Good job you doing Be well

Your channel never cease to amaze me. I come here to ease my mind. My favorite

What a beautiful place

Bryce & Rasa, you two found a magic corner! Stunning, wise & practical woman, perfect house, garden and outbuildings and wonderful family experience. 10+++!

What are the property taxes a year on her parents land ?

So long as the queen does not feel threatened, she is fine. The rest are worker bees doing their jobs. Read up on bees, they are fascinating insects.

Yeah. i believe they are stingless bees. I have one.

LOL 😂😅

My husband and I have two hives and we never have to gear up to take care of them. I think that the bees know instinctively that we are peaceful and just there to help them. Leo Sharafskin (Sp. ?) was a huge help in learning what kind of hives to build and how to lovingly keep bees. Take care!!

😂😂😂😂😂

Yessss!!!!! Heaven on earth ❤️

Don't forget the waterfalls

For a few days sure!!! I for one can't live alone more then a week.

Not alone i guess, she mentioned about her boyfriend few times ? 🤔

@@johnsamuel261 got to get it now and then

these videos always relax me and i suggest them to people with anxiety or stress

Loved it! So many great ideas! This New Zealand young lady is beautiful and so talented, such an adorable place, I am so jealous! Everything looked so fresh and real, the vegetables looked delicious and I loved the outdoor bathroom, albeit, I would be scared that coyotes would be around at night, it looked pretty remote there. My parents both died and they had 10 acres of land with the house that I lived in from the 7th grade through 12th grade, so special. Unfortunately, 2 huge trees fell on the house and destroyed it and I now live 9 hours away, driving time, from the property. This video has sparked some ideas within me to put some connecting small houses (guest bedrooms) with the raised gardens and an outdoor bathtub, my parent's property sits on a hill with great views too. It would be a great getaway. My husband and I currently have lake houses in Illinois, similar to this concept, that are down a lane and we bought the 2 small cottages at the very end and built a 3rd cottage (guests cottages) in between and have them all connected with wooden sidewalks, lots of flowers and trees, the water views are great and the houses sit near the water, no climbing down steps to the lake, it is an adorable place and so fun in the summer! No outdoor bathtub though! I had a pergola built between two of the houses with wisteria vines growing on it, which I call the grotto, where we have Adirondack chairs and a fire pit for cool nights in the spring and fall; we sit and drink wine overlooking the lake, laugh and talk, watch the boats on the lake, it is fun. This New Zealand home is such a cute place, a great show!

I feel the same way also....this was very relaxing and inspiring

@@clarebaxter777 That sounds lovely ☺️

wow! this was indeed something that deeply cherished my heart and soul.

@@dannyU2g and the vulcan in action ;)

Incredible place! The waterfall & privacy is super along with surfing that I imagine is not too far away. I bet the stars there at night are beautiful.

He is a vampire and needs permission to enter.. hahaha . :)

@@sugeyereynaa3715 ohhh definitely!!

yeah,... yeah

Bryce is a very beautiful Guy , and very respectuous to the privacy of all is visiting . An very good boy !

@@sugeyereynaa3715 my thoughts exactly 😆

Come to Jamaica. Lots of space for tiny (small) houses and good living,

Totally =)

@@nikkiandy1352 is there many in JA? My partner and I will be moving back (back for him, I’ll be relocating) and would LOVE bc I know most the houses are HUUUUGE

Same

If they ever decide to sell that land they would become millionaires. They set for life

It really is a shame that in America there were certain people and groups that literally planned the destruction of the family. In many parts of the world this has not been lost. The families help each other succeed and stay together and support each other. Research this subject.

She must have her ancestors favor....truly blessed...

I know, I thought that is yours? ; )

Insane place she got. Private waterfall what a dream.

I know right

Nope its 700 Meters away. Thats little short of a kilometer.

You guys don't have waterfalls?

Why is this exact same comment here twice? Suspicious.... (Joanna below)

He's an ex? Missed that part. Silly man she's a treasure, a keeper for sure.

Doesn’t look like a tiny house. Just small.😊. Extra buildings for the bath and laundry are cool.

yes, beautiful but t he outside toilet is madness for an older person needing to go t here often, particularly at nigth.

My thought too. Sometimes things just don't work out.

No not necessarily. Even if you end on bad terms you can still appreciate the good someone has done for you.

@@Katya2000 My thought exactly. Can still acknowledge the good even if you no longer speak to or are friendly with an ex.

So she basically used him as slave labor?

@@alterego157 I know that it may seem impossible, but he could have ended things with her. It is embarrassing but women get dumped too.

I'm in as well, all around. Magnificent

Same here as well, I wanna live in place where nature is appropriated and loved

The first step is to develop the conviction to achieve such a goal.

@@adamr5984 haha it was meant to be a joke, we are not looking for politically correct answer here.

true, when he said that she achieved being self-sufficient and mortgage free I just thought, well but she didn't achieve it...she is just lucky to have her parents ... but well....

Exactly, she just had to invest on the building of the house, but as far as the field is concerned, she did not buy the land, just inherited it. Some privileges that not all could have.

It gets so old seeing these types of comments. Somebody had to work for this land, and each generation that followed had to be wise to not lose it. She is making it beautiful and taking care of it. I have no inheritance, and grew up incredibly poor. I was determined to have land, so I sacrificed and now have plenty. You can do the same and still be happy for those whose parents and grandparents thought about the future generations. So petty.

Good on you mate, I’m feeling just the same way. Wish you the absolute best of luck with your dreams, I have no doubt you can achieve them.

You can do it! One step at a time ✨🤎🤗

@@songforged Sounds like you’ve grown up too much my bro

@@songforged Just because you're already of 'old' age doesn't mean you can no longer grow up. Even after you 'grow up' you're still growing every day.

What a sweet and lovely comment. I dream for this as well. I hope we’ll be neighbors when we grow up🌸

she is living in her daddys backyard!!! hhahaha 😂🤣

@@rondela7341 some people like their family and spending time with them. I know. Mind blowing. If they’re both enjoying it, I see only positives 😊

@@rondela7341 it’s family land. Many cultures share land. It’s not weird or funny. The West’s obsession with isolated individualism has made people lonely and broke.

@@rondela7341 she’s clearly not freeloading - she’s worked extremely hard to build and maintain her house, gardens and other amenities and has a job. Even if she didn’t have that job, she’s still contributing to the property which is often considered adequate in these types of living arrangements. It’s actually quite smart to share land with family and/or friends - you can share rent, property maintenance/costs and you feel a closer connection to your loved ones while maintaining your own autonomy... cohousing is so underrated, probably because the economy doesn’t want people to band together to be less reliant on its rigged, rich-pandering system

@@rosegagnon9885 jhh5jj

Oh hey 👋 nice meeting you

Tiny House FTW

Me Since 2019

I agree, he somehow stirred up some emotion from me n I cried. 😁 so magnificent to have beautiful land to call her own! I pray she's able to start that community garden 🍅🥔🥕🌽🥬🥦🥒n make her dreams come true, what a lovely young lady. 🤗

Yes.... that was a very touching ending.

Bryce is enthusiastic about everything. He has never offered a challenging criticism/critical eye, or asked a difficult question. You could show him a cardboard box in a sewer, with a bed made of used condoms, and he'd say "oh this is loveleeeey!". It works for him. People like it. That's cool. But my point is true.

She is.

@A A She said the land is on sand i'm pretty sure that sand filters out a lot of harmful things but i get cha i couldn't do that.

Or stupid.

You and me too! What a magical place to grow up.

Start the trend so you can pass your descendants the generational farm.

This is what a paradise has to be..🌈🕊🌹

And mom & Dad’s house steps away

and she has an out house . we had one till i was 16 and im 67 now. love all of this

This. This girl really tried to call this her ancestral European land... Lol

@@carlyh6913 😂😂😂😂 I was shocked

@@carlyh6913 omg I thought I was the only one who caught that 🙄 and to have 700 acres. It didn't do anything but make me feel sad for the natives who I'm sure lived there before her family.

It was her use of ‘whakapapa’ for me. 😒

@@carlyh6913 Bruh, there's Maori with blonde hair, ginger hair, white skin and blue eyes, stop shaming people over the colour of their skin.

They weren't fortunate enough to steal from the natives.

@@stn7172 😂😂😂

Your country need to invade another one and your parents have to be ‘early settlers’ ..is the word for occupation of foreign lands :)

@@AsitdyaDsr will that then give me the "special connection" to the land? Knowing that my parents stole it from natives? I'm really looking for that special connection 😂

@@siaseeds8950 Haha..continue the legacy 😂 Nothing personal against her though .

Thanks so much! We certainly are lucky to live in such a beautiful country.

Was just going to make a LOTR reference because that view is Bananas!

Hasn't gotten more paradisiacal than this on Living Big. I smiled till my whole face hurt. And just when I thought it couldn't get any better she shows the waterfall...

After watching this channel, I want to and will visit New Zealand!

@@livingbig My youngest Brother & his Wife have a place in NZ. A B &B. He has bees & avocados and all sorts of growth. He is from Montana, USA His wife is from NZ. He just loves it there. He used to build violins as a hobby.

Hello Valeria how are you doing!!

Yes its called being white. Her great great great grandfather got it for nothing and passed it on. Taken from the natives. That's why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is the definition of white privelage . No hate to her but just trying to show the context next time someone says white people work just as hard as everyone else for the things they have .... they don't 🙄

​@@habasoosy2202 saying that all whites don't work hard and have privileges is racism as well!

I am envious. I live in Toronto and sometimes the closest I can get to nature is watching the raccoons eating out of my garbage bins at night

@@mikem.2688 😂 at least you got raccoons ☺️☺️

First thing I thought. Its beautiful but I couldn't help but think, I'm sure the people who lived there before also had a connection to the land.

Same exact thought. Very beautiful land but it truly belonged to someone else. The people who originally owned the land should be reaping the benefits and passing it down to their family. It's funny how inequality works isn't it, Some are required to share and others aren't. And I hear you, I've been dreaming about my future new home.

If you want to manifest for yourself you must have an attitude of gratitude! Yes, it must be nice to be born in a family with so much. What is amazing is that this woman could have been spoiled and expecting all handed to her. I was quite surprised that she also has baking skills. I do wonder why the relationship with the man that helped her build her dream is not here with her.

I thought the same thing.

Thank you for stating it perfectly. It's all lovely but that is ultimately land stolen. Puts a different tinge on it for sure.

Absolutely! Water supply like that is a dream!

If the soil is so hydrophobic, it must rain there all the time, because the vegetation is so lush in the whole area.

@@HareDeLune It does rain a lot,and most of the soil we have,is Volcanic,rich in minerals and enzymes.plants and vegetables grow really well in NZ,but so do weeds. :-)

@@Andy_M986 Sounds like Hawaii. Not sure how much rain they get, but it must be similar. Weeds are plants, the same as any other. We only call them weeds because we don't like them. ~_^

Canada has even more undeveloped land than New Zealand. Labrador, the mainland section of our province of Newfoundland and Labrador, has about the same land area as New Zealand, but only 30,000 people to NZ's 4.9 million!

Concrete really in the worst thing humanity came up with :(

@@sunb5738, I think it has its place, such as how much easier it is to build a foundation below the frostline with poured concrete than stacking randomly shaped rocks. However, it's overused and contributes to sinkholes when there isn't enough permeable ground to recharge the underground waterways.

I hope you're able to move one day from your concrete jungle into a real jungle!

@@ChazEvansdale Love this comment. I certainly hope to retire to the Caribbean one day

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately!! My 82-year-old, Jamaican grandfather had a FIT when I moved out (he even cried 😞). Now that my apartment has flooded and I’m living back at home, I realize how lonely I felt and I was spending a LOT of money... for whyyyy? It actually makes less and less sense the more I think about it

@@VickiPzxc I’m taking a picture of your comments and sending it to my daughter as I am now throwing the FIT that she doesn’t want to live sustainably on one property with her mommy 🤣 🤯 😜

@@brandnewyorker lmaooo yes! She’ll realize eventually... took me moving out to actually get it, unfortunately

Excellent viewpoint....my mom and stepfather had this vision when they moved from the U.S. to Nova Scotia. Wanted us all ...the next generation... to come live there with them on the land they owned. But there was little work to be had and we'd have to become citizens too...too many legal hurdles to overcome.

It's a beautiful idea, and wonderful for those who can realise it. Lockdown has definately made me miss my family more acutely. We have pretty humble roots and did not own land until recently, and as such my family is scattered across the globe in search of work and a place to call their own. My husband and I have aspirations to one have a large place with land to be able to host family and always be able to have our doors open to people.

Its not unachievable. Look for farmland far from the madding crowd and build your shack. Dont let fear stop you. Just do it. I know cos i live in the boonies and built over 10 years on a shoe string

Baby steps. Work hard, save your money, buy cheap land, save your money, build a cheap place, save your money, make your cheap place your dream. It looks impossible to accomplish in a year or two... but if you start today, I truly believe you'll be well on your way to the life of your dreams in 5 years.

Its not hard, its way easier to buy the land and materials to build a tiny house on a rural area than to build a full size house or own an aparment in the city. It just takes a little more effort than most of the ppl in this comment section are willing to put in

not unreachable, but you need some discipline and much of hard work........... its about the persons......and I say say that out of experience, I myself am an architect, and I learned to build so that I can be builder free...... I always did double effort compared to my peers and it paid

@@gracenjuguna7292 Well done, but how to make a living?

I’d be afraid of wild animals.

With as many times I get up to go to the bathroom at night,.... that wouldn’t be practical for me....

@@grammasjewels7736 In New Zealand I here the sheep can be ferocious...

@@JEvrist Perhaps some sort of old fashioned bedside potty?

@@jonoheyesandbeehive 0

Cheers Rachel!

and the mosquitos too

Beautiful Wow👀

Very much so

🙄🙄🙄🙄

Debt free on parents land with stuff provided by exe’s, parents and grandparents! (Guess you weren’t listening!)

@@CLW-gc3hr Maori would conquer other tribes and take slaves and the land. Now some want to cry ? You don't know what you're talking about.

@@CLW-gc3hr Always conveniently left out of these very curated shows

Thanks Lesley! :)

Her ex, too!

Exactly how I feel, totally hear you! Maybe tiny homes are the new intergenerational wealth though. Seem like only people who are born into families with land and money can manage to have them.

Cardboard box tours get fewer views.

Exactly!

There are other channels as well ..This is his niche ... No onr is ever satisfied....damn if you do ..damn if you don't.....Maybe you can start a channel

What on earth does this have to do with the right wing and Bezos? 😔 People are wound way too tight these days.

She designed it but sounds like her ex and her dad did all the work!

@@mikesbigtank6015isn't that nice of her to give credit where it is due. Building a house costs money, labour, time and converting it to a dream home requires lot of love and support :)

The single women sometimes like to “accidentally” leave out that a former husband or boyfriend built the whole damn place for them. Pretty pathetic. At least this woman mentioned him for a brief second. 😂

Thanks Tara! So glad you enjoyed the tour.

The Drone pilot is Bryce :)

Correction everyone Bryce amazing shots. Both of y'all make an amazing duo! It's a combination of all the shots that make the drone ones look so good!

@@ceez3895 He’s a damn good pilot :).

He definitely is, so talented!

tixximmi1 Rasa is so in synch with Bryce, and every homeowner they visit, in telling their story through film. She’s brilliant at it - an understated pro!

@@dumptrump8636 Yes I know how it works. That's why I commented on her.

If they have a farm they are not necessarily wealthy. LocAl family farms in this area don't have the money to paint their houses never mind build new ones. Most farmers I know are poor. Financially. Obvious with land you are rich in other ways

@@markjones5561 most tiny houses I’ve seen have family w land . Just saying must be nice to just be given land to park a tiny home .

@@Jmea8244 Yes. Free land means more than half the hurdle is sorted out.

@@markjones5561 are you living in NZ ? Cause I don't know a lot of poor farmers here mate....

@@markjones5561 Why are you assuming that he's a farmer when she says herself in the beginning "my dad works in the film industry"?

Thank you for bringing this up, I had a very similar thought process while watching this video. I felt uncomfortable when she mentioned that it was her family's land and could only think about how her family got the land and who they might have taken it from.

Not a Kiwi, nor a white guy. But claiming a land is very difficult as the question would remain how far are we going back in history to justify whose land does it belong to. Shall we give Anatolia back to the Greeks or to the Hittites? Or surrender Philippines, Indonesia and Polynesia to China being the ancestors of its current inhabitants? Casing point, give it a chill. It's a topic that is very peculiar and cannot be simply answered as our history is short and violent as a species, you'll get cancer if you think too much about it.

Thank you! I was thinking the same. I struggle to hear the land talked about like that without any sort of acknowledgment of the atrocities that happened to those who inhabited it first. In any part of the world with a history of colonialism, we need to rethink how we talk about these things. 😔

My thoughts exactly

And who was on the land before Maori, others were. Omg

Bumblebees can’t sting, but they can bite if they feel threatened.

@@tutekohe1361 they can sting. I should have been a bit more precise, I've never been stung handling a bumblebee, but I have been stung whilst riding my small motorbike on a warm day when my neck collided with a bumblebee and it got trapped between my neck and collar. That was extreme provocation, as far as the poor creature was concerned. It was definietly a sting and not a bite.

@@tutekohe1361 Not only can bumblebees sting but they can sting multiple times, they just don't like to.

What a down-to-earth, well rounded, hard working, bright and practical girl! Love everything she’s accomplished in her beautiful tiny home. She deserves all she’s worked for, and I’ve no doubt will be caring for her elders in the future.

U might want to check out UKpostsr Hannah lee duggan. She’s living simple with a land n cabin she bought, build it pretty much herself with only a bit of help.

I agree with you, it's a pitty that some people who are less fortunate don't have the same opportunities. The best solution I see is buying a land that would be shared by a group of people.

There already is, it's called city apartment blocks. Think Judge Dredd Megacities. Everywhere. That's the future. Congratulations!

Step 1 get job, step 2 buy land, step 3 become self sufficient.

@@shinyminy94 the cabin was already existing on her property. She has just done some fix up work to make it livable. She had said it’s not in good structural shape and doesn’t plan on living there long term.

She did not build it for completely, but inherited the land. So, everyone could build his home of dream.

@@israel1805 agreed you only need a nice piece of land and your halfway there

@@RJ-nd2hf only 350 acres in new Zealand inherited from my grandparents in New Zealand lol

No kids though.

And values so you know what to do with it.

Mmmhmm

yes stolen land

Wow..what a wonderful plàce to be..welldone ruby..you have connection with nature...wish one time just to feel sorrounded by that place...frm African continent we are seeing alot frm tiny houses..God blessings.

minus the mosquitoes!

J C the envy and snark are real in this one. 😑 She’s as amazing as the land she loves!