I'm seriously considering moving to Anchorage. Am I nuts?

[Catshrink]

I'm in Phoenix now. I've never liked it much. I moved here 5 years ago because my parents were in their 80s and needed someone here. Mom died New Years Day and Dad is most likely moving to Anchorage to live with my older sister.

My other choice would be to move back to Seattle, where I was born, and where most of the rest of my family is.

[Renew Deal]

1. That's about as close as you can come to moving to Canada

without moving to Canada. Check out this website. It will ask you for personal info at the end. You can use BS information.

www.findmyspot.com

[Faygo Kid]

3. Detroit is north of Windsor. Closer here in the Great Lakes.

And a big who cares, I know, but I feel compelled for some reason (ready for bed?) to say it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. It's also pretty close to Alaska

Anchorage has been trying for years to be Seattle. If you want to experience the real Alaska, go to Talkeetna or Palmer or Homer. Or Fairbanks, if you don't mind minus 60 degree weather.

BTW, the World Ice Art Championships are in progress in Fairbanks right now. I got to be on a team with four Russians, and it was a blast! It was also minus 30 degrees!

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Anchorage is beautiful

The clouds rolling off the Arm into the Chugash mountains will make you cry. Seriously.

[Catshrink]

6. Aren't the endless winter nights hard to deal with though?

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Nah

Not as bad as you'd think, and the all-night light makes up for it during the summer.

[bluestateguy]

4. We need your Democratic vote in Arizona

A (D) vote in Alaska is worthless (although there is a tight Senate race there this year). Arizona needs all the Democrats it can get. If you moved, could you at least keep your AZ regisration through November?

[Catshrink]

7. Hm.... I could stay registered here and vote absentee.

Alaska is lost anyway.

Kerry here has a good chance, I think.

[northofdenali]

5. God, YES!! We need all the Dems we can get up here!!!!

You'd love it, Anchorage is more like an extension of Seattle = big city (for here) and yet, once you get out of town, some of the most incredible scenery you've ever feasted your eyes on. Moose in town, Dall sheep, caribou, bears (black and grizzly), critters everywhere.

I'm in Fairbanks, and would not trade it for the world - not even for Anchorage. But I'm the small-town type person. Anchorage basically has it all, including the shopping, medical facilities, and currently - a Democratic Mayor!

If you do decide, try to make it before June 20th and I'll personally take you to the most extraordinary barbecue/banquet/party you've ever seen. You'll meet Iditarod mushers (Joe May and Roger Bliss - Joe won in 1984), tons of mostly liberal bikers who are riding the Ultimate Coast-to-Coast (Key West to Prudhoe Bay) and hear some of the most hysterically funny stories ever told............

Here's one link to the State that will help: http://www.state.ak.us/
And a few more that may interest you:

http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/Alaska/Alaska.html
http://www.alaskaone.com/
http://www.decorphoto.com/ak-slang.htm
http://www.dced.state.ak.us/trade/tou/home.htm

PM me if you'd like to discuss anything about the state - or Anchorage in particular (if we don't know it, we'll find it out for ya!)

C'mon up! I'll buy the first beer :toast:

[Zomby Woof]

8. yes you are

;-)

But that's why we love you.

I don't know anything about Anchorage, and all I can say about Seattle (since you're from there) is that having come from there very recently after living there a long time, don't go without a job. The economy is still in the toilet there worse than most places.

Of course, I understand fully why you'd want to leave Phoenix. I am through with big cities in all climates and locales. I couldn't live there myself.

My guess is that Anchorage may be beautiful as people say, but the dark winters would get me worse than they did in Seattle, and it's prone to even worse quakes. Ask yourself if you don't mind the northern latitudes in winter, I suppose is my only advice. :-)

Reminder: KadeCarrion and I will be in the PHX area one week from tomorrow. :hi:

[Catshrink]

10. Yeah... we need to put out a warning that Zomby and Cade will be in town!

How are we going to organize this thing?

[Zomby Woof]

11. I don't know!

:D

We are open for suggestions, and I will post yet another thread this week inviting all AZ DUers.

[burrowowl]

12. Anchorage should be

interesting and your older sister might be needing help with your Dad. It is good to share the burden.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Do some research first....

there was an article in the UK Guardian a few days ago about the melting permafrost due to global warming - this is causing a lot of problems in the populated areas as roads and buildings are starting to sink and even collapse.

In Chimpy's freaky upside down world, no place is safe.

[AlFrankenFan]

14. You're certainly not!

I live in California, and really would like to move to Colorado, Minnesota, or Virginia, some place with a variety of weather. I can totally relate.

[Zomby Woof]

15. find out if they have WGN

Or no Cubbies! :o

[Catshrink]

16. They have it!

My nephews grew up watching the Cubs. But they don't get CSPAN2 so no Booktv.

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. I doubt that you are nuts, but have you heard about HAARP ?

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You would be moving within 200 miles of one of the most controversial Military Projects in the world, located at Gakoma, close to the Canadian border.

well, about half-way between Anchorage and Canada.

I'll leave you with some quotes, pics and links:









From: http://www.crystalinks.com/haarp.html

HAARP zaps the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an 'ionospheric heater'. (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between about 40 to 600 miles above Earth's surface.)

Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope: antennas send out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is the test run for a super-powerful radio wave beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto Earth and penetrate everything-living and dead.

HAARP publicity gives the impression that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. However, other US military documents put it more clearly: HAARP aims to learn how to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes".

and, From : http://www.padrak.com/ine/HAARP97.html

ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies) and VLF (Very Low Frequencies) communications are also controversial topics of discussion. While the military currently uses such low frequencies within the Earth and the oceans to communicate with submarines world-wide, the use of the atmosphere for such communications may produce disastrous effects on insects, birds, animals, and humans!

Several researchers have already noted major adverse effects that have occurred in Alaska since the beginning of the HAARP experimentation program, and they point to HAARP as the only cause (Begich and Manning, 1995).

Researchers have estimated that such radiations will be similar to those found under power-lines, and much more severe, as the frequency will be more attuned to life functions and brain waves. One researcher is quoted as saying that insects and other life forms that depend upon using their antenna will be affected world-wide!

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There's a TON of stuff out there on the web about HAARP, and has been going on for decades, and alot of the potentials would definitely fall into the "classified" area, so there is NO way that we can know for sure what they are doing with this thing, but the fact that is way out in the middle of nowhere makes me wonder . .

But it IS awful pretty up there !


one HECK of an aerial though eh ?

[Catshrink]

19. Thanks for the info...

I'll check this out some more. We're just in the initial talking stages right now.