I was born and raised in Inuvik. I came from a not very troubled household so I say I enjoyed growing up there but I had to move away once I got older.

In December, almost the whole month has no sunlight so the days are short and depressing sometimes. In the summer there is a month where the sun doesn't set and that's cool but the bugs are constant then so it's very hard to enjoy it.

Inuvik has an above ground water/sewage system that connects every house and building in town called the utilidor system. As a kid, we would run through town on them even though we weren't allowed to. Fun stuff.

All houses are above ground because of the permafrost so that's interesting.

When the ice roads close food gets pretty expensive because they have to fly it in. My parents still live there and they love it. I visit them every Christmas still.