Relocation Decision Assessment

What the framework is

A relocation decision compares places you could live, including where you live now, against what matters to your household. Moving touches everything at once: money, work, school, friends, family. That's why it helps to judge one thing at a time.

What the result looks like

When it earns its place

Use it when a job, family or cost of living puts a move on the table, and you have two to five places in mind. The template starts with five criteria; rename them to fit. For example: housing cost, work, schools, distance from family, and quality of life.

The trap is that one person's reason to move dominates. Everyone who moves should have a say in the weights.

How to run it with a group

1. List the places, including staying where you are.
2. Rename the criteria and agree how much each counts.
3. Send the link to everyone who would move. Participants do not need an account to respond.
4. Each person compares the places two at a time on each criterion.
5. Look at where the household agrees and where it splits. A split on schools or family is the conversation to have before anything is signed.

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