If you’re like millions of Americans every year, you’re moving to a brand new city. Some people do it for work, some do it for love, others do it just to get a fresh start. But how do you find a nice place to live when you know nothing about the city, itself? It is the Internet to the rescue! Thanks to the seemingly endless encyclopedic nature of the Internet, you can easily learn all about a particular city’s neighborhoods without ever leaving the comfort of your own home. Of course, there is no substitute to getting into your car or hopping on a plane and visiting your new home city in person. If you have time and the money, you can start to stake out your new home city, buy a copy of the newspaper or pick up a copy of the local apartment finder and see what’s out there. Short of that, use apartment finding sites to see what neighborhoods are safest, which ones have the most affordable apartments and which ones have the kind of people that you think you’ll want to be around (business leaders, artists, etc).  In this day and age of limitless information, there is no excuse for not knowing your new city before you move there.