"Okay. I would like to know more about the surveillance, what form does that take?"

"I'm afraid I can't share all of the details, as that'd make some measures easier to circumvent. Computer activity and purchases are monitored. Conversations aren't, if you're not on a station, though in your case there'll be a record of anything the tablet translates. If you make purchases or do research that has dangerous applications, your home may be monitored."

"All computer activity?"

"She's a little nuts about keeping notes private. But Bella you usually do just paper -"

"Yeah, but I want to know if I have to."

"All computer activity. Not by a person, by AI systems that detect dangerous activity."

"I'm delaying judgment on whether the language software is a person," she remarks.

"It's not. I can see why it'd seem close but - I knew the person who built it. It's - bits of her but not enough of her, not the person bits."

"Well, I also don't know that the systems for detecting dangerous activity aren't more sophisticated yet."

"That depends where you are, and is less of a concern on a planet. I think taking notes by hand is a better solution if their privacy is important to you."

"Okay."

"I know this is a lot to take in, but we're honored to welcome you and I hope everything goes smoothly."

"Thank you."

The assistant tells the tablet that she can take them to the doctor's right now if that's convenient.

"Yes, that will be fine, thank you."

It's a short walk. Vaccinations can be delivered by chewy tablet that tastes like candy, and blood tests conducted without drawing any blood, so it's a short, pleasant visit. The tablet quizzes them for medical terminology. 

Isabella answers its questions around her vaccine candy.

And then they can tour houses! Well, condominiums -- this city doesn't seem to have any detached houses. The buildings mostly seem to try to stand apart on their amenities - this one has a water park, this one has an underground jungle supported by artificial lights, this one has vocational training programs which mean extremely cheap haircuts and manicures and dentistry, this one has a movie theatre.

They would like a two-bedroom place with the least gratuitously unfamiliar appliances available. The movie theater can tiebreak.

The appliances are all pretty bewildering, despite the assurance of the real estate person that they're very intuitive, but they can definitely get a two-bedroom place in the movie-theatre building and an introduction to how to turn the cleaning robot on and off and how to cause the kitchen objects to produce food and how to operate the shower and the toilet.

Okay then.

"Home sweet home."

Do they have a second tablet yet?

Yep! It gets delivered while they're being shown houses.

And do the kitchen appliances actually spontaneously generate food, or do they need to go grocery shopping?