Shock Chapple, who proposed to Joan Vassos during the show’s Nov. 13 finale, tells PEOPLE that he and his fiancée plan to go “back and forth” between Kansas and Maryland

Warning: this story contains spoilers from the November 13 finale The Golden Bachelorette.

Joan Vassos made it clear from the beginning of her Golden Bachelorette travel like she didn’t want to move out of Maryland for a man.

But before Shock Chapple asked the question to Vassos the final on November 13the 60-year-old insurance executive, who lives in Kansas, suggested getting an apartment with her in New York City.

“We will be going back and forth between Kansas to Maryland and to New York,” Chapple tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with Vassos, 61. “We will have a full-time location in New York and whenever the opportunity comes, we will to be there. We’ll find out next year.”

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In the near future, Vassos plans to spend time with Chapple’s family in Wichita, Kan., and “he will do the same in DC,” she says. “But when we want to be alone together, we’ll probably be in New York.”

The couple will fly to NYC on Friday, November 15th and will begin looking at apartments on Monday, November 18th. Vassos says she and Chapple have their eyes on living in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood.

“That’s what we think right now,” she says.

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Chapple and Vassos are hoping to secure a spot in New York City for Christmas, as one of the mom-of-four’s holiday traditions includes going to the Big Apple on Dec. 26. “If nothing else, we’ll probably get a hotel or do an Airbnb,” says Vassos. “But I love that tradition. I love Christmas in the city.”

The newly engaged couple, who have a total of six children between them, will be spending Thanksgiving and Christmas in Maryland; the former will give Chapple and Vasso’s children their first opportunity to spend significant time together.

“Our kids have gotten to know each other a little bit by phone and text, but they’re finally going to get to spend four or five days together,” said Vassos, who is also spending Thanksgiving with her late husband’s family. “We can’t wait for them to be together because we feel like they’re going to have a lot of fun with each other. It’s weird at this age to welcome a new step-sibling into your life, and that’s what it’s going to be for them.”

The Golden Bachelorette says her family prepares the Thanksgiving meal “as a group,” but “there are certain things your kids want you to make because it’s like the classic they grew up with, so I’ll make all those dishes .”

Chapple and Vassos have another trip to plan: one to Disney World in Florida to host Jesse Palmer gifted them and their families during the finals on November 13.

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“It’s the gift of life,” says Vassos. “Disney World is very, very fun, and you have to do it with your kids and your grandkids. It’s a dream that I had before John passed away. We were just about to have grandkids, and I was watching my friends bring their grandkids to Disney World and I thought, boy, it’s going to be really hard when I have to do it alone.”

But now, “I have this wonderful man to do it with,” Vassos says of Chapple. “They gave it to us, so it was just a dream come true.”

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