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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 without a visa, many a fascinated by life out here in the arctic blue. this is kind of nice if i just know 9 to 5 jobs and you re out in nature and feel almost humbled by this past experience with vita ah, filipino or not, i runs a cleaning business here in fall back on the northern most edge of europe. he has plenty of work because tourists have finally returned good more work or job more money better morning housekeeping. ringback 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 thing when they arrived in there bought and then a sold the place and in what kind of business there s, there s no freeze. first them i ve been fill lake, the gain of call in the 1st they mean 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. now he cleans up after others. he says it s a good job. apart from when hotel guests behave badly, and then the drunk something and then the bill. and there s sometimes getting worse, leg broken, tv or glasses. it s crazy. yeah and problem is that they am doing that great job with work. oh mm hm. okay. well, he lives in long. yep. ian with just 2500 residence. it s the largest town and saw that this footage was filmed earlier in the year when there was day line 247 after 2 years of karone of iris pandemic, and no tourists visitors of finally returning to sal bad. that s 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 kind of that 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 us. those for like, i m a bit restless, done. but at 1st, this was more of an attempt to broaden my horizons, not just for a year, and niga plant the stuff. i never thought it would become a new life concept. 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 today. they re off to find a good place to camp on fall bad. you need to carry a weapon. residents here share the archipelago with around 3000 polar bears get and child on 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, you might have 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 corona virus pandemic hit him and his company hard, the locked down and the lack of tourists were both nerve wracking and costly via the vanity. those 2 years were a huge challenge me. and at 1st we thought we d lose one or 2 months of the season . and then in summary would start up again. but then summer came on in the fall in the winter. and we realized that the following winter and summer would be canceled to wisdom. and we thought, how much longer can we do that shopping? because now he s now hoping for a bump a year to get the business back on its face. but 1st, 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 fastness. this couple also work is to god s l. e t. n is 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. i think you miss maybe the key to having my hand ah, being pregnant in the fall bar is a particular challenge with no maternity clinical pregnant women had to go to the mainland to give birth. at some point, when i got contractions in january, we got a bit scared and our de delivery. and 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, if you are after 24 weeks when the baby could survive, you still need to be created pretty fast if you want to have a chance of keeping that baby life. so that s when i yeah i realize the limitations of living appear and that s the that s it s, it s not the usual place to say she plans to travel to the norwegian mainland 3 weeks before the bird. ellie s doesn t want to leave any sooner because the island has given her the pace she so desperately needed her daily that 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. yeah, so many patients to see not enough doctors to see them. so you end up with a crazy, broken on 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 a lot 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 stay. and then during the 6 months i felt even martin was the wide life landscapes, the communities. 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 guide until covered 19, almost forced them to abandon their dream. because here any one who can t work has a problem. ah, meanwhile christian brutal has spent 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 carting that now reached an altitude 500 meters. isn t fuckers niko ledger. now we re no longer on the glacier and here, so there, there and there are done, we have sudden dropped into the next valley west. i want to get his name attached to the vin for the. and the wind actually pushes you towards those precipices. for the fire or dead them with i told the wind might not always come from that direction. wow. it s cold, but they haven t started. won t get on the if the wind always loads towards those drop things can get dangerous. answering the especially for beginners. okay. because they ll be pulled by the wind to where it drops down suddenly up. so we have to be really careful hatched. either of those, no choice if was, if the sun chinese gonna get it on the no forget it has a look. it s not even 30 centimeters deep. i think the new meter read more often unmade though we need about a meter depth and for some, 2 meters would be better. but then you can easily dig down for the town in to get standing height in your tent. so and build a nice igloo insurance ego vaughn con. they re planning to go camping with 10 visitors out here in the snow at minus 10 degrees celsius and without a warm shower guys, long as my hot off the stay. sure. on getting up in the morning as tough that will all stay don t even, but you re getting up in this landscape and, and this amazing view vague and you warm up quickly once you start moving off of amazon. and it s just an incredibly intense experience in nature. nobly into the with the 25th i ah, it s beautiful. yeah. but then it dropped straight down. but the view. yeah. yeah. beautiful. with the crevasses back there are, 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 the g to arrive in a few days. heading out into the wilderness is what most tourists come here for. for 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 again, i think the war war they re missing working. and then even if i am off from the dell of work, i also helping me business to clean up that. so i didn t have nothing dole dover with there yet. he often work 6 days a week and still has to turn some jobs down. he s hoping to earn a lot of money by the summer and he s going on his 1st trip back to the philippines in 10 years. know either will because it s been going there of you. you must. they ve money, but i like the defendant and then it s good. yeah. because i, it s been a lot they may have been go back to my country. okay. which one is ok. i don t the light, 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 gold. and then alabama. i know we are a number of filipinos living in salvas lost their jobs during the pandemic 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 invite lays as to 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 me wanna get the saw ever and also brought his 2 sons over 23 year old edwin 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 playing of heater. it s still boring for it. i feel like fine now yet. 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, well does do hold out on the edge of town, there were 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. the theft beth looked like folk is when they are being with us and yours and temperatures as low as minus 30 a not for every one. then there are the many months of darkness from late october to mid february. there s no sun or daylight here at all. oh for we re just listen to what my body wants to do and how to sleep all the time that it wouldn t work. it that yeah, you mess up your with them. you think 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 night and we go and sleep in their early morning and sleep until noon. well, it s nice. i am 247. so yeah, pretty change. anything if you re awake up for 7 in the morning or 7 am the night except of the helpers close. i really easy to forget about good from people have really trouble to handle the dark season for meets warned of summer season. that is difficult because during the summer season it s her too much lighter night on sleep enough. and when i don t sleep enough, they get smell about has more than the whole months of nonstop daylight. from late april to late august, please and lou select pitches they took to hang another step and getting their 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 locked down, they had virtually no state benefits with the cost of living is high. that was different just because for me it was not done any person s age contract that was only on was called free lunch here was so this kind of contract doesn t gave me and the unemployment benefits in all way. so i was basically just getting nothing so it was a lot of trying to survive and using whatever we had on the bank account and borrowing money and putting on the whole the loans that i had to take back as well . that too is part of immigrating to small bought. when times a tough, you have to find a way and leaves, and lou will on the verge of giving up when finally the restrictions were east. quarter 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 to contracts in the same time. many, many hours in down. i didn t seem numbers of hours and the hospital doing something that they have. then you consider okay, left eye drops everything and they left everything to come here. and then if i had to pull back, what do i do after that? i was a bit stressful. i say me, it s now 2 o clock in the morning while heading out to a 2nd location, christian broke down. we had to replace a broken build 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 or some feet, like the depth of the snow. for example. dark wood over 90 centimeters. sure, great. then guns, perfect and left of it, you ll never find the perfect spot gamma we don t want to. nit pick about via got him on i think it s definitely going to be amazing. am. does it gunners? and yet him fuck with spell bod is the best place to live according to after and forgotten. the most important thing for him is that his job is paid. well. the fact that there s only one supermarket, he, it doesn t bother him. 11 things even by here. but it s missing you can even find important tropical fruits and vegetables via here though a 400 basis and deliveries even by a feast and dinner. 3 keyless a bryce in prep hold for one building are for your full finally order. if any product sells out the shelves can stay empty for 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 there s one and a half failure here. if it s i that i in that really big if you re working the bill, it means it s a salary of the like a sen. ranger all is in the middle of the room. another one. if you hit that, the animal police is over b b 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 garlic had now because of the way there. oh my wife. how another woman, little dinner the that the theater. and then forget that i can give in freeway from when i went back into it. you know, playing z. yeah. were playing together little blades again they and again with the from, i don t know, different places from germany from then from russia and engineering was thing a time for that is going that will run because the one is for, oh, okay. that i know i haven t been christian, 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 latrice tickets. goofy. obviously there s a huge amount of debt to pay. and we couldn t do that during cold littlest school. it house the whole, we needed, visitors, guessed it, it was never bothered that it 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 than director confidence. this will know when your direct competitors are getting up to 100000 euros and subsidies and you re getting nothing. just because one of the owners there is norwegian and you re not the social. it certainly puts ident on the idea that it s fall apart is international, and every one is equal and needs to be treated equally. and in this life on the bottom, it felt like a major discrimination through to this coming year 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 real season again. mm. for me is like, okay, what is that? and i should receive a not a year from today to tomorrow. it fully started again, but then as well, we have more people coming here. it s more crowded. we never had the situation there, but it s 2 years of a situation where people love to be able to exactly the work here is very much seasonal. when the tourists here, there s little time for friends, but they do value the relationships they have. but what you really think about it, 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, a regular friendship with and threatened legato son fund life on the island. less exciting. but they wouldn t want to be in the philippines either. it s just rated. they use the funny thing or to leave a lot of people on the side street that do bad things to you. so they do it, snatching people like that were while it again and i and your sides and then ask for your money. you don t have any choice to but to get it instead, getting hurt for me it s, it s a good place to bring meetings here because it s the same place and then there s no but people here and in. yeah, i think it s a good place for my kids here. the role i this is this good to month? yes. right now with long. yep. you re 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 bang from here, 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 we can meet dogs without taking a dog sled until it looks almost ready, but we still see everything through but they made it on the cafe has since opened to the public elise, 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 and the difficult environment of the arctic . but i still think we can one esther was through all of it. them. yeah, find solutions for every single thing that come always right will with it. i will about but happy about. thank you. i am 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 of the money and again, it s some fancy restaurant. and in with her, it s research like that and have fun of birthday party ended. and there were no late in church like expenses. ah, i don t want to stay as long in the philippines because for me it s hard, you know, warm is warm in the philippines. you know, may, may, may lead east is a dot here goal. and didn t maybe bagel, but to the british, as long as a calling to a vacation, it might be late. or maybe i am sick for that. ah, yes, once you hear me, we me christian, brutal. one last time before his departure to the snow camp. his timber group has arrived. yeah, i said, i m glad to assist you to fulton yet, and i m very thankful that it s working again that we have tourists coming and see it will 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. lived. alba obviously of evie. huh. that s what i very much doubt that i ll do this forever. is 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 nice 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 ah, ah. the beginning of a 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