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03-30-2009, 09:15 PM
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Sitka Living?
Hi everyone. I just joined the City-Data Forum. Browsed it for years but never registered. In 2005, my whole family took an Alaskan Cruise and I just LOVED it. Once in a lifetime experience. But I want more than that. I'm looking to relocate to Sitka... does anyone have any type of information about the city? Or if there is other good cities in Alaska. Juneau was awesome but I'm guessing it's very expensive to live there, lol.
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03-30-2009, 09:18 PM
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Sitka is probably more expensive than Juneau. It isn't a shipping hub like Juneau and has a smaller population to support. It has a decent hospital/health center, SE Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC - sounds like search). As far as shopping is concerned, you'd have to get Metlakatla or someone from SE to give you some answers.
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03-30-2009, 10:16 PM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Alaska, where women win the Iditarod and men mush poodles!
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Sitka was a highlight of our Alaskan cruise too.
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03-30-2009, 11:45 PM
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lucky enough
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Location: Haines, AK
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beautiful but pricey
Sitka has a reputation for being beautiful but pricey, particularly as far as real estate goes. It's got direct jet service from Seattle, so it's easy for the vacation-home set to get there with no hassles. A lot of properties there are second homes owned by out-of-staters who are only in town for part of the summer. Pretty good shopping, lots of choices in restaurants (for a town it's size) and more cultural events that you'd expect considering it's isolation (it IS an island, after all). But...you have to be able to afford to live there, and housing is doubtless going to be your biggest expense.
Take a look at the houses for sale on the internet, it's a bit of a sticker-shocker unless you're from the Bay area or NYC or similar.
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03-31-2009, 01:32 AM
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Livin Life Down A Long Dirt Road
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: I live in Alaska but my heart is in Sweden
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03-31-2009, 08:12 AM
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My wife thought about taking a nursing job there. It's a beautiful place and really laid back. Too pricey though even by Ketchikan standards.
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03-31-2009, 02:27 PM
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Controlling Buttercup
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Sitka's great but whether its feasable for you to move there depends a lot on you. It's expensive, can be...as all SE towns can...claustrophobic in the winter. It's expensive but if you're resourceful you can do okay. I honestly spend less money on food et al in another part of SE that can be even more expensive. If you have the time to fish and hunt you won't ever buy meat in the store, and if you can grow a garden you can escape most of the yucky produce that the stores carry, and if you have a still, you can make salmonberry brandy.
Are you retired or looking for a place to work?
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03-31-2009, 02:31 PM
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lucky enough
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Location: Haines, AK
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salmonberry brandy
Salmonberry brandy sounds pretty good, though all the salmonberrries I've tasted around here were pretty bland. I don't suppose you'd share your formula?  |
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03-31-2009, 02:35 PM
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Controlling Buttercup
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rotorhead
Salmonberry brandy sounds pretty good, though all the salmonberrries I've tasted around here were pretty bland. I don't suppose you'd share your formula? |
 (however, I might be persuaded to share my brownie recipe made with medicinal marijauna with you, Rotor).
I will give you a tidbit, however. It helps to get the berries at the moment they are completely ripe or even a bit before. What some people consider ripe, though, is actually over-ripe.
The distilling process does intensify the flavor.
Last edited by Metlakatla; 03-31-2009 at 03:10 PM..
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03-31-2009, 03:18 PM
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I think I am better now :)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Arizona & Alaska
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Metlakatla
Sitka's great but whether its feasable for you to move there depends a lot on you. It's expensive, can be...as all SE towns can...claustrophobic in the winter. It's expensive but if you're resourceful you can do okay. I honestly spend less money on food et al in another part of SE that can be even more expensive. If you have the time to fish and hunt you won't ever buy meat in the store, and if you can grow a garden you can escape most of the yucky produce that the stores carry, and if you have a still, you can make salmonberry brandy.
Are you retired or looking for a place to work?
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