5 Good Vlogs on Living Alone
credit: Michelle Choi
There is an extremely popular award-winning South Korean variety show, I Live Alone (aka Home Alone) that spotlights celebrities in a day in a life scenario. In an observational comedy format, the reality series has been around since 2013 and if I had to guess has been influential to YouTube vloggers. In countries like South Korea the number of single households have risen and continue to do so as millennials and Gen Z have decided that living alone is just better.
While the sky rocket housing markets often deter the financial ability for most people to live on their own, it’s always a bucket list goal to do so at least once in your life.
But is there a loneliness factor? Yes, sometimes a twinge of lonely creeps up on you and then you remember all the reasons why you chose to live by yourself. The personal freedom, the mental and spiritual peace it gives knowing that you are only responsible for yourself. Plus, it’s just great being able to decorate your space the way that you want. It’s those little things as you’ll see in these vlogs.
Namaste Hannah 📍 Paris, France
Hannah believes in self care at your own pace. Beautiful videos of slow days between school and taking in the city of Paris. As you’ll see in this vlog, a good morning routine is key as it sets the entire day.
MICHELLE CHOI 📍 NEW YORK CITY
A full-time vlogger/content creator and entrepreneur, Michelle is a dog mom who is always trying to find a slow pace in a bustling city. She has inspired many of my “living alone” meals with simple and affordable recipes. Also proves that living alone means you can just up and travel on a weekend getaway.
DEEMD 📍 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Twenty-something Deemd tries to balance a full-time YT career and a freelance work life. I have watched her live alone as a university student in various countries including London and now settled in Seoul, the newly graduate is a non-stop force of figuring it all out.
AVA JULES 📍 HAWAII
Ava is a budding entrepreneur and podcaster who is still trying to figure out what living alone means and this whole “adulting” thing, which is an honest thing to admit. She’s vocally transparent about self love and trying to want more for herself which realistically applies to all of us. When you live alone, it’s easy to have “self-sabotaging tendencies”, is how she describes it.
BEA ABELLA 📍 TOKYO, JAPAN
Bea is young twenty-something expat living in Tokyo, Japan who works and is also a student. Her days are busily occupied working from home and studying, but her vlogs still manage to show you the charming life in a big city.
