Inbound International Arrival,ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS)? -

hii was tracking a package and got this message Inbound International Arrival, November 15, 2009, 3:17 pm, ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS)can anyone please explain what it means? oh and how long do you think the package will take to come if i ilive in California?thank you so much to whoever answers : )

The notation means the package is on a boat or plane coming into New York City on that specific date. Depending on the rate it was shipped at, the contents, and any customs or security concerns, it could be in California in a week to 3 months.The ISC is the International Service Center at JFK airpot, so it s probably coming in by air.You might want to consider which international shipping company you re using if you have no more info than this.

Moving to Washington from Hawaii...? -

I am 24 years old recently divorce (because my ex wanted to be a bachelor) with two kids (4yo 1yo) wants to move from Hawaii to Washington in about 6 months to start over .. I will not be shipping over my car .. I will be looking for a second hand on there .. what should I know of the state before moving? How much do you think I should save before making this move?Not sure exactly what city .. all I know is that its close to Oregon .. and I have two family members all ready living there but I would like to get my own apartment.

I recently moved from CA to WA because I could not find job in CA. The unemployment rate in CA is really closer to 20% because they only count the people who are actually looking for jobs. The unemployment rate in WA (for Sept 2009) was 8.8%, which compared to the rest of the country was really great. We have our own miniature economy so to speak. It s buffeted from the rest of the country which is both good and bad.How confident are you in finding a job? I was confident. I didn t need a job before I got here, although I started putting out the apps well before my arrival. If you can find a room in a house that would be the most reasonable. Cost of living here is probably cheaper than Hawaii. We have many markets like Winco that offer very inexpensive food options like their $1.58 ham and cheese deli sandwiches with lettuce and tomatoes. These are not small sandwiches either. When I went to Maui I didn t see any sandwiches selling for less than $2.It rains here a lot which is depressing coming from HI which has beautiful tropical warm climate. Be prepared for cold weather and buy yourself a nice warm coat. Thankfully the clothing stores here are not that competitive and you should be able to find a nice coat for a good price.Getting a drivers license can be a pain. They won t accept your lease agreement as proof of residency. They have to have a Comcast cable bill or electricity bill or auto registration with your address on it. Then you need a passport and maybe a driver license and some other documents. Getting license was a priority for me. I plan to take class at UW (Univ of Washington) and the sooner I can show residency, the sooner I can enroll in class and not pay out of state tuition fees(which are expensive). Register your car first and get auto insurance. These two documents are the easiest to get and the Department of Motor Vehicles will need them to process your license.If I knew what kind of job you were looking for I might be able to help you a bit more. The two biggest employers in this area are Boeing and Microsoft. As long as those two employers aren t doing big layoffs, the local economy here is stable. That s one reason why we don t suffer the same kind of swings the rest of the country does because a lot of Boeing s work is either government contracted or it s based on orders that have been placed years ago when the economy was better. As far as money goes, I would probably save up at least $5000 since you have 2 kids as a bare minimum. But again, it depends on how soon you can find a job, and since I don t know what kind of work you are looking for, it s hard to say. The apartments here are a nice value. I stay at Glen Park Apartments in Federal Way for $725/mo. We have access to swimming pools, hot tub, sauna, gym, free dvd rentals, a business center with internet access, fax, and copier, and a host of other niceties. I have a 720 sq ft 1BR apartment with fireplace and the people here are very quiet and nice.One of the bad things about the area is that it s like a college town. After 9:30pm everything shuts down. There are bars downtown for fun, but the town isn t rocking at nighttime the same way places like San Francisco do. This can be a good thing and bad. One of the most desirable places to live is near Maple Leaf neighborhood in Seattle. The streets are narrow, but it s a safe and quiet place to live.

Save as much as possible.Seattle is above Oregon and CaliforniaYou probably won t need a car but with two children that s different.I moved from the east coast where a car is mandatory LOL.I m enjoying not driving here but from what I know, the streets are bad, because of all the rain.parking is tough. and there s alot of traffic (even from east coast standards)There s alot of buses downtown so you don t have to wait too much time.And very scenic the kids will love it.About license... I did not have a tough time getting it.I lost my out of state licence when I moved here and had to get transcript (of sorts) of my driving record sent to me and then took that to DOL (driver office licensing)They give you a temp (paper license) and mail the real one in a few days.Good luck and try to seure a job before you get here, it will be tougher if you re from out of state.

depends on what area you are going to? i live west of olympia about 120 miles or 2 hours from portland oregon? if you stay out of the large cities your housing will be cheaper between olympia and oregon are a lot of open farm landand forest areas? we do get snow in the winter for a day or 3 but usually just rain for 9 months of the year! best time to come here is june and the weather will be like hawaii then? our dry months are june-aug?? as for jobs here just as many unemployed as anywhere else??

Moving to NYC area, new job in Tribeca, where to live? -

Family of 6 with 4 in high school will be movng to the NYC area. What are some good areas to look for a house? Is an apt. in the city a better choice? We need a short commute to Tribeca area.

As much as I am a booster for living in NYC, if you have 4 kids in high school, this will be really hard to organize in terms of getting them all into good schools. The high school selection process is a nightmare! I am going through it right now for just my oldest child, I can t imagine doing this for 4 all at the same time! But the good news is, it really doesn t matter where you live. Very few areas have zoned high schools anymore. The one area I might suggest (just for convenience) is the area around Midwood High School. That school has a zoned program for kids who live in the neighborhood. It is an excellent school (if a bit big) particularly in the sciences. They produce a number of intel scholarship finalists every year! The neighborhood is nice, but a bit boring, and you will be able to find a large enough house there for your large family. But it is not a very urban place. However, given the school issues, it might be a good choice for you. All you have to do, if you do move into the Midwood High School zone, is have your children put Midwood High somewhere on their high school application and they are guaranteed a spot at Midwood.There are two websites I strongly suggest you check out. The first is for the Dept. of Education:Schools.nyc.govThe second is for a non-profit group that helps people understand the NYC school system. They have great webpages on how to apply to high school and great reviews of schools. They are called:Insideschools.orgHope this all helps!

I suggest moving to Brooklyn. As a family of 6, you will have more space for the money you would pay in Manhattan. A house in brooklyn would be good. As for High Schools, I agree with the person above me, *Midwood is a nice area. I also suggest *Park Slope, It s near Prospect Park, the people are wonderful, and it s a great area. You wouldn t regret it, it s a short ride to Tribeca. There are good high schools there too. *Bay Ridge is a nice area as well. It s near the shore and Fort Hamilton high school is a good school. You can take a train to work anywhere from brooklyn pretty much. I take the train from brooklyn to tribeca almost everyday, and I don t hate it.

What is it like to live in the USA? -

I live in the Uk, pretty boring place to be what exactly is it like to live there? on the tv, it seems so much fun!

The standard of living in the U.S. is higher than in most of Europe, but life is what you make of it. What you see on T.V. only represents a small sect of people. What you see on MTV is ridiculous because only the super wealthy get their own TV shows, and is thus a misrepresentation of the lifestyle in the U.S. You can do the same things in the UK as in the US. If you like to go hiking or do sports, you can do that almost anywhere and it s cheap (UK or US). If you want to spend some money, you can go to a city and go clubbing (UK and US). The main difference though, is that most American s watch (American) football instead of soccer (the original football). For some reason NASCAR is our most popular sport (which boggles my mind, because it s just cars continually driving around in 1 mile loop), I prefer watching the Le Mans race or something. There isn t anything that special about living is the US. As long as you have good friends you can make most situations fun!

LOL, things always seem more exciting on the other side. Life in America is not that much different than the UK except that we have different temptures across the county, vs in the UK the weather is almost the same all over. One good thing is that the cost of living in the US is a lot cheaper, at least by half. Truthfully unless you are in New York, LA or Miami or vegas life is no different than from the UK. I think life is more exciting in Europe since you all travel to different countries and mingle with different people. In the US most people stay within there area (their town or state) and when they go on vacation they go to another state. But in Europe you all simply hop on a train and enjoy a different country. The states is nice to visit, but it is not all what it is cracked up to be!

Life is what you make it. Seriously, it s more how you live than where. Moving across the world wouldn t make your personality change and many of our problems seem to follow us everywhere. Television is supposed to make you feel happy. You wouldn t watch something that is depressing and that is why TV is what it is, but the real world is about the same. So life itself is about the same. There are morons in every country and there are good people in every country. But surroundings are different. One of the best things about the U.S. is the public property we have. We have vast forests, national parks, beaches, rivers, etc that can be enjoyed by all for free or relatively cheap. Also, the US has a lot lower population density and therefore more public land for the sharing. We have more outdoor recreation than the UK and since we are geographically bigger, there s just more to see. Maybe not more history and buildings to see, but more country side and natural wonders to see. We have some of the best National Parks in the world and great natural wonders. We have great mountains, waterfalls, rolling hills, deserts, prairie, glaciers, islands, rivers, lakes, and great city life. We have Yellow Stone, Niagara Falls, the Florida Everglades, the Grand Canyon, Arches national park (with some of the best rock formations in the world), Yosemite national park, and Glacier National park. We have great islands (Florida Keys, Channel islands) and lakes. We have Disney World, Disneyland and other theme parks, Hawaii (with great beaches, surfing, scuba diving, volcanoes), Alaska which is truly the last frontier as far as mountains, wilderness, and wild animals untouched by human hands, etc. In the US, the west has better outdoor features and the east has more history.We have the widest canyon in the world, most active volcano in the world, the longest cave in the world, and a mountain peak topping 21,000 feet, some of the tallest buildings in the world. We have the biggest tourist destination in the world. As the melting pot, our people are some of the most diverse in the world. However, we don t have the diversity of widely used languages as Europe. We have the best television and film industries. Our industries are some of the best in the world. Though we are behind Japan when it comes to producing cars and designing technology.The US dollar is not worth as much as a pound or a Euro, and it has been losing value the last several years, but in the U.S. you can buy more with dollars than you could with the equivalent value of pounds in the UK. So exchange rate aside, cost of living is cheaper here.If you come to America, people will welcome you here. If you go to France, people will say welcome and when are you leaving? As far as recreation, we have great white water rafting, scuba diving, snorkeling, snow skiing, snow boarding, surfing, sunny public beaches, hang gliding, para gliding, base jumping, water skiing, wake boarding, hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, and museums. We don t have the really old buildings and castles that Europe has. We have good history, but it is probably not as rich as the history of the UK and the rest of western Europe. It is difficult to compare the US to the UK because of the shear size. Comparing the US to all of western Europe might be better because the land sizes would be closer.To most Americans a dream vacation would be a vacation to Europe or a Mediterranean cruise.But besides the surroundings, life is the same in the US as it is in the UK.

It is awesome because you can choose to live where you want and you have a lot of freedoms that you also have in the UK. I think one issue is that people in the US don t realize how lucky we have it even with all of the problems we have as a country.

It depends where u live.iv lived in 4 diff states.i have to say that its to cold in Michigan =P and TN is a beautiful state but dont move to Crossville.nothin to do there and its full of druggys and pregnent teens...Alabama is nice and Florida is the best..so much to do and the beaches are the best and wearing flip flops durring winter is great! lol

It depends where in the United States you are living at. Like California, Florida, or New York, it s pretty cool there. I live in Texas and it s pretty boring.

Its sooo much funn.if you ever get a chance to come, then come!! i live in miami,FL if not miami then i go and stay in cali.(which is just as funn)hope i helped :))

its fun