Why do people leave Alaska? (Anchorage, Fairbanks: house, buying, school)

[Rance]

Heck we can't even build a bridge to somewhere. I don't see us building large cities with nothing to support them.

[It is 57 below zero]

Originally Posted by Rance

Heck we can't even build a bridge to somewhere. I don't see us building large cities with nothing to support them.

If there are MANY big cities and urban areas around the world, and also quite a few of them in the US, what makes an urban metropolis negative in Alaska? No one seemed to have issues with New York or Los Angeles or Chicago or Denver being built as major urban cities, so what is the difference of an urban experience in Alaska compared to other urban areas? A city is a city, the only things that make one city different from another is the economy, its own pros and cons, and city/state ordinances, education, crime, and cost of living. Anyway, there should be a metropolis for those who like snow for almost 7 1/2 months out of the year.

Some people actually leave Alaska because of not much being provided there, as I said in an earlier post of this thread. I mean, rural towns far apart from each other, without much to do, half of them require things to be flown there without a road, and prices are higher because of that. I also think I said there isn't much in the way of education there.

[Music_Man]

Originally Posted by HannahTravels

That's real interesting and all, but I think most of the people who actually live here are pretty against that happening.

I KNOW they are!

[petester]

I left because they forced me out, they said that they'd kill me if I didn't leave.

I miss alaska. ..I was born and raised there and ill be buried there.

[minnieloo]

I once planned on moving to Alaska but with all I've read and watched on TV about all the misfits , druggies and rampant crime I changed my mind.
Anyone watch Justice TV and Alaska Troopers, scary.

[Frostnip]

If you believe reality TV and get frightened about it, probably Alaska wouldn't be a good fit for you, no.

(Well, frightened about anything other than the fact that that crap gets on TV and people eat it up.)

[GnomadAK]

Originally Posted by minnieloo

I once planned on moving to Alaska but with all I've read and watched on TV about all the misfits , druggies and rampant crime I changed my mind.
Anyone watch Justice TV and Alaska Troopers, scary.

It wasn't that way until meth and now heroin, but it's getting worse.

Check out facebook and search the "stop valley thieves" group.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by It is 57 below zero

There are about 15 million people I wish would move into Alaska and stay as regular residents, so I can put up big cities there.

Originally Posted by HannahTravels

That's real interesting and all, but I think most of the people who actually live here are pretty against that happening.

Originally Posted by It is 57 below zero

If there are MANY big cities and urban areas around the world, and also quite a few of them in the US, what makes an urban metropolis negative in Alaska? No one seemed to have issues with New York or Los Angeles or Chicago or Denver being built as major urban cities, so what is the difference of an urban experience in Alaska compared to other urban areas? A city is a city, the only things that make one city different from another is the economy, its own pros and cons, and city/state ordinances, education, crime, and cost of living. Anyway, there should be a metropolis for those who like snow for almost 7 1/2 months out of the year.

Some people actually leave Alaska because of not much being provided there, as I said in an earlier post of this thread. I mean, rural towns far apart from each other, without much to do, half of them require things to be flown there without a road, and prices are higher because of that. I also think I said there isn't much in the way of education there.

Correct me if I'm wrong, 57, but you've never been to Alaska anymore than you've ever been to California. The only travel you've ever done in your young life is on your computer.

[It is 57 below zero]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Correct me if I'm wrong, 57, but you've never been to Alaska anymore than you've ever been to California. The only travel you've ever done in your young life is on your computer.

I have some family that lives in California.

I knew a couple of teachers with family in Alaska all through high school, and one person who passed through Anchorage before.

I'm not that young, because I'm no longer an underage minor.

I feel like I'm not allowed to post in any state forum without people judging me and starting flame wars and personal attacks directed at me based on the fact I don't live there. I post in a handful of state forums that I have an interest in. I post here because I have a major attraction to Alaska and its weather, so I also want to live in a place where it's cold and snowy for 7+ months of the year, and at the same time, in an urban metropolis like that but Alaska has not one big city in it. I post in California because its strict and challenging standards of living is also interesting to me. And I like Colorado's school system so I post there sometimes.

Originally Posted by petester

I left because they forced me out, they said that they'd kill me if I didn't leave.

I miss alaska. ..I was born and raised there and ill be buried there.

Who said this? Was it some citizen that told you this? No state government would ever tell someone they aren't allowed to live in a state as far as I'm concerned.

If a citizen in a town there said this to you based on some issue (most likely, some kind of discrimination), I would report it as such, because it's illegal to discriminate someone based on things like race or gender, and tell someone they can't work there/live there/go to school there, at least on public property.

[elhelmete]

Originally Posted by It is 57 below zero

I feel like I'm not allowed to post in any state forum without people judging me and starting flame wars and personal attacks directed at me based on the fact I don't live there. I post in a handful of state forums that I have an interest in.

But you post and argue as if you know things from experience but it's really just a hacky cut and paste job. It's disingenuous and, frankly, you come off looking like an idiot to anyone who knows anything (for REAL) about the places you post about. Your naivete is immediately evident.

You're 18, never lived outside your home, you simply can't provide specific info to someone that that person can't get online themselves anyway. People who most sincere questions here deserve to get feedback from people with real experience.

Are you making any plans to visit these places you're infatuated with? If not, why? Or are you posting obsessively to "let's count to 1000" threads?