Amidst all of stress, we often overlook a few details of varying importance. You can't clone yourself or your family on moving day, but you can create a checklist of reminders. In fact, even if you're not a habitual list-maker, it's high time you started. Because a list is probably only way you're going to get through your move without overlooking something you shouldn't. What could possibly require your attention, aside from guiding Manny Mover down hallway as he creeps backward with your priceless and extremely breakable possessions?

Take, for instance, last impression you make upon your neighbors as you move out of your house. Blocking your neighbors' access to their own street and/or driveways, causing them to be tardy for work, is likely to cause some resentment - particularly if movers aren't outside when neighbors discover that they can't back out of their driveways and into street.

By same token, watch that your movers don't block your neighbors' driveways and street with your furniture. If move-out process is going to consume better part of an afternoon - and it often does - keep an eye on crew as they make their way into and out of your home. Some movers have been known to take a shortcut through neighbors' front yards, or worse, their flower beds, which could very well cause World War III.

If you have a choice of what time of day to move, opt for between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on a weekday, if possible. Your neighbors have already arrived at work by this time (unless they work at home), giving you ability to move without cramping anyone's style. Avoid having movers arrive too early or too late in day, or on a weekend. Advise music-loving movers to cut loud music blaring from their moving van radios; noise pollution won't win them - or you - any friends.

If you want to be a ski instructor, for example, you will more likely settle in one of small Rocky Mountain towns of Steamboat Springs, Durango or Beaver Creek than in big city of Denver. You may be in motion picture/television business where a job awaits you not in Hollywood, but in burgeoning film capitols along Carolina coasts in Wilmington, North Carolina (Dawson's Creek) or Beaufort, South Carolina (The Big Chill, Forest Gump, The Great Santini, Prince of Tides.) Perhaps you've taken a job in food technology for a prominent manufacturer, but you won't be living in Grand Rapids or Battle Creek - chances are you'll bed down in Hastings, Michigan.

What kind of housing will you find when you arrive? What will lifestyle be like? And will you be able to adjust from pace of big city to more relaxed, neighborly lifestyle of small town living?

As a renter, you will more likely find yourself living in a small apartment unit or a house than in a large apartment complex. Since apartments are created to meet demands of a transient population, with turnover expected every six months to a year, a large apartment building would have to generate enough rentals to cover seasonal periods of low rentals, plus attract new renters on a revolving basis. A small town is not likely to have a large enough employer base to attract that number of renters, unless it is a military base or a tourist or coastal town. Instead you will more likely find house rentals, which can be found through local REALTORS®, or large homes which have been subdivided into duplexes, triplexes and quadriplexes. Bed and breakfast inns or boardinghouses will be more common for temporary living arrangements. Gone will be anonymonity of big city apartment life.