Comments on: More on the Car. http://www.sumnerrain.com/2010/01/08/more-on-the-car/ Days of Discovery, Comedy, and Insanity! Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:06:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Babs Modern http://www.sumnerrain.com/2010/01/08/more-on-the-car/comment-page-1/#comment-75904 Babs Modern Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:45:21 +0000 http://www.sumnerrain.com/?p=1352#comment-75904 Finding fair, quality, and trustworthy service people in a new place is one of the hardest things about moving for me. Everything, from home repair people, salons, dentists, physicians, mechanics, anything one can think of that requires hiring someone else are so difficult to find, especially in a new place where I don't know a single person to ask. I, too, use the Internet to at least try to screen. Unfortunately, when I moved to Alaska I discovered almost no businesses even had an Internet presence and locals didn't use it to review each other. That has improved in the last three years, and tourists at least leave reviews for some things like hotels and restaurants, but not the services of daily life. After being ripped off in new homes, I've become so gun shy that now it takes me unhappily long to get anything done to my house. I just don't want to have to keep paying outrageous sums of money (everything in Alaska is expensive) only to have to redo work myself or pay someone else for what I already paid for. Moving is stressful for many reasons. You are a trooper. Finding fair, quality, and trustworthy service people in a new place is one of the hardest things about moving for me. Everything, from home repair people, salons, dentists, physicians, mechanics, anything one can think of that requires hiring someone else are so difficult to find, especially in a new place where I don’t know a single person to ask.

I, too, use the Internet to at least try to screen. Unfortunately, when I moved to Alaska I discovered almost no businesses even had an Internet presence and locals didn’t use it to review each other. That has improved in the last three years, and tourists at least leave reviews for some things like hotels and restaurants, but not the services of daily life.

After being ripped off in new homes, I’ve become so gun shy that now it takes me unhappily long to get anything done to my house. I just don’t want to have to keep paying outrageous sums of money (everything in Alaska is expensive) only to have to redo work myself or pay someone else for what I already paid for.

Moving is stressful for many reasons. You are a trooper.

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