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50 nations, live in the norwegian archipelago. just 1300 kilometers from the north pole in winter. it stays dark for months and in summer it's constantly light. citizens of any country can live and work about without a visa, many a fascinated by life out here in the arctic blue. this is kind of nice if i says no 9 to 5 job, you're out in nature and feel almost humbled by this vast expanse by 2 ah, filipino s and my gosh, i runs a cleaning business here in fall back on the northern most edge europe. he has plenty of work because tourists have finally returned
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work or job more money better morning housekeeping. while still in the philippines, he heard that this remote location deep inside the arctic circle, has well paid jobs and no visa restrictions. it's open to anyone who wants to work here. he set out to begin his new life. 10 years ago. first i arrived in there bought and then a sold the place and in what kind of business there's, there's no freeze 1st. then i didn't feel like the gain of call in the 1st time in a year out of the airport and then called it's called sober, called in manila, he used to sell car insurance, but it was a struggle to feed his family.
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now he cleans up after others. he says it's a good job. apart from when hotel guests behave badly. and then is the drunk something wrong and then the bill and there's and i'm getting more leg broken tv or less as if it's great. yan problem is out that they and doing the that the great job with were oh mm okay. well, he lives in long. yep. ian with just 2500 residence. it's the largest town ins fall bought. this footage was filmed earlier in the year when there was day like 247 after 2 years of karone, of ours pandemic, and no tourists visitors of finally returning to sal bad. that's
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a relief to christian, brutal to. he's a to a guide from germany and runs his own business, catering for germans speaking to a groups. he used to work as a school teacher in germany's black forest. 10 years ago when he was about to qualify for a lifelong job guarantee. he took off for the arctic and state knowledge version of canada, i think on back then, i wasn't even 30 and yet, and i just couldn't imagine doing that same job right until i retire. asked those fellow, i'm a bit restless, done. but at 1st, this was more of an attempt to broaden my horizons at the moment. just for a year. i need to plant the stuff. i never thought it would become a new life concept of offered his brother, mario, and sister in law, miriam, a visiting in a few days they'll embark on a one week expedition with other tourists to day. they're off to find a good place to camp on small bags, you need to carry
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a weapon. residents here share the archipelago with around 3000 polar bears. you don't, i don't is relevant here. every decision you make carries, wait, and given the sun, you're dependent on your equipment working good on knowing how to use it and having everything with you. you then, would you mind that any decision you make can have terrible consequences once fun and the fact that every action counts in this also very harsh environment is something that really fascinates me here. the current of ours pandemic hit him and his company hot, the locked down and the lack of tourists were both nerve wracking and costly did its via the vanity those 2 years were a huge challenge from a dr. young. at 1st we thought we'd lose one or 2 months of the season, and then in summer it would start up again. but then summer came home there in the fall in the winter l is it. and we realized that the following winter in summer would be canceled to wisdom and we thought, how much longer can we do this shopping? because not he's now hoping for a dump a year to get the business back on it's feet. but 1st,
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the 3 will need to invest many hours to find the right camping spot for the to a group out here in the great white vastness. this couple also work is to guides, at least tennis from belgium and her husband lou slippery from france. and they're preparing for the arrival of their baby daughter do in just 6 weeks lighting system . then you're miss maybe the q at the hub in my hand, ah, being pregnant in style bad is a particular challenge. with no maternity clinic, pregnant, women have to go to the mainland to give birth. at some point, when i got contractions in january, we got a bit scared of and or the delivery ends. we know that the system here is that you get, they've, i created with the plane, but it still takes a few hours. so if,
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if you are, after 24 weeks when a baby could survive, you still need to be evacuated pretty fast if you want to have a chance of keeping that baby a life. so that's when i oh yeah, i realized the limitations of living of hearing definitely that's it's it's not you usual a place to get it say she plans to travel to the norwegian mainland 3 weeks before the birth. ellie's doesn't want to leave any sooner because the island has given her the piece she said desperately needed her daily. the huskies are a little more arduous right now. but then nothing compared to her previous job as a doctor working in the emergency room in belgium. 3 years ago she suffered burnout has so many patients to see not enough doctors to see them. so you end up with
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a crazy, ronald load every day. i had never been kind of an edge all the time, and that's not me. i fell asleep while driving and that scared me really lots as well. at some point it was just not possible to keep on going or anything. so she decided to visit her boyfriend lou, who was already living on file bonds, largest island sh, pittsburgh, and she was captivated by the island and extended her day. and then during the 6 months i felt even martin was the wide life of landscapes, the community. when you need something, you just post a message on the group of town and say, i think it's pretty impressive to have such a tight community all that way. for nurse, she began a new life as a to a guide until the 19 almost forced them to abandon their dream. because here any one who can't work has a problem. ah, meanwhile, christian,
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brutal has been more than 3 hours searching for a suitable location to camp. off to driving 70 kilometers, the group sees the 1st place that looks like it could be suitable. they need good ski slopes and wind for snow kiting. they've now reached an altitude 500 meters, isn't fuckers mika glitter? no, we're no longer on the glacier and here. so they're there and there are done. we have sudden dropped into the next valley, which i want to get his ne satari with a vin for the. and the wind actually pushes you towards those precipices. for the sign up. for dead them with i told the wind might not always come from that direction. wow. it's cold, but they started won't get on the if the wind always loads towards last rock things can get dangerous on thing that the especially for beginners and because they'll be pulled by the wind to where it drops down suddenly up. so we had to be really careful hatched either of those luxuries if was, is the sun chinese programming ever hey,
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on the no forget it. look, its not even 30 centimeters. the i think centimeter is more often and meter we need about a meter depth with on 2 meters will be better. um and then you can easily dig down for the town in good standing height in your tank there and build a nice igloo returns. eagle von con, they're planning to go camping with 10 visitors out here in the snow at minus 10 degrees celsius and without a warm shallow dies long's asthma. hot off the stay. sure. i'm getting up in the morning as tough. what else did or didn't, but you're getting up in this landscape and this amazing view vague, and you warm up quickly once you start moving austin obama done. it's just an incredibly intense experience in nature of interviews that were early this. ah,
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it's a beautiful girl. yeah. mesa, but then it dropped straight down. but the view yeah, yeah. beautiful. with the crevasses back there either, but it's no good ah. both safety and the scenery are important. they're hoping for better luck on their next stop. the visit is a g to arrive in a few days. heading out into the wilderness is what most tourists come here for. the fmla garzo, that prospect holds no attraction. he doesn't have time anyway. i do wonder because if it's i and i'm busy, i can, i can the war war there. listen working. and then even if i am off from the dell of work, i also helping me business to clean up that. so i don't have nothing dole dover with there. he often work 6 days a week and still has to turn some jobs down. he's hoping to earn
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a lot of money by the summer. if he's going on his 1st trip back to the philippines in 10 years, let it be the will because it's been going there of you. you must the money, but i look at the defendant and then it's good because it's been a lobby may been go back to my country. okay. which one is ok? i don't like lynn. close the door. his last room for the day while out he often live streams video for family and friends back home. his comment show how otherworldly the snow covered landscape seemed to his relatives. there he gonna say hi. hello. how are you all heard? that is your brace. nice brace, beautiful place, and then it's golden. and then, um, i know, yeah. a number of filipinos living in salvas lost their jobs during the pandemic
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without an income or state help, they were forced to leave. now, more workers are urgently needed. that way i going, but though, my country, i just in like lay sister the what we could. yeah. no, i don't accept private housing. meaning because i don't have enough people around a 100 filipinos currently live here, even though it's cold. this area by the sea is a meeting place for impromptu barbie case. but milano dasa f and also brought his 2 sons over 23 year old, a one and 18 year old jericho. since i've been here for 5 years, and i always see the same thing as every day when i go out. so basically most of my casino or my friends in philippines, they used to go out in the beach or like, go out in a mall like hanging out around like that. but here i'm just always out of my room
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playing of heater. it's still boring for it. i feel like fine now yet. yeah. but he says leaving here isn't easy. he'd like to go to university. but for the subjects he's interested in, he'd need to move to the mainland and be fluent in norwegian. so far he's made little progress with the language. ah, ah, if does to hold out on the edge of town, there are a number of facilities for sled dogs. huskies are only allowed to be left off the leash in compounds like these. the heavily pregnant elise is relieved to have her friend franka lighter, a helping to day with beth. they looked like folk is when they are being
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with 10 years in temperatures as low as minus 30 a not for every one. then there are the many months of darkness from late october to meet february. there's no sun or daylight here at all. well, for i would just listen to what my body wants to do, and i to sleep all of the time that it wouldn't work. it that yeah, you mess up your rhythm, you gave them they really struggle inadequacies and depression wise or yeah, it is not easy. but usually we reverse our schedules and we are more awake during the nights and we go and sleep in their early morning and sleep until noon. i was night. i'm 247. so yeah, i was, i'm pretty change anything if you're awake up 7 in the morning or 7 and the night except off of the shop is close. i really easy to forget about him. some
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people have really trouble to handle the dark season for meads, mourned a summer season with this difference because during the summer season it's there too much lighter night on sleep enough. and when i don't sleep enough, i get smell about has more than 4 months of nonstop daylight. from late april to late august, please and lou select pictures they took to hang. still been getting an apartment ready for their baby. their dream of living in the act, it was almost shattered when they both lost their jobs and their income joined the lockdown. they had virtually no state benefits with the cost of living is high though, is that just because for me i was not on any person's age contract that was only on was called free lunch here was so this kind of contract doesn't gave me any unemployment benefits in all way, so i was basically just getting nothing so
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it was a lot of trying to survive and using whatever we had on the bank accounts and, and worrying money and putting on the whole the loans that i had to take back as well. that too is part of immigrating to small, but when times a tough, you have to find a way, leads, and lou will on the verge of giving up when finally the restrictions were eased. for almost $200.00 persons, both of us, when every single company that could give us work, we took the work. so last summer i worked as well, 2 contracts in the same time, many, many hours in down the same numbers of hours and the hospital for doing something that they have. then you consider okay, left, i dropped everything and they left everything to come here. and then if i had to pull back, what do i do after that? it was a bit stressful. i me,
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it's now 2 o'clock in the morning while heading out to a 2nd location christian broke down. they had to replace a broken belt on his snowmobile. they drive for another hour and a half after a 170 kilometers and 11 hours on the snowmobile they arrive at the 2nd location. this time it's a winner ali, let's see. looks beautiful, daughter in addition to the spectacular view of the criteria, also feet like the depth of the snow. for example, dogwood over 90 centimeters shown great. then guns, perfect blood dividend,
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you'll never find the perfect spot gamma we don't want to nit pick about vicodin. martin, i think it's definitely going to be amazing. me. does it gunners and yet and play with spell bod is the best place to live according to after and regard out. the most important thing for him is that his job is paid. well, the fact that there's only one supermarket here doesn't fall to him. 11 things that happened by him. but it's the same. you can even find important tropical fruits, vegetable by here, thought a 400. got better us and abilities even by a feast and dinner 3 keyless a bryce if and prepare food for when the building are for your flow. finally. if any product sells out the shelves can stay empty for
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a while. the ship bringing fresh supplies only comes once every 10 days. the next one isn't due till the following monday, as a friend learns. i am and it doesn't have a nap file over here. if it's either in the really big if you're working the philippines, it's a salary of the like a sen. ranger all is in the middle of the road. another one. if you hit that's the animal. police is over be out of the for the past few months, he's had to manage household chores on his own. as he and his wife had separated, he mostly cooks filipino dishes tonight. he's making chicken adobe with ginger and
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garlic type. now be blue and white. that there are my white how another woman, little thin dinner, the theater. and then i forget and i can give in freeway when i went back and then it you know, playing scene. yeah. we're playing together little blaine to get there. and again, with that from, i don't know, different places from germany from then from russia. i think it was thing a time for that is going that will run. but because the one is for, oh, okay. that i don't, i haven't been christian,
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brutal company bought a house at the center of long year. been thanks to help from investors. it was a gamble. and shortly after the purchase the pandemic, it literally forgets purity, obviously. but a huge amount of debt to pay that, and we couldn't do that during cold little a school with house the whole we needed visitors, guessed it, it was never bothered that there was no safety net here until coveted then as an exception, businesses were allowed to claim state assistance, including those in the tourism industry, but that only applied to no wage in firms. then direct a concordance. this will not when your direct competitors are getting up to 100000 euros and subsidies. okay. and you're getting nothing. just because one of the owners, there is norwegian and you're not the social, it's certainly puts ident on the idea that fall apart is international and every one is equal and needs to be treated equally in this, in place on the bottom. it felt like major discrimination through to this company
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will following the locked downs they need to catch up. and thankfully, things are busy. despite that they've decided to take some time out from work for being with friends with her. and now we're getting blasted in the real season again. mm. for me is like okay, what is doesn't actually really, isn't it? yeah, it is a not a year from today to tomorrow. it's fully started again, but then as well, we have more people coming here. it more crowded, we never had the situation that, but it's 2 years of a situation where people not to be able to play back. they work here is very much seasonal. when the tourists are here,
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there is little time for friends, but they do value the relationships they have by them or what you're writing about them. but the fact that we're in the super rough environment also brings it to be. this is people that not only are you friends with also, that actually could save your life when you're going on for. and that brings it to another level than a regular friendship with insulin. legato son, find life on the island. less exciting, but they wouldn't want to be in the philippines either. it's just way too dangerous there for me to face or to leave. a lot of people on the side street that too bad, thanks to you. so they do have snatching polls like that were while over and again my and your sites and then ask for your money. you don't have any choice to but to
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get it instead, getting hurt for me it's, it's a good place still bring making here because it's the same place and then there's no but people her and in. yeah, i think it's a good place for my kids here. the role i this is this you good to month? yes. right now with long yep. yeah. normally gets around $70000.00 visitors a year. it used to be mainly a coal mining town. many believe tourism has a bright future here. a lease included during this film shoot. she was working hard on a new project. the magnus, to go really well. together with 3 friends, she was preparing to open a rather unusual cafe. so this is bank
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via husky usa coffee. so basically it's a place where people can meet the huskies. we have a lot of people in town, but usually ask where they can meet dogs without taking a dog sled until it looks almost ready. but we still see everything through bought. they made it on the cafe has since opened to the public police, his dream of living in spell bod, where she recovered from burnout, almost didn't work out. now she has a new challenge of living with the baby in the difficult environment of the arctic . but i still think we can manage to go through all of it. them. yeah, find solutions for every single thing that come always right will with it. i will adapt but happy about it. i am
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when a friend regards her visits, the philippines, he plans to go to some of the countries popular beach resorts, something he could never afford to do before. his family now sees him as a wealthy businessman from europe, needs of that i have all the money and begun it, some are fancy restaurant and then with other bits research like that and have fun a birthday party ended and there were no late in church late expenses, ah, i don't want to stay as long in the philippines because for me it's hard in a while it's warm in the philippines. you know, may, may, may, buddies, is a dot here goal and didn't maybe bagel, but to the british as long as a calling to litigation. it might be late on maybe i am sick for that. ah, yes. once you hear me, we may christian,
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brutal one last time before his departure to the snow camp, his timber group has arrived. i said, i'm glad us you know, fulton yet, and i'm very thankful that it's working again that we have tourists coming and see or me and that we don't have to bid farewell to the livelihood that we built up here. august under insufficient for a long time. we just didn't know. in the long side, it feels like the worst of the crisis is now behind them, but i'll be start off even more. that's why would i very much doubt that i'll do this forever often because it's a very busy life and it's hard work. and it's like you have no roots to think i always need to. so i don't think it will be forever. but for the time being for here, cynthia, fall bad is open to all those who are willing and able to work hard and cope with the extremes. most migrants move on after a few years. for them, the archipelago in the arctic is a beautiful but temporary home no
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