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It’s the week before your move, and the situation has gone DEFCON 3 in your house. And things are veering closer and closer to DEFCON 1. You’ve run out of boxes twice, full rolls of packing tape are a distant memory, and every drawer in your home feels like a vortex of packing misery. In between frantically dragging your unwanted gear to the curb and trying to use socks as precious-items packing material, you realize you’ll never get all this stuff out of here in time on your own. You’re going to need  help . But do you break down and call in the pros or beg your friends? Before you decide (or curl up in a corner, assume a fetal position, and stare catatonically at the walls), try weighing these three factors: 1. Distance “The longer the move the harder it becomes, so we always recommend professionals for long-distance moves,” says  Jan Reid , CEO of  All Over Movers  in  Oklahoma City, OK . If you’re moving to a new city or  across state lines , a lot can go wrong. If t

Josh Haner/The New York Times   San Francisco looms large in the imagination of outsiders, who use it as a touchstone to define other places. Above, the city and Marin County, as seen from the Airship Ventures zeppelin. In 1898, in a book called “Skaguay, The Gateway to the Klondike,” promoting the golden promise of Alaska,  a civic booster wrote : The future of Skaguay is assured: she is the San Francisco of Alaska — the Key City of the great golden Northwest and will be the capital and the metropolis of the coming North Star State. It could not have been the first time that the name San Francisco has been the touchstone, the benchmark, the defining frame for someplace else. As in “ Geneva  is the San Francisco of Switzerland.” Or “ Port au Prince  is the San Francisco of the Caribbean.” Or “ Brighton  is the San Francisco of England.” As demonstrated by the pages and pages of links that appear with a Google search of the phrase “is the San Francisco of,” the good booster o