Want OUT of AK! (Anchorage, Fairbanks: income, job, houses)

[RobertMerchant]

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Originally Posted by insearchof

Ok, so I did something most people would never do, it was daring...
6 yrs ago, I moved my self and 2 children (single mom) from my home state of CA, i'd never visited ak and moved here pretty much site unsceen
all of my research was done via computer, I had made a friend on an aol site whose hubby was in the Air Force and they were stationed at Elmendorf, oh she bragged about how RICH the state was, tax free etc....
well, after a 2 yr time living in both Wasilla (3 mo's), then Eagle River, I moved to the Kenai Peninsula, was able to buy my very first home as i'm on a fixed income. well, I am MISERABLE here, not only has it been near impossible to make friends but the schools are terrible and i'm sick & tired of their approach to 'history' as being all exclusively ak native
shopping here consits of driving 3 hours thru a twisty windy treacherous (in winter) road just to get to a walmart

My mind is made up, I want outta here! I refuse to go back to CA, very little relatives there and we are not in the least close, in fact, I have no close friends or family anywhere... but I feel my children deserve to have more opportunities, they are not looking at becoming fisherman or drilling for oil
i've proved I can handle winter only, I want it as a season vs a 9 month sentance. I'm dreaming of the east coast, I don't handle extreme heat and/or humidity well at all because of a medical condition.

So, where would a single, responsible, clean, decent, commited to her family, single mom
move OUT of here to?

[artichoke63]

Originally Posted by imbobbbb

well i dont know if 'daring'is the word i'd use.if short winters and close shopping with cheap housing are high priorities alaska doesnt sound to me like it would have been the place i would have picked.the southeast is hot and humid and the northeast is humid and cold much of the year but there are plenty of walmarts.if you couldnt make friends in alaska or california i dont if you will have any better luck anywhere else in the country.you need to figure out what is important to you in an area,research it and GO there before you move there.some people love alaska and some love mississipi swampland.you need to figure where you can afford,what kind of climate you want,and how populated you want the area around you to be.its not enough to decide where you dont want to be you need to figure out where you do want to be and just asking others opinions isnt the best way to do that,thats how you ended up where you are now

Hey, I admire this person for moving to Alaska. Lots of people move to places where it doesn't work out and then come back. I moved all the way to Australia only to have it not work out. Life is about taking chances.

Artie

[rotorhead]

Sleep a lot in the winters. You'll need it to make up for the mania of the long summers. I can easily kill at least 12 hours a day snoozing if I try.

Of course, now that we've got a 3 year old running around that plan is shot to heck...oh well. We're on the "manic summer" plan year-round now.

[darstar]

Originally Posted by artichoke63

Hey, I admire this person for moving to Alaska. Lots of people move to places where it doesn't work out and then come back. I moved all the way to Australia only to have it not work out. Life is about taking chances.

Artie

Amen Artie ! And what about those people that always talk about making that big move.......... My father was one of those, always wanted to move to ND ( not sure why), made many trips, but never quite bit the bullet, or bought the farm ( Thats what he wanted a wheat ranch)............then, he did, "by the farm", up and died on me @ 47 years old .

[Nordman]

Originally Posted by losercore

Just thought I would add a little as I was from California and moved to Alaska (Anchorage) I lived there for 6 years and left and went back to California. I wished everyday that I had not left. Alaska is an amazing State to live in and California has gone to complete crap. I actually just up and relocated to Madison. WI just to get out of California. Someday i will move back to Alaska as i think it truley is one of the best State in this Country.

Hope all works out for you

Wow, sounds like me! I was in N cali which was not as bad as other places, I do miss the ocean, Sonoma, etc., but I dont regret up n moving to Madison to get out of CA.

I'd recommend looking at the midwest especially if you have kids in school, the education system here is good & has high standards, especially in MN & IA.

[dmderosa2k]

I only was in Alaska for a year but I must say there is no place like it. You got everything you could need there and yet you also can find peace and quiet anytime you need to. That is God's country and I rarely have found anything in the lower 48 (and I have been through most of it) that compares to Alaska and the people are just the icing on the cake. I do not know why you do not like it so much but I can tell you that being single there might have been the hardest part for you. I can sense but I could be wrong. I will tell you this, Alaska is the hardest place to find a mate.

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by insearchof

So, where would a single, responsible, clean, decent, commited to her family, single mom move OUT of here to?

Yazoo City, Mississippi where Uncle Bubba is waiting fer ya wit open arms. LOL!!!

yazoosplash

[MinuteMan]

Originally Posted by Las Vegan Cajun

Yazoo City, Mississippi where Uncle Bubba is waiting fer ya wit open arms. LOL!!!

yazoosplash

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[M TYPE X]

Originally Posted by Las Vegan Cajun

Yazoo City, Mississippi where Uncle Bubba is waiting fer ya wit open arms. LOL!!!

yazoosplash

"Author of My Dog Skip"

[wallstreet1986]

[quote=dmderosa2k;951566] I only was in Alaska for a year but I must say there is no place like it. You got everything you could need there and yet you also can find peace and quiet anytime you need to. That is God's country and I rarely have found anything in the lower 48 (and I have been through most of it) that compares to Alaska and the people are just the icing on the cake. QUOTE]

Totally agree - I haven't found this often in the lower USA - even down in the Southeast, too many people and subdevelopments in the Blue Ridge Mountains, no real cool frontier feel.

I love the boreal forest, the sound of loons crying on a lake, wolves howling, the snow and northern lights, seeing bears and caribou, the changing of seasons and swelling streams, freezeup and the breaking up of the ice, the color of the winter sunset, berries and stuff like that, log cabins and fire. I've seen that kind of stuff before in Northern Ontario but I'm American and want to move to Alaska. I think I'd move to Fairbanks or wherever I could get a job.