Published August 27, 2010
Movin' on up (jimmy page's/Flickr)
If I had to guess, tomorrow will be the single biggest moving day in America. As many as 300,000 academics are moving in to Greater Boston for the first of September.
There are 34 colleges and universities in Boston, according to the city, and that doesn’t include a couple of famous ones across the river. Here’s a sampling of what folks on Twitter said about the big weekend:
@amylrabinowitz: Dreading it is an understatement.
@Neldar: Leaving the state this weekend to avoid it.
@kehutchinson: I moved on Monday, braving through a student tsunami at BU, going from E. Boston to JP. Thank god that’s over with.
@sanditaK: i’m making the move next Wednesday, using my “one moving day per career” as permitted by my employer
LOL
@amandakelly4: thank goodness I moved 2 months ago, missing the end of Aug/early Sept moving mayhem.
@KatyAronoff: Doing the Somerville–>Lowell haul tomorrow. Mostly packed and already about half moved so hoping it will be over quickly!
And Suz Carter on Facebook FTW:
Any bets on how long it will take for one such truck to get stuck on storrow drive?
Are you moving in? Across town? Away? What’s your new ‘hood? Are you dreading it? Excited? Share your stories and we’ll feature them on wbur.org throughout the weekend.
Correction: An earlier version of this story showed a graphical comparison of two invoices from a moving company. The graphic was intended to show the substantial difference in price for someone moving in the last weekend of August versus the first weekend in September. However, as the result of an error, the invoices were not for identical services and therefore the comparison was specious.