Quick piece of advice

When Rich and I were in the beginning/ middle stages of planning for our aliyah, we would ask one question to anyone we came across who had already made the move:
"What are you glad you did and what do you wish you had done before moving to Israel?"
I feel like I can already answer this question, being the 2 week vetern olah, that I am. Here it is: BRING AS MUCH STUFF AS YOU CAN.
I don't mean pack up everything in your house, because I'm definitely glad we unloaded a lot of unnessesary stuff before we moved. I mean, buy as much furniture, appliances, household items, clothes, personal items as you can possibly manage to fit onto your lift. Why? Because unless you
1. Have a car
2. Don't have kids you have to drag along with you
3. Don't have a job or Ulpan for a few weeks
4. Have a local Israeli to tell you how to not get ripped off
....it is simply too hard and stressful to have to deal with if you can avoid it. Prices are comprable if not better in the States (especially because you already know where to go to get the best deals). Buying something as simple as nail polish remover turns into an entire afternoon tiyul...I know because I led that tiyul two days ago. Stores here are tend to throw lot's of random items together into one space and you have to be extemely lucky in the beginnig to know which store has what. Like the apliance/electronic/hardware store that carries 25 varieties of kum-kum's but when asked where the alarm clocks are, the clerk gives you an irritated look and digs up a dusty one from some bottom shelf behind the counter that has definitely seen better days (like back in 1985 when it was put on that bottom shelf).
Anyway, as I fall on my face in exhaustion from taking a couple of buses to get to Talpiot with poor Hila, a stroller, and a whole bunch of stuff in order to look at a couple of fridges, let me leave you with this:
Take as much as you can with you so that you can take more time here to appreciate what a wonderous move you've just made.