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Old 02-22-2010, 12:38 PM
 
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We are in Fairbanks. Lots of fishing around here!

It really is an amazing place and we are very sad to leave.
So the real reason you're moving in the summer is because you're all snowed in right now?

On my last job they asked "hey want to go up to Ft. Greeley?". I said "No Thanks!"

A few places for my fishing destination include Homer and Sitka.
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Old 02-22-2010, 01:23 PM
 
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We have friends who are Minnesota natives and lived there until 3M sent them to Decatur. They brought their heavy coats, snow boots etc. and of course quickly found they are useless here. They only used them on Christmas visits home.

After 5 or 6 years here, the kids grew up...one day she announced that there would be no more Christmas visits home...they didn't have the clothes for a winter visit to MN!
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Old 02-22-2010, 02:45 PM
 
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So the real reason you're moving in the summer is because you're all snowed in right now?

On my last job they asked "hey want to go up to Ft. Greeley?". I said "No Thanks!"

A few places for my fishing destination include Homer and Sitka.

Ft. Greely is in a BEAUTIFUL area! But the winters are pretty harsh and not alot of ammenitites around there.

My husband has been halibut fishing in Homer.
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Old 02-23-2010, 09:17 AM
 
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You can leave the snow chains and snow tires in Alaska.
...and the snow boots, snow suits, snow shovels, snow blower, engine heaters, down parkas, mittens, long johns, (well, you might want to keep one pair), snowmobiles, sleds, saucers, toboggans (the sled-type, not the woolen watch caps many down here call toboggans)...

...it really is cheaper living here! But you will find that 30 degrees here feels so much colder than 30 degrees there.

AKmom, in a previous life, I used to spend a lot of time in the Fairbanks area. Personally, I liked it, but I think you'll like it here as well. It's just really different from there. The two things that really hit us moving here and friends from that part of the country is how crowded it is (the whole area) and how lush and dense and green everything is...I've heard more than once the term "claustrophobic" used to describe how thick it is.

It's pretty here as well, just a different kind...
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Old 02-23-2010, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Rocket City, U.S.A.
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Uhm, I disagree. I brought my toboggan (and sled) and got to ride each of them once or twice a few months ago.
It ain't much, but it's more than I had in Florida.

Now if we get a real snowfall one of these days, I can make use my yard instead of the iced-over roadway.
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Old 02-23-2010, 10:16 AM
 
Location: Rocket City, U.S.A.
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(Hoping you found the humor in my post, BTW.)
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Old 02-24-2010, 08:08 AM
 
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I thought it was funny.
How'd those sled runners work on the asphalt? About as well as in the dirt?
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