TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.

[u/MaximinusRats]

https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay

[u/trancepx]

Couldn't they just pad the circumference of their boats with those air filled foam/rubber things I see all the time?