What Created all the I’m moving, going to Alaska threads?

[tigre79]

Originally Posted by Indy Pendance

It's 59F here on June 24th. I'm waiting for summer...We've just come off a week of rain and fog and temps in the 50's.

Lol, that is summer here!

[Lunabell]

Originally Posted by Frostnip

Whatever. Have fun with that if you actually move here and to a non-urban area. Purely anecdotal, of course, but I've noticed that a lot of the transplants I know from milder climate regions actually do better, maybe because they are fully aware that they don't "get" it and will need to adapt while for some reason it's super surprising to many Midwesterners that winter can actually be hard psychologically and physically. I myself almost lost my fingers my first winter here...overconfident and underprepared, I guess.

That makes a lot of sense. I know we are feeling like we can handle/learn to handle it because we learned to handle Minnesota winters. I am actually more worried about how the amount of darkness in winter is going to affect us. We got used to less light in the winter when we moved here, but I have never lived without the sun crossing the sky for part of the day. Time will tell how successful we are at figuring it out.

[ShipOfFools42]

To be honest, I feel like I would rather have zero hours of daylight than have only five or six. Sure, the darkness would be psychologically intense at times, but I'm unusual and happen to enjoy darkness and cloudy weather and most things that other people (especially from the South) don't like. But yeah, something about knowing that the sun just isn't going to come up at all makes it seem like it would be more tolerable. When winter first starts and daylight savings switches over, the days seem really short and it bums me out a little, but that usually goes away within a few weeks and then I'm enjoying winter like usual.

The best part is, I live on a mountain now in a town of 1500 people, and it's going to be great when winter comes. Asheville is in a valley that is protected from weather systems by mountains, but Barnardsville isn't, so we get a good bit more snow here. I can't wait; I'm just that much closer to having real winters.

And I've spent a lot of time in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, and it's cold and all, but it's not that bad. There's just no way Alaska's interior is that tame.

[naturesdreams]

Originally Posted by tigre79

Lol, that is summer here!

I love the lower temperatures... I love the fact that you get many dark hours but compensated by so much daylight in the summer when you can get out and enjoy things... no deal breaker for me... I have many hobbies such as reading and sketching, painting to occupy me when it is so cold it isn't smart to be outside for too long... I have very cold temps here in Wisconsin and have braved the cold to snowshoe etc. but sometimes it is absolutely dangerous so I have learned to keep myself quite busy during those days... love it tigre