Yellowknife, convince me we should (or shouldn’t) move back North!
Hi Yellowknife, how I miss you so!
We’re considering a move to Yellowknife after I was offered my federal job there. My husband works in wealth management/finance.
I lived up north from 2016-2019 in Inuvik.
However, I always loved Yellowknife. Sadly, we’ve heard the charm of your beautiful town has dwindled and we want the honest truth.
From what I am hearing is that opportunities no longer exist, the spirit of the community is now more miserable and dark instead of the once vibrant and welcoming place it was, it is no longer safe to travel on the streets and trails, and that most people (even locals) are leaving.
I’m not blind to the conditions of the North, they raised me in my twenties.
The reason we’re looking to move back is because I miss the outdoors. I miss the beautiful indigenous culture that captivated and nurtured me. I miss the slower pace of life and the community that was just wonderful. While Inuvik was (and is) not Yellowknife, I spent a lot of time in Yellowknife anyway. Enough to know I liked it there.
I think across the country, everything has changed. It is so expensive to exist, opportunities with jobs are minimal and hard to find, housing is expensive and so is utilities. We are seeing that on the east coast too - tent communities, drugs, depression. So, I want to be cognizant that I feel like everyone is feeling some kind of way about the state of our world.
So, is Yellowknife no longer the place I learned to love so much? Is it really as bad as I am hearing?