“Freelance writer, but that’s just her. Doesn’t say what her husband does.”
She is also a teaching assistant. He most likely has a government job.
“He most likely has a government job’
Or he works in a diamond mine, gold mine, or some other reason to move out into the wilderness.
I remember watching the movie about the professional hunter who worked up on the north slope oil fields in Alaska. People get paid large amounts of money to go to work in remote areas.
Some of those Ice Road truckers supply parts to diamond and gold mines up in the Yukon/Northwest territories.