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another beautiful day here in valencia
welcome to my channel
in today's video
i want to share with you
what was it like living out of my
suitcase for over a year and a half
without a home basically and where did i
end up living i want to share with you
my full experience emotional financial
physical and everything in between my
whole journey started since they sold
the long-term apartment that we had in
rustapha we lived there for a year and a
half and then our landlord decided to
sell the apartment we wanted to travel
so that was pretty natural to go
from one country from one city to
another what's so awesome about that
it's of course you see different places
you meet different people you experience
different cultures it's fun it's really
fun packing up your bags and going to
another place it's exciting it's
stimulating
it's very inspiring
and i actually started filming my videos
around that time because when you go to
another city you just see everything
with fresh eyes and
you don't know what's around the corner
and what's this bakery like or what's
this coffee shop like so there's so much
to see and so much to discover
even if you live in the same city like i
lived in valencia and i changed so many
places i've lived here here here here
here here here here here there is still
some novelty in every new neighborhood
that i lived and i like discovering that
i like meeting
new people the new neighbors you kind of
feel like a local even though you're
just living in a bnb
but usually these bmbs ended up being
from anywhere from one week to two weeks
to to three months yes
i lived in
17 different places while that's
exciting it has of course its downfalls
some of these downfalls are you have to
pack your stuff in a suitcase or two or
three and you're trying not to bring too
many things when you travel but then you
end up being with just a certain amount
of clothes so you are stuck with these
clothes and you just have to wash them
and wear them and wash them and wear
them for some time
another thing is i felt my mind got so
engaged
with thinking
what do i need for this next trip the
previous one i missed this this and this
thing that i didn't find in the previous
bnb so i wanted to prepare for the next
one but then i go to the next one and
you have all these things so you just
ended up carrying unnecessary
luggage every time you get better and
better but this pollutes your mind it
it makes it so uh busy because you're
constantly thinking what's what's the
most necessary thing you are going to
need for your trip another thing it's
really destroying any routine you may
have even a simple routine of just
waking up going to the kitchen where you
know everything is
it's not your kitchen you're in a
different bnb
waking up in a different bed opening a
different window and everything is in
familiar
on one hand it's amazing because you're
challenging yourself with just resetting
everything and not being familiar with
everything but on another hand
it's so different that it it resets you
too much and you don't have
any routine for the day so this can take
a lot to organize your mind and just go
on with your day and even though i'm
traveling i'm still working i still have
things that i need to do so it is
making things a little bit difficult
and i realized that we really don't need
as much as we think we do we get so
attached to different objects to
different furniture to
everything that surrounds us and that's
not necessary so i wanted to teach
myself to live a little bit more
minimalistic lifestyle just to have a
little bit less
when you change your your home so often
you don't have contracts
i find that great that's very liberating
because when you're in a bmb everything
it's included so this gave me a sense of
freedom a sense of lightness but at one
point things they don't come just to you
know your bills and your luggage it's
hard to form any friendships to um
to establish yourself in the place where
you're at but before we talk about that
we probably need to set some definition
to what home is and i'm sure for
everyone
this concept it's uh
it's very different
but we probably
will agree that home is a place that can
be anywhere in the world into any
environment that you place yourself but
it's the place where you feel calm
safe secure
still curious
excited but comfortable and warm and
with the people you want to be
so
i'm finally
in the place where i want to be after
such a long time still more than half of
my clothes are in a suitcase i'm slowly
unpacking
my life here
and it is it is great it is very
exciting uh but it's still i haven't
processed the whole thing that it this
is not a bnb it's not a hotel it's not
somebody else's house
it feels
it feels different i would suggest
anyone anyone who wants to travel who
wants to experience life for more than a
week not that's not just your regular
trip i think anywhere from three to six
months
is great it will pretty much give you
only the positives that's how i feel so
if you decide to experience something
living outside of your place not not not
just as a vacation
situation but something more
i would suggest three to six months this
will completely put you out of your
comfort zone
it will give you this excitement and
experience it will give you this sense
of freedom it's something that i think
it's beneficial for everyone it's
something that that and
enlightens you it enriches you
but it still has to be done with measure
some of the most
negative things for me were
the inability to focus to create this
simple even routine about my day
it got really expensive believe it or
not at the beginning so about a year and
a half ago it was almost the same to
live in a bmb airbnb or to live in a
long-term lease about the same
slightly more expensive but you think
all the utilities are included that
everything is there
it was slightly more expensive so we're
like okay but it got really expensive
and especially now in the past few
months it is not the same at all it is
almost two to two and a half times more
than what you can pay in a regular lease
now in spain
it's a little bit problematic to rent
long term because you have to go through
so many proof of income
that even if you have the money it's
kind of challenging and that was one of
the reasons to to do that but now that's
not the situation because prices are
high living
without a home
for a year and a half
is not a simple thing
and you get used to that and then you
have to get unused to that so creating
and breaking a habit takes time i've
heard it takes 24 days so
i'm at the beginning of that
only now that i have gone through this
whole
moving in and out in and out in and out
process i can really appreciate being in
my own home you have to put it in a time
frame because if you have it undefined
it can it can start bringing this kind
of anxiety and worry about okay when
when are you gonna go here or are we
moving today or tomorrow into another
place everyone is different everyone
process things differently this is only
my experience i think that it helped me
in so many different ways that only now
i can even appreciate the situation i'm
in right now
of having a home
so every experience and every challenge
in life it's necessary
to give you
the clear concept of what you want when
you live in different homes there is
something interesting happening it's
almost as if you are embodying somebody
else because you're using someone else's
living room someone else's kitchen
you're you're diving into their
aesthetics their taste the way they
organize their space it's kind of
enriching to feel
someone else to see someone else's book
on their shelves and you wonder did they
just put these things for you for all
the travelers that come into their home
into their airbnb or are these the books
that they read it brings a lot of
curiosity not only the locations that
you visit
when you move this much but also
the homes that you enter the places that
you sleep in no matter what whatever
brings inspiration to you whatever makes
you feel
something else something new
go ahead and experience it this is the
only way you can get challenged and you
can learn something new about even
yourself with all that said expect more
videos to come
i am working on furnishing and
decorating our apartment so this is
going to be a completely new journey if
you want to see some of my experiences
watch my video here
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