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I think it does, especially in the part north of the Arctic Circle. Also do you think one day cities like Nome, and Barrow will expand and be built up more?
I think it does, especially in the part north of the Arctic Circle. Also do you think one day cities like Nome, and Barrow will expand and be built up more?
No idea about Nome but Barrow, yes. It's already happening.
New housing, new luxury hotel, expansions to the gym. There's construction all over the place. I heard someone say that if there was serious oil work going on up there off the coast that there could be as many as 20,000 people in Barrow.
So explain to me how you plan to go about this... In order for a city, town, community to exist there needs to be the opportunity to make a living. Jobs. So what will be the jobs to attract these people to such a remote place?
And in the places where there jobs, such as the slope, or at the Red Dog Mine, the living logistics are so challenging that no families live there. The workers rotate in and out in two week shifts.
Historically, places beyond the frontier like that get towns and cities in one of three ways.
1. Boomtown to exploit some resource
2. Religious group that holds beliefs generally disliked by mainstream society
3. Political group that holds beliefs generally disliked by mainstream society
Noticeably only 2 and 3 (and usually only 2) attract large numbers of women of their own volition which is why 1 ends up producing so many ghost towns.
I think it does, especially in the part north of the Arctic Circle. Also do you think one day cities like Nome, and Barrow will expand and be built up more?
Yes, we need more cities in Alaska, made of people form other States who run out of there after chocking themselves with the laws and taxes they create.
Historically, places beyond the frontier like that get towns and cities in one of three ways.
1. Boomtown to exploit some resource
2. Religious group that holds beliefs generally disliked by mainstream society
3. Political group that holds beliefs generally disliked by mainstream society
Noticeably only 2 and 3 (and usually only 2) attract large numbers of women of their own volition which is why 1 ends up producing so many ghost towns.
Very different in Alaska. In here we have had remote towns and villages before Alaska became a State, and most remote places were founded by Alaska Natives and Indian populations that have had nothing do with "1, 2, 3" above. The reason why we don't have cities out there is because we don't have access roads, and because Alaska is not very populated.
Last edited by RayinAK; 07-01-2014 at 08:55 PM..
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