Relocation decision
- List non-negotiables (family, school, health).
- Compare cost of living + tax for 12 months.
- Name one ‘no-go’ scenario you’d regret in 2 years.
- Schedule a concrete trial visit or remote research week.
Checklists
Printable decision checklists
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Printable decision checklists
Job / offer decision
- Write the role in one sentence; what changes in 6 months if you say yes?
- Comp: base, bonus, equity, pace — what is missing?
- Energy: does the team culture fit your values?
- If you decline, what’s your plan B for income and identity?
Relationship / conversation
- What outcome would respect both people?
- What fear are you avoiding naming?
- What support (therapy, time boundary) do you need first?
- One small next step within 7 days — not a verdict.
Editorial overview
Three printable checklists live on this page: relocation, a job offer, and a relationship-or-cohabitation conversation. Each one is a tight one-pager that you can print, save as a PDF, or screenshot — whichever way you actually keep paperwork. They are the kind of lists you will not regret running through before you sign a lease, accept an offer, or have the conversation you have been postponing.
The checklists are deliberately readable in two minutes. They are not exhaustive — that is the point. A 200-item relocation checklist is comforting to write and useless to actually use; the 18 items on this page are the ones that most often go wrong when people skip them.
How to use the checklists
- Pick the theme (Dark glass / Paper / Ink) that prints best on your printer or reads best on your screen, then tap Print. Modern browsers let you save as PDF from the same dialog.
- Walk through the items as questions, not chores. Each one ends in something concrete — a number, a name, a date, a yes/no — so you can tell whether you really have the answer.
- For items that turn into a real worry, drop the worry into the analyzer on the homepage as a question, or ask the community. The checklist surfaces the question; the rest of the site helps you decide.
Why a small checklist beats a long one
Decision researchers have a polite term for the long version: completionism. The longer the list, the more it invites scanning instead of doing. We picked the items by reading our blog archive plus the published checklists of major airlines, relocation firms, and family-law clinics, then keeping only the items that were either expensive to miss (visa categories, deposit clauses) or emotionally expensive to revisit (the conversation that does not happen). Everything else is in longer reading on the blog.
Combining checklists with the analyzer
A checklist is excellent at making sure you have not missed a category. It is bad at telling you which option is actually right for your particular trade-offs. That is the analyzer's job. Run the checklist first to surface the items you cannot answer, then take the two or three open questions into the analyzer or the experts directory.
Frequently asked
- Can I print the checklists?
- Yes. Each page has a Print button that opens your browser's print dialog. From there you can send to a paper printer or save as a PDF — both produce a clean one-pager without the site chrome.
- Are these checklists translated?
- Yes. The labels and items follow the same eight-language localization as the rest of the site (English, Armenian, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic). Switch language in the header and the printable view follows.
- Can I edit a checklist before printing?
- There is no built-in editor; the items are picked deliberately and we don't want to invite drift. If you need to add a personal item, print to PDF and annotate it with a free PDF reader (Preview, Adobe Reader, or any browser).
- Why these three checklists and not more?
- Relocation, a job offer, and a relationship-or-cohabitation conversation cover the three decisions that most often arrive with a hard deadline and a paper trail. Other decisions (kids, health, retirement) deserve longer essays rather than checklists, and live on the blog.
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