scott brown here i've moved i live in nelson the very top of the south island
welcome to another exciting episode
so this is literally the top of the south island behind me over there is abel tasman national park
and the mountains are kind of visible we've got clouds rolling in and i've been trying to capture
them over the last couple of days while we've been here this is a house sitting gig we're not this
flash we've bought a house but it doesn't have this view let's go into it a bit more shall we
i'm driving half the length of new zealand to move into a house that i bought over the internet
all right here i am with jess bell say hi jess
haven't morning a coffee yet leave me alone so the plan is there is an auckland border and that's
one of the coveted restrictions in new zealand there's more covert cases in auckland so they put
a border around the whole city so there's only a few exceptions for leaving the border you get
exemptions or in our case we're making a permanent move so we've got documents to prove that
and we're hoping that it works out and then in about two weeks the all of it anyway
nelson nelson who bought a house
is
where do we go straight over all right okay thank you yeah great
wow this that was very surreal
oh we've just done four hours of driving we're going to nelson nelson is the top
of the south island but today we're only driving to wellington i say only it's like
over 600 kilometers from auckland and we're kind of the halfway point now we've driven four hours
312 kilometers and this is that massive lake in the middle of the north island lake taupo
really nice spot we're actually considered here as well when we're thinking about places
outside of auckland sorry about the wind so four more hours of driving one night
in wellington four hours on a ferry and then two hours driving and then we see our house exciting
just woke up
in wellington
so we just got up fairly early now we're going to take the ferry to the south island
it's pretty crazy
say goodbye to the north island yes bye north island be in the south island before you know
bottom of the north island and that's where we woke up this morning and we went all the
way across to cook straight usually a very choppy part of the country because it's two oceans kind
of clashing in between the two islands but we got lucky now we're going through the sound here queen
charlotte sound and eventually to pickton two hours away from our future home in nelson all
right future scott brown here as soon as we got past the cook straight and into melbourne sounds
you could see the south island or like the south island that i think of mountains going into water
really nice that's a dog drinking water in the background we are dog sitting and house sitting
in this house here in nelson and we've been here for a week we've got the keys to our house
which we haven't moved into yet but will be in the coming days but we live in nelson
not so sunny nelson and yes it is kind of hilarious that we stopped pretty much at the
very top of the south island i was talking all this time about moving to the south
we got to the top and we stopped and the water was right there and if you kept going
in a boat you'd be at the north island but um we're excited we're excited about our new location
and we're pumped to be here the hardest part about this move is leaving family and friends
and part of that is like the guys that you've seen the videos rich and poydo and cameron all those
guys are still in auckland um to be honest um we were all moving in different directions already
paido's setting up his own thing at the moment i'll talk more about that in the future richard's
doing something similar working for himself cameron has been doing that the whole time and
we've just been so busy and there's been all these lockdowns i haven't had a chance to catch up with
him so it is a shame um and i can understand if you're gonna miss those people in the videos how
do you think i feel they're in my real life uh but we're in the same country and we purposely bought
a house 10 minutes from an airport so we could jump in a plane and fly to auckland and see family
and see friends and all those guys know that they have an open door policy when it comes
to our house here in sunny nelson so yeah it's a bit of sweet but um it's just a part of life right
also during this whole move process over the last couple of weeks we hit 300 000 subscribers which
is a massive milestone so thank you very much for subscribing you're about to enjoy a fun series of
us renovating our own house and also a big shout out to those on patreon who support me
and jess and the channel that's been a big help over this period where we've been trying to figure
out where to go and you know subsequently moving here and buying a house so if you don't know what
patreon is there's a link in the description below and click on that and you've got access
to other videos where we've talked about this move already and in the coming months
we'll be putting even more content on patreon for you to check out so in the next exciting
episode we'll show you the new house it needs some work it's a real do up but i'm excited
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