Are you coming here for work or school? Will you be relying on public transportation? If so, recommend living as close to work/school as possible- or an easy metro/bus ride away. There are many walkable communities and there are others where you need a car and live half your life in traffic.

If you are coming here for work, do you know if you’ll have telework options?

You can get by most of the time with layers - long sleeve sweatshirts, down vests, hat and gloves etc. A heavy winter coat is nice, but maybe something to buy here since it’s a pain to travel with? Lots of that stuff is on sale right now too.

Good luck!