How to know when you are moved`

Moving from one city to another should seem an obvious thing. And it is. When you are there in your new city I mean. The weather is different, streetnames, people., your job (if you are that lucky) But settling in is different. At first things like a new library card, or registering to vote, drivers licence. After a while you get used to your new atm, writing out your new address, clicking on the right state when you fill out an online form. Supermarkets are easy. They are almost identical across the country. Some things don't change at all (like 800 numbers or 911). If you have a cell phone you don't even have to change how you dial a number. But then after a while certain things creep up on you. You see a bus while rushing and your brain gets weird flashbacks as the number brings back memories of another bus route in another city. Other things happen too. You stumble across a receipt and then realize it is no longer a receipt but a brief memory ride to what was your previous life. In Boston the bare trees at first don't seem too different. But after months of their black boney fingers extended against a grey sky. Well. It sinks in.