Most people crave a holiday, somewhere warm and sunny just to get away from it all, knowing it’s only for a brief time.
But for some brave people, they decide to take the plunge and uproot their lives for new beginnings.
And that’s exactly what the Hutchinson family did two years ago, selling their house and quitting their jobs to travel the world.
The family-of-five from Corby, Northamptonshire left the UK and have become modern-day nomads.
Chris and Tamira upped sticks with their children – Olivia, 11, Scarlett, 9, and Bella, 5 – in 2023.
Since then they have visited Thailand, China and Malaysia, and are currently exploring Dubai – all while home schooling their three girls.
In a video uploaded to their family TikTok account (@thehutchinsons), Tamira revealed that they sold their home in January 2023 and by May they had hopped on a plane, uprooting their family to travel the world.
She told her followers: ‘Yes we did sell our family home that we lived in for ten years. In 2022 in August we put it up for sale, and it was a really gruelling period not know whether it was going to sell or not, and then in January 2023 we got an offer and it was all completed in May.’
Chris and Tamira upped sticks with their children – Olivia, 11, Scarlett, 9, and Bella, 5 – in 2023 and have visited Thailand, China and Malaysia and Dubai – all while home schooling their daughters
She said that she has no regrets about the decision and went on to explain that she believes the her children are better off exploring the world.
‘So yeah. We sold our family house, quit our full time jobs, we took the girls out of school and we have been travelling ever since and we definitely don’t look back as a family,’ she said.
In a separate video, the mother-of-three revealed how she educates her children after explaining that they don’t go to traditional schools and she doesn’t believe in the UK education system.
‘No our children do not attend school. We took them out of the education system because we felt like it wasn’t really giving them what they needed,’ Tamira said.
The nomad added that she wanted her children to be given more attention and that it was more useful to them to explore different cultures than be sat in a classroom in the UK.
‘Being stuck in a classroom every single day in a class of 30 plus I think a few thing happened to friends and family members it health conditions and it really shocked us and made us fee like we really wanted to give our children the best and show them the world and also educate them ourselves.’
She added: ‘We do homeschool them in the morning time and then use our travel period to do world schooling – learning about different countries, learning about different cultures, learning about different foods.’
But Tamira did add that she is following the national curriculum in the UK so her daughters are not missing out on the basics.
She said that she has no regrets about the decision and went on to explain that she believes the her children are better off exploring the world and being homeschooled
She said ‘We do the homeschooling where I do still follow the English curriculum.
‘We do write up our experiences and we do still follow it with them so yes, they do not attend any school. We do keep up with their education still in line with the national curriculum in England.
‘But no. No attendance of school which means we are able to travel full time.’
When asked by a follower about her children not being able to make long-term friendships, Tamira said that it was a myth and that in the UK her eldest daughter’s friends were being split up to go to different secondary schools.
The TikToker elaborated by saying that Olivia’s friendship groups were being broken up anyway, adding that the school system picks apart relationships and ‘just throws them to a completely different school.’
‘Changing schools, losing that friendship group that can be quite a traumatising change especially when it’s not the child’s decision,’ she added.
The couple have also discussed in previous videos that there were several reasons they decided to up sticks and leave the UK.
In one clip, Chris the first reasons was the cost of living crisis back in the UK, with Chris saying: ‘You have to work every hour God sends just to afford the necessities and keep a roof over your head. There’s no room for enjoyment.’
While Tamira ‘worldschools’ their children, she did add that she is following the national curriculum in the UK so her daughters are not missing out on the basics
When asked about her children making long-term friendships, Tamira said that it was a myth and that in the UK her eldest daughter’s friends were being split up to go to different secondary schools anyway
The couple have also discussed in previous videos that there were several reasons they decided to up sticks and leave the UK including the cost of living and the better weather abroad
In an earlier video on their TikTok page, Tamira had outlined how the family are budgeting on their travels.
She said that they allow themselves roughly £35 per night for accommodation, and up to £40 for ‘daily living’ including food and drink.
This contrasts to the family spending roughly a month before they left, covering their mortgage, bills, groceries, petrol, and other expenses.
The high cost of living also ties into why the family left Britain in the first place, with the parents realising that they were missing out on their girls growing up, and not seeing much of each other either given the hours they were working to provide.
Chris continued to reveal the second reason for not returning to the UK was the ‘woke ideology’.
He explained: ‘You can’t say boo to a goose anymore. Everybody’s offended, everybody’s appalled, and it just leaves everyone feeling awkward and scared to say anything.’
The third reason he gave was the weather.
‘This is something that can’t be changed unfortunately,’ he said.
‘If you can’t afford to get away to warmer climates at least once a year, it can get pretty depressing.
‘We have about nine months of the year with doom and gloom, when it finally gets to the “British summer” it’s pretty much raining all the time, but you might get that one freakishly hot day.’