Two Cities: The One You Left, the One You're In
New Job Relocation Map Art Gifts
Relocating for a job is equal parts exciting and disorienting. You're chasing something good, but you're also leaving a place — friends, a favorite coffee shop, a whole map you knew by heart. A print that holds both cities, the old one and the new one, makes the move feel less like an erasure and more like a chapter break.
It's a thoughtful gift for someone moving away from the people staying behind, and an equally good one for yourself — a way to make a strange new apartment feel a little more claimed on the first day.
Create a relocation map →The two-map move
The strongest version of this is a pair: the city you're leaving and the city you're arriving in, matched in the same palette and size so they read as a set. Hung together, they tell the whole story of the move on one wall.
If you'd rather keep it to one print, choose the new city — it's the forward-looking one, and it doubles as a way to start learning the place. Center it on the new neighborhood rather than downtown, so it maps the life you're actually about to live.
What to label them
For a matched pair, keep the lettering parallel: city name and state on each, with the years — Chicago 2019–2026, Austin 2026– — on the detail line so the timeline reads across both prints. For a single print, the new city's name and your move-in year is plenty.
A dropped pin on the new office or the new apartment gives an unfamiliar place a specific anchor from the start.
Sizing a matched set
If you're doing a pair, two 11×14s or 12×16s hang neatly side by side; a single statement print can go up to 18×24. Keep both maps in the same palette — a clean, modern one carries between an old life and a new one without clashing.
Everything prints at 300 DPI, so a matched set frames up consistently in whatever you already own. It's a grounding thing to hang first, before the boxes are even unpacked. It also makes a solid gift from a company or a team back home — a warmer welcome than a branded mug, and a way to say the new city already has a place for them. For anyone about to work from home in an unfamiliar place, it gives a strange new setup one familiar, chosen thing on the wall.
Recommended Palettes for New Job Relocation
Cities to map for new job relocation
The city you're leaving and the city you're moving to
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