Family finds foursquare a perfect fit

Uprooted from one state and deposited in another requires many adjustments as the family of Steven and Janet Hall has discovered.

But four years has been time enough for the Halls and their two daughters to have settled into their Annapolis house on Franklin Street and consider themselves Marylanders.

"We are transplanted Floridians, " said Mrs. Hall. "We ended up trading a Mediterrean style house with a black-bottom pool and fountain for a front porch and a new city."

Scrolling backward to when the family was planning its move because of a job relocation for Mr. Hall, Annapolis became the city of choice for their new...