International Nurses - Relocation Information

Charlottesville offers a wide variety of housing choices, from living in the heart of the city and adjacent neighborhoods, to enjoying more rural settings in surrounding counties. Explore our diverse residential neighborhoods, and find out which one best suits your lifestyle.

Below is a list of area real estate agencies that can help you find the right house or apartment. 

• Blue Ridge Apartment Council
• Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors
• Frank Hardy Sotheby's International Realty
• Great Eastern Management Company
• BlueSky Property Management
• Jamie White Real Estate
• Lori Runkle Meistrell - Nest Realty
• Move.com
• Real Property, Inc.
• Woodard Properties

UVA Transportation around Grounds
The University Transit Service (UTS) operates on the UVA Grounds, and is a fare-free transit service committed to providing safe, reliable, efficient, and friendly transit service to University of Virginia students, faculty, and staff. Both the Red Line and Blue Line UTS buses run service between the medical center and the commuter parking lots.

Charlottesville Public Transportation
The Charlottesville Area Transit provides bus service to the greater Charlottesville area. Riders enjoy safe, clean, and comfortable service Sunday through Saturday, and all buses accept bicycles and provide wheelchair access. 

Airport, Train and Bus
The Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, located 8 miles north of the city of Charlottesville, offers daily non-stop flights to and from Charlotte, Philadelphia, New York/LaGuardia, Washington/Dulles, Atlanta, and Chicago, and connecting flights to anywhere nationally and internationally. 

The Amtrak train station runs trains north and south out of Charlottesville. The train station is located on Main Street. Check their website for the train schedule. 

Greyhound Bus service located on Main Street provides nation-wide transportation from Charlottesville. Check their website for the bus schedule. 

Looking for groceries, clothes, or home goods, the following shopping centers have many different retail establishments.

• Barracks Road Shopping Center
• The Shops at Stonefield
• Fashion Square Mall
• Wegmans Grocery at 5th Street Station

Enjoy a night out with friends and great food in a city of over 100 restaurants, many family owned. This Charlottesville Restaurants website list many of our area's establishments.

Virginia's non-profit Local Food Hub also offers an online directory of where to find fresh, locally grown foods. We also have Farmers' Markets in warmer months conveniently located in various Charlottesville locations.

Charlottesville’s pedestrian-only Downtown Mall is the hub of our city, and offers shopping at over 120 locally-owned gift and clothing boutiques, antique stores, art galleries, and bookstores. It’s also home to several venues for music, dance, and theatre such as the Pavilion, the Southern Café and Music Hall, the Jefferson Theater, the historic Paramount, and Live Arts.

If you enjoy art, Charlottesville offers a wide variety. Visit the Fralin Museum of Art, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Les Yeux du Monde Art Gallery, McGuffey Art Center, or Artisan’s Studio Tour.

If you have school age children with you, then you may be interested in our public and private school system. Where you live will determine which public school your child will attend. 

Charlottesville Area Preschools

For children infant through pre-Kindergarten

• UVA Child Development Center
• Malcolm W. Cole Child Care Center

Charlottesville and Surrounding Area Public Schools

For children Kindergarten through Grade 12

• Albemarle County Public Schools
• Charlottesville City Schools
• Fluvanna County Public Schools (25 miles from UVA)
• Greene County Public Schools (27 miles)
• Nelson County Public Schools (35 miles)
• Louisa County Public Schools (36 miles)
• Orange County Public Schools (44 miles)

Private Schools

Fee-based non-government schools

• Charlottesville Catholic School
• Charlottesville Day School
• Charlottesville Waldorf School
• Community Christian Academy
• Field School
• Free Union Country School
• Mountaintop Montessori School
• Peabody School
• Renaissance School
• St. Anne's-Belfield School
• Tandem Friends School
• Village School

The following businesses provide useful services. From dry cleaning and laundry services, to area libraries, the links in this list may be useful as you navigate day to day.

Dry Cleaners and Laundromats

• Carriage Cleaners
• Sunshine Laundromat
• Preston Suds
• Hydraulic Wash

The Public Library

The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library has three branches, Central, Northside, and, Gordon Avenue, in Charlottesville and five branches in the surrounding communities.

Hair Salons

• Anne Marie & Co.
• Face Value Salon
• Fringe Collective
• The Hair Cuttery has a number of locations around Charlottesville.
• HairSmith and Co.
• KS Hair Studio
• Moxie Hair Salon
• Serendipity Hair Salon
• Studio 108

Park Mobile

When parking on Grounds, ParkMobile is the University parking app. For individuals that do not want to commit to an annual parking permit, or do not come to Grounds everyday, ParkMobile allows you to pay for parking from your cellphone.

In 1825, Thomas Jefferson established UVA as the nation's 10th medical school. In the course of almost 200 years, UVA University Medical Center has grown into a nationally acclaimed, 608-bed academic medical center with an outstanding Level 1 Trauma Center.

U.S. News & World Report has repeated ranked UVA Medical Center, and UVA Children's Hospital, #1 in Virginia, and we are renowned for the latest and most advanced treatment options. Our physicians and nurses are actively involved in research that gives patients access to treatments and medicine not widely available. Consequently, patients travel from around the world to seek treatment with us.

Our striving for greatness as an organization continues. We recently embarked on a journey to uncover what elevates UVA above other nationally renowned medical systems. We learned our technology, buildings and medicines are important. But what separates UVA is the attributes of our people, qualities such as persistence, empathy, initiative, drive. Human qualities. Qualities that are beyond measure.

We believe that employee talent is our greatest asset, and as part of our commitment to attract, develop, and retain outstanding employees, we offer exceptional benefits.

In addition to health insurance, retirement plans, flexible spending accounts, and paid time off, UVA team members may take advantage of our Education Benefits program, which is designed to encourage career development and lifelong learning. We also offer a backup care benefit for child and elder care, talent development services, and wellness benefits to support your, and your family's, health and happiness.

See the UVA Human Resources website for information about all of these benefits and more. 

UVA employs more than 28,000 people, including 7,000 UVA Health employees, and 16,000 faculty and staff. Forbes Magazine lists the University of Virginia as one of “America’s Best Employers for 2018” and “America’s Best Employers for Women 2018.”

As an employer, the University has an outstanding record of growth and stability and offers a wide variety of exciting and challenging jobs and career development opportunities.

The Academic Medical Center forms the hub of UVA Health. In addition to the Medical Center, UVA boasts a School of Medicine, a School of Nursing, and an impressive Health Sciences Library open to the public.

Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the University of Virginia School of Medicine is ranked 9th in the nation among state-assisted medical schools and consistently attracts the nation's brightest students and most distinguished faculty members. Awarded millions of dollars in funding each year, the School of Medicine's 23 research centers are making discoveries resulting in new and better therapies, especially in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease, and vaccine development. 

The University of Virginia School of Nursing has earned a national reputation for excellence in education, research and practice. Ranked among the nation's top 25 public nursing schools, the UVA School of Nursing offers undergraduate, master's level and doctoral programs.

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library provides expert information services in every area of medicine. Open to the public and recently remodeled, this state-of-the-art library enables you to explore UVA’s rich history in the development of modern medicine.

As a Research 1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia, and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces that bring together interdisciplinary research to address and solve some of the world’s most pressing issues. Our marine biology experts are teaming up with hydrodynamics teams, biomedical researchers are teaming up with authorities in commerce and public policy, and big data leaders are teaming up with renowned brain specialists.

UVA’s Brain Institute brings together researchers from the schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Education for a concussion-induced inflammation project. Similarly, engineers at UVA are working with applied scientists at the UVA LinkLab to solve the most critical problems at the intersection of the cyber and physical worlds.