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03-21-2009, 04:56 PM
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Dancing on the edge of survival!!
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: east coast/moving to AK!
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Originally Posted by starlite9
No road to Dutch? Surely you jest, I read about the Marine Highway to there....
You know I am kidding.... right? 
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Marine Highway....just keep driving...when going underwater turn on your headlights and wipers...hold breath!!! 
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03-21-2009, 08:30 PM
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Prince of Darkness
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Anchorage
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Currently working on a bid in Dutch. The general doesn't want to sign a contract allowing any weather delays. And I'm not crazy or stupid. If I wind up with a crew waiting to come home and it's rainig sideways, I don't want to have to maintain them and pay them for 5 days of butt time in the Grand Aleutian.
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03-21-2009, 11:48 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Interior alaska
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Originally Posted by mal_flisk
Currently working on a bid in Dutch. The general doesn't want to sign a contract allowing any weather delays. And I'm not crazy or stupid. If I wind up with a crew waiting to come home and it's rainig sideways, I don't want to have to maintain them and pay them for 5 days of butt time in the Grand Aleutian.
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But the Grand Aleutian is such a nice place to spend the weather days....
Course, you could go broke staying there, but such is a day in Dutch!
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03-22-2009, 12:41 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Interior alaska
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Originally Posted by very_interested
I currently live in fairbanks. Is there a school for children in the Anderson area? Also, how long do they give the person to build a home or improve the land before the land is considered forfeited? Thank you and have a great day!
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Yes there is a school in Anderson, it is part of the Denali Borough School District. The land giveaway is long gone, it was a one shot deal that the school kids thought up to get families to move there to increase the amount of kids in the school. Their funds for operation are based on how many kids are enrolled, and they are getting smaller as the kids grow up they leave and no real numbers of new families are moving back in with kids.
The free land deal is over for now.
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04-13-2009, 09:18 AM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Free Land in Anderson
I am looking to move to Alaska and was wondering if there is still free land available or if there is some low cost land or housing in or around Anderson AK? I have been reading up on this town and it looks like a nice community to retire to. I am a disabled vet but I bring with me the ability to build, repair, and program computers. I was hoping to find a little community to set up a small mom and pop computer store. Bartering for computer repairs is something I would love to do also. Bring me a chicken and will work on your computer. <grin>
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04-15-2009, 12:14 AM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Originally Posted by starlite9
No road to Dutch? Surely you jest, I read about the Marine Highway to there....
You know I am kidding.... right? 
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You think that's bad... I told my folks I want to drive to Alaska when I'm done with school... My mom replied by saying, how are you gonna drive there, it's an island! I had to get out the globe and give her a geography lesson. I think someone took a leak our gene pool a few generations back!
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04-15-2009, 09:31 AM
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Senior Member
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"I think Floyd might be Santa Clause"
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: alaska and missouri
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Originally Posted by andywire
You think that's bad... I told my folks I want to drive to Alaska when I'm done with school... My mom replied by saying, how are you gonna drive there, it's an island! I had to get out the globe and give her a geography lesson. I think someone took a leak our gene pool a few generations back!
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04-15-2009, 09:32 AM
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Senior Member
Status:
"I think Floyd might be Santa Clause"
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: alaska and missouri
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Starlite, Did the free land giva-away bring in many new familys? Did it acomplish what it set out to do?
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04-18-2009, 01:50 AM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Interior alaska
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Originally Posted by mongazid
Starlite, Did the free land giva-away bring in many new familys? Did it acomplish what it set out to do?
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I don't know if it brought in the families they were hoping for with kids. I haven't been over there for a bit. There are houses being built, but not the numbers for the land given away.
I am in Homer right now working on a ship, but will be back home In a few weeks and will stop by there and take a few photos of the houses being built.
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05-05-2009, 09:33 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Free Land In Anderson
The land giveaway was a mild sucess. There are two families (mine is one of them) that have built and moved in, along with another house put in by a single guy. There have been other lots worked on, but only time will tell if something will come of them before they revert back to the city. Personally, I would like to see them do the giveaway again for lots that revert back to the city, but I don't know where the city council sits on that issue. They may go back up for sale...
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