RE: help me write a letter to my dad
04-21-2016, 04:11 PM
I assume that you are an American, and as such the process for moving is: within 30 days of moving to a new address, whether it's in the same state or a different one, you go to the DMV in your new area and fill out a change of address form. I do not believe that it costs any money, or at least it did not in my area the last few times I've had to do it, and then they send you an amendment to your license or ID if you have one, and if you do not have one they simply update your records.
the government is actually one of the easiest things to update in terms of your new address. The real hassle is contacting your job ann your bank and your friends and every other person and institution that needs to know where you live. In my state, you can even fill out the necessary forms ahead of time by getting them from the website and bringing them in, which makes the actual DMV trip about five minutes long if you don't go on a busy day. There's no kind of time limit on most of the rest of this stuff, so it can really just happen as the individual people that need to be updated occur to you.
That's something about adulthood and all the big intimidating things about it that has really come to surprise me the longer I've spent in it: most things really are much simpler than you think they're going to be. I mean, some real chumps manage to live day-to-day without too much hassle so it can't be all that hard.
the government is actually one of the easiest things to update in terms of your new address. The real hassle is contacting your job ann your bank and your friends and every other person and institution that needs to know where you live. In my state, you can even fill out the necessary forms ahead of time by getting them from the website and bringing them in, which makes the actual DMV trip about five minutes long if you don't go on a busy day. There's no kind of time limit on most of the rest of this stuff, so it can really just happen as the individual people that need to be updated occur to you.
That's something about adulthood and all the big intimidating things about it that has really come to surprise me the longer I've spent in it: most things really are much simpler than you think they're going to be. I mean, some real chumps manage to live day-to-day without too much hassle so it can't be all that hard.