Alaska friendly to outsiders? (Barrow: home, move to, food)

[moosehop]

Originally Posted by starlite9

That is the nice thing about your posts on Alaska, they are clueless... We do get riffraff here, but the cold and darkness of winter is normally enough to drive most of them back South when spring comes.

Also hate to break it to you, but Alaska already is a "Destination" for tourist and those with the belief they will have a better life here, but without doing their homework, it may be their worst nightmare.

Still willing to drop you off at Timothy Treadwell's camp site if you want to get to see what real Alaska is like!

Great job! Well spoken and so true.

[gobrien]

Originally Posted by RDawg

Just a moment. I understand that y'all's skeeters are pretty bad up there. Y'all got bugs too, right?


(By the way, southerners have a pretty good grasp of the Anglais, contrary to popular belief. There are two apostrophes in y'all's. Pretty precise, no?)

I was talking about all y'all's southern bugs!

[gobrien]

Originally Posted by gobrien

I was talking about all y'all's southern bugs!

We have bugs but not the horrendous variety that the south has....

[RDawg]

Originally Posted by gobrien

We have bugs but not the horrendous variety that the south has....

Try stepping on one of these while running barefoot through the pines.

Mutillidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your foot will swell to the size of a football.

[oneyear]

WOW! Starlight! you figured it all out for everyone else!

You'll never drive away those cruise ships tho.

And honestly, nobody is heading to Alaska unless they have some kind of post within the army and navy. Most people will ask about it, and decide quite quickly not to move. I know that people come on this board and ask things, but all in all, i'm sure that 1 out of every 200 would actually move up there only because they have secured a job.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by oneyear

WOW! Starlight! you figured it all out for everyone else!

You'll never drive away those cruise ships tho.

And honestly, nobody is heading to Alaska unless they have some kind of post within the army and navy. Most people will ask about it, and decide quite quickly not to move. I know that people come on this board and ask things, but all in all, i'm sure that 1 out of every 200 would actually move up there only because they have secured a job.

Do you have some meds you forgot to take or something...

You are ranting all over the boards....

Why would I want to drive the cruise ships away... The local SE towns are doing that as it is with head taxes, the ships themselves are dumping trash and pumping oily bilges and getting caught at it and so forth..

People come to Alaska for a wide assortment of reasons, the Military is being one of the bigger reasons for moving here... Visitors come and go by the millions... so what they are called "TOURISTS" and that is what they do.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by gobrien

We have bugs but not the horrendous variety that the south has....

Yeah, we have one major version of "bug" and that is the different versions of Mosquito's that show up at certain times of the summer, small ones, medium ones and the monster bombers...

The bad part is on a calm day, they come in clouds to where the sky gets dark, and it may have been a clear blue day at that.

The noseeums, whitesox, gnats and others are a tad pale to the dark clouds...

[cola1219]

Originally Posted by RDawg

Try stepping on one of these while running barefoot through the pines.

Mutillidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your foot will swell to the size of a football.

I saw one of those in Lousiana, it had a machine gun, and took my wallett. Luckily I was broke at the time. But now im in Dutch Harbor, I
havent had a problem with mosquitos, unless they look like Eagles here. But I have heard stories. Does citronella candles or bug zappers or basically anything help with the mosquito swarms? cause seriously im headed east and a bit north to look at some land probably in the fall. I would like to have some idea about how to protect myself from marauding buglife

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by cola1219

I saw one of those in Lousiana, it had a machine gun, and took my wallett. Luckily I was broke at the time. But now im in Dutch Harbor, I
havent had a problem with mosquitos, unless they look like Eagles here. But I have heard stories. Does citronella candles or bug zappers or basically anything help with the mosquito swarms? cause seriously im headed east and a bit north to look at some land probably in the fall. I would like to have some idea about how to protect myself from marauding buglife

drink lots of booze that way they cannot suck you dry of blood as they become inebriated and fall off you before that can happen.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by cola1219

I saw one of those in Lousiana, it had a machine gun, and took my wallett. Luckily I was broke at the time. But now im in Dutch Harbor, I
havent had a problem with mosquitos, unless they look like Eagles here. But I have heard stories. Does citronella candles or bug zappers or basically anything help with the mosquito swarms? cause seriously im headed east and a bit north to look at some land probably in the fall. I would like to have some idea about how to protect myself from marauding buglife

Bug zappers don't work because they don't attack mosquito's. They go after heat and CO2 that animals breath out. The Mosquito Magnets do work well for clearing an area of the crowds of them, but you need to clean them daily for the first week or two and then they thin out.

Never had much luck with the candles though, best thing that worked was the "Pics", the knockoff copies of them don't seem to work well though.

Most people come to Alaska in the summer and don't bring bug dope... Then they find that the "Alaskan Bugs are friendly to outsiders" really love them here... mostly as a food group though!