What is it really like living in Alaska?


 
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paz is offline paz Post #1  May 23,2008, 5:53pm
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Hi everyone,

Alaska seems like an amazing place. So much to offer yet it seems so defiant to intruders. I have always been drawn to Alaska. Can someone tell me how is it really like living in Alaska? Thank you.
 
 
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I lived there a while back, in Anchorage. It is the only place I've ever been where you can live in a fully modern city with stark wilderness at your back door. Imagine driving 5 miles from your home to the mall and encountering:
1) a sow moose and calf curled up in the entryway of your apartment building.
2) crossing a stream packed full of 2-foot long salmon headed upstream.
3) seeing a dozen bald eagles in a tree overlooking said salmon at a time when they were endangered in the lower 48, and
4) passing a steep cliff with dall sheep looking down on you..

...all of that between your home and shopping. What awaits you when you set off beyond the city limits is 100 times more amazing; glaciers, gold dust sparkling in glacier-fed streams, mosquitoes the size of humming birds, mud flats that are so deep that they are as deadly as quicksand, the northern lights, summers full of light and winters with little to none.

It is truly amazing.

While I only lived there for 4 years, I still consider Alaska my home.
 
 
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marthak,127043 wrote :

I lived there a while back, in Anchorage. It is the only place I've ever been where you can live in a fully modern city with stark wilderness at your back door. Imagine driving 5 miles from your home to the mall and encountering:
1) a sow moose and calf curled up in the entryway of your apartment building.
2) crossing a stream packed full of 2-foot long salmon headed upstream.
3) seeing a dozen bald eagles in a tree overlooking said salmon at a time when they were endangered in the lower 48, and
4) passing a steep cliff with dall sheep looking down on you..


...all of that between your home and shopping. What awaits you when you set off beyond the city limits is 100 times more amazing; glaciers, gold dust sparkling in glacier-fed streams, mosquitoes the size of humming birds, mud flats that are so deep that they are as deadly as quicksand, the northern lights, summers full of light and winters with little to none.


It is truly amazing.


While I only lived there for 4 years, I still consider Alaska my home.
Thanks Marthak,


I am totally speechless. I had a fairly good idea but it's never the same when you have someone who has personally experience it . That's the one dream that I have in my mind and heart...
 
 
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Then Paz, you MUST go!
There are other things that make it unique. The extreme daylight in summer and the extreme darkness in winter. While Anchorage, where I lived, didn't have total daylight and darkness, you still had to get used to the sun...or moon...going around the sky on the horizon in circles. I worked as a DJ for the military while I was there and more than once I would get a call from someone recently stationed there asking me what time it was. There would be a long pause after I answered the question and it would be followed with a sheepish......"AM or PM?"


The long days make for some really gigantic produce, too! Cabbage heads the size of the Great Pumpkin, strawberries the size of plums, etc. The growing season may be short, but the long days make up for it.


It also does wild things to your engery level. You could work a full week, get off your shift on a Friday and drive 3 hours to a good fishing spot and fish at midnight and beyond without giving it a second thought. It was like getting an extra day in a weekend because you could do all that, nap, and still have all of Saturday and Sunday ahead of you. It was really, really wild.
 
 
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marthak,132630 wrote :

Then Paz, you MUST go!
There are other things that make it unique. The extreme daylight in summer and the extreme darkness in winter. While Anchorage, where I lived, didn't have total daylight and darkness, you still had to get used to the sun...or moon...going around the sky on the horizon in circles. I worked as a DJ for the military while I was there and more than once I would get a call from someone recently stationed there asking me what time it was. There would be a long pause after I answered the question and it would be followed with a sheepish......"AM or PM?"


The long days make for some really gigantic produce, too! Cabbage heads the size of the Great Pumpkin, strawberries the size of plums, etc. The growing season may be short, but the long days make up for it.


It also does wild things to your engery level. You could work a full week, get off your shift on a Friday and drive 3 hours to a good fishing spot and fish at midnight and beyond without giving it a second thought. It was like getting an extra day in a weekend because you could do all that, nap, and still have all of Saturday and Sunday ahead of you. It was really, really wild.
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Hi MarthAK,


How are you? Hoping everything is well with you [img]library/editor/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif[/img]


Yea, I can only imagine the daylight and the darkness.I have been reading more and more about AK...got so many books and magazine that it feels like I'm in heaven! plus I can totally picture in my mind what you have told me.


Thank you soooo very much for sharing with me all those great memories...hopefully sometime soon I can tell you what I did in AK [img]library/editor/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-wink.gif[/img][img]library/editor/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-smile.gif[/img]
 
 
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Hi Folks


I lived in Wonderful Alaska from 1984 to 1995. I was in Anchorage mostly as I was in the US Air Force. Then I moved to Kenai, where I lived, get this, 3 blocks from the mouth of the Kenai River. We were right on the Gulf and I loved it. I miss the feeling you get when you leave Ak and fly back. As you come over the Chugach Mountains, your heart sinks and your eyes water. I miss it so much. I do plan on going back because as has been said, once you've lived in Alaska, you ARE an Alaskan!
 
 
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Alaska is a modern city. I visit the website and saw the city. It is very amazing. It will attract all the people. I am eager to visit it.
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marthak,127043 wrote :

I lived there a while back, in Anchorage. It is the only place I've ever been where you can live in a fully modern city with stark wilderness at your back door. Imagine driving 5 miles from your home to the mall and encountering:
1) a sow moose and calf curled up in the entryway of your apartment building.
2) crossing a stream packed full of 2-foot long salmon headed upstream.
3) seeing a dozen bald eagles in a tree overlooking said salmon at a time when they were endangered in the lower 48, and
4) passing a steep cliff with dall sheep looking down on you..


...all of that between your home and shopping. What awaits you when you set off beyond the city limits is 100 times more amazing; glaciers, gold dust sparkling in glacier-fed streams, mosquitoes the size of humming birds, mud flats that are so deep that they are as deadly as quicksand, the northern lights, summers full of light and winters with little to none.


It is truly amazing.


While I only lived there for 4 years, I still consider Alaska my home.
Your comment is very nice. I gave some comment about that city. Alaska is a modern city. I visit the website and saw the city. It is very amazing. It will attract all the people. I am eager to visit it.
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marthak,127043 wrote :


I lived there a while back, in Anchorage. It is the only place I've ever been where you can live in a fully modern city with stark wilderness at your back door. Imagine driving 5 miles from your home to the mall and encountering:
1) a sow moose and calf curled up in the entryway of your apartment building.
2) crossing a stream packed full of 2-foot long salmon headed upstream.
3) seeing a dozen bald eagles in a tree overlooking said salmon at a time when they were endangered in the lower 48, and
4) passing a steep cliff with dall sheep looking down on you..


...all of that between your home and shopping. What awaits you when you set off beyond the city limits is 100 times more amazing; glaciers, gold dust sparkling in glacier-fed streams, mosquitoes the size of humming birds, mud flats that are so deep that they are as deadly as quicksand, the northern lights, summers full of light and winters with little to none.


It is truly amazing.


While I only lived there for 4 years, I still consider Alaska my home.

Your comment is very nice. I gave some comment about that city. Alaska is a modern city. I visit the website and saw the city. It is very amazing. It will attract all the people. I am eager to visit it.
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Yes, Anchorage is totally modern as far as a city goes. However, the surrounding suburbs are much less dense then you find in the lower 48, so once you leave the city it's only a few minutes drive and you are suddenly in wilderness. That's part of what makes it so magical.
 
 
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Hi to all. Do what I did 25 years ago. Just do it. Still here. Nice day on the Kenai penninsula today, mostly sunny, mid 60's and the river is full of fish. I have traveled around the state by the sweat of my brow, getting another job in a different area. Have done maintence at a fishery in Prince William Sound for 3 years, spent a year on the Iditarod trail caretaking and doing weather reports at an upscale lodge, was a commercial scuba diver and spent a whole summer diving in every bay around Kodiak Island on which I lived for 13 years. Helped build lodges and houses in remote areas. Currently saving up for my next adventure. Bring a camera with lots of extra capacity. Take the State ferry up the inside passage for the least expensive cruise you can have. Buy a yearly copy of Milepost to plan.
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