Looking to move to Anchorage? DON'T. (Fairbanks, Kenai: house, high school, landlord)

[rhiannon67]

Originally Posted by Kamsack

To me....the longer daylight and sunshine hours get me down ....same as too much darkness gets some down....but it is the opposite of me. I have reverse SAD....it isnt common. I sweat also very much and much about 70F is pretty miserable for me outside. I believe I have a higher set body temperature than most and thus get warm very easily and withstand cold much easier.

I've apparently repped you too many times already so to this post I will merely just have to agree wholeheartedly

[Kamsack]

Originally Posted by rhiannon67

I've apparently repped you too many times already so to this post I will merely just have to agree wholeheartedly

Thank you..... while much more uncommon there are those of us out there. I live in the far north central U.S. close to Winnipeg Canada so in a relatively good spot. But born in the American south and was miserable growing up.

[Dakster]

Interesting Kamsack... I long for dark places and I can't stand the heat either. It was one of the reasons we picked AK to move to. I don't get depressed in sunlight - I can handle it - but I found myself being hermitted in the summer in the Southern US. I didn't want to go out and do anything.

And I sweat up here like crazy when the temps hit the upper 60s. To point when I am in a store I get asked if I am OK by strangers.

[rhiannon67]

Originally Posted by Dakster

Interesting Kamsack... I long for dark places and I can't stand the heat either. It was one of the reasons we picked AK to move to. I don't get depressed in sunlight - I can handle it - but I found myself being hermitted in the summer in the Southern US. I didn't want to go out and do anything.

And I sweat up here like crazy when the temps hit the upper 60s. To point when I am in a store I get asked if I am OK by strangers.

That's how I get in artificially overheated spaces. This amounts to most anywhere I go, unfortunately. Have literally had people ask me in the checkstand if I was sunburned, but in reality I was flushed from becoming rapidly overheated in their stifling store

I hope the stores in Alaska will be a little more reasonable in the way they heat lol.

Growing up in SoCal, I was miserable as well

[Dakster]

So far they are not bad - but winter hasn't hit so the heat is really off.

I have to go in and out of the hospitals a lot in Anchorage and that blast of hot air they throw down when you first walk in is bad. I can only imagine what that is going to feel like in the winter. I hope the stores are not that bad.

FWIW, I sleep with the windows open and no heat here so far almost every night. Although my wife is starting to get a little cold, so the windows will close.

[PokerMunkee]

I think the majority (80%) of the people move to Alaska to get away from something. That could be people, family, traffic, weather, or just about anything. These people tend to be loners, as Alaska is isolated for the most part. The OP sounds like a social butterfly, so it's no wonder she doesn't fit in Alaska. I couldn't imagine living in San Francisco. Ever visited there? No thanks!

[Osito]

I don't see how snowmobiling could get old. I could go nuts on one of those things.

[Ketabcha]

Originally Posted by PokerMunkee

I think the majority (80%) of the people move to Alaska to get away from something. That could be people, family, traffic, weather, or just about anything.

And some people are trying to get away from themselves and have not yet realized that "wherever you go, there you are."

[Dakster]

What percentage of people more to get away from something move somewhere else in the US? Like Colorado...

I know a bunch of people that moved to Colorado to get away from something or in our case get to something like a job...

I'd like to now how you got that percentage, seeing as there are a whole lot of people here in AK involuntarily - they call it the military. They tend to put you where they need you...

[Pincho-toot]

Originally Posted by Utopian Slums

I never understood people who want more cold and darkness. I know they exist. I just don't understand the draw.

Well, I've only lived in 2 places. Cuba, and Florida. I find heat overrated. I'm moving to Texas, but for the winter and spring, and the weather there, atleast for those months, beats Florida IMO. Heat is exhausting and tiring, and cold weather (preferably 50s-40s, but freezing too) feels invigorating and refreshing to me!