The Bachelorette couple Michelle Young and Nayte Olukoya are still not living together, and Nayte has explained why.
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Nayte, however, said he and the 28-year-old elementary school teacher from Woodbury, MN, are still doing well and have been researching where they should put down roots.
"We're trying to be as smart as possible," Nayte explained. "We're looking at different options. We're definitely feeling it all out."
But Michelle apparently has complete faith in Nayte and that he will eventually relocate to be with her -- when they are both ready.
"We like to make sure that we're always making very calculated decisions. We're always looking at all of our options," Michelle said. "Yeah, it'll happen."
Before the couple settles down, they'd like to travel the world together and make new memories.
"That's a big thing," Nayte shared with the magazine, noting how he and Michelle would like to explore France soon together.
Just last month, Nayte brought Michelle home to the city where he was born and raised, Winnipeg, which is located in the Manitoba province in Canada.
Nayte and Michelle got engaged on The Bachelorette's Season 18 finale that aired in December 2021.
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Nayte revealed on The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose late last year that he planned to move to Minnesota in the next two or three months and the lovebirds had already begun house-hunting.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWIn fact, The Bachelor family gifted Michelle and Nayte a down payment on their first house together. (Michelle was caught whispering to Nayte on After the Final Rose that the check was for $200,000).
During a mid-December 2021 episode of the "Click Bait with Bachelor Nation" podcast, Nayte revealed he had left Canada about 10 years ago and moved to Washington before finally settling down in Austin with no job.
"When I packed up and bought a one-way ticket two days before graduation... and I just packed one suitcase. I didn't know anything -- no job, no nothing, no anything -- and just moved to Austin," Nayte said.
"I didn't know what was going to happen, but I just trusted myself," he added.
Nayte is the only member of his family currently living in the United States.
Not long after their engagement aired on ABC, Michelle and Nayte spent Christmas together in Minnesota.
Michelle gushed to People in December about how she and Nayte "have fun together" and can have deep conversations about controversial issues and more.
"We vent to each other, we check each other and make sure that we're positive," Michelle said. "We dance, sing, goof around, all of it."
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Nayte echoed that sentiment and noted how their relationship just "flows" effortlessly.
"I've never met anybody even, like, remotely close to him because he just has so many layers," Michelle shared of her fiance. "And even now, like on a daily basis, I'm like, 'What did I do to deserve this? How did I get lucky?'"
"He tells me how he feels about me every day, multiple times," she added.
Michelle also told People, "I fall more in love every day."
"I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family with a healthy marriage and I thought, 'I'm not going to give up until I have that.' He's my person," she said. "And I didn't know I could love at this level."
And Nayte said he believes their relationship is going to last because they have the type of love everyone searches for.
"Every day, we'll just catch each other in just this, like, flow of emotion," Nayte said last year.
"It's just like, 'Holy crap, we are each other's. This is our life. This is actually forever.' We actually have a connection that is forever."
The couple also shared at the time how they were planning to marry in "the near future," maybe Summer 2022.
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