Mod-72 Thank you.
Joyous, in some ways our Aliyah experience would be very different, no question, I’m not Charadi and when I got here I was single (I met my wife about 2 weeks after Aliyah as it worked out). One of the nice things about Israel is there are many different kinds of places you can choose to live, What a Chareidi neighborhood in Jerusalem, you can do that. Want to live in the country and see the mountains, you can do that too. In the US with a very few exceptions almost all orthodox communities are urban or suburban.
Oh one other bit of advice, when dealing with Israeli government offices bring a book or something to do. Long waits are common. Thought in my experience when I have something to read the wait is generally quite short.