having been there and spedning soem tiem talking to the locals..

Do two recce's one summer and one winter.. I'm told it's like two completely different worlds

I think that holidays are always a different ball game to the real thing. Everyone I talk to (non Canadian) has the best impression of Canadians, but listen to the people on the ground and it's usually a different story unfortunately.

Having also done a stint in the US, holidays and working life/reality are just two different things.

Thanks for that advice. I think that would be a very wise decision. I think that id like to go out there with the mind set of moving there and therefore trying not to treat it as a holiday as such.

All the best

Whitehorse isn't like Yellowknife, obviously the winters are pretty cold but I've spoken to a few people who've lived there and they seem to think it was okay, main problem seems to be the isolation. But it gets reasonable precipitation, there are trees and whatnot, it's just near nowhere.

The problem is when you get away from Whitehorse the weather can be significantly worse, I know someone who used to live in a logging town in the Yukon and he was telling me a story about how the axle on his dad's pickup shattered in -60 while he was taking him to school, which was apparently the point of the story - not that he was going to school in -60.

Do that in January or February to see if you can handle it.

I read a great book a couple of years ago which is a very honest account of a couple who emigrate to the Yukon - think they might have been British. Really interesting, and gives a great insight into the difficulties of living there, and the benefits. Easy and fascinating read.

Hope you can find it, think you'd get a lot out of it: The Good Life: Up the Yukon without a Paddle by Dorian Amos.

(I enjoyed it a lot despite bad editing a lot of typos - so it must have been good for me to see beyond them).

I have friends living in Whitehorse and I'd be happy to introduce you. She works in marketing for the government and he works for fish and wildlife. They are in their mid-late twenties and are loving it up there (they are very outdoorsy type people)

PM me if you are interested.

Good luck! J

Whitehorse has a web cam on main street.... worth a look

I'll add it if I find it

Yes that would be very much appreciated. Im only 30 myself and being able to talk to someone who is actually living up there would be perfect
Thank you

Thanks. Do you know the link?

In case Google was broken for you
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weath...=4&R=200&CEL=C

Thanks. It kept coming up with a fatel error on google on the pages I was trying to go on

See also: Canada in general.

Why do I want to see that?