Family Quits City Life to Live Off-Grid in a Giant Yurt
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Lucy is living off-grid with her family, in a yurt, in New Zealand, while unschooling their kids, running a farm, and freelancing as a digital nomad.
Here are all the places you can follow her adventure online via Lulastic Hippyshake:
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FACEBOOK: / lulasticandthehippyshake
INSTAGRAM: / lulasticblog
BLOG: lulastic.co.uk/
eBOOKS: lulastic.co.uk/...
I first discovered Lucy's awesome blog and CZcams channel while I was searching for information about how to stop using shampoo; and I ended up buying her awesome eBook about it (link below if you want to go no-poo too!), and I haven't used shampoo in a year and a half.
Happy Hair eBook: lulastic.co.uk/...
I loved her videos about living off-grid in a New Zealand yurt, and still watch all of her parenting videos even though we don't have kids ourselves. We highly recommend checking out her videos!
The family quit their jobs, sold their home, and sold most of their belongings, and left London to go live off-grid in a tiny house a.k.a. a yurt in New Zealand.
They earn an income through Lucy's freelance writing work, and by renting their smaller yurt on Airbnb, and they also plan to earn an income from their farm once they've had more time to get it up and running.
Lucy and Tim currently unschool their two children, which is a "an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning."
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Love it. I live in NYC and every day I'm mentally closer to giving up on this urban living
@BIG A ~ Me too. I'm in NYC, and currently my life is only between Manhattan and Brooklyn. I gotta get out of this place...
I did it. Now we’re leaving in Westchester County. Small house with a big yard.... and for less then half the price of NYC.
NoProGoPronto Same except Manhattan to Queens. And whenever I get free time I escape to nature mountains or the beach that is where I feel most at home.
I'm 35years old but have 2 kids and a wife so making a move is not as easy but the move must be made I'm happy that my wife has a similar mind set 😁.
Well, I've dreamt of NYC before so maybe we could house swap :P
J. Ocampos Glad to hear that you made the move. I'm considering PA but the places I find end up being 2 hour commute to NYC since I would have to commute to work for at least some time it makes the decision little more difficult 😁
I'd be curious to know what their savings was like going into this. Being able to just quit your jobs and sell your 3 bedroom place (IN LONDON) implies a significant leg up in finances. Not to mention casually finding land in NZ and shipping all your stuff over...this took some serious cash to make happen. All that said, they're full on living the dream and props to them!
And that is a 60,000 dollar yurt plus deck set up
A house in london sells for usually over a million. Depending on what they bought it for and how much was owed they could have got a decent amount out of that sale...
You said absolutely right
@@thatdamnwoman unschooling is basically "we are lazy and won't teach them.anything"
@@sabrinastratton1991 that’s not actually true. I unschool my kids and they learn so much more than traditional institutionalized education. It’s not about pumping our children with information, but actually showing them that we can learn in every area of our lives.
Unschooling allows children to broaden their awareness of the many opportunities to grow and learn. It creates opportunity for truly freethinking humans, who will grow up and change the world. Unlike the many people who blindly follow without question, and who are narrow minded thinkers.
It truly is a beautiful sight to behold.
5000s years of nomadic peoples innovation is being re-innovated to this time era. Cool.
Yes, the key word is re-innovated (or I would just say "re-invented"). Because these are not authentic yurts and they are not living yurt lifestyle. Still beautiful lifestyle, though.
Sounds like you and your hubby have got the entire living off the grid lifestyle nailed down to a science. Your children will grow up healthier for it. Lots of best wishes for a happy future.
One of the best decision one can ever take.Oh God bless this beautiful family.
YEP. This is how I was parented (minus the yurt) and how I want to parent in the future! Love it! We're in the process of building our tiny house at the moment for this very reason.
Lucy, you and your family are beautiful. I believe it to very brave of you both, to change you lives like this... Great job! 😆
Ah thank you so much!
Good for you folks I am moving to Mexico and buying a Pacific Yurt too.
What a lovely, positive outlook. I wish this wonderful family the best in life.
Best tiny house, off-grid, alternative lifestyle video ever! So real! I've watch a ton of videos. I've watched a lot of really great videos. What I like about this one is not only her bright personality but how real it is. How you can see real life happening all around! Kudos!!
So excited to be featured on your channel! Love your work ♥️☺️❤️
We're so excited to share your story and hope that it'll inspire other people to follow their dreams. Thanks so much for working with us and I hope it'll send new viewers your way! ❤️
You're living the REAL dream. Congrats!
Just subbed you.
Thanks!
Ah, we are v lucky :D
YOU GUYS ARE SO BLESSED AND LUCKY TO BE THERE. ..
How awesome. Fantastic family and also You are stunning !!!
Simply Beautiful ! Peaceful and relaxing no rushing go at your own pace.
It's beautiful. It takes a certain fearlessness to pick up and move to the other side of the world.
Nice home. Whatever floats your boat as long as you are happy.👍😊
Oh this is just beautiful. I can't even think of any place in the United States where a person could safely live like this! You are sooo lucky!
I love it, it's perfect good for the kids natural and the animal's are beautiful. Lucy I give you 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm looking at this video and I'm smiling all the time. What a beautiful way to live, to be close to nature, absolutely amazing. This family is so happy, look at them :) I love to see things like this!
Wow! Love this alternative life. I feel like they're living the life I'm slowly becoming.
Thank you for the lovely video. I wish you and your family the best, I absolutely wish this for more children.. playing with butterflies and hand feeding chickens. Hoping to make this a reality for my babe soon!
Right now I'm living in a yurt in the mountains outside of Seattle. I'm 60 and used to live in a yurt when I was a kid planting trees in the woods in Oregon and Idaho. Same people built the yurt in the late 70s. It's really interesting because your lifestyle reminds me a lot of middle-class hippies who join communes in the 60s. I took a great interest in what became of them in the 70s and early 80s. And the kids got bored because they didn't like the rural lifestyle. It's a dream now for sure. Good luck with everything I love your Channel
I love the colors in your yurt it’s beautiful and your Furnature is lovely. Thank you for sharing
This is beautiful the land the yurt and your family.. thanks for sharing!!
Excellent! that's the best upbringing for your kids, mentally, physically, spiritually
I admire your close to nature lifestyle and exposing the kids to it from a young age. You have a beautiful location.
Trees are Sentinel beings.. I think a tree house would be wonderful energy for your children...
Wonderful Day Dreams
This is such a beautiful story..
What a beautiful way to live! I'm very envious! 😍
Incredible story. Beautiful storyteller.
:D
HA!. I watch this family all the time.... love them 😋
Great job beautiful family god bless
I love her. Lulastic Hippyshake always inspires me. 🙏🙌😍✌️
This is very cool! We homeschooled our daughter through her GCSEs. Now she's in college & we've bought a van & planning our escape! :) Lucy's story is so inspiring- I'm subbing to you both! Thanks for sharing her lifestyle.
I just loved your way of living.
I dream for it. God bless you.
I so love this ! Thank you for sharing 😊 Best from 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
I watched this in October 2017 shortly after it was released because I was interested in tiny living off the back of my adventures in minimalism. And now here I am again, four months later, having been researching wildly on unschooling, stumbling upon Lulastic and thinking "a yurt in New Zealand... that sounds familiar..." . I love how freaking intermeshed all of these ideas are. It inspires me to continue exploring. To continue following what feels right for myself and my family
You're so inspiring Lucy!! Loved watching this and learning more about your beautiful life. New Zealand is stunning, I loved my time there xx
I love it! I think it's fantastic! I like the open space you have inside your home.
I live in America and would love to know which company you used to purchase your yurt. Thanks for a great video!
you probably have to go to her channel to ask. It's called- Lulastic Hippyshake
Wonderful bless you all lots..
Yay! My two favourite CZcams channel creators combined! ☺️ love Lucy and her channel, have been following her and her family for ages. Awesome vid 😀
Thanks so much for the positive vibes Daisy 😁😁
naw yay Daisy!
I was thinking the exact same thing. My 2 fav utubers coming together. Much love and thanks for putting yourselves out there!
I had this video in my “watch later” list and also unknowingly stumbled upon Lucy’s channel through another Channel Mum vlogger. I love her already!
Just beautiful - love your sharing with us - so inspiring. And lovely to hear an English accent like yours - I'm from Oxford and have been living in Western Australia for last 20 years. Keep it up. Absolutely wonderful xxx
What a lovely way to live. The best to you!
Beautiful yurt ⛺️ I love the colors i I get so nervous 😩 anytime I see people using propane I'm just all for the Eco friendly way
I took a renewable energies class this past fall- and a professor of mine lives in a yurt and uses small amounts of propane, and we calculated that it is actually less of an impact than to produce and implement the enormous amount of solar panels it would need to heat an electric element for cooking. It's just not viable, unfortunately. Solar panels still leave a huge impact to produce- but don't let that lessen your hopes on the future!
Love your home , farm and especially the kids!
Great.. Beautiful.. Thank you and good luck and good life.. I wish you the best..
Good for you guys. Really enjoyed your story and will look forward to any updates. Thanks a bunch.
What a beautiful home! I love eclectic decorating.
Oh, to live in a place where you can grow celery. I'll try it next yr, when I have sub-irrigation raised beds.
I love that you split the parenting & working.
Your story gives inspiration to those who are planning to live in rural. We would love to share this with our customers who bought vacant land from us and planning to live away from the city. They will surely get awesome ideas from your videos.
I love the place, wonderful.
All the families / couples in this channel seems so friendly and welcoming
That view and deck though!! Wow!!
Two of my favorite You Tube channels in one place! I've been following Lucy for ages and love her home and attitude to life. Great tour Lucy. :)
Wow, doing really well though! that is a tremendous change in lifestyle and going from working as a Charity Worker and a Youth Worker to freelance writer and farmer respectively; that takes some doing. Its encouraging to see that people with normal lives and careers can make this change, that it is not just something for people with piles of $$$.
High five from another simple living (longtime minimalist, van build currently in progress) mom of lifelong unschoolers! My kids are adults now and off on their own. I wouldn't have wanted their childhoods to be spent any other way. Such a beautiful way to live.
Life's the school. Love's the lesson.
Charming built 5 smaller air B and B Yurts and One common area meal, Pool games, poker night building and a BBQ pit/ outdoor projection theater
So jealous. Beautiful family you have.
What a lovely inspiring video.
Love this sweet family! Bravo!
Thanks for watching, happy you enjoyed meeting Lucy and her family 🙂🙂
How do the visas allow permanent living? I had some friends who moved to NZ, bought a home, had their kids in school, owned a thriving business and three years ago had to leave when visa laws changed. They were devastated bc their kids had been in school there for years and only knew life there, the town protested to keep them and allow an exception, their coffee shop was a part of the community but they still had to leave.
A truly beautiful home & living space
Have just recently gotten into Lucy's channel. Some really cool stuff to think about, especially for new parents.
Hey you! :D
That is a beautiful place. Not much traffic!
Amazing household! Amazing family! I wish can live off-grid someday, too!!!
My dream too..I love adventure too much
I love hearing of another unschooling family(: I unschool two of my children as well and love it!! My 16 year old is an animator and has 30k+ followers and my 10 year old is a gifted reader and vocalist. All due to focusing on what they love. It's so true that kids are naturally inquisitive and retain what they learn with amazing precision when it's based on their own interests.
Btw, my son's website and CZcams is deezeewy (his initials are DZY). I'll be sure to check out your CZcams as well(: I wish your beautiful family the best💕✝️🇺🇸
Beautiful story!!!
By the way...you have a beautiful family, your yurt is very, very nice. I enjoyed you video very much & will spend time "catching up" on more of them. Thank you for spending the time making them for us. It is awesome seeing videos of other Countries, their culture & everything about them! LOL Judie USA
Love all of it - apart from sharing a bed with your kids. That’s a bit weird for me. Good luck with it though - great life 👍
Lula mentioned that she wanted to move away from fossil fuel. We found that we like using Denatured Alcohol in a small alcohol burning camper stove that is $2 to $15 (we found the slightly fancier ones are a little more efficient). You need to vent it a little, by a hood or a window that can crack open, but they burn very clean. I noticed a few tiny house people were using this and got inspired by them. It is great for sautéed veggies.
Outstanding! Thank you! Love the yurt videos!!!
Thanks so much Kevin, happy you enjoyed the video 🙂👍
Fantastic I shall check out your other blogs, wow I'm so jealous,
there are plenty yurts around if that's what you want
Thank you for sharing!!
Very nice. My family and I also live in a yurt, in the Philippines. Love what you did with yours. Are you still living there?
Looks really awesome! I'm glad it's working out well for you and your family.
Awesome yurt, the one thing I don't understand is how does one make money while off grid living. I work in IT and work long hours iat the office so it doesn't really allow me to. Any idea or suggestions?
adamdarby43 can you work remotely at all?? Can your job be done remotely or does your company require you to work in the office?
a lot of these folks make videos of themselves and sell that on CZcams etc
Hi Lucy and Tim! So cool to see your new place! Looks like a amazing life style. Maybe we'll come up and visit you sometime, that would be fun. Warm wishes, Kris, Patina & Agape :-D
LOVE THIS LIFE! LOVE NATURE..... LOVE Your accent! :)
The trampoline looks like an excellent opportunity to teach the girls about the reasons for rules, restrictions, regulations and cause and effect. ie: two people on a trampoline at the same time is a no-no because the risk of serious injury is multiplied. Also a good opportunity to teach about patience, sharing and waiting turns.
It is stunning so beautiful, very smart to move away from cities...
of that's what you want
Beautiful Yurt & surroundings!!!! Middle earth, have any Hobbits living near?
Close actually!
What a beautiful life.... so glad you guys are here 🤘🤘👌👌🍺🍺
I had a very lucid dream a few years ago about buying a giant yurt. I didnt even know they existed till then. Well done guys ❤
Hi guys,wow beautiful nice yurt .
About 10 years ago my wife and I had met a couple that lived in a Yurt outside of town (Alaska). For many months they would invite us and some other friends out for dinner once a week at their home. It was cozy, warm, and unique. We have many times thought about doing this our selves, but my wife now has many medical issues that would not allow us to live this way.
I would love to find a favorite vacation spot and put up a Yurt.... I shall look into this more. thank you for sharing your lifestyle with all of us. I would have unschooled my children, but I sent them to a waldrof school, near princeton NJ talk about a combo lifestyle. Simpler living....especially as I grow older, and have Grand kids.... I think the tiny homes, or yurts are the way to do, in order to live simply on vacation...... SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT FOR SURE :)
Nice idea! I am concerned about the trampoline outside though, with the exposed metal framing. Pretty cool having it inserted into the ground for safety, etc., but someone could be injured quite badly landing on the metal rim. Please protect those precious babes by insulating the outer rim. Best wishes!
this looks lovely but...bathroom?
If u look on her channel she shows it, its just outside the yurt
I saw a family in northern Canada who use sawdust, like a cat litter type of thing
They converted actual bathroom area into a bedroom. Normally with this style of yurt bathroom goes into that separate small room area.
They started with a bucket in the woods and have upgraded over time. Lucy’s channel is great.
In the nearest pond
Looks wonderful.
I would of loved this..maybe in my next life. .
Taking on too much change at one time can be intimidating and overwhelming for many people, though a simple off-grid lifestyle can be accomplished by integrating various elements of the lifestyle one step at a time gradually adding more and more aspects until the day one realizes they are where they want to be.
Thank you love your style
My new favorite video on your channel :)
What a beautiful place. 🙏♥
Very inspiring! Not so far from building my own in Azores! Already got the land... working on in the rest :)
I love it. Cheers to you for following your passions and having such an adventurous life :-)
You know, I could quite happily live in a mud hut if I could wake up to Lucy's smile every morning.