If you are going to move to a new state, make sure you know the old states policies on registration and moves.

Otherwise, you might find out months after you moved, that even though you have insurance in your new state, and your car is registered in your new state, and your drivers license is in your new state, your registration in your old state (Don’t they cancel that when you get registered in the new state? Seriously!) has been suspended.

Because you don’t have insurance in the old state.

Where you haven’t lived.

For 4 months and 7 days.

And even though you drove to the next city over, and had the pretty little affadavit the Department of Revenue sent, stating that you moved and had the registration transferred to the new city - umm, ok, a month ago (MN lets you go 2 months before you have to register, and I waited until the end of the two months and realized that the wonderful army movers didn’t pack my marriage license) notarized, and sent a copy of the pretty little MN insurance card that you’ve had since you canceled your old GA insurance because it was $300 more a year than the new insurance, the department of revenue doesn’t care…

So they suspend your registration in the old state.

Even though your car is now registered in the new state.

So you have to go get the very same pretty little affadavit notarized again, and send it certified mail, and hope that when the lovely people at the Chatham County Tag Office get your newly notarized affadavit they don’t throw it in the trash can.

Again.

Because if they do they will suspend your shiny new license.

Even though you don’t live in Georgia.

And you haven’t for four months.

And you have insurance.

Because they don’t care.

They want to keep uninsured drivers off the road.

Even if those drivers aren’t driving in GA and have legally fulfilled their obligations to have auto insurance, and to transfer their registration, and to get a new license.

*No, you didn’t miss anything. I decided not to post the other 586,999,999 moving rants on the blog.