I don’t like the house. The house its a beautiful house. The front of the house has 3 acres land. I like to see neighbors. The neighborhood it only has 9 homes everyone has long driveways w 10 acres home. I don’t think i’ll Ever get used to living feeling too lonely. We do have a super market and restaurants 5 min away. I just mentioned to my husband the way a felt about the house, he got up n waked away from the table screaming that, the only way he would moved out of the house it will be inside a coffin:(
Please some one help me. I feel tight on my chest i cant even expressed to my husband my feelings . We had moved 3 times bcz his job. He wants this house to be our final home
The 3 moves we had we did fought a lot every time. We had always lived n moved to a placed that he picked. But this time, if this is going to be a retirement place I would like to be in a house that we both love.
He is ready to spend more money on this house by finishing the storage, building his office n pool table room. I rather used the money to buy a lot, and be able to build the house we want n the neighborhood i like. He refused to listen he even moved to sleep in the guess room.
Please help i love my husband but i don’t like feeling lonely surrounding by trees. He supposed to start traveling more from work. I don’t want to stay in this house alone. Too much privacy, i know its a men’s dream not to see neighbors but that’s not me:(
It’s strange I feel the same way and I live in a complex now with people around me? No friends near by.
Join clubs! I’m pushing myself to do that, now. You /I need friends even though you moved away from your’ family of loving friends you need people to know! Trust me. I am doing that , now….
Your husband sounds like a horrible person. Divorce him and take your half to buy the house you really want.
I thought you made a great point when you talked about how it is important to explore your new area when trying to adjust after moving. My wife and I move frequently. We really like Japanese food, so whenever we move we try to find a Japanese restaurant to go to regularly.
Thank you for encouraging me to learn and have a tour around the small town where we moved in in order to familiarize ourselves more. My husband and I have decided that it is better for us to raise our child away from the busy and hectic streets of the city, so we purchased a small property where we can settle. I’ll ask my husband if we can drive around during our free time as you have advised and look for a nearby facility that offers primary care along with other amenities.
I know how you feel being lonely, no one can understand unless you have been there. Long long days longer nights. Terrible feeling of being sad all the time longing to just go home.
Thank you so much for this article, I especially like that you said it’s ok to hide for a little while but to push yourself out there soon. My husband and I want to move into a new home and need to find one. We will keep your awesome tips in mind when we move in!