Negatives of living in Alaska (Anchorage, King Salmon: appointed, employment, high school)

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by WisconsinVegasHeights

I lived in Anchorage from 6-2010 until 04-2011. I found it to be an absolutely vile place. Most of the people are extremely rude and nasty. The sustained extreme cold and darkness does wear you down after time.

Las Vegas has better scenery and many days without a single cloud in the sky. High of 67 degrees today.

I had two family members die while I was there and I couldn't fly back down due to the prohibitive cost.

If you didn't notice the beauty of the landscape around Anchorage, the mountains, over by Turnagain Arms, etc.? Did you ever stop to look at the belugas at Belugas Point? If you only noticed the way people behave, it means that your interest revolves around people, not scenery. Also, I can understand that having some bad experiences with people can sour your views about any place. Now, if you say that Nevada has some beautiful scenery I would agree with you, but Las Vegas is just another city full of people. You have to get out of the city to experience the beauty of the landscape.

That said, I don't like Anchorage anymore because it not longer feels like Alaska. Too many people.

[Haolejohn]

Originally Posted by EllieKay56

My daughter moved to Alasaka almost 2 years ago. They are in Eagle River. So far they love it. I do send a lot of gifts up there via Amazon. Some things won't ship because they are too big but overall we are happy that the grandkids still get their birthday and Christmas presents.

Some shipping advise. Add 10 of the same product into your cart. Use different vendors. Sometimes one vendor want ship but three others will.

I’ve ordered tires. A bed mattress. Bookshelves. And other large items. It’s nust a matter of finding the vendor that ships.

[6.7traveler]

The negatives of the dark cold winters are actually positives because it keeps most of the people away. If winters were shorter, warmer and lighter more people would want to live here.

[heathen]

Originally Posted by WisconsinVegasHeights

Las Vegas has better scenery

lol

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by WisconsinVegasHeights

I lived in Anchorage from 6-2010 until 04-2011. I found it to be an absolutely vile place. Most of the people are extremely rude and nasty. The sustained extreme cold and darkness does wear you down after time.

Las Vegas has better scenery and many days without a single cloud in the sky. High of 67 degrees today.

I had two family members die while I was there and I couldn't fly back down due to the prohibitive cost.

Funny, I've been in LV and could say exactly the same things about it. Just substitute the extreme heat for cold and relentless sun for darkness. As for weather, it was the same day after day for weeks at a time. Drove me nuts. I found the scenery around LV boring, depressing, almost dead.

Takes all sorts.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by Parnassia

Funny, I've been in LV and could say exactly the same things about it. Just substitute the extreme heat for cold and relentless sun for darkness. As for weather, it was the same day after day for weeks at a time. Drove me nuts. I found the scenery around LV boring, depressing, almost dead.

Takes all sorts.

Did you go out to the Mojave Desert after a spring rain?

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Did you go out to the Mojave Desert after a spring rain?

Not lucky enough to be there after a rain, but I have visited some beautiful remote places in the Mojave. Guess I don't consider LV "true" desert in the same way Anchorage isn't "true" AK.

[Sockeye66]

Originally Posted by CaliRestoration

Amazon Prime is worthless.

Prime 2-day shipping understandably isn't likely to much of Alaska. That said, Amazon has timely delivered to me in Sand Point, St. Paul, Chignik Bay, and Naknek.

[CaliRestoration]

Originally Posted by Sockeye66

Prime 2-day shipping understandably isn't likely to much of Alaska. That said, Amazon has timely delivered to me in Sand Point, St. Paul, Chignik Bay, and Naknek.

I've gotten timely delivery myself in Palmer, but I just have to expect pretty much anything I want is going to be 7-10 days.

Not necessarily a bad thing, but the biggest plus of Amazon Prime is 1 or 2 day shipping options.

[BusyMeAK]

Alaska is very hard to get out.

If one knows for absolute sure that he wants to move there and die there, it's a place for him. Getting out before retirement is very difficult, if you aren't a scientist. Long cold dark winters, lack of architecture, very specific attitudes, inconvenient and costly air travel, bad medicine, high unemployment, bad education, high crime rate, no quality entertainment - it's all about Alaska. Also bad food (except for Anchorage), and yes, even Amazon don't deliver everything there. GCI is crap (they have no idea about existence of other countries besides Canada and maybe Mexico, so their phones are useless for international travel), people drive like they are stoned, and, opening your Sunday issue of a local newspaper you might find a 3X photo of dog's hair infested with lice (or whatever it is) - bon appetite!
The scenery - when one has time to look at it - is, in many areas, beautiful, but cold and lifeless.