Who is leaving Alaska...and why (Anchorage, Fairbanks: for sale, rentals, sex offenders)

[forgetwho]

I've checked out pet requirements recently because I'm moving to Talkeetna in a month, and I'll be driving from Washington State through Canada with my dog :-). As others have said, to enter Canada you just need a current rabies certificate, but to get into Alaska, you need a health certificate dated within 30 days of entry. Here's a link to the Alaska State Veterinarian's website specifying that: State Vet - Pets. There's no mention there of a heartworm check.

[Classic Satch]

Originally Posted by SuValley

ClassicSatch, too funny...when I saw the picture of your new place, it dawned on me, I am sitting less than a mile from you-and even stranger-I know the previous owner

Beautiful home, great setting, nice handy location-you done good!

Thanks a bunch! I love it here and the neighbors are great. Four of them stopped in to say hi when they saw the moving truck. Moving here was a great idea. And before anyone thinks it, I love winter. It doesn't bother me in the slightest bit.

[Classic Satch]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Beautiful home! And lucky you for probably being able to heat it with natural gas instead of heating fuel like in the interior of AK. In here it would probably cost you around $2,000 per month to heat it during the winter

I appreciate the kind words. And yep, we have natural gas.

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by Classic Satch

I appreciate the kind words. And yep, we have natural gas.

So by natural do you mean that you eat a lot of pickled eggs?

[Classic Satch]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

So by natural do you mean that you eat a lot of pickled eggs?

Nope. IPA's and cabbage do the trick quite well.

[AKgirl08]

Hi All!
My boyfriend and I both were born and raised in Anchorage and plan on leaving for Florida in the next month. Our reasons for leaving are simple; the weather is usually crappy (summers can be awesome excluding this year which has been freezing/raining constantly), the college life is extremely boring, and we would like to live somewhere warmer. I LOVE Alaska and would recommend anyone to come visit or live here (especially if you are going to be raising children) because the economy is much better than in the lower 48, jobs pay more, the school system is really good, and the people are generally very nice. If you are moving with teenagers, they probably will not like it here (many of my friends who were moved up here by their parents during high school left as soon as they finished high school and went to college in other states) but younger kids will love it.

[MeganAK]

I have read some good thoughts on this topic. I write this with a somewhat saddened heart, because we love Alaska. I have been here for 11 years. I love it, but my husband and I are leaving after spending three years in Nome. It has made us realize how hard the winters are, how much we sacrifice and miss out on with our family in the Lower 48, and how expensive things have gotten without higher wages. So it is primarily financial ,but more. Nome did something to us. It made us tired, and made us think that the sacrifices we make to live here are no longer worth it. Prices for food and housing are going up, the winters seem longer and longer every year, and our family seems farther and farther away. We want to live somewhere that we can have a chunk of land, own our house with no payments, and grow as much of our own food as we can. We used to think Alaska would be the best place to be if things in the US got crazy, but now we aren't so sure. Nome has hardened us, for sure. I am tired of the ocean being frozen. I am tired of paying $2000 for rent. I am tired of no fruit or veggies worth eating. I am tired of seeing my family maybe once a year. I am tired of cramming everything into the few days of summer. It makes me nervous that we are so dependent on fuel to get EVERYTHING here. What if that stops happening for some reason? I want to be more self-reliant. I guess for us, it isn't Alaska that changed at all, it was us. That's why people leave, I think. Alaska just doesn't look the same to me anymore. And it is because WE have changed.

[Classic Satch]

Originally Posted by MeganAK

I have read some good thoughts on this topic. I write this with a somewhat saddened heart, because we love Alaska. I have been here for 11 years. I love it, but my husband and I are leaving after spending three years in Nome. It has made us realize how hard the winters are, how much we sacrifice and miss out on with our family in the Lower 48, and how expensive things have gotten without higher wages. So it is primarily financial ,but more. Nome did something to us. It made us tired, and made us think that the sacrifices we make to live here are no longer worth it. Prices for food and housing are going up, the winters seem longer and longer every year, and our family seems farther and farther away. We want to live somewhere that we can have a chunk of land, own our house with no payments, and grow as much of our own food as we can. We used to think Alaska would be the best place to be if things in the US got crazy, but now we aren't so sure. Nome has hardened us, for sure. I am tired of the ocean being frozen. I am tired of paying $2000 for rent. I am tired of no fruit or veggies worth eating. I am tired of seeing my family maybe once a year. I am tired of cramming everything into the few days of summer. It makes me nervous that we are so dependent on fuel to get EVERYTHING here. What if that stops happening for some reason? I want to be more self-reliant. I guess for us, it isn't Alaska that changed at all, it was us. That's why people leave, I think. Alaska just doesn't look the same to me anymore. And it is because WE have changed.

I wish you the best of luck. I, however, being a native of PA and spending 10 long hellish months in CA, love AK. My wife has a recession-proof job for an incredible company and my income, though not bad, is merely for bill-paying.

Alaska is awesome and, if that idiot Obama is elected, the lower-48 will become a hell-hole. People who can't add 2+2 are going to decide this election and those of us who worked hard to achieve money-making positions are going to be penalized by the idiot Democrats. I hope Alaska secedes if that moron is elected.

[karibear]

I'm not planning to, I already did. It was strictly for DH's health, though. The docs basically told him to go south where there would be the kind of medical facilities he needed. Didn't quite work out that way, though. The only clinic that would have been able to do anything for him refused to see him, and he finally died last fall. Now I'm disabled too, and can't afford to either move back or live there any more. I enjoy reading this forum, but sometimes it makes me so homesick I could just sit and cry. Crying over anything doesn't help, so I try to concentrate on the good things I have now. The people where I now live are just as friendly and helpful as the ones I met when I first went to AK in '69, so that much is a great bonus.

And FWIW, the rain, snow, and long winters didn't bother me. I loved lying on the frozen lake in front of the house in the winter and just watching the stars - they were so bright, a person could walk home through the woods [sparse woods, by the edge of a large lake] by starlight alone. I never saw stars like that anywhere in the Lower 48. In fact, growing up in a major city, I thought the Milky Way was just an expression, I never actually saw it until I moved west.

[Moose Whisperer]

Originally Posted by Classic Satch

I hope Alaska secedes if that moron is elected.

I actually like that idea. Only downside though is that if we were to secede, Russia would probably invade the next day!