Culture Shock (sex offenders, art, liberal)

[akrev]

You need to investigate wherever you live. If you want to live in the Bush, ask people who live there NOW, not who lived there in the past, even things change in the Bush.

Rainy is right, the PFD is no reason to move here. You really have to WANT to live in Alaska, living here is great, for those who WANT to live here. It is beautiful and the people are wonderful, but just like everywhere else there are the bad things also.

If you visit first, make sure you come up in summer AND winter, if you move off the road system, investigate how to get your belongings there, there are barges, airplanes and the Post Office. Investigate!

We moved here 7 years ago to Big Lake and moved 2 years ago to Dillingham, we love it, but we also found out as much as we could.

This is nothing like Northern Exposure here, that show was filmed in the Seattle area.

Deb

[springvalleyfarm]

Deb,

Just read your reply and would like to ask you why you moved from Big Lake to Dillingham? I was interested in some property near W Papoose Lake but have not seen it yet. My boyfriend and I are considering moving up there and plan to come back up and do some more exploring. We are also considering the area around Talkeetna but would probably have to build our own cabin so it would be affordable. We also wanted to check out Homer and the area along the way on the western coast. I think Big Lake sounds crowded, is it? We live a mile off the pavement in the lower 48 and want seclusion but don't want to be too remote. I am interested in your thoughts on that.

Thanks!

[twixcookie]

I think it would be really easy to romanticize Alaska because it is so beautiful and the cultural trappings of the lower 48 are lessened there. Sometimes, down here, driving from one exit to another exit on the freeway gags me. Same fast food, same signs, same things. Over and over.
I have to take a job in a state I won't call home, and it is in the southwest. I have to move, because that is where the jobs are in my field.
Sometimes, I wish I were a lot younger, and I would start it all over differently.
But there are mountains where I am going, so I can look at them and reflect on things greater than myself.
But I sometimes envy people who live away from the mental slavery of "civilization" as I have never felt I fit in. If you saw me on the street, you would not think I stick out as really different, but there is something in my head.
Maybe it's the idea of the wild, or where there is less government or something.
Someone here made a comment about using outhouses, heck...why not. Maybe that is what we will all have to go back to someday.
Anyway, thanks for letting me have my rant. I guess I have to be grateful for having a job to go to, and try to make a home there.
I am imagining that is how the immigrants felt decades ago, when they could not find work in Europe and they came here.

[niceplacetovisit]

Originally Posted by Out of Alaska

And nobody "dresses" here like they do in the lower 48.

Thats for sure...most look dirty, down and out.

[KayDee The Curious]

Hey while reading all of this I was wandering how much is an educator paid in Ak and what type of clothing is generally worn there?

[goingnorth]

all i want to know, is, does anybody, besides sex offenders, end up "missing" in alaska???im a leftist radical so if any body wants to bury,the liberal, in a snowdrift just say so and i wont come.that will save you the guilty concience.and homicide charge .

[Arcticthaw]

Originally Posted by goingnorth

all i want to know, is, does anybody, besides sex offenders, end up "missing" in alaska???im a leftist radical so if any body wants to bury,the liberal, in a snowdrift just say so and i wont come.that will save you the guilty concience.and homicide charge .

We don't use snowdrifts up here. The smell in the summer when they thaw!

A person of dubious reputation should be aware that if invited to go hunting (or fishing), do they mean hunting or target (Chum... bait)? Future boyfriend or husband of an Alaskan man's daughter autpmatically are considered dubious because he is male.

Hunting and fishing "accidents" occasionally occur with more man over board, or he slipped into the fast muddy current and only surfaced once. Never to be found. Alcohol is suspected as a contributing factor.

[Arcticthaw]

Originally Posted by goingnorth

all i want to know, is, does anybody, besides sex offenders, end up "missing" in alaska???im a leftist radical so if any body wants to bury,the liberal, in a snowdrift just say so and i wont come.that will save you the guilty concience.and homicide charge .

You will fit right in with the University types, and those eclectic folks in Ester.

Our govoner and congressmen are Republicans so I hope you enjoy the challange!

[mal_flisk]

Some of my best friends are Democrats! Seriously, the political spectrum up here runs the gamut, from tie-dyed leftover hippies to right wing conspiracy types. Most of us run somewhere in the middle of the road with our own brand of political needs and wants. As a Republican, I am not into our current brand of statesmanship, led by a power mad White House. I am also pro-choice. (pls, no flames folks, I'm just making a point here) Making me a liberal Republican, I guess. My friends and I don't usually discuss our differences, and when we do, we part as friends.

[goingnorth]

allright .wooooo.man ive thought about this one all day!!!here it goes.(like the current)get it? heh heh.i like fishing.hunting is ok,but it doesnt really get me off.pro choice or pro life,i dont care,the girl probably wont tell the truth, anyway, if its gone that far.but as far as the vigalante justice crap???you have to be kidding.!!!!!!you are actually saying that the (locals)use the lack of law enforcement to (take the law into thier own hands)to make up stories about why someone dissapeared?NO,listen!maybe he did it,maybe he didnt.does that give you the right to judge???DOES IT?you must think it does, to post a bunch of CRAP!about a human washing away in a flood?or hunting accident?or fishing accident?or some other lame( LIE )that ,ooooooo "scary bush peolple" use to validate some ,savage act of barbaric,oh shall we say ,murder!!!!!you either dont want anybody to come mess up your party,or you are just trying to freak out outsiders .well heres your chance .i suggest letting it all hang out, and say what you really want to say instead of hiding behind hidden suggestion,masked,in "high speech"to protect your legal sataus.well...lets let it rip,shall we???