My collegue repatriated back to the US earlier this year from Europe, and I&#x27;ll be following shortly. I was stunned at how cheap it was (relatively speaking) to ship our things back.<p>The moving company brings a 40ft container to your house, and starts packing it up. Then it&#x27;s right off to the port. It amazes me, perhaps more so than it should, that moving an entire household full of items across the ocean is so economical.