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Post by JohnPorter on Mar 9, 2005 13:42:58 GMT -5
I know some of you was born in Alaska and a lot have moved up there. What made you decide to move and also how did you get your mate to go along with it? I know my wife is from GA and she hates Maine-so I couldn't imagine talking her into Alska.
Thanks in advance,
John
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Post by Chuck on Mar 9, 2005 15:07:48 GMT -5
It depends where you live in Alaska some parts have milder winters than Maine.
Jenny is from Georgia also and loves it up here. We have lived everywhere from the interior to the southwest and the southeast, no part of Alaska is the same.
I moved up here while I was single,I was a union carpenter looking for work. At the time I moved to Alaska all the major construction was in the Northeast US or California. So I opted for Alaska, if I was going to be out of work I felt I should at least be out of work where there was no work.
Jenny can give her version of things later.
#nosmileys
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Post by Kristianna on Mar 9, 2005 16:58:41 GMT -5
I don't live in Alaska...yet! But, for me the main reason I want to live in Alaska is my children and:
*Clean water
*Clean air
*Clean fish that I can serve my family without concern for their health and safety
*no property taxes (in certain areas)
*subsistence lifestyle
*fewer outside influences on my children
*homeschool without lots of red tape (paperwork!)
*build my own home/cabin
*freedom
I feel claustrophobic where we live. Even though we do not have a sales tax or an income tax here we are taxed on *everything* and I am tired of it. I don't even want to own a car. I want to own a snowmachine and a four wheeler.
Unfortunately, my husband is not interested in moving to Alaska. I, in the meantime, am doing all that I can to prepare as if we were planning to move to Alaska. If my hubby changes his mind, we'll be ready!
I'd love to hear how anyone else convinced their spouses to move to Alaska.
K
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Post by kasilofhome on Mar 9, 2005 19:54:06 GMT -5
I came up to Ak from Scarsdale New York and Buffalo New York (I had a bit of a commute for work) I was taking my mother on a mother daughter vacation.
We both love it I moved tow years later And I have no regerts Just wish mom could have moved with me
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Post by smwon on Mar 9, 2005 22:06:45 GMT -5
I don’t live in Alaska… but I did. My parents moved to Alaska when I was three years old. I was born and lived in Arizona, but the heat made my mother ill and this is why we moved to Ak. I lived there until I was around 28 (I am now 51). My children were born there. I married a man in the Army and we went from Alaska to TEXAS!!! Oh I hated it soooo much. The heat made me very sick. I have been back to Alaska three times sense then. I wish so much that I could move back, but doesn’t look like that will be happening. But I think once you get Alaska in your blood, it never leaves. You develop a passion for it… ;D
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Post by UgashikBob on Mar 10, 2005 19:30:15 GMT -5
John:
I moved up here because all the outdoor things I was doing in South Dakota were becoming crowded. The job I transfered up here on allowed me to save more money than I made down south and eventually helped finance our current life in the bush. I am blessed with the fact I married a hard working farm girl that has the same sense of adventure I have. I could not of gotten a better partner.
Smwon:
Your right about Alask in your bloodstream. We've lived all over the planet and could be anywhere we want in a heartbeat but we are still here.
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Post by JohnPorter on Mar 11, 2005 20:37:25 GMT -5
Thank you all for your replies.
John
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Post by Chuck on Mar 11, 2005 21:35:55 GMT -5
Well did we convince her or what?
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Post by JohnPorter on Mar 11, 2005 23:09:06 GMT -5
No Chuck, but I am still looking at coming up their as I have an offer to run a sled dog team and also help with kennel duties. I live for running my dogs and what better place then Alaska.
John
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Post by Scott on Mar 14, 2005 12:12:10 GMT -5
Hey John I'm a little late but.... My wife and I moved to Alaska a few days after we got married. A friend gave us one way tickets for a wedding present! We only had 3 suitcases each and about $3000. We settled in nice. Wound up out in the Glennallen-Gakona-Copper Center area. We loved it, but came back to help my folks with the farm(they wouldn't quit....and couldn't do the work). We spent a year up there. I still consider it home and we both are secretly plotting our return. I want my 2 boys to get a little bigger though, so they can help with building a cabin and such. So my advice is to get free tickets....worked for me! Reasons Why..... Freedom The Mountians We ain't got any Marten to trap here! Scott Terry homesteaderlife.blogspot.com/ |
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Post by smwon on Mar 14, 2005 16:19:00 GMT -5
Scott wrote... "I still consider it home and we both are secretly plotting our return."
LOL Yes, I think I secretly plot my way back home also, and even when I feel like I will never leave where I am at, I see, hear, or smell something that reminds me of home and I am ready to pack up and go! So I feel in the back of my mind some day I will return home for good...
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Post by Freeholdfarm on Mar 14, 2005 23:58:57 GMT -5
I wasn't born in Alaska, but my parents had been living there before they got married. They got married in Delta Junction (living at Tok -- their parents were working together at a grocery store that Dad's parents owned), then went back to Oregon just before I was born. We went back to Alaska when I was fourteen months old and my brother Doug was two weeks old. Ten years later my mother took us kids (five of us by then) back to Oregon for several years. I went to college in Sitka, which is where I met my husband -- we were both Forestry students. After two years of college, we left Alaska, he joined the Air Force, and we moved around a bit for the next ten years. He did a one-year stint at a remote radar site called Tin City, out on the end of the Seward Peninsula where he could look across the Strait on a clear day and see Russia. After he got out of the Air Force, we returned to Alaska for four years (that's when we lived at Tok). Then his parents, who were living in NH, managed to convince us that they needed us living closer to them so we ended up moving back East in 1991. If he could get work, I imagine he'd still like to live in Alaska. I got tired of seven-month-long winters -- I like winter, just not that much of it, LOL!! I would still consider going back for the reasons Kristianna posted (except homeschooling -- my children are grown up now, and my oldest daughter is homeschooling her own children), but I like living where spring comes in March instead of May, and where winter starts in late November instead of late September! And I like being able to grow fruit trees, and garden without a greenhouse (though even here a greenhouse would be really nice to have). I also like that the bugs here aren't really ever bad, at least not compared to Alaska! So it would take some major incentive to get me to go back to Alaska to live. I hate hot weather, it makes me sick as some of you have mentioned, but at the elevation we are living at now it seldom gets so hot I can't stand it, and the humidity isn't bad, either.
Kathleen
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Post by smwon on Mar 15, 2005 0:06:02 GMT -5
Your profile says you live in the Klamath Falls area Kathleen... it gets HOT there... so what is hot to you?  I am moving back to that area myself. I lived in Klamath Falls for quite some years. I own property between Chiloquin and Sprague River... Nice to see someone from Oregon... ;D |
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Post by smwon on Oct 6, 2006 19:23:30 GMT -5
Scott wrote... "I still consider it home and we both are secretly plotting our return." LOL Yes, I think I secretly plot my way back home also, and even when I feel like I will never leave where I am at, I see, hear, or smell something that reminds me of home and I am ready to pack up and go! So I feel in the back of my mind some day I will return home for good... I was right!!! I will be 'home' the 17th! YEEEEHAW!!!!! |
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I am moving back to that area myself. I lived in Klamath Falls for quite some years. I own property between Chiloquin and Sprague River... Nice to see someone from Oregon... ;D