MOVING TO THE COOK ISLANDS: Settling into life in Rarotonga

[@ingriddouglas408]

Anywhere I can eat a cocoanut jelly everyday, and mangoes 🥭 when they are in season, that is where I am returning too. That place is Grenada 🇬🇩 .

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

We just visited the mango festival in Pakistan! 🤩

[@desttw2900]

What a lovely family! So open to trying new things, learning new languages, the willingness to explore. Awesome

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Meitaki! Thanks @DestTw! 😊

[@vincentmichael499]

Ohh nice. i absolutely love this; Makes me want to visit. i should do so sometime this year.

[@noupipi607]

Great people you are to be there.... the Cook Islands.

[@benjamin19894]

Kia Orana, thanks for the video, nice to see my homeland. Island life is 👍🏼 it’s nice to see you all enjoying your new island adventures.

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Kia Orana Benjamin and thank you for your kind message. And what a beautiful place to call home! :)

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

@@zorbathegreek8339 From New Zealand 🇳🇿🙂 We have made a video about leaving NZ for Rarotonga during Covid... ✌️

[@Mamaandmenatureart]

Ahhh this is my dream. To relocate to the island with my 3 kids & teach in a school ❤ heading back soon for a stay see how the kids take too island life

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Awesome! We have lots on our website about moving to the Cook Islands and about each of the schools there in Rarotonga and Pa Enua 😊

[@Mamaandmenatureart]

@@AwaywiththeSteiners thankyou ! Is there info on exempting your children from NZ school or are they on a home school curricular while you travel.

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Aww please send us a message on FB or Insta. We have lots of info we can help with 😊

[@ladylei8999]

Aw I love it. Making me miss home and my family! I can't wait to come back! Enjoy your time guys. Keep us updated with your vids :)The island life is the best life!

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Thank you @lingy! You have a beautiful home! And yes - we totally agree that island life is the best! 🙌

[@spencerpallesen]

Saw you guys at Castaway on Raro last weekend after watching afew of your videos 😊

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Hope you had a great time here - and come say hi! 🙂

[@silita6193]

I'm from the Cook Islands 🇨🇰hope you.like it I'm half so can't speak have fun

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Thanks Silita - we are absolutely loving it and especially enjoyed getting out to some of the beautiful Pa Enua recently. (You have an amazing place to call home!).

[@prajakta2968]

This is sooo Amazing😍😍😍😍

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Thank you!

[@zanesunny]

kia orana ,Your so lucky to be in Paradise .what Village are you staying at.

[@zanesunny]

Curious to know what made you choose to move your family to Rarotonga .there are other Pacific islands. excellent choice BTW

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Hi Zac, thanks for your message. And a great question! We really love the Pacific. I actually went to a small village school in Vanuatu (many years ago!) when I was a child so we have always hoped we could find a way for our kids to experience that too. There is no place quite like the Pacific!

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

@@zorbathegreek8339 There aren’t snakes or spiders! Though there are centipedes to watch out for (not deadly), and stonefish in the lagoon... 🤩

[@neenkapea6091]

Kia orana! I really wanna move over with my family fiw a few years. How did you guys do it? Did you find work over there before moving?

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Kia Orana @neenkapea 🌺 If you want to find and follow our Facebook page you can see our story and send us a message with anyway questions 👋

[@selvakumaranperiasamy7344]

Your videos are excellence footage but why less viewers ? My suggestion don't use background music. Use more original sound as it is and give more deep information for example geological information about the islands, as well how people live especially how they survive in the islands.

[@ibraheemibraheem4852]

Hi.. I am Ibrahim Darwish from Syria.. I'm a Gynecologist and obstetrician doctor.. How can I communicate with hospitals in Cook Islands??

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Hi there have you tried to contact the Cook Islands Ministry of Health?

[@ibraheemibraheem4852]

@@AwaywiththeSteiners no.. How can I communicate them??

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

@@ibraheemibraheem4852 I think you will need to Google that and check how to contact Ministry of Health 🙂

[@kimbourne6237]

Harry and Oscar 😃👍 live life to the fullest . you are both good kids 👏😇cook islands was blessed with your presence .👏 the world is at your feet EMBRACE it

[@raulmenedez2427]

Hope it doesn't end up like Maui

[@amlkuweit4328]

I have been following you for a while. I see you focusing on two countries: Pakistan and Morocco. Travel is tiring. How can your children not go to school? How do you spend money on travel? From where? Is this your home? We want you to photograph your home, where you live, and your area. We want more diaries in your home country

[@Mamaandmenatureart]

Do the kids go to school or homeschool?

[@appuvintelokam8626]

Nice intro and Nature segments...Have you ever came to Kerala, India.....Will definitely enjoy.

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Yes we have! We enjoyed Kochi and exploring the backwaters of Kerala but would love to go back again for longer next time. A beautiful part of the world!

[@chinyereenyinnaya2114]

How to apply for job in cook island what's the procedure for residence

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Harrier nice DHL T-shirt, get me one mate XL size!

[@Rudsonlinomachado]

Is expensive to live there? Is hard for work and visa? I’m an Australian thank you

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Hi there have you seen our website? We have lots of info about moving to the Cook Islands 🙂

[@Rudsonlinomachado]

@@AwaywiththeSteiners no I will check it out! Thank you 🙏

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Captain Cook

[@user-pf8jr6ri9l]

Is teachers are recruited there from India.

[@jebslept8515]

0:31 thought he was rhyming

[@dorotheabasjes3123]

How did you get to move to the Cook Islands and live there ?? You must have a work visa or something as Job sponsor as its bloody hard to get there to live !!

[@AwaywiththeSteiners]

Hi Dorothea, thanks for the comment. And yes we have a work visa to live here as you are right that it isn’t easy to move here otherwise 🙂

[@ahmedhumayunrasheed2434]

Harry this haircut is nice son, looking like a boy!

[@rumeodibo]

Locals can't afford this luxury

[@yukildom5596]

What about residence visa.? As far as i know, there is none, even for kiwis ? * except few spec ific cases. What about buying a house ? There is no way to buy a house, because there is no way to sell a land for a cookie. Please, keep me up to date, 🙏 if things have changed .... There is no way to run a independant buisness, in the cook islands. Are you a government worker, tnen ? Now , maybe, new rules with the covid ??? Please let me know. I spend 12 yesrs in raro., , But had to fly out every 3 or 6months. and endured 3 drportations (( routine for foreigners there, even if married to a cookie and have children..)) Had no permission to work,... At all had to submit to my landlors mood, for renting homes. If they decide after 6 months, to stop the rental because , oversea's family is coming, they throw you out... There is no contract, and if there is one, it has no value 😂 Anyways, it is one of the best place in the pacific. And i die to go back and live there,.. Enjoy your time as much as possible.👍👍👍

[@twinsonic]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands_permanent_residency

[@yukildom5596]

@@twinsonic 👍👍thank you 😂 yep, that is , unfortunatly confirm..... 😂, no, it is actually worst....

[@twinsonic]

@@yukildom5596 I don't think it is that bad. It is doable. I am Kiwi with a nice bank account..might retire there