We're leaving Kerala - an emotional goodbye to our Indian dream life

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We moved to Kerala towards the end of 2019 right after our marriage. It was going to be the first house we would be living together as a married couple. Soon after we moved to our house in a small village in the north of Kerala, the lockdown happened. This meant that we got to spend some quality time together and create a lot of memories. And not just memories, we also welcomed our daughter Annika into this world in our idyllic surroundings. It was therefore quite sad to leave all this behind and move to a much bigger city like Mumbai. All the memories from our life came flooding and it was a very emotional goodbye for us all...
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@striker44 8 дней назад

Your daughter will relive and cherish her kerala memories through your youtube diaries. She is lucky to have awesome parents and grandparents.

@cvbinu 11 дней назад

Your house in Kerala with all that greanery ,beach, wild life, clean and fresh air .....is so wonderful..... Its really a paradice ......❤

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

That is so true!

@reetika.s 11 дней назад

This brought back so many memories. My dad was in the army and every time we moved it was heartbreaking. And with every home and every city we left behind, a tiny part of us stayed there forever..

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

It’s a difficult line of job/life indeed! Guess there needs to be balance since it’s such a great, admirable job too 😊

@reetika.s 11 дней назад

@@JohannaNorth Absolutely agree with you. It's especially hard on the family and there definitely needs to be a balance.

@chandivarghese9034 11 дней назад

Whishing you and family "all the best" god bless lot, come again..... 🌹🙏🏿❤😭

@sindhujayasankar3917 11 дней назад

Kerala played a pivotal role in your life. Thank you for appreciating our culture and adjusting to our limited resources over there in payyannur. Pls come again I can understand how mixed feelings you hv while shifting.we too shift frequently but believe me you will adjust within 6 months in new location. Bombay is the best for you. Wish you all the best

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

I’d come back to Payyanur just for Mutthazham really 😍

@sheiladsouza658 10 дней назад

I know exactly the feeling if so much sadness. Kerala is so beautiful, green n peaceful. I hv been there n miss it all.

@sritharneetha967 10 дней назад

We’re all visitors to this earth

@naushabacalcuttawala5731 12 дней назад

Welcome to Mumbai 🎉🎉

@lovemeparis 9 дней назад

This made me cry. Beautiful, poetic video!

@itn0687 10 дней назад

From peaceful and scenic kerala to total a chaos, welcome to Mumbai

@Rozzel161 11 дней назад

Yes it's home i understand that bcos my father had bank job and we were constantly shifting from one city to another. Now as a mature person i look those shifting in beautiful memories. Mumbai is fast paced but it's rewarding in many ways. Lot's of love to amazing toddler Annika ❤

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Hopefully that’s a mindset Annika will also be able to develop later. 😊 For now, she’s still a bit upset about leaving Kerala

@Rozzel161 11 дней назад

@JohannaNorth may be that's why I connect with her so much, children are sensitive and develop feelings easily. Changes make us sad ( as i am earth sign ) till you feel comfortable in new surroundings. With you around Annika will be always chattery 😄 , explorer and highly confident. Pls plan a meet up ❤️.

@jemimamadhavan7558 11 дней назад

No doubt you lived in the most beautiful part of South India. It is hard to leave the house where our children grow up. Lots of memories! All the best ! In Mumbai!,

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

I wouldve also preferred never leaving my own childhood home and living there with my own family, but then i wouldve never had Vinod and Annika ❤ letting go is sooo hard but hopefully we always get great things in return!

@ivonneleaty8501 10 дней назад

Best of luck in your new home and location. Great videos i had tears.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Thank you so much for the well wishes 🙏

@Sijo8728 11 дней назад

All the best for future ❤ from Kerala

@RubyColin2 11 дней назад

Your videos are always so atmosperic and beautiful. Thank you. This time I had tears in my eyes. I’ve been watching your videos almost from the beginning of your channel and they are my favorites on RU-vid. Greetings from a german - persian couple

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Thank you so much, you made my day 🥹❤️

@ashwathirajakrishnan3298 11 дней назад

I started watching your videos when you were pregnant. At that point even I was pregnant and back at my home in Kerala. Felt like your Annika and my son grew up together. All the best to you new life and will miss watching your quiet Kerala life😃

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Oh thats so heartwarming! Thank you for sharing ❤

@sajanhanif1880 11 дней назад

Happy Memories , I do miss my town in Kerala ... wonderful watching your videos specially Annika............

@sdevan4686 9 дней назад

Best Wishes to Johanna, Vinod, Annikka. Enjoy your life in Mumbai. From Kannur

@malhanneera 11 дней назад

Karela is a beautiful state. Sad that- U r- leaving it. BUT that's life. All the best for your beginning of life in Mumbai .🙏🙏🙏🙏

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Kerala is heaven ❤ but hopefully we’ll find pieces of heaven somewhere else too 😊

@leonaromany9075 11 дней назад

Beautiful video. Very sad that you have to leave this place where you have had so many beautiful memories. I do hope that all of you will be able to come back again some day. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

We’ll need to go back for our favourite food if for nothing else! 😅

@jayanchada859 11 дней назад

It is good to move to a new place every five years- new adventure, new environment, new friends etc....makes life interesting

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

It’s an adventure for sure, but hopefully we dont have to keep doing that for the rest of our lives 😅

@jesmanju 9 дней назад

Thank you for sharing both your family lives and Annika's growing up years too. I had a glimpse of life in Kerala and it was a wonderful journey from your lens. God bless. Looking forward to more videos of your times in Mumbai. Good for Annika. Place her in a good school. Doesn't matter the distance if school buses are there. Gonna take her.a long way in life.

@harisankarsarma 9 дней назад

Nice collection of all old memories. Anika cute words so mesparising. We are all proud of you adopting to Indian enviranment. Best wishes in your new endovers at Mumbai.

@user-xb5wq2qz6d 10 дней назад

Beautiful heart touching blog, Annica is grown, welcome to Mumbai.. Best wishes...❤

@nutcracker5094 11 дней назад

Waiting to see your new home in Mumbai Johanna, soon

@arjunraj823 8 дней назад

We Malayalis say once we step out of Kerala then we realise its true value. But "we leave home to make home". Its ok. Kerala is always your home. Who knows probably you will buy a retirement home here in future. Till then work hard and enjoy.

@MayaKapoor-ty6vh 2 дня назад

Kerala is Islamic state...

@sjn9681 7 дней назад

All the best johanna ❤️ love from kerala

@krishnarao2727 9 дней назад

God bless your family.. your Kerala day's.. great memories..

@user-he9zt4hj9i 10 дней назад

Happy Journey to you. Awesome video.

@charmaine8512 10 дней назад

It is heart wrenching but Annaika is going to one day cherish all the places she lived in. My dad was so so lucky to work with Birlas _ this saw us be transferred every few years. Savour every trip to a new destination in India from North to South, East to West. You will love Mumbai too

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

It’s the same for us, the need to relocate every few years. We were very lucky to have a long tenure in Kerala! And hopefully there won’t be very many transfers in the cards for us anymore.

@georgesruthin 11 дней назад

You are always welcome. ❤

@dipikakapadia7943 11 дней назад

What a beautiful vlog !

@user-ej9ij7ji8h 11 дней назад

Such are wonderful memories you have of Kerala

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Best memories 😊

@infinitegrace506 11 дней назад

Beautiful video😊 You already hv abundant memories to cherish abt Kerala. Annika is lucky to hv spent her initial years here in the middle of wonderful nature and let's hope she gets to visit the place again someday..

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

We hope so too 😊

@varshamakar4443 11 дней назад

Hi Johanna vinod and Annika, most welcome to Mumbai, have a happy and fast life in Mumbai 🎉💐❤️

@array90 11 дней назад

Such a beautiful video. I have been following your journey since the beginning. All the best to you and your family ! Will miss seeing parts of Payyanur and Kannur district in your videos; a place that I consider home.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

We’ll be missing it too for a long time for sure and watching our old videos to reminisce those good old days!

@malinimud6529 5 дней назад

Sad but yet wonderful experience ahead for you and annika and Vinod . So you are in Finland now when you left Kerala it was like sooo sad as if we lived there with you and you are leaving us all. Strange we live overseas so apart but through videos and media connection we feel we are on your journey .. Hope you all the best. Regards and hugs to your sister and mom. What a humble family you got there

@jstep3427 10 дней назад

Goodbyes are always heart wrenching but the memories created in that time live on and are not determined by distance and space. Good luck to Annika, Vinod and you, Johanna as you embark on another episode of life.

@JohannaNorth 9 дней назад

Thank you so much for your well wishes! ❤

@resmiviswanath6581 9 дней назад

Annika we are missing you... God bless you dear 🥰🥰

@soyankthirani4015 10 дней назад

Moving is so much work and that too with a kid. We moved across states when my daughter was one. Good luck with everything. I hope you find good friends there.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

I hate moving, it is soooo stressful! Next time if there is a transfer, I’ll go to Jaipur with Annika and let Vinod handle it alone since he knows how to manage the process most efficiently and then we dont end up fighting about it 😅

@VVYY224 10 дней назад

Not if one lives a minimalistic life. People burden themselves with crap

@santhoshkumarml 2 дня назад

Sad you are going from here .... The greenary fresh air and all pleasent moments Anyways all the very best

@sarojshivalkar7789 11 дней назад

Beautiful vlog❤❤❤

@deepalibelsare2859 10 дней назад

You have such a adjusting nature. Adjusting with different types of people climate food, culture. Annika is as usual cute.

@JohannaNorth 9 дней назад

😊 thank you, but i assure you i do struggle too!

@IndjanTraveler 11 дней назад

Time flies... All the best🙂❤

@rashminayanar7452 9 дней назад

All The Best for a happening, Metro life of Mumbai !! 😊

@rag12307 10 дней назад

Ah sad to see you leaving beautiful and peaceful place in Kerala, sometime Indian big cities will be just overwhelming and chaotic which is a total contrast, but at the same time there are lots more opportunities and a mix of various cultures could be seen at one place.

@JohannaNorth 9 дней назад

Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊

@alisonchristodoulou825 9 дней назад

Wishing you all the best for your new life in Mumbai.❤😊

@rekhamuralidharan800 9 дней назад

1 miss you❤❤❤❤ You not forgot our payyannur❤ Love you all❤❤❤❤

@bapatum 9 дней назад

Welcome to Mumbai! ❤

@karimabaha4978 11 дней назад

Contente d'avoir de vos nouvelles. Bye bye Kerala. Bonne chance dans votre nouvelle vie.

@navinrajn27 11 дней назад

Wherever you here be safe n Happy 😊

@mpat100 3 дня назад

Blessings and good luck in your new home and lives in Mumbai.

@ksvijay1968 11 дней назад

Best wishes ❤ Annika we are missing you❤🎉

@sahotamarie71 10 дней назад

All the best❤

@ratnaiyer5324 12 дней назад

Missed you guysand the little one. Hope u all are fine god bless.

@JohannaNorth 12 дней назад

We’re well thank you 🙏

@mhdali9437 11 дней назад

All the best for ur new life

@manjubabu9152 6 дней назад

All the best dears. Enjoy your new lif in Mumbai.😍😍

@user-xj7mi7wx6u 11 дней назад

Got so emotional watching it, as I am a mumbaikar I welcome you with all my heart

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Thank you so much 🙏

@antarasinha8639 11 дней назад

It's bringing tears in my eyes too. Wishing you a happy journey ... Life itself is a great journey. Wishing you all the Best from the core of my heart.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Thank you so much for your heartwarming wishes 🙏

@neeragupta6033 4 дня назад

Very emotional vlog, but this place is very beautiful. Wish you all the best for your second destination and hope with lots of new things in life. Stay blessed and keep smiling always ❤

@madhum 11 дней назад

Most fantastic video. Loved every moment. ❤❤❤❤. Such a beautiful child bless u all. Take special care. Love u all love to ur mum n ur in laws

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

I’m very happy to hear you enjoyed it 🙏

@TheUniverse245 4 дня назад

Stay blessed. Love from Kerala❤️

@dollymerchant9197 10 дней назад

After long period you are back.Anika baby grown up lots of blessings.

@pradoshk_m 11 дней назад

Come back anytime, you are always welcome.❤ Bye bye. God bless you guys ❤

@sheiladsouza658 10 дней назад

I totally understand why Annika is angry as much as u try to explain to her. My daughter who us abroad too had the same issues with her twins. Kids get affected the most n it's really really sad

@JohannaNorth 9 дней назад

Annika had really good friends in Kerala and she loved our house help there! 🥹 she’s now slowly making new friends thankfully

@kuttan1001 11 дней назад

Wish you all the best.

@robertpatel4302 11 дней назад

Welcome back 🤗🙏,,you will enjoy it where ever you go😍🤗

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

I hope so!

@surobhisaikia7730 11 дней назад

Best wishes for new life in the city

@blairswanson44 8 дней назад

Thank you so much Johanna for the wonderful, emotional farewell to your precious home. Wishing you all a most rewarding life in the city. I look forward to continuing along that road with you & hope you will not be long in keeping up with video of the journey. I have missed seeing Annika so very much. You must know how uncle Blair loves you all. Give Annika a hug & kiss for me. 💋❤

@rajasaurav220 12 дней назад

God bless you brother.anika 🎉🎉🎉 miss you

@poonamwadhwani5533 10 дней назад

❤wow love too meet you.welcome too mumbai.

@shailendrambhide 11 дней назад

As a maharastrian who has lived and now abroad, Mumbai is brutal yet human, it will love you as much as you give it love, if U want to see the real humanity Mumbai is for you, Kerala is laid back like Goa is yet life is cool, but Mumbai will shock you from day one. Embrace it as it is and you will love it totally. Good Luck

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Thank you for the well wishes and tips! 😊

@indunarayan4133 9 дней назад

On behalf of people of kerala bye

@debasishduttavlog7314 11 дней назад

New start new memories ❤

@aquaraga 11 дней назад

It is a bit heart-wrenching to move from a place you called "home", but as you rightly observed you're going to create new memories and maybe a new home which is going to be equally endearing. In a way, you might be creating richer memories! Imagine yourself a few decades from now looking back on a colourful mosaic of memories, which may not even have been possible without these moves. In short, variety is the spice of life and embrace it!

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Well, it’s definitely an adventure story for a future biography! I do hope that we dont need to move much more in this life though 😅

@aratinair1678 11 дней назад

Such a beautiful video!! You and Vinod created such a warm and welcoming home in Payyanur. N of course the birth of Annika in the Kerala home makes it even more a special place filled with love n memories to last a lifetime. Thank you for sharing it with us. ❤ Am sure Mumbai will also welcome you all with open arms and you can create your cosy home with more memories to be created.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Mumbai is definitely welcoming, but our home is a big work in progress and thus our adjusting too! We could’ve done some better choices about our living situation and there have been some other unrelated issues too this year which has made it a rather challenging move and we’ve missed Kerala a lot 🥹

@shaileshparan 10 дней назад

This video has brought out every single emotion I could think of...i became a subscriber when I was doing random searches during my 17 days isolation with covid in the very initial wave here in the States.. if I recall I was trying to find out which area of the world might be a better place to live in if the covidl thing continues unabated.. so I started searching knowing Finland was the happiest country I said Indians in Finland.. and Google magic brought me to Finns in India.. the rest, as they say, is history. :-) Best to Annika as always.. are we still waiting for Vinod's vlog where he speaks fluent Finnish😂?! And I forgot to add, very very classy editing...

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

That’s some pretty spectacular magic from Google considering we Finns are not that many here in india! But did you know that the Indian community makes one of the largest minorities in Finland these days? 🤯 Vinod keeps practising Finnish though, even if he might be able to survive in Finland just with English and Hindi 😅

@tharakanand8491 11 дней назад

Did u know Kerala is officially changing its name to Keralam . The way we say it in malayalam. All the best for your future endeavours!

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

Yes, i’ve read about it in the news 😊

@shripaddate1528 11 дней назад

Beautiful VDO. I saw your vlog after a long time and therefore very happy to seeold familier faces. Your VDOs have always been my favourate. You guys are moving to Mumbai in Maharashtra state which is my state . Welcome to Maharashtra and Mumbai. God bless your family.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

I’m so happy to hear that, thank you! 🙏

@divyanair5560 11 дней назад

God bless you Johanna and Anika vinode 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏

@vijayamohan33 11 дней назад

Beautiful, beautiful beautiful, sad too

@studyok6509 10 дней назад

I'm excited for Mumbai diaries and school 🥳🥳

@divyamrathi299 10 дней назад

Beautiful Video

@jarvesejoschandanaparamban2274 19 часов назад

I really like your videos. For me it seems to have some kind of calm vibe, nature, life in general. I am from Kerala and interested to see Mumbai from your vlogs. Everywhere I believe there is good and bad and maybe the intensities differ. May God bless 👍🏻.

@stt5591 9 дней назад

Welcome to Amchi Mumbai 💐💐

@simmirawat841 11 дней назад

Woooo ❤I live in Mumbai ❤❤ Hope will meet somewhere 🙏🙏👍👍👍 Welcome to Mumbai dear friend ❤❤ Anika love you so much cutie 🥰🥰 Always stay blessed ❤️❤️

@thiruvetti 8 дней назад

Wow going from that Paradise to Concrete jungle in Mumbai. But ya, each place has its own pull.

@sree8159 11 дней назад

Really an emotional vedio😢 I started watching your vlog because of your connection with payyannur, a place close to my heart. It was a vedio before your pregnancy I think. So all ur memories abt this house was my memories too, with you guys. Feel like you are going away from us keralites. But don't worry where ever u go in this world you can find a malayali there😅😅😅 All the best for you new beginning 😊😊😊

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

I think Mumbai has a pretty big malayali community 😊 but definitely miss our home in Kerala even still, and Annika still sometimes talks about like she thinks that’s our home and we’re going back there soon 😢❤ …which we might do just for a Mutthazham fish meal!

@sree8159 11 дней назад

@@JohannaNorth Aww🥺

@NayanaPatel-zl5yg 10 дней назад

Beautiful vlog excellent photography

@JohannaNorth 9 дней назад

Thank you so much 🙂

@zabiafrica 12 дней назад

Waiting to watch this😃

@JohannaNorth 12 дней назад

Hope you enjoy it! 🙏

@user-xj7mi7wx6u 12 дней назад

waiting eagerly 😊

@robertpatel4302 11 дней назад

Annual growing up fast,beautiful🤗😁

@lachminsarjue6248 11 дней назад

Look forward to the new place,it will take some adjusting,you will settle in just fine,

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

It’s definitely a bit of a lengthy adjustment process 😊

@jagandeep007 11 дней назад

Going to miss Kerala.. my fav place

@SKYT021 11 дней назад

Welcome to Mumbai! 🙏

@pauline6005 10 дней назад

I remember watching your videos way back .rushing around to get some kind of license and moving to your new home Pregnancy announcement and crazy weather videos I wish you all the best in your new home .

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

Hi Pauline! Good to see your comment after a while and thank you for your wellwishes! 🙏❤️

@PKK-MD 11 дней назад

Sorry to see you all leave Payyannur. Glad you are taking with you memories that you will cherish a lifetime. Well, time to move on from a quiet paced life to a more hectic bustling city. Enjoy the journey that is life and create good memories wherever it takes you. And, if memories and nature beckons you, Kerala is an overnight train ride away.

@JohannaNorth 10 дней назад

We need to do Kerala trips in the future for sure!

@sindhuprathish8383 11 дней назад

With beautiful memories of Kerala.... starting a new Adventure in Mumbai.❤

@JohannaNorth 11 дней назад

We’ll never forget Kerala ❤

@user-zf1gj6th8s 11 дней назад

Hello Everyone’s ❤🙏🏻,……………….AMAZING FIRST COMMNETS AND SO BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES VIEWS VERY VERY NICE 🙏🏻🤲🏼💗💗💙ANNKIA IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND FAST GROW UP NOW … , LOTS OF LOVE ANNIKA, JOHANNA,VINDO FAMILY 🙏🏻💐

@ThreeSixNines 8 дней назад

I really enjoyed this video daily Vlog

@vamoskerala4762 6 дней назад

That's gonna be another challenge for you and baby. Mumbai is chaotic and not that hygienic, it also depends on where you live. Good luck to your family.