[斯科特]23 岁的男子每月支付 500 美元住在“干燥”的小屋里——那里没有自来水

AnnMarie Young 于 2021 年从德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校毕业后的第二天，她和她最好的朋友搬到阿拉斯加费尔班克斯过暑假。

这位 23 岁的艺术家在阿拉斯加生活了三个月，然后返回德克萨斯州。

但杨告诉 CNBC Make It，在她离开的那一刻，她就知道自己想回到太平洋西北州。

“我心里有些东西就是不想离开阿拉斯加，”她说。

“我想向自己证明我可以坚持下去。”

那年夏天，杨用出售艺术品赚来的钱买了一辆已经改装成小房子的货车。

她收拾好行李，前往阿拉斯加，经过一周的越野驾驶，她到达了。

“我走得很慢，走风景优美的路线，”她说。

当杨回到阿拉斯加时，她在货车里住了几个月，然后搬进了干燥的小屋。

安玛丽·杨

2022 年夏天，杨住在她的货车里，但当冬天到来时，她必须做出决定——要么再次回到德克萨斯州的家，要么在阿拉斯加寻找不同的生活环境。

这位艺术家最终通过口碑在费尔班克斯找到了一间小屋，但它确实有一个问题。

杨提供的小屋是干式小屋——一种没有自来水的住宅结构。

该房产确实配有外屋。

71 岁的房主 Mollie Sipe 是一位退休教育家，她以每月 500 美元的价格将其出租。

Sipe 告诉 CNBC Make It，她于 1988 年购买了这间小屋。这是一个大约 10 英尺 x 20 英尺的房间，带有一个卧室角落。

它包括一个配有炉灶、微波炉和使用加热油的加热器的厨房区，Sipe 总是在每个新租户之前将油加满。

杨从外面看到了小屋，但在决定接受租赁之前从未参观过内部。

幸运的是，一切都很顺利。

“这不是你想象中的梦幻小屋，但它的内部真的很可爱。它非常舒适，非常适合当时的我，”杨说。

“我有一整个部门来做我的艺术作品，这对我来说是最重要的。”

小屋里杨最喜欢的部分是她有一个专门的角落来创作她的艺术作品。

安玛丽·杨

“这是女性在阿拉斯加改变生活并快速起步的地方”

Sipe 在 80 年代开始出租小屋，她的房客只接待过女性——这完全是巧合，但却是 Sipe 喜欢的事实。

“她们总是为我找到下一个人，而且一直都是女性。这就是我所说的‘小屋女孩’的神秘之处。她们在这方面非常可靠，所以我从来不需要寻找，”西佩说。

"It's a place for women to take a turn in their lives and jumpstart in Alaska," she says. "It's just a way of life that you get to find out what you're made of, what you can do, and how capable you are."

After rent, Young's expenses included 25 cents to fill up three five-gallon water jugs, something she drove into town to do every week and a half or so.

Young admits that one of the biggest issues she had living in the dry cabin was access to internet. The cabin is surrounded by tall trees which made it difficult to get reliable cell and internet connection. She even tried using Starlink at one point, but had to cancel due to inconsistent service.

The dry cabin is about 10 feet by 20 feet and has one room with a kitchen area and a bedroom nook.

AnnMarie Young

Living in a dry cabin meant Young had no plumbing, laundry, shower, washer, or dryer.

She washed her dishes and brushed her teeth in a five-gallon water jug that drained into a bucket underneath and had to be dumped manually.

"Because I was already living van life, transitioning to a dry cabin was a lot easier. I was already living without things that the dry cabin didn't have, like a shower or bathroom," Young says. "It took me a week to get used to it, and then it just became my new normal."

"I'm not a tough person; I didn't grow up camping and am not a rugged outdoor person, but if I can do it, I think a lot more people can do it," she added. "It's all about setting your mind to something," she adds.

The dry cabin didn't have running water, so Young would shower in the neighbor's house a few times a week.

AnnMarie Young

Young was able to take a proper shower at a neighbor's house every couple of days, and used baby wipes and other products in the dry cabin in between.

"We had a deal setup that I would come and use the shower when they weren't home because they wanted someone to use the pipes to make sure they didn't freeze," she says.

And when she needed to use the bathroom, Young would throw on a thick robe and slippers and start walking the path to the outhouse in the back. Young was sure to always keep that path clear of snow.

A typical day in Young's life when she lived in the dry cabin included training her dog, Moose, driving into town to a coffee shop to use the Wi-Fi and work on her website, and hours spent painting.

While some may think living in a cabin in the middle of the woods sounds isolating, Young says she's never felt more of a sense of community than when she lived there.

"I had such a good group of people in the area that I felt like I was hanging out with friends every night," she says. "I loved feeling like I was doing something special and tough and that the whole way of life is normalized in the area."

Young spent almost a year living in the dry cabin before she moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Anchorage.

AnnMarie Young

“你可以自己做，但这要困难得多，所以我喜欢每个人互相依靠、过着这种生活方式的社区氛围，”她补充道。

杨在干燥的小屋里住了大约八九个月，然后才和男友搬进阿拉斯加安克雷奇的一套一居室公寓。

两人每月分摊 1450 美元的租金，虽然 Young 喜欢拥有额外的空间，但她承认她很怀念小屋里的生活，并且很快就会再次这样做。

“我认为我们可以再做一次。我怀念住在小屋里的感觉，”杨说。

“从我来到阿拉斯加的第一个夏天起，我就感觉自己与阿拉斯加有着紧密的联系。我不知道我是否会永远留在这里，但我知道这就是我现在想去的地方。”

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