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@runnerd: ugh I did this about 6 months ago and unfortunately it was super stressful and we only found one place with an opening that was a terrible fit for my dd. But I moved to the sf Bay area which has a crazy competitive market for daycare. I found nurturelist.com super helpful plus local mom Facebook group that I joined before moving. I couldn't do tours ahead of the move...I ended up taking a few weeks off of work to get everything in order. Do you have that option? Where are you moving? Do you know of openings and are just trying to narrow down your choices? I hope so for your sake! Let me know if you have other questions and good luck! It's not easy to move with kids!! But we survived and are super happy now in a new, much better preschool for my dd.

@runnerd: If you can make it work to do tours I would absolutely do that! Good luck! Sounds like you have much better options than me. I was also moving across the country, from DC! and had zero time to make a trip. We moved really quickly and it was crazy. But like I said, it's all good now. I'm sure you'll do fine. Keep me in the loop!

@runnerd: My company had an on-site daycare that was highly recommended by employees so I toured the facility when we came for a house hunting trip.

My husband (whose job we were moving for) took a day of pto to visit places and reported back. We discussed and picked without me ever having seen it. We were lucky in that it was a great fit! We were also about 5 hours away from our new location. Good luck!

I found a local FB mom's group and got some recs and when I went into town, I visited them.

We moved across town (not across the state). We made a giant spreadsheet of all options, called for info, and narrowed down the 5 we were most interested in and toured. Afterwards, we picked our favorite.

However, we ended up not liking the place we picked (too much turnover), BUT we had toured so many places that we had a better idea of what our options were when it came time to make a change.