{"id":448645,"date":"2022-05-17T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-i-moved-my-family-into-a-yurt-in-yukon\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:42:25","slug":"why-i-moved-my-family-into-a-yurt-in-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-i-moved-my-family-into-a-yurt-in-yukon\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why I moved my family into a yurt in Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f764a02f54\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f764a02f54\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-i-moved-my-family-into-a-yurt-in-yukon\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_I_moved_my_family_into_a_yurt_in_Yukon%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why I moved my family into a yurt in Yukon&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_I_moved_my_family_into_a_yurt_in_Yukon%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why I moved my family into a yurt in Yukon&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n                            Melissa Antony was priced out of the housing market, so she imported a traditional Mongolian home\u2014and has never been h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ier\n                        <\/div>\n<div>\n                                                                        <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Antony began her search for a home in the Yukon in the middle of the pandemic. Property prices were soaring, even in the North, so the 35-year-old had to get creative.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After looking for a secluded place to live with her husband, Vincent, their nine-year old son, Isiah, and their band of noisy dogs, the family bought a tract of undeveloped land 20 kilometres south of Dawson City, where the short summers and remote location make building houses a challenge.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their solution was an unconventional but increasingly popular one. Antony talked to<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Aaron Hutchins about what it\u2019s like to live in a traditional Mongolian yurt in Canada\u2019s far northwest.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cost of living in the North is very high. I was paying $2,500 a month to rent in Yellowknife, on top of childcare and other costs. So in January of 2021, we moved to the Yukon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We had our eyes on Dawson City, where it was a little more affordable. We didn\u2019t want our dogs to be bothering the neighbours too much. We really wanted a lifestyle where we could live off the land, have different animals\u2014some ducks, chickens and whatever else\u2014and live sustainably. We found this plot of 21 acres near Dawson that was undeveloped and reasonably affordable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MORE:\u00a0This family left their Toronto bungalow for rural Nova Scotia<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The window for development up here is short because of the long winter, and the cost of building<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is outrageous. There\u2019s no Walmart or Home Depot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I studied anthropology for 13 years and I\u2019ve always been fascinated by Mongolia and traditional lifestyles. We started looking into yurts, and we found this company called Groovy Yurts. They source yurts directly from Mongolia, then bring them to Canada and help you put them together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We really liked that the yurt doesn\u2019t have an impact on the environment. It\u2019s made of all-natural materials: sheep\u2019s wool, horse-hair ropes, wooden beams. It\u2019s a really beautiful structure, something we could put up in a matter of hours and live in. It was the most affordable\u2014and warmest\u2014option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We built a platform about a metre off the ground because we weren\u2019t sure what the spring runoff and flooding was going to look like. We use that platform as a fridge, because we\u2019re sitti<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ng right on permafrost. We lift a portion of the floor and there\u2019s a nice, cold storage space underneath.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1236805\" style=\"width: 4042px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-sizes=\"auto\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1236805 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_2566.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The roof of Antony\u2019s yurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re in a small space\u2014a six-metre radius. We have a table and our beds, and that\u2019s basically all there\u2019s room for, plus some shelving for a pantry and a kitchen sink. We don\u2019t have internet or cell phone service. We don\u2019t have electricity or running water. We use a wood stove for cooking and heating water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spend a lot of time reading and playing board <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s and cards. Because it\u2019s such a small space, I feel really connected to my son. I also feel really connected to the land. There\u2019s no sound barrier to the outside. We hear the birds very clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We buy groceries in town. It\u2019s about a 15-to-20-minute drive. I go for the day and do my work here at the university, and my son goes to school, and then we head home at the end of the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever I go to Whitehorse\u2014about five-and-a-half hours away\u2014I fill the car to the roof. These are $1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s, because you want to bring back all the dried goods you can. Without a freezer or a real fridge, we have to think about cooking in a different way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a lot of heavy snow this year, so we had to constantly clear the roof. I was absolutely blown away by the engineering of the structure. The design has been around for thousands of years. It\u2019s just so beautiful, and we feel really secure. No matter how windy it is, it just feels stable. We never get cold. When the wood stove is going, we get hot\u2014we sit around in shorts and T-shirts when it\u2019s minus-32 outside.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0This man is building a tiny-home utopia in P.E.I.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chose not to have windows because we were worried about losing heat. Instead, we have a plexiglass dome on top. In the summer, we close it because we have no darkness. But in the winter, we leave it open all the time and we see the Northern Lights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Christmas gift theme for my son was about the constellations and telling direction by the stars. You lie down at night and it\u2019s this moment of calm, and you look out at the stars. 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