I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and often hear people talk of their dream to move to Alaska. It's come up numerous times over the years. My advice is always the same; go check it out in late December or early January, for 2 weeks, when it's dark for 18 hours and ridiculously cold, then make your final decision about moving there. If you like getting outside and doing stuff in the snow, it might be your place. After 11 winters I finally threw in the towel and moved to the 32nd parallel to thaw out.
You sir are the sane one, I love the far north but the people who live there and tell themselves its worth those extremes because of extra space and scenery....... its just not. Lower places in Canada and the continental US offer more than enough rugged extremely dramatic beautiful wilderness while not having those absurd conditions. North America in general is so vast and empty, why go so far north when you have the entirety of southern Canada and the massive US to live in.
Lived there with my family , I had four daughters who went to school there , we live in New west BC should have never have left there !! Love the North .. miss it so much , better quality of life!,,
Bugs are bad in summer though when you actually try to go out in the woods and the temps are so bad in the winter how can you really enjoy the area? I was there in the summer for just a week and it was extremely buggy and nasty outside of the paved areas of the city.
For someone who's considering moving up there, how do you go about finding employment / housing? For those of you who do live there, how did you find your job / house?
Yeah the bugs are brutal in the summer and its colder than hell most of the rest of the year. Been there and it was amazing but moving there alone would be wild
@Ben TurnerSmall town with long winters and short spring/summer, stay out of the downtown area (full of drunks and drug dealers). Not much around unless you like the nature and views, kinda wish they have a arcade or bigger mall (kinda sad). Most people are nice and friendly but we do have some bad apples.
A pleasant and clearly presented video. I will use it with my overseas students of English (Who knows, one or two might even come as tourists). Tell me, how is the cost of living in Yellowknife compared to other Canadian cities?
Mish Mash thanks i made this a couple years ago i didnt realize i had views lol its a fairly small city it can be expensive but the payrates make up for it...there is also the northern living allowance its not for everyone but a great experience all the same.
cadengamer 226 sorry for the late reply i didnt realize i had comments on this video! Housing can be expensive and food is a bit more costly but most of the pay rates even it out....plus we receive a northern living allowance and travel subsidy
@@lisakedian-artist8897 nice and helpful reply! I'm comfortable in moderate temps, but British Columbia, I would reconsider. I'm south of your border. New Mexico is a more realistic move for me.
@@topturn9653 New Mexico is a beautiful and fantastic place to start a life Top Turn, very cheap and vast space, it is still growing too unlike Arizona which is already full of tourists and people who moved from California. New Mexico is arguably the most empty of the true "SW" states
Yeah they should have said, I assume he's in the mining or oil industry because they often do schedules like that, 10 days on 10 days off. Only type of work I've heard of that's like that. They have the same thing with oil workers in New Mexico and North Dakota in the US, chunk of time on, chunk of time off instead of a 5 day on 2 day off week. The remote location and the fact its hard to get people there balances things out and makes the employers have to allow more freedom to keep people happy and in that far off place I assume
I was there in August of 2019 and I had purchased mine in Edmonton before heading north...... so I wasn't exactly looking when in YK but they must have at least one or two federal dispensaries. I imagine its in low supply as far as under the table purchasing, as its a rough place to pull off big grows
Yeah the way this guy tried to divert the attention away from and minimize the winter conditions was laughable and blatantly incorrect. Its so obvious people like this TRY to convince themselves its not that bad and it's just like a normal Canadian or US winter when its nothing close. 18-19 hours+ of darkness in mid winter.
I guess if your an outsider (not born in Yellowknife) and you move there for work, that's one thing but moving for just the sake of it doesn't make a lot lot of sense.
@@cloudypigeon1174 That statement is kinda a contradiction. How do you enjoy the cold if your inside all the time? And why move someplace new if you never get out/meet new people?
@@zfilmmaker I like going outside specifically where there's no people. And yeah, I don't go outside much, but when I do, I like it to be pretty cold. I'd be the guy who somehow manages to meet less than 10-20 people yet figures out how to get it to work with just that.
Hey jeni.. I am planning to move to Yellowknife, All the way from Pakistan, I need some guidance, Please lemme know if you can gimme your Email.. Thanks..
I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and often hear people talk of their dream to move to Alaska. It's come up numerous times over the years. My advice is always the same; go check it out in late December or early January, for 2 weeks, when it's dark for 18 hours and ridiculously cold, then make your final decision about moving there. If you like getting outside and doing stuff in the snow, it might be your place. After 11 winters I finally threw in the towel and moved to the 32nd parallel to thaw out.
You sir are the sane one, I love the far north but the people who live there and tell themselves its worth those extremes because of extra space and scenery....... its just not. Lower places in Canada and the continental US offer more than enough rugged extremely dramatic beautiful wilderness while not having those absurd conditions. North America in general is so vast and empty, why go so far north when you have the entirety of southern Canada and the massive US to live in.
@@turkey4957 In June 1988 I drove from north Idaho to Anchorage. Really enjoyed Canada & Canadians.
Lived there with my family , I had four daughters who went to school there , we live in New west BC should have never have left there !! Love the North .. miss it so much , better quality of life!,,
Yeah I dont get the canada vibe at all around here
Bugs are bad in summer though when you actually try to go out in the woods and the temps are so bad in the winter how can you really enjoy the area? I was there in the summer for just a week and it was extremely buggy and nasty outside of the paved areas of the city.
My old Hometown !! Yes, I do miss it....
Love the song choice
Keep posting , nice video!
Spent a lot of years working up in Yellowknife, miss YK, will be back to work again soon.
going there in the next few months
Seems like a cool place to visit.
who know one day I go to know this place.
For someone who's considering moving up there, how do you go about finding employment / housing? For those of you who do live there, how did you find your job / house?
Been there once for aurora hunting. I'll visit again but not live there, LOL.
Yeah the bugs are brutal in the summer and its colder than hell most of the rest of the year. Been there and it was amazing but moving there alone would be wild
For someone who's considering moving up there, how do you go about finding employment and housing?
Great video, are you still loving life in Yellowknife? keep us posted
my guess is he SPLIT
2 hours commute to work is absolute insanity
@Michael WhitewolfWell...he said 2 hours was his commute in Ontario! Not in Yellowknife
That was the commute in Ontario you can get across Yellowknife in 10 mins
Nice video. I hate the cold and wouldn't live there, but might visit. I'm a photographer as well. What do you photograph?
Well then Yellowknife is not for you but it’s beauty is sooo amazing
I grew up there and will never go back! Lol
@Ben TurnerSmall town with long winters and short spring/summer, stay out of the downtown area (full of drunks and drug dealers). Not much around unless you like the nature and views, kinda wish they have a arcade or bigger mall (kinda sad). Most people are nice and friendly but we do have some bad apples.
Amy Jane it’s so beautiful u were not not living in Yellowknife then
So idc if it’s bad I got friends here to keep me busy(wifi too)
Ben Turner it is cold and sunny and a lot of people
I used to live there
thecanadianguy 1423 where do you live now
Where do u live now
This man is high.
Hey, it’s legal 🤷♂️
Welcome to my home
Reee Roberts mine too
A pleasant and clearly presented video. I will use it with my overseas students of English (Who knows, one or two might even come as tourists). Tell me, how is the cost of living in Yellowknife compared to other Canadian cities?
Mish Mash thanks i made this a couple years ago i didnt realize i had views lol its a fairly small city it can be expensive but the payrates make up for it...there is also the northern living allowance its not for everyone but a great experience all the same.
Work 5 days then off for 5?? Is this the norm for Canada? I’m moving to Canada.
BlackdogGS No most people have 2 day weekends. That schedule is very very specific to certain occupations that are quite rare in Canada.
This is the same practice used with New Mexico and North Dakota oil and mining jobs.
Summers like no other .. employment plentiful
Can someone name the music and artist in this vid? Thanks.
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Eddie Vedder Hard sun
Pearl jam
Is it cheaper to live up there like bye a house and what about food
cadengamer 226 sorry for the late reply i didnt realize i had comments on this video! Housing can be expensive and food is a bit more costly but most of the pay rates even it out....plus we receive a northern living allowance and travel subsidy
@@lisakedian-artist8897 nice and helpful reply! I'm comfortable in moderate temps, but British Columbia, I would reconsider. I'm south of your border. New Mexico is a more realistic move for me.
cadengamer226 nope it is expensive
@@topturn9653 New Mexico is a beautiful and fantastic place to start a life Top Turn, very cheap and vast space, it is still growing too unlike Arizona which is already full of tourists and people who moved from California. New Mexico is arguably the most empty of the true "SW" states
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What of kind of work or employer gives you the same amount of time off as you work
Yeah they should have said, I assume he's in the mining or oil industry because they often do schedules like that, 10 days on 10 days off. Only type of work I've heard of that's like that. They have the same thing with oil workers in New Mexico and North Dakota in the US, chunk of time on, chunk of time off instead of a 5 day on 2 day off week. The remote location and the fact its hard to get people there balances things out and makes the employers have to allow more freedom to keep people happy and in that far off place I assume
Is weed readily available in yellow knife?
I was there in August of 2019 and I had purchased mine in Edmonton before heading north...... so I wasn't exactly looking when in YK but they must have at least one or two federal dispensaries. I imagine its in low supply as far as under the table purchasing, as its a rough place to pull off big grows
I live here
Sounds like a great place to live!
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Hey I think your wrong about the weather, it's insane, dark, cold, and horrible, but then we are all different...
Yeah the way this guy tried to divert the attention away from and minimize the winter conditions was laughable and blatantly incorrect. Its so obvious people like this TRY to convince themselves its not that bad and it's just like a normal Canadian or US winter when its nothing close. 18-19 hours+ of darkness in mid winter.
I guess if your an outsider (not born in Yellowknife) and you move there for work, that's one thing but moving for just the sake of it doesn't make a lot lot of sense.
I'm an introvert that loves the cold.
There you go.
@@cloudypigeon1174 That statement is kinda a contradiction. How do you enjoy the cold if your inside all the time? And why move someplace new if you never get out/meet new people?
@@zfilmmaker I like going outside specifically where there's no people. And yeah, I don't go outside much, but when I do, I like it to be pretty cold.
I'd be the guy who somehow manages to meet less than 10-20 people yet figures out how to get it to work with just that.
zfilmmaker oh trust me it does Yellowknife is amazing and so beautiful wouldn’t give it up for the world
Still alive?
I LIV HERE
Hey am moving there soon from Kenya if you still there I would like a friend.
Sameeee
Hey jeni.. I am planning to move to Yellowknife, All the way from Pakistan, I need some guidance, Please lemme know if you can gimme your Email.. Thanks..
@@purity3776 Hey. I am also moving there soon. I would also like to have a friend over there..
Becha there is no bugs in the summer.
Wrong!
I’ve read they get lots of horseflies
Completely wrong the mosquitos are our best friends
Are you joking? Anywhere far north in Canada in the summer have some of the worst bug intensities in the world
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I would love to immigrate to this place.
Christopher Herrera you must be from California, invite him to Sacramento, or LA y’all love them fuckers down there 😂
Quiet Evenings it’s the truth
Michaeljohn yes!
Heya, you accept Germans? I'm sick of my country :D
M Gr Germans are ok, you can come if you learn English 😂