Most relocation content is optimized for search, not for moving.
It is often written by someone who has never lived in the neighborhood being described. It is assembled from ZIP-code statistics, rewritten into brochure language, and published under a vague byline. That kind of page can rank, but it does not help much when you are choosing a lease, a school district, or a mortgage.
Landed is different by construction. We separate the evidence: primary records for numbers, named external experts for specialized claims, local reporting for context, and resident evidence for lived patterns. When a resident voice is a composite, we say so. We do not present composites as identified people.
We write about the trades. We name the things the listicles do not. The catalytic converter in the Mueller H-E-B parking lot. The 1926 sewer line under the Hyde Park bungalow. The six UT football Saturdays that are not yours. The trailing-spouse isolation of the first Westlake year. The precise math of the Eanes-for-tuition trade. We do not smooth the edges.
Who makes Landed
Landed is a small editorial project run by a solo operator who has moved eight times in fifteen years: Seattle, Oakland, Brooklyn, Boston, Denver, Austin, and a short stint in a town that does not get mentioned in the guide because it did not work out. Every city section starts from that lens.
We use LLMs for research synthesis and drafting. We do not use them to invent numbers, citations, or attributed quotes. Every claim still has to trace back to a source: public records, published reporting, direct interviews, public resident threads, or a clearly disclosed composite pattern.
What's on the site
Landed publishes in layers. The city hub is the decision document. The cost of living is the ledger. The neighborhoods guide is the comparison document. The regrets is the post-move document. The route pages explain what changes when you move from a specific state.
How we make money
Landed is free to read. We will eventually run a small number of affiliate links to relocation-related services. We do not sell data. We do not embed third-party ad tech. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless and does not identify individual visitors.
Who this is for
Landed is for the person in the decision: the engineer who got the offer, the family whose third kid is about to age into kindergarten, the couple deciding whether to leave, the trailing spouse who needs the neighborhood-level reality before the lease signs. It is not for the person in the purchase: if you are a week from closing, your realtor knows things we do not.
How to reach us
The best way to tell us we got something wrong is an email to hello@landed.club. We read every one. We update pages when the facts change or when a reader who lives in the neighborhood tells us something we did not know.