No furniture allowance mentioned in the eMail. Suspect that the change may be for the long term. Expanding organisations always have difficulty coping and tend to trim the "niceties"

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Not sure that this is a bad thing, though, as rather than being assigned living quarters sight unseen, we can select and furnish to our own (or, more important, our spouses') tastes. Just going to take a bit more grunt work. The month to month apartments are starting to look good as a base until we find a suitable "cave".