What do you mean law licenses? You have to licensed to practice in each province you wish to practice in in Canada, and each state in the US, there’s no federal licenses.
Not to mention that the American system of law is completely different than the Canadian one. Being an attorney in the US does not make you eligible to be a practicing lawyer in Canada.
You have to write the local bar exams but they’re not completely different. The one exception being Quebec which has a civil law system like continental Europe.
He doesn't have them, and not being smart enough to google the locations of towns and not knowing how to read a map tells us that he never will have a law license.
The only correct answer is *north*.
(Technically Alert, Nunavut is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world and Cape Columbia is the most northern point in Canada)
Alert is where science happens. Grise Fiord is the northern most community in Canada, but to "practice law" there, you have to pass the Nunavut bar and get a job with the Government of Nunavut. Most of those jobs are based out of Iqaluit and you go on circuit with the court to various communities.
I worked with a recent immigrant who was super excited about snow and winter and “The North” in general. Had to break it to him easy that like, Calgary is just the tip of the iceberg.
He wanted to take his young family to see polar bears. He couldn’t figure out why the ice roads were closed in summer or how to drive to the North Pole. Or where to get gas along the way. I suggested an overnight in a campground or maybe starting with some visits to a city park but they said the city park was too dangerous (bears?!?).
I’m not sure exactly how he imagined any of this would work but I’m happy to say we talked him out of it and he didn’t accidentally kill his children through poor planning.
Effectivement. /
That is correct.
Ou encore, chez nous, nous utilisions l'anglicisme "La mape". /
Or, in my house, we also used the Anglicism "La mape".
Était-ce un vrais mot, ou simplement inventé par mes grand-parents, puis verbalement hérité?
Je ne le saurai jamais, car le secret est décédé dans les rues pauvres de Montréal, et enterré il y a maintenant des décennies de celà déjà. /
Was it ever a true word, or simply used by my grand-parents, then passed on verbally?
I shall never know, as the secret passed on in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal, and was buried decades ago.
Les trésors d'autrefois. Si seulement ils nous auraient laissés La mape. /
Treasures of old times. If only they had left us LA mape.
😂😂 I think I have been awake too long. Bonne nuit.
If there's a place you got to go
I'm the one you need to know
I'm the Map
I'm the Map, I'm the Map
If there's a place you got to get
I can get you there, I bet
I'm the Map!
I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the MAP!
Well, OP wants to live as close to the Arctic Circle as possible. Alert is quite far from the Arctic Circle -- closest town is probably Repulse Bay.
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Arctic\_circle.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Arctic_circle.svg)
NOTE: Arctic Circle is defined as "the southernmost latitude at which, on the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice (which is the shortest day of the year), the Sun will not rise all day, and on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice (which is the longest day of the year), the Sun will not set."
The permanent population is 0, almost 100 percent of the population is military, or their families working military welfare jobs, such as Cannex and gyms. The majority of the military staff there is also signals and their related trades, so not exactly the easiest job to acquire, or base to be assigned to.
If you want to live up north, you’re better off going to NWT or the Yukon, wages are higher than northern Manitoba or Nunavut, and property and rent is pretty cheap, so you only have to worry about the crazy grocery prices.
My friends tried to get me to take a shot with the toe in the glass. It's a thing people do, I guess. I politely and firmly refused. I heard that someone swallowed the toe a couple of years later. I don't know if they still have one, or if they were able to source a new one.
Agreed. Anchorage is the largest. Juneau (State capital) is about the same as Whitehorse (capital of Yukon Territory, Yellowknife (capital of NWT) and Fairbanks, AK.
You’re going to have enough culture shock without moving to someplace with less than 5,000 people where fresh fruit and veg cost 5x (or more depending) than what we pay down south.
Pretty sure Grise Fiord is the northern most "town" but it only has like 100 people it is in the Arttic circle. Your question is kinda vague. What does average guy mean? If you have proper winter clothes anyone can live pretty far north. Like I assume you need lawyer jobs. Somewhere like yellowknife might have opportunities.
I'm from Eastern Canada but I got to know 3 people from Grise Fiord when I worked in Cambridge Bay Nunavut.
There is another community even further north from Grise Fiord but there isn't any work there for a lawyer. Canadian Forces Station, (CFS) Alert is a base 800 kms, (500 miles) north of Grise Fiord. It's on the northern end of Ellesmere Island and is approximately 820 kms from the North Pole.
It's the most northern populated community in the world. Approximately 55 people live there now but it has had as many as 270 when it opened in 1958. Some are Armed Forces employees, some are contract employees. It's serviced out of the Trenton, Ontario Armed Forces Base, 2700 miles or 4300 kms to the south.
My question would be why? If you are getting your Canada and US law licenses, why wouldn't you want to live where you can put those to use and work? Or is this a short term "live" to change your point of view after working in college for all these years?
If anything I would stick to a few cities in Alaska/Yukon/NWT, Guessing Fairbanks Alaska would be your best bet for that.
Guys, someone needs to tell OP: outside of the Dempster highway (five straight days of gravel from Dawson City to Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk) — you can’t really *drive* to much of the Canadian Arctic Circle.
OP, if you’re after a northerly change of scenery after college, maybe work your way up to it. Plant trees for a summer in British Columbia. Wait tables in Banff. Work at a fly-in fishing camp. Book a flight to Iqaluit.
You're right, I really just want to get as different from college town as I can get. Don't love the big city life either so something I can regularly enjoy going outside in is what I'm looking for. I just like the north.
Highly suggest you try out decent size cities with harsh winter first. The rural area is not as good for snow clearing and towing cars in winter if your car quit working. Winter can be deadly up north if you don't know what you are doing.
Honestly, about anything half way up the provinces will have plenty of towns and smaller cities while having lots of nature related things. The winter can joking last half the year (the weather will start to clear up and then snow again) so for the average person that's about as high as I would recommend without looking deep at specific locations. The territories are closer and isolated but it can become a different way of living and there's a reason many only live there seasonally and have 2 homes because of that.
You won't enjoy going outside in the arctic circle. There is a huge variety of places that will be very different from Ohio where it will actually be nice to go outside and enjoy nature if that's your jam. I suggest a road trip!
Choose anywhere else. It’s not a good time up there. Also: get the whole outdoors thing wrong and you will get eaten by a polar bear. They have those big fences up there for a reason.
If you don’t at least know the names of the cities and towns in northern Canada, then you’re not ready to live in northern Canada.
I suggest starting with a map, and then Google.
Go live in Alert Bay, they need folk up there.
You might want to check out Whitehorse in the Yukon, you could also reach out to the governments of the 3 territories as they would likely have lawyers on the payroll. Another possibility would be Churchill, Manitoba - which is also the polar bear capital of the world. Good luck!
And those saying alert, come on give me a break a clueless American, it’ll be cold and socially difficult enough for someone from Northern Alberta to go to alert do not go to alert
Just to add if you want that get some experience first in some of the towns and cities closer south the cultural shock you can’t even imagine I’m telling you-and the isolation will crush you. Close to six months of darkness are you ready for that?
Tuktoyuktuk but you couldn’t just move there. Inuvik is probably the furthest north you could live and find a “random” job. It’s expensive and can be very hard to make friends
We probably help at least 1 student complete a report or essay every month on here.
Smart of them to get someone else to do their work, that is what most managers do.
Happy to help!
I don't know about the states for sure, but in Canada you need a licence to join the Province or Territory Law Society.
Inuvik NWT is a little over 3k population. Everything costs a fortune. It's above artic circle.
Yellowknife has about 22K, but feels bigger as it serves so much surrounding community. Almost half of the NWT lives there. Definitely expensive compared to SE Ont. I've been to Yellowknife twice and enjoyed the city, but I've never spent the winter there, although my boyfriend loved it. It's not for everyone.
If you got a job working as a crown prosecutor in Yellowknife, then you’d work the court circuit and travel to all the communities. So do your research on that and see where you land.
Short answer: not as far north as you’d like, my friend.
If you’re an average guy, you currently do not have the experience or knowledge you’ll need to survive a winter that far north, even with modern amenities and technology, and the very best snowsuit you can find.
You’re talking about land, weather and wildlife that will actually kill you if you set a foot wrong. If you want to move there, find yourself a mentor who will teach you the ropes of far-north living and what to do when it’s below —50 degrees Celsius, the power goes out, and your water pipes freeze and burst.
And also what to do when the grocery delivery trucks can’t make it through due to weather conditions or rockslide on the road, and there’s nothing left to buy in the grocery store.
And also what to do when you walk out of your front door in the morning only to come face to face with a huge bear you didn’t realize was there.
And what to do when the lack of daylight in the winter messes with your circadian rhythm and you fall into a depression (happens very often).
It takes helping hands to make it through up there if you’re new and inexperienced. If you do move up there, be friendly and get to know your neighbours really well, because there will be times when you’ll need them.
My qualifications: I lived up there for roughly half of my life.
Grise Fiord is the most northerly place in Canada or the United States that you can freely move to. If you have a job and accommodation. But I doubt they need lawyers. Cambridge Bay has a few lawyers working here, and we are probably one of the most northerly places that does.
Honestly if you're being realistic and from a city you could go to Yellowknife or Whitehorse, if your brave iqaluit. If your really brave somewhere like Inuvik, Norman Wells, Cambridge bay, or Rankin inlet. Beyond that you gotta be basically native(inuk), a scientist, or in the military. Realistically I'd say go to Yellowknife and you'll find work easily. Our largest northern 'city'.
99% of us live near the US border. I’ve heard there are people living in the Yukon, but Prince George is already further north than I’d ever want to go, so I can’t confirm that
Why Canada? Alaska has larger cities farther north than anything in Canada. Fairbanks is about 100k and 65 degrees north. Utqiagvik is about 5k and is 71 N — northernmost city of its size in the world IIRC.
My parents used to live and work at the Polaris mine site in Nunavut in the late 80s, before the mine was shut down. Latitude of 75 Degrees north. Technically there is a hamlet just south of there called Resolute Bay. That’s at 74.6 degrees north.
Please google the following before pulling the trigger on this: Suicide rates in the north, violence, polar bear attacks, cost of living, specific costs of groceries, seasonal affective disorder, job availability, the dating scene, alcoholism rates, how to own a car in the north (can’t turn it off in the worst cold), cost of transport and travel from the north. I don’t think you’ve necessarily thought this all through- the North is not the same as other places, just norther. It’s a whole different world up there.
op: why not use Google Maps and cross-reference towns that you find against that of a job search for your line of work on a site like Indeed to see what's available? you're going to get pointless answers because your question is vague and lacks focus.
“ as far north as the circle” and “northern communities which support your needs are ALOT different.Honestly, I would stick with white horse or yellow knife for multiple reasons which you can figure out
The furthest north town/city I could want to live in Canada would be Whitehorse hands down. The rest are shit holes and yes I’ve lived in Yellowknife and inuvik and a few other shitholes that start with Fort/Saint or Lake.
First things first, figure out your law licenses. You don’t just get sweeping law licenses for all of US and Canada, and a desolate northern town has no use for a lawyer.
You're just getting both US and Canada law licenses eh? Have you considered going to doctor school also?
Also ,are you planning on opening a law practice in the arctic circle?
I am a lawyer...I want to say this as nicely as possible. If you can't read a map or google something then the practice of law as a sole proprietor in a small remote community is not for you.
If you want a northern city with legal job prospects and a decent quality of life, try Whitehorse, Yukon.
Northern capital city, surrounded by beautiful nature.
No you don't, it's fucking horrible, the winters are bad and the summers are worse. Unless you murdered someone and are trying to get away don't live there. It's horrible
Your Canadian law license? lol they’re provincially regulated not sure what you mean by that. If you’re smart enough to go to law school in 2 countries then maybe you can look at a map. There’s no way this is real lmao
There are towns a Loong way north of the Arctic Circle. I was posted for a year in Sachs Harbour, on Banks Island It's many many miles north of the Arctic Circle, well beyond the tree line.
I have become very interested with Quebec since my wife and I visited over spring break (in a French teacher) north of Quebec are a couple fun spots, like sagueney near lake saint jean. Churchill is the biggest town on the Hudson Bay, not Quebec tho
Saguenay is a three hour drive north of Quebec City and in no way could be described as arctic. It’s a nice little city and the lake is beautiful but OP is talking about the far north. The Nunavik region of Quebec is the only part of Quebec remotely close to where they are curious about.
Honestly, I’d stop at Fort Mac. Pretty far north, fair sized population, lots of work. Going much further north if you don’t have anything established would be stupid.
For a lawyer who wants to at least make a living, Yellowknife would probably be the biggest most northern city. North of that is Inuvik which is think has around 3000 people. There’s also Iqaluit.
If you really wanna go North, the most northern permanently inhabited town is Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
How far north is a town ? Like in general or somewhere specific ? Find a map of the artic circle and go from there. Tell us what you decide. Can’t imagine what you’ll be doing way up there
I grew up in the Yukon in a city called Whitehorse. You can definitely go further north but I think it’s a good middle ground. Not too cold and you’re still close to some other cities (close as in less than 15 hours away from a similar sized city). Great place and tones to do. It’s a pretty decent sized place (40ish thousand) but endless possibilities for adventure. It’s big enough that you can still grow your career without getting stuck in one position. You’ll also have opportunities to travel and work in smaller northern communities if you really wanted.
Like I said you can definitely go more north but it’s probably going to lead to the best experience and most potential. I myself will move back at some point but I’m just enjoying the reasonable daylight down south for a bit.
There’s soooo many people that go up there for temporary work and just never leave. Awesome place.
Whitehorse is about as far north as I’d go in Canada. Fairbanks in the US. Any further north and the cost of groceries/living isn’t really worth the peace and quiet.
The furthest north you can drive in North America is Tuktoyaktuk. You take the Dempster highway till you hit the artic Ocean.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PwWzXFNtEiogAiY9
I have a friend who is a criminal lawyer and lives in Yellowknife. He flies around to the small northern communities for his work. I assume it coincides with the circuit court schedule. I don’t think you’re going to find work north of Yellowknife, Iqaluit, or Whitehorse.
I had a friend who worked as a paralegal there. You’re correct - all legal matters get handled through the Yellowknife courts (with virtual appearances in some cases.) The lawyers fly to the remote communities. Much off the crime seems to involve poor choices around drugs and alcohol, and domestic violence.
That sounds consistent with what he has said to me.
It would be interesting to see all those small communities. I love the north but haven’t been to those really small places.
Born in Yellowknife. Yellowknife isnt inside the arctic circle but its pretty close. Some industry there, think mines. The city is on great Slave lake. Think about the Great Lakes near Ontario, more fishing boats, but less bikinis. The city itself has more infrastructure than Iqaluit Nunavut. Iqaluit is trying to be a city but it has more of a village feel. Lots of short squat homes next to the sea. Iqaluit lacks a lot infrastructure and services someone coming from the city would expect or want. Whitehorse Yukon has a BC feel. Arctic weather moderated by warm ocean currents. Dawson City Yukon isnt too far north from Whitehorse but that place feels like it was carved out of a western movie. Dirt roads and wooden porches. (cowboys not included, characters abound) Moutains, trees, and rivers. I dont want to say too much about Alaska but we hit Skagway after driving over the mountain. Beautiful fjord tourist stop.
What do you mean law licenses? You have to licensed to practice in each province you wish to practice in in Canada, and each state in the US, there’s no federal licenses.
Not to mention that the American system of law is completely different than the Canadian one. Being an attorney in the US does not make you eligible to be a practicing lawyer in Canada.
OP is on the run, obvs it's a cover story.
You have to write the local bar exams but they’re not completely different. The one exception being Quebec which has a civil law system like continental Europe.
OP has no fucking clue what’s going on in life I’m gathering.
LOL!!! For such a short title, I have so many questions.
And if you look at their profile, none of their post even makes sense. What a weird way to troll, I can’t imagine what they get out of it.
Wait, you think the semi mute autistic law savant who wants to practice at the edge of the world might not be telling the truth?!
Also where does he plan on practicing law near the Arctic Circle?
Or why?
only law out there is the end of a shotgun i would imagine
There is no law in the north lol
He doesn't have them, and not being smart enough to google the locations of towns and not knowing how to read a map tells us that he never will have a law license.
Have you tried looking at a map?
If you don't know, you're not ready to go.
The only correct answer is *north*. (Technically Alert, Nunavut is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world and Cape Columbia is the most northern point in Canada)
Alert isn’t a community. That’s a military base.
Alert is where science happens. Grise Fiord is the northern most community in Canada, but to "practice law" there, you have to pass the Nunavut bar and get a job with the Government of Nunavut. Most of those jobs are based out of Iqaluit and you go on circuit with the court to various communities.
I worked with a recent immigrant who was super excited about snow and winter and “The North” in general. Had to break it to him easy that like, Calgary is just the tip of the iceberg. He wanted to take his young family to see polar bears. He couldn’t figure out why the ice roads were closed in summer or how to drive to the North Pole. Or where to get gas along the way. I suggested an overnight in a campground or maybe starting with some visits to a city park but they said the city park was too dangerous (bears?!?). I’m not sure exactly how he imagined any of this would work but I’m happy to say we talked him out of it and he didn’t accidentally kill his children through poor planning.
He’s tried nothing and is all out of ideas.
This is the most Canadian response lol 😆
Americans and Geography don’t go together
I guess Americans don't have Google, either.
What is a “map”? Or are you speaking in French?
No, that would be "le map"
La carte.
I'm talking about maps, not carts.
Sir, this is a Timmy's.
Crap, what gender is a map again in Quebecois???
In Québec, maps identify as female, and as Canadians, we respect the shit outta that.
But I'm le tired.
Well, have a nap… THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!
OMG I have to watch that again
hokay, so….
On dit "la map"
Effectivement. / That is correct. Ou encore, chez nous, nous utilisions l'anglicisme "La mape". / Or, in my house, we also used the Anglicism "La mape". Était-ce un vrais mot, ou simplement inventé par mes grand-parents, puis verbalement hérité? Je ne le saurai jamais, car le secret est décédé dans les rues pauvres de Montréal, et enterré il y a maintenant des décennies de celà déjà. / Was it ever a true word, or simply used by my grand-parents, then passed on verbally? I shall never know, as the secret passed on in a poor neighbourhood of Montreal, and was buried decades ago. Les trésors d'autrefois. Si seulement ils nous auraient laissés La mape. / Treasures of old times. If only they had left us LA mape. 😂😂 I think I have been awake too long. Bonne nuit.
Pas mal sur que c'est "la mappe". En tout cas, "mappemonde" est un vrai mot.
I love your bilingual response!
Ah yes la magma carta, learned all about that while acquiring my federal law license for the U.S. and Canada!
If there's a place you got to go I'm the one you need to know I'm the Map I'm the Map, I'm the Map If there's a place you got to get I can get you there, I bet I'm the Map! I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the Map, I'm the MAP!
He took law not geography...
Chris McCandless, is that you?
To be fair, some of the Northern-most cities aren't really accessible to anyone other than researchers and soldiers.
Alert?
This. It’s literally the most northerly permanently settled place in the world, but you’d have to join the military to get there
Well, OP wants to live as close to the Arctic Circle as possible. Alert is quite far from the Arctic Circle -- closest town is probably Repulse Bay. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Arctic\_circle.svg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Arctic_circle.svg) NOTE: Arctic Circle is defined as "the southernmost latitude at which, on the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice (which is the shortest day of the year), the Sun will not rise all day, and on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice (which is the longest day of the year), the Sun will not set."
Once a year the sun will not rise, and once a year the sun will not set. Quite poetic really. How long's the farming season?
...there is no farming.
Not true, the 24 hours of dark is excellent at cultivating depression
Canada's far north has really high suicide rates for a reason... it's not a particularly pleasant place to live for a significant period of time.
My niece moved to near Yellowknife and she has a greenhouse. She has peppers. But there’s really no farming. Not enough of a growing season.
There’s a nice community greenhouse in Inuvik. Furthest north apple tree in Canada (the world?)
possibly the only food source is frozen fishing.
I'm more about Repulse Bae
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grise\_Fiord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grise_Fiord) Most northerly civilian town
No you don’t lol. There’s other non military positions there.
The permanent population is 0, almost 100 percent of the population is military, or their families working military welfare jobs, such as Cannex and gyms. The majority of the military staff there is also signals and their related trades, so not exactly the easiest job to acquire, or base to be assigned to. If you want to live up north, you’re better off going to NWT or the Yukon, wages are higher than northern Manitoba or Nunavut, and property and rent is pretty cheap, so you only have to worry about the crazy grocery prices.
Yellowknife, Whitehorse, or Anchorage.
Also Churchill MB. Not as “far north” but as isolated. And fewer services than the other you mention.
You missed Dawson City.
Thinking of places large enough to have a decent law practice.
I don’t know about a law practice, but there’s a bar in Dawson that has a pickled human toe on the shelf
That's basically the same thing.
I mean a bar is a bar. I'm sure OP'd be admitted to that bar without any difficulties.
True story.
My friends tried to get me to take a shot with the toe in the glass. It's a thing people do, I guess. I politely and firmly refused. I heard that someone swallowed the toe a couple of years later. I don't know if they still have one, or if they were able to source a new one.
A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two.
Agreed. Anchorage is the largest. Juneau (State capital) is about the same as Whitehorse (capital of Yukon Territory, Yellowknife (capital of NWT) and Fairbanks, AK. You’re going to have enough culture shock without moving to someplace with less than 5,000 people where fresh fruit and veg cost 5x (or more depending) than what we pay down south.
Property and rent are not cheap in NWT….
I worked there doing meteorological things
I don’t know about the other places, but the Yukon definitely does not have cheap property or rent.
You can get a job there as a civilian contractor or do research for science especially in the summer, but yes it’s primarily a military station
Or work for Environment and Climate Change Canada.
The North Pole. I hear Santa could use a good attorney for all those B&E charges he's facing.
You serious, Clark?
*raises eyebrows and goes back to eating*
Not to mention all the labour laws he's been shitting on for years. The elves are ready to go union.
Copyright ©️ infringement on the more recent toys he had the elves produce. Santa is not allowed to produce elf on the shelf or Buzz lightyear! When will he learn?
Iqaluit, Nunavut is a government town — they are always looking to hire - both at the Federal and Territorial level.
It’s a third of the country but it’s Nunavut
How much of it do you want?
Pretty sure Grise Fiord is the northern most "town" but it only has like 100 people it is in the Arttic circle. Your question is kinda vague. What does average guy mean? If you have proper winter clothes anyone can live pretty far north. Like I assume you need lawyer jobs. Somewhere like yellowknife might have opportunities.
I'm from Eastern Canada but I got to know 3 people from Grise Fiord when I worked in Cambridge Bay Nunavut. There is another community even further north from Grise Fiord but there isn't any work there for a lawyer. Canadian Forces Station, (CFS) Alert is a base 800 kms, (500 miles) north of Grise Fiord. It's on the northern end of Ellesmere Island and is approximately 820 kms from the North Pole. It's the most northern populated community in the world. Approximately 55 people live there now but it has had as many as 270 when it opened in 1958. Some are Armed Forces employees, some are contract employees. It's serviced out of the Trenton, Ontario Armed Forces Base, 2700 miles or 4300 kms to the south.
No permanent residents
My question would be why? If you are getting your Canada and US law licenses, why wouldn't you want to live where you can put those to use and work? Or is this a short term "live" to change your point of view after working in college for all these years? If anything I would stick to a few cities in Alaska/Yukon/NWT, Guessing Fairbanks Alaska would be your best bet for that.
Guys, someone needs to tell OP: outside of the Dempster highway (five straight days of gravel from Dawson City to Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk) — you can’t really *drive* to much of the Canadian Arctic Circle. OP, if you’re after a northerly change of scenery after college, maybe work your way up to it. Plant trees for a summer in British Columbia. Wait tables in Banff. Work at a fly-in fishing camp. Book a flight to Iqaluit.
The Dempster does not take five days to drive. You can do it in one long day in good conditions.
But Fairbanks is the armpit of the north. It really is an ugly town. Anchorage is beautiful, same for Juneau..
It has a Costco, back off jack.
lol.
Didn't we send pitbull there once?
You're right, I really just want to get as different from college town as I can get. Don't love the big city life either so something I can regularly enjoy going outside in is what I'm looking for. I just like the north.
Highly suggest you try out decent size cities with harsh winter first. The rural area is not as good for snow clearing and towing cars in winter if your car quit working. Winter can be deadly up north if you don't know what you are doing.
Agreed, something like Timmins, Prince Albert, Prince George gives you an idea of northern weather but you're still in the protection of civilization.
No. Let OP move up north. I want to see a /r/TIFU post that they will write in a few months’ time.
How often have you been up North?
Honestly, about anything half way up the provinces will have plenty of towns and smaller cities while having lots of nature related things. The winter can joking last half the year (the weather will start to clear up and then snow again) so for the average person that's about as high as I would recommend without looking deep at specific locations. The territories are closer and isolated but it can become a different way of living and there's a reason many only live there seasonally and have 2 homes because of that.
Lmfao as someone who lived in Rankin Inlet for years... have you been up North?
You won't enjoy going outside in the arctic circle. There is a huge variety of places that will be very different from Ohio where it will actually be nice to go outside and enjoy nature if that's your jam. I suggest a road trip!
Go outside?
Choose anywhere else. It’s not a good time up there. Also: get the whole outdoors thing wrong and you will get eaten by a polar bear. They have those big fences up there for a reason.
Oh yeah forgot to ask, where do you currently live, and what is your idea of going North so far. And what do you consider to be cold.
Yellowknife? Or Inuvik?
Inuvik is the farthest north with enough of a population that a lawyer just might have enough to do to make a living.
It looks like it's at its lowest population since the mid-70's.. not doing great.
Still the second biggest town in NWT, and is the hub for the areas around. The hospital is there.
I have no idea what you're asking. Law licences?
[Griese Fiord](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grise_Fiord) is Canada’s northernmost public community.
Thanks!
“The place that never thaws” how inviting
If you don’t at least know the names of the cities and towns in northern Canada, then you’re not ready to live in northern Canada. I suggest starting with a map, and then Google. Go live in Alert Bay, they need folk up there.
I mean, there are a few settlements \*in\* the Arctic Circle if you really wanted to...
You might want to check out Whitehorse in the Yukon, you could also reach out to the governments of the 3 territories as they would likely have lawyers on the payroll. Another possibility would be Churchill, Manitoba - which is also the polar bear capital of the world. Good luck!
And those saying alert, come on give me a break a clueless American, it’ll be cold and socially difficult enough for someone from Northern Alberta to go to alert do not go to alert
Just to add if you want that get some experience first in some of the towns and cities closer south the cultural shock you can’t even imagine I’m telling you-and the isolation will crush you. Close to six months of darkness are you ready for that?
Tuktoyuktuk but you couldn’t just move there. Inuvik is probably the furthest north you could live and find a “random” job. It’s expensive and can be very hard to make friends
No, you’re not, because licenses are granted by states and provinces, to humans.
This question sounds suspiciously like it was written by a 12 year old.
We probably help at least 1 student complete a report or essay every month on here. Smart of them to get someone else to do their work, that is what most managers do. Happy to help!
>my US and Canadian law licenses No you're not there's no such thing. If you don't know that I don't even know where to begin?
Why? It’s insanely expensive
Do you mean, what’s the most northerly town one could feasibly move to that’s big enough it’s likely you’ll be able to work as a lawyer?
I have the official answer. Longyearbyen, Norway.
Inuvik
I don't know about the states for sure, but in Canada you need a licence to join the Province or Territory Law Society. Inuvik NWT is a little over 3k population. Everything costs a fortune. It's above artic circle. Yellowknife has about 22K, but feels bigger as it serves so much surrounding community. Almost half of the NWT lives there. Definitely expensive compared to SE Ont. I've been to Yellowknife twice and enjoyed the city, but I've never spent the winter there, although my boyfriend loved it. It's not for everyone.
If you got a job working as a crown prosecutor in Yellowknife, then you’d work the court circuit and travel to all the communities. So do your research on that and see where you land.
Short answer: not as far north as you’d like, my friend. If you’re an average guy, you currently do not have the experience or knowledge you’ll need to survive a winter that far north, even with modern amenities and technology, and the very best snowsuit you can find. You’re talking about land, weather and wildlife that will actually kill you if you set a foot wrong. If you want to move there, find yourself a mentor who will teach you the ropes of far-north living and what to do when it’s below —50 degrees Celsius, the power goes out, and your water pipes freeze and burst. And also what to do when the grocery delivery trucks can’t make it through due to weather conditions or rockslide on the road, and there’s nothing left to buy in the grocery store. And also what to do when you walk out of your front door in the morning only to come face to face with a huge bear you didn’t realize was there. And what to do when the lack of daylight in the winter messes with your circadian rhythm and you fall into a depression (happens very often). It takes helping hands to make it through up there if you’re new and inexperienced. If you do move up there, be friendly and get to know your neighbours really well, because there will be times when you’ll need them. My qualifications: I lived up there for roughly half of my life.
Grise Fiord is the most northerly place in Canada or the United States that you can freely move to. If you have a job and accommodation. But I doubt they need lawyers. Cambridge Bay has a few lawyers working here, and we are probably one of the most northerly places that does.
Honestly if you're being realistic and from a city you could go to Yellowknife or Whitehorse, if your brave iqaluit. If your really brave somewhere like Inuvik, Norman Wells, Cambridge bay, or Rankin inlet. Beyond that you gotta be basically native(inuk), a scientist, or in the military. Realistically I'd say go to Yellowknife and you'll find work easily. Our largest northern 'city'.
Just curious, Why would you want to live as far north as possible?
Perhaps the USA election system? Only 2 real parties. I wish Canada was further from it at times.
99% of us live near the US border. I’ve heard there are people living in the Yukon, but Prince George is already further north than I’d ever want to go, so I can’t confirm that
Why Canada? Alaska has larger cities farther north than anything in Canada. Fairbanks is about 100k and 65 degrees north. Utqiagvik is about 5k and is 71 N — northernmost city of its size in the world IIRC.
Maybe OP wants healthcare for treatment of things like frostbite and depression from lack of daylight?
My parents used to live and work at the Polaris mine site in Nunavut in the late 80s, before the mine was shut down. Latitude of 75 Degrees north. Technically there is a hamlet just south of there called Resolute Bay. That’s at 74.6 degrees north.
Please google the following before pulling the trigger on this: Suicide rates in the north, violence, polar bear attacks, cost of living, specific costs of groceries, seasonal affective disorder, job availability, the dating scene, alcoholism rates, how to own a car in the north (can’t turn it off in the worst cold), cost of transport and travel from the north. I don’t think you’ve necessarily thought this all through- the North is not the same as other places, just norther. It’s a whole different world up there.
>can’t turn it off in the worst cold As a resident of the high Arctic, this is some funny shit. Thanks for the laugh!
I'm sure you could probably find something in one of the territories if you don't mind small towns.
Why? It's not as fun as you think. And I use to work remotely
op: why not use Google Maps and cross-reference towns that you find against that of a job search for your line of work on a site like Indeed to see what's available? you're going to get pointless answers because your question is vague and lacks focus.
“ as far north as the circle” and “northern communities which support your needs are ALOT different.Honestly, I would stick with white horse or yellow knife for multiple reasons which you can figure out
The furthest north town/city I could want to live in Canada would be Whitehorse hands down. The rest are shit holes and yes I’ve lived in Yellowknife and inuvik and a few other shitholes that start with Fort/Saint or Lake.
First things first, figure out your law licenses. You don’t just get sweeping law licenses for all of US and Canada, and a desolate northern town has no use for a lawyer.
How far north can an AVERAGE guy live? Buffalo NY. Every guy who lives north of Buffalo is exceptional.
You're just getting both US and Canada law licenses eh? Have you considered going to doctor school also? Also ,are you planning on opening a law practice in the arctic circle?
Start with Elliot Lake and learn elder law?
20 bucks says OP would get to the northern-most town in Canada and want to turn around 2 minutes later.
Do you know what a map is?
I am a lawyer...I want to say this as nicely as possible. If you can't read a map or google something then the practice of law as a sole proprietor in a small remote community is not for you.
I lived in High Level when I was young which is at the top of Alberta. You could live in one of the territories to be even more north.
The price of living is insane. Take anything you see at the grocery store and 3x it.
dude I'm sure if you can afford a law license you can afford a map. Or…find a library. You got this.
If you want a northern city with legal job prospects and a decent quality of life, try Whitehorse, Yukon. Northern capital city, surrounded by beautiful nature.
Attawapiskat or Fort Albany. I hoe you bring your own house with you No roads
As a lawyer? Richmond Hill.
Why ??
No you don't, it's fucking horrible, the winters are bad and the summers are worse. Unless you murdered someone and are trying to get away don't live there. It's horrible
You might want to check yourself into a loonie bin too.
lol you're gonna be disappointed to find out they don't need lawyers up there.
Man, if I had a nickel for every time a multi-jurisdictional lawyer told me about their dream to hang their shingle in the Arctic Circle…
Your Canadian law license? lol they’re provincially regulated not sure what you mean by that. If you’re smart enough to go to law school in 2 countries then maybe you can look at a map. There’s no way this is real lmao
Tuktoyaktuk, , they have a good school too ,Tuk U !
There are towns a Loong way north of the Arctic Circle. I was posted for a year in Sachs Harbour, on Banks Island It's many many miles north of the Arctic Circle, well beyond the tree line.
How do you know you're not already as close to the Arctic circle as possible?
Maybe Dawson
I’ve spent some time in Whitehorse and it’s lovely
If you're serious: (Yukon-->) Whitehorse - (NWT-->) Yellowknife - (Alaska -->) Anchorage - Juneau - Fairbanks
I have become very interested with Quebec since my wife and I visited over spring break (in a French teacher) north of Quebec are a couple fun spots, like sagueney near lake saint jean. Churchill is the biggest town on the Hudson Bay, not Quebec tho
Saguenay is a three hour drive north of Quebec City and in no way could be described as arctic. It’s a nice little city and the lake is beautiful but OP is talking about the far north. The Nunavik region of Quebec is the only part of Quebec remotely close to where they are curious about.
Old crow Canada, requires a plane to get there. It's cold isolated and they tend to work construction they fly too.
Try Iqaluit. There are legal aid service providers who might be looking for lawyers.
Honestly, I’d stop at Fort Mac. Pretty far north, fair sized population, lots of work. Going much further north if you don’t have anything established would be stupid.
For a lawyer who wants to at least make a living, Yellowknife would probably be the biggest most northern city. North of that is Inuvik which is think has around 3000 people. There’s also Iqaluit. If you really wanna go North, the most northern permanently inhabited town is Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Pt Barrow I think.
My wife, before I married her, move directly from Pt Barrow to Hawaii.
How far north is a town ? Like in general or somewhere specific ? Find a map of the artic circle and go from there. Tell us what you decide. Can’t imagine what you’ll be doing way up there
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.
I used to live in Inuvik, I wouldn’t want to live in Tuk.
Do you understand Polar night and day? Research that first.
I know a judge that works in all 3 Canadian Territories. They live south but work up there. Something to aspire to maybe?
Just move to Alaska bro, easier.
I grew up in the Yukon in a city called Whitehorse. You can definitely go further north but I think it’s a good middle ground. Not too cold and you’re still close to some other cities (close as in less than 15 hours away from a similar sized city). Great place and tones to do. It’s a pretty decent sized place (40ish thousand) but endless possibilities for adventure. It’s big enough that you can still grow your career without getting stuck in one position. You’ll also have opportunities to travel and work in smaller northern communities if you really wanted. Like I said you can definitely go more north but it’s probably going to lead to the best experience and most potential. I myself will move back at some point but I’m just enjoying the reasonable daylight down south for a bit. There’s soooo many people that go up there for temporary work and just never leave. Awesome place.
I live in a tent but fucked if I know how far up north it is .. So not sure if I can help,but you know what we always say-Sorry..
Tuktoyaktuk
Two of my professors worked extensively in Nunavut, one was Bar President or something like that for a while. If you want to do it, do it.
Whitehorse is about as far north as I’d go in Canada. Fairbanks in the US. Any further north and the cost of groceries/living isn’t really worth the peace and quiet.
What crime did you commit?
The furthest north you can drive in North America is Tuktoyaktuk. You take the Dempster highway till you hit the artic Ocean. https://maps.app.goo.gl/9PwWzXFNtEiogAiY9
I have a friend who is a criminal lawyer and lives in Yellowknife. He flies around to the small northern communities for his work. I assume it coincides with the circuit court schedule. I don’t think you’re going to find work north of Yellowknife, Iqaluit, or Whitehorse.
I had a friend who worked as a paralegal there. You’re correct - all legal matters get handled through the Yellowknife courts (with virtual appearances in some cases.) The lawyers fly to the remote communities. Much off the crime seems to involve poor choices around drugs and alcohol, and domestic violence.
That sounds consistent with what he has said to me. It would be interesting to see all those small communities. I love the north but haven’t been to those really small places.
Why do you want to live in the far north with a law license? Don't you need clients?
Born in Yellowknife. Yellowknife isnt inside the arctic circle but its pretty close. Some industry there, think mines. The city is on great Slave lake. Think about the Great Lakes near Ontario, more fishing boats, but less bikinis. The city itself has more infrastructure than Iqaluit Nunavut. Iqaluit is trying to be a city but it has more of a village feel. Lots of short squat homes next to the sea. Iqaluit lacks a lot infrastructure and services someone coming from the city would expect or want. Whitehorse Yukon has a BC feel. Arctic weather moderated by warm ocean currents. Dawson City Yukon isnt too far north from Whitehorse but that place feels like it was carved out of a western movie. Dirt roads and wooden porches. (cowboys not included, characters abound) Moutains, trees, and rivers. I dont want to say too much about Alaska but we hit Skagway after driving over the mountain. Beautiful fjord tourist stop.
Inuvik, NWT. Or tuktoyuktuk
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Nunavut buddy. Dress warm .
You've heard of Maps right? Google has a great one. Dawson City, Yukon is close to the arctic circle.
Yellowknife is probably the biggest city, also, not as cold as you'd think. The tuk is perhaps the highest up ... Or somewhere in Nunavut