good morning happy Saturday so it's a
beautiful day today
um a lot of you been asking why we have
moved from Spain to Korea so we're gonna
share some honest thoughts today but
before that to talk about it we're going
to go somewhere nicer so let's go
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come on hoodoo
wow it's gorgeous here uh we are at a
small Cafe right here in the mountains
close to a really cool spot I don't
think hoodoo can get in but it's a
fortress so we're really excited to at
least go and get some coffee because we
haven't had that yet so let's go
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it's beautiful
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one question we keep getting asked and
we're going to answer by the end of this
video is are we happy that we made the
move from Spain to Korea stay tuned
coffee tastes so good and it's so
beautiful it's a full-time in Korea it's
so gorgeous this place called Ikea
Terrace we drove about 45 minutes from
our home and it's dogs allow so it's
perfect it's beautiful day anyway
um I want to tell you a little bit about
myself so hopefully you guys want to
know
I was born and grew up in Korea I'm
fully Korean
and I didn't go to us until I graduated
college after I graduate college in 2006
so I went there for about one year
internship that's when I met Josh
and I came back to Korea kind of went
back and forth in 2008 when I went back
to us to go to graduate school and then
out after that I came back to Korea
again so in 2012 is really the year I
moved to us completely to get married
and then um since then I lived in U.S
for about eight years then we moved to
Spain in 2020 so I lived there for about
two years we moved back to Korea about
five months ago not sure if you guys
want to know about our story about how
we met and all that it's a long history
if you guys want to know comment below
I'm from small town Ohio went to a
really small High School graduated with
like 70 students in it but have lived
all over the U.S when I met Vicki I was
graduating college so decided to leave
that was back in 2006 after graduating
and I moved to Korea to teach English
here for a year so since then we've
lived all over the U.S including Los
Angeles and Denver and Columbus Ohio and
of course we just moved here from Spain
so you know we have quite a history
we've lived quite a few places and we're
always searching for the next spot to
live
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how's the famous salt bread
hollow inside
a perfect amount of salt
that's really good chewy that's
delicious we'll do
what is she doing back there
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while we're living in the U.S we're both
working for corporate jobs I was in
pharmaceutical sales
um very great career in Social standard
and I was doing pretty well I was named
one of the top sales persons and um
but
I wasn't very happy I don't think my
mental health wasn't doing that great I
felt depressed I was unhappy
unfulfilling really felt like losing
purpose of life
so
you guys know too well how this whole
corporate life goes right so we decide
that we couldn't we couldn't live like
this anymore so as we grew more
impatient of uh how are we going to
escape this hamster wheel of corporate
America we found Valencia Spain so we
booked a round-trip ticket there never
been there before I thought it looked
like a great place to live so just a
couple of months later after visiting
we decided let's do this and
um that's how we kind of chose Valencia
it's right on the Mediterranean it's
warm it's much less inexpensive to live
there versus Barcelona and Madrid and
you know we get to live the Spanish
dream what a lot of people dream of
living you know sipping on sangria and
eating Tapas everything seemed amazing
just perfect so
we bought a house now we have a house in
Valencia now we have to apply for the
Visa right so we went ahead and applied
for the Visa and then covet happened
right so the world flipped upside down
fortunately we were able to finish our
interview with the Spanish consulate
right before actually on the date that
they decide to go under lockdown we were
lucky there was some delay but we were
able to get our Visa I think it I think
it took us about four months or so then
we were able to move to Spain in July
2020. so we're in Spain all the channels
are in Spanish
foreign
so we started watching YouTube I'd never
watched YouTube before and especially
not for like entertainment probably more
for purpose of trying to find something
out and that's we started our Channel we
said okay well
I guess we're living here in Spain let's
start a channel we can travel around we
can show people our adventures and need
to say we grew the channel we did quite
a bit of traveling throughout Spain and
we also backpacked through Europe we
went to six or seven countries on a
train with hodu we saw a lot of
beautiful places and really really
enjoyed ourselves in Spain all right
let's head down to the river and talk
some more
blah blah
blah blah blah
what are you gonna do
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okay then why the heck did we leave well
as good as it sound living in Spain
which it was unfortunately we didn't
have a lot of future there because our
Visa allows to live there but it didn't
allow us to work so besides us trying to
grow our Channel which has been a little
bit slow although we love it we didn't
have any way to generate other income I
don't know if you guys know but small
YouTube channel generates very little
income so it wasn't certainly
sustainable it means that we continue to
drain our bank account without knowing
when this YouTube channel will actually
generate the full income right besides
and we wanted to see more of the world
and then um
we weren't quite ready to retire yet so
second we just didn't know who would
ever fit into the community there yeah
we don't speak Spanish
um but
to be part of the Spanish Community it's
all about family and without having a
family we didn't know if we would ever
really really integrate into society
which makes it very difficult it gets a
little lonely and sure there are expat
groups and we met some really great
people and had really great friends but
it's still nothing like family so it's
another good reason to come back to
Korea speaking you know family I miss my
family my parents are getting older my
brother just had a baby yeah now I have
a niece you know it's really tough to be
away from your family for so long and
seeing your parents getting weaker and
older and it's been 10 years really
since I left Korea so it just felt right
to move back to Korea besides I miss
Asia I miss traveling Asia street food
just hustle and bustle Asia and then
convenience store
yeah I miss convenience store that
24-hour convenience store it's whole
different world in the US they have
everything so sounds silly yeah but I
miss that all right so now the big
question are we happy we've moved back
to Korea yeah I think so yeah I think so
too you know there's there's never any
perfect place on the planet there are
pros and cons to everywhere we've been
and lived but if there's a perfect place
and you guys know one please leave a
comment below so we can find that place
to know but we are very happy that we're
here yeah more than anything you know my
mom recently had eye surgery and I was
able to be there for her this hadn't
happened for 10 years and it really
meant the world to me and I think the
world to her yeah I think so she's been
so happy and so is my dad not to mention
we both have full-time jobs now to help
support us through this journey on our
YouTube channel until only until our
YouTube channel is able to support us
fully so guys we love to create this
content and share with you I want you to
come along with us on this journey and I
want to say thank you to every one of
you joining our YouTube family and just
supporting us we're truly grateful yeah
every like every calm moment every email
every Instagram message we get we truly
appreciate it yep yep that being said
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grow up here there's so much I haven't
seen I haven't done so come along with
us hope you guys enjoyed this video
until next time and Young