A young Cuban identified as Chelsea went viral on Instagram by sharing her daily life on a rural farm in Spain, where she lives with her family after emigrating from Cuba.
In her videos, Chelsea details the day-to-day life in a six-bedroom, four-bathroom property, surrounded by gardens, animals, and natural landscapes that, according to her, remind her of the Island.
"I am Cuban, and it seems like we are there, but we are here because a respectable Cuban cleans abundantly with water as long as she can, whether she is in Spain, Brazil, or Uruguay," says Chelsea as she is seen sweeping and using detergent to clean the entrance of her house, in the pure Cuban style.
After cleaning the house, she checks the eggs about to hatch and shows the newly hatched chicks in a handmade feeder crafted by her mother from a bottle.
He also visits the garden where his father planted tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and onions, and notes that at the nearby lake by the farmhouse, during this Holy Week, visitors came to fish, swim, and go kayaking: "Everyone except us who live here," he quips humorously.
In a video published in January, Chelsea toured the farm after several days of heavy rain, showcasing temporary waterfalls formed on the hill and the water level covering the columns of the bridge.
"I'm not at all a polished guajira, my love, because I can only imagine doing all that in flip-flops that got stuck every two minutes," she admitted with a laugh.
The story of this family began to take shape in 2025. In September of that year, Chelsea posted her first video presenting the farmhouse and explained how they emigrated to Spain. "We arrived in this country thanks to an investor visa, or Golden Visa as some know it. In our case, it was due to the acquisition of this property that my uncle purchased."
His uncle, who has been living in London for over 20 years, acquired the property to bring the family together. The choice of a farmhouse instead of an urban dwelling was not a coincidence: "My family has always been from the countryside. Places like this fill our souls with happiness," he explained.
In Cuba, in addition to their house in the village, the family had a farm that, according to the young woman, they still own.
Chelsea's father has turned the farmhouse into an active garden: he grows sugar cane as an experimental trial, along with melons, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, and onions. The family also raises peacocks, which Chelsea tries to film from above because they won't come down from the roof.
The content of this girl resonates with a wide audience of Cubans in the diaspora who recognize cultural traits in her lifestyle: cleaning with plenty of water, farming, raising animals.
In her latest video, she poses a direct question to her followers: "If you had the chance to choose between the countryside or the city, where would you live? Let me know in the comments below."
Spain is currently home to approximately 287,490 Cubans, having welcomed over 35,200 new Cuban emigrants in 2025 alone, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics published in January of this year.
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