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Originally Posted by LoveToHug
Would be nice to check the soils, to make sure we are not paying for waste dumps.
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Nope, good gravel and good well water is only a few feet down, the trees were burnt off a few years back when some kids started a fire. The city took the land when they thought the Clear AFB Radar site was going to be switched over to the Reserve, so they made the housing sites and jacked the prices up because of the perceived housing shortage in the area. The contractors went to the unveiling and saw the prices and told the city to take a hike.
After a few years of empty land, the local kids came up with the idea of giving the land away to get families to move there so they would have enough kids in the school to keep it open... don't recall a lot of people building there yet, and some of the property may be back on the "Free Market" shortly when they don't do anything with the land.
Unless you are retired, work for the school or can get a job on the AFB, you are going to be pretty hard pressed to find work that will pay much.... Or plan on a 90 mile drive to Fairbanks to work one way... The town has only a few hundred people there and most are retired from the AFB and their kids have grown and gone.
There is some "Food Stamp" pioneers still out in the sticks around the area. They were on welfare and got free land to build on while they still got welfare and food stamps... thus the name.
You can buy land for a thousand an acre in the area, have privacy and not have people bothering you next door. You can look in the Alaska Real estate sections on Yahoo and find almost anything you want.
www.AlaskaRealEstate.com - Statewide MLS system - Homes, Land, Commercial, Businesses
Oh, I live in the area, but not in Anderson and there is a lot of nice folks there but hard to make a living.
There is Satellite TV available though either Dish or Direct TV, you buy the system from the national INTERNET site and they have an installer come to your home and install the system (Direct TV is much better, I had both).
High speed INTERNET can be had anywhere in the State by satellite also. The company that has the Hughesnet system is in Fairbanks and one of his installers lives in the Anderson area. The Company is called Alaska Satellite Internet Systems and can be contacted at 1-907-451-0088 or 1-907-543-0753.
Anyway, maybe that will give you guys a better shot at your dream... But the winters are as cold as on the Northern Arctic Coast during winter, -50 for weeks at a time are not uncommon. Most summers are in the high 70's to 80's except for this year, lots of rain and a lot of 50's temps... Appears that Gobal warming has fizzled...