Bachelor Nation couple Alli Jo Hinkes and Sam McKinney have announced they're officially moving in together.
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Alli Jo took to Instagram on Tuesday, August 4 and posted a video of herself dancing around in her kitchen with Sam standing in the background.
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"The strong independent woman leaving my body since my bf has moved in," Alli Jo wrote over the footage.
The Bachelor in Paradise alum captioned her post, "Forever independent tho."
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Alli Jo revealed in a separate video on TikTok that Sam has moved from South Carolina to Florida to be with her.
However, it appears the couple will not be living in Fort Lauderdale, where Alli Jo -- a New Jersey native -- has lived for more than three years.
"I actually can't believe this is about to be it! So it's really bittersweet to say that this is about to be my last month in Fort Lauderdale!" Alli Jo shared.
"It's so weird because when I moved here three-and-a-half years ago to Fort Lauderdale, I didn't know a single soul. I didn't know what life would look like, but I'm really excited because obviously Sam has finally moved to Florida after a year of doing long distance!"
Alli Jo gushed about how she's "excited for what's to come" with her man.
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"In the meantime, I'm going to be going to all of my favorite restaurants here and trying things I've wanted to try for the last three-and-a-half years," The Bachelor alum noted.
At the end of the video, Sam joined Alli Jo and exclaimed how he's excited about the move.
"Yes, baby!" Sam said.
Alli Jo and Sam -- who went Instagram official in July 2025 -- first shared their moving plans during a joint appearance on the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast in January.
When asked if they planned to move to the same state or into the same household by the end of 2026, Alli Jo said she and Sam had been discussing that "really often."
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Alli Jo shared at the time, "I still have my lease in Fort Lauderdale. See, this is why I needed the show, Bachelor in Paradise, to win the money. I could've just broken my lease!"
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Sam then chimed in, "Yeah, I think whenever her lease ends, I own my house here in South Carolina, but I think the long goal is to live in Florida."
While the pair's ultimate goal was to end up in Florida, Sam thought All Jo was going to "make her way to South Carolina for a little bit."
Sam continued, "We'll live together, save some money, and then go buy a home that we can both see ourselves living in and raising a family in down in Florida."
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Until they were able to close the distance gap, Alli Jo and Sam said they were going to continue seeing each other "every other weekend" while "being intentional" with all of their conversations.
Alli Jo and Sam started talking after they filmed Bachelor in Paradise's tenth season in Spring 2025. Alli Jo said she made the first move by sending Sam a DM on Instagram.
Alli Jo recently said thar she sent Sam the following message: "Hey you. Since I didn't [get] to tell you in person, I'm just gunna tell ya now..part of the reason I came to paradise was because I wanted to have the chance to meet you."
"When they told me I was coming in with a date card last week, I had every intention of asking you to go and was excited for that opportunity," she continued.
"As soon as I got to the beach, [I] was told you left just hours before."
Sam, in reply, told Alli Jo that she was the only name he had dropped to producers in terms of women he wanted to meet in Paradise.
After meeting for the first time face to face in June 2025, Sam and Alli Jo became an official couple the third time they hung out, when she had flown to South Carolina to meet his entire family.
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When the pair went public with their romance in July 2025, Sam posted photos with Alli Jo at a bar, and in one of the pictures, Alli Jo was rocking a hat that displayed Sam's famous slogan "Keep the Main Thing, the Main Thing."
Sam tagged Alli Jo, who commented on the post, "Didn't need a beach to find my paradise. Main thing energy baby!"
Sam previously said on "Bachelor Happy Hour" that he wanted a feisty woman who would put him in his place whenever necessary.
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Alli Jo then took Sam home to Marlboro, NJ, to meet her family in April.
"Crazy to think a year ago today we were leaving to film Bachelor in Paradise... Fast forward to exactly a year later, I finally got my hometown date," Alli Jo wrote on Instagram at the time.
She added, "It's funny how timing and how life works out. What's not funny is NJ being 40 degrees and raining in April."
On Bachelor in Paradise's tenth season, Sam went on a date with Jess Edwards but she decided to pursue a romance with Spencer Conley instead.
And Alli Jo was interested in Dale Moss, but he chose to continue wooing Katherine "Kat" Izzo.
Both Alli Jo and Sam were probably hoping for a redemption edit on Bachelor in Paradise, but their journeys in Costa Rica were short-lived.
Sam -- who had competed on Jenn Tran's The Bachelorette season in 2024 -- was eliminated during the first Rose Ceremony of Bachelor in Paradise's tenth season.
And Alli Jo -- who had appeared on Grant Ellis' The Bachelor season -- was rejected at the second Rose Ceremony of Paradise last year.
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