Ask HN: What was your relocation package like?
A couple of tips (these only apply to the SF Bay Area):<p>1)  Unless you can afford a $1.5M US house, don&#x27;t bother thinking you can just sweep in and buy a home within a month.  The competition is way too fierce these days.  It will probably take you about 1 year unless you&#x27;re very rich already.  Since you have a daughter, you need to figure out if you want to live in a cheaper area, far away from your work with a long commute, and send her to private school, or live closer to work, and pay an exorbitant amount, and probably still pay for private school.<p>I suggest paying the exorbitant rent for 6 months or a year, in a place close to work so that you familiarize yourself with the area, and then start the search to buy a place.<p>2) $30k sounds like a very generous relocation package.  I think your expectations as to what it will cover are way too much.  Things like multiple airfares and real estate broker fees sound like you have a sense of entitlement.  Those shouldn&#x27;t be covered in my opinion, those are the cost of leaving your home.