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Living Alaska
Ok for the last time,” we don’t live in Igloos.” I am sure some people still did a hundred years ago, but then the white man came and built a house, started a fire and that ended the igloo. Well not so fast, the Native people had fires in their igloos for thousands of years before the Russians arrived. There are still Eskimo people in Alaska and Canada who build shelters out of snow when they go hunting, but they do not live in them. They have nice homes now
Housing in Alaska is not cheap. The cost of construction materials is expensive as is quality labor. They have nice houses here and they are usually quite large. The average home is four or five bedrooms. They are not cheap but built to last. You can buy a fixer upper for a reasonable price but plan to do the work yourself or you will be waiting a long time for a contractor. The weather here can be severe so buying a house that needs work usually means you are going to be doing it while it rains, snows, or is freezing cold. The contractors who live here are so busy during the short summer that it is impossible to get one. Be careful about fly by night contractors, but that happens everywhere in the world. You get what you pay for.
