If you are bored with your life, feel like a challenge, go find a good international moving company.
For the sake of your marriage and your sanity, give websites that promise several offers from movers a wide berth. I went through such a site. It will take only minutes until the phone, a required field in the form, starts to ring.
Prospective movers will flood your email inbox, another "required field", you knew it, right?
They will offer full service. They do use this somewhat discredited term, but you won't care anymore after the first 24 hours. Their estimates will give you sticker shock. Once you regained your senses and checked the Better Business Bureau entries for each an everyone of them, change tack.
Look around web forums instead, see what real people have to say after real moves. And then find a freight company. You read correctly, a freight company, not a "moving company".
Most freight companies have a household section, too. You can pack most of your goods, and they will pack the delicate things, the breakables. Like that set of grandma's china that you will never use but that you do not want to give to friends, family, or Goodwill either.
The good aspects of using a reputable freight company are, in no particular order:
They move large amounts of stuff all them time, any "household moving company" will use them anyway to get your property across the seven seas, a freight company will charge you about half of what a "mover" will charge.
The one potential drawback is that it may take longer for your goods to arrive at their destination. So, ship early. But then, your kids may love the adventure of living in a bare apartment for two or four weeks.
We saw our things shipped, and then went on a roadtrip around the United States. Don't ask about the cats and why we did another shipment later. That is an altogether different blog entry.
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