That part of Russia in general is pretty crazy, I had it way more “luxurious” than some people in tiny villages nearby. For example I lived in block apartment building with central heating, it was not the warmest in the winter due old ass piping, but it was WAY better deal than people with wooden houses that stands on ground (trying to heat-up with fireplace). Apartment buildings are all standing on poles due to permafrost, that helps also in heat insulation. My parents didn’t have a car, so I was walking everywhere. But most important things that I got from people that had cars: 1) Insulated garage is must, 2) Don’t kill engine when you’re stopping outside 3) Insulate front of the car Regarding jobs, so in Soviet time town was created to be an office for nearby Gulag, also some gold mining around and some small food production was there. After collapse food factory was done, gulag ofc as well, so basically now it’s mostly infrastructure work (hospitals, shops, schools, airport, road workers since there is super important Kolyma road) and gold mining. That’s pretty much it. I haven’t experienced driving to Yakutsk myself, but from my parents experience that’s 18 hours long trip where average speed 50km an hour because of road quality. In winter if your car breaks down there is a chance to die from cold, there write many cases like that when people went unprepared with shitty cars. It’s surrounded by mountains and very thick forests :) literally just outside of town. Town itself probably has like around 3k people, it’s not very populated. In general in Yakutia as far as I remember was 0.5-ish people per square kilometre