North to Alaska!

Anybody here move down? It looks stuffy, and I can’t even handle Anchorage. Maybe it isn’t for me.
The people I know, that really like Alaska... if they move down they come back. Truly, Anchorage is a tiny town compared to so much down there.

Outside is crazy crowded, and crazy different, as well as more judgemental on outward appearances alone.

Alaska is better.

Crazy cool that you have so many kinds of trees.

At my house, everything tall is spruce ... everything bushy is alder or elderberry.

:lau

For more variety you have to go down in elevation.

We have ONE birch halfway down our driveway, it is finally tree sized!
 
The people I know, that really like Alaska... if they move down they come back. Truly, Anchorage is a tiny town compared to so much down there.

Outside is crazy crowded, and crazy different, as well as more judgemental on outward appearances alone.

Alaska is better.

Crazy cool that you have so many kinds of trees.

At my house, everything tall is spruce ... everything bushy is alder or elderberry.

:lau

For more variety you have to go down in elevation.

We have ONE birch halfway down our driveway, it is finally tree sized!
I live the variety, but I really do miss the towering sitka spruce, the salmon berry bushes, strawberries, and gray currants!
There are high bush cranberries, low bush, and red currants here though.
The ocean isn’t far away, but the salt doesn’t ruin everything. In fact, you can’t even taste it in the air right next to it 😆
The inlet is real silty though, and there aren’t any shorebirds to watch besides the seagulls and maybe a kittiwake here and there. There also are no rolling sandy beaches here, closest place would be Homer.

A city 10x the size of Anchorage truly sounds hellish. I can’t stand the one way roads there, too confusing. Props to anyone who deals with that traffic every day, I’d just keel over and croak.

Guess I’d rather fight fish & game to get me some emus than to move for them!
 
I live the variety, but I really do miss the towering sitka spruce, the salmon berry bushes, strawberries, and gray currants!
There are high bush cranberries, low bush, and red currants here though.
The ocean isn’t far away, but the salt doesn’t ruin everything. In fact, you can’t even taste it in the air right next to it 😆
The inlet is real silty though, and there aren’t any shorebirds to watch besides the seagulls and maybe a kittiwake here and there. There also are no rolling sandy beaches here, closest place would be Homer.

A city 10x the size of Anchorage truly sounds hellish. I can’t stand the one way roads there, too confusing. Props to anyone who deals with that traffic every day, I’d just keel over and croak.

Guess I’d rather fight fish & game to get me some emus than to move for them!
Huh... not even sure what grey currents are... clearly I don't have those. :idunno There are a bunch of different tiny ground growing berries around my house, watermelon berries, raspberries, and garden strawberries. I really like salmon berries.. but those need more moisture.

And I am confused as to where you are... Yukon river is central... cuts right across... I wouldn't call it south central... south central is kenai peninsula... south east is alaska peninsula and south west is Haines to Sitka region up against Canada and the world of Salmonberries.
 
Huh... not even sure what grey currents are... clearly I don't have those. :idunno There are a bunch of different tiny ground growing berries around my house, watermelon berries, raspberries, and garden strawberries. I really like salmon berries.. but those need more moisture.

And I am confused as to where you are... Yukon river is central... cuts right across... I wouldn't call it south central... south central is kenai peninsula... south east is alaska peninsula and south west is Haines to Sitka region up against Canada and the world of Salmonberries.
I am currently in southcentral, we have watermelon berries here. I worded my post badly; half of my family is from a small village at the mouth of the Yukon river (cloudberries, emperor geese, spring floods) not too far from St Mary’s, Ruby, and Emo (west, below Nome) and the other half is from southeast (Hoonah, Angoon, Yakutat). The reason I called it “northern southeast” is because the others from southeast (think Ketchikan, Craig, Hydaburg, Sitka) don’t consider Any towns above Juneau a part of southeast despite having a similar climate and still being a rainforest. It is not as warm in that region as Sitka, Sitka is melted right now but there is still snow a little bit north.

Trying to stay vague because animosity (it doesn’t take much searching to find out who’s who in a village).

Technically 50% came from someplace like Sweden or Canada, but Ma said they (Misc. Family Ancestors) just traveled until they found places that looked like home.
 
Currently missing said town (northern southeast). Beautiful scenery - currently battling clear cut logging. We need more space for homes there but even the clear cut areas are left useless. I’d move back if there were more sources of income.
 
Currently missing said town (northern southeast). Beautiful scenery - currently battling clear cut logging. We need more space for homes there but even the clear cut areas are left useless. I’d move back if there were more sources of income.
It’s really nice, there’s moose, deer, and no shortage of seafood. Wild rice, berries. Still gets snow in the winter (though sometimes it rains right after). Summer is nice, clouds in the sky so I am not being blinded constantly, it dumps rain and humidity and salt do numbers on housing, but it makes it easier to appreciate the sun shining days on the beach or In the forest.

Springs are nice where I am now, though unfortunately I spend these nice spring days indoors. It was almost 50 degrees the other day, a sorry shame to be stuck working.
All for the little breaks in between. This is how people end up with poultry addictions I guess. A way to feel a little bit of joy each day, and to get you moving and outside after wasting away indoors the whole week!
 
I am currently in southcentral, we have watermelon berries here.
I used to have a neighbor with this dog that would search out and eat all watermelon berries!


The reason I called it “northern southeast” is because the others from southeast (think Ketchikan, Craig, Hydaburg, Sitka) don’t consider Any towns above Juneau a part of southeast despite having a similar climate and still being a rainforest.

:lau I didn't know that. I have visited over there, but never lived there.

Is it maybe a "live on an island" verses "live on the mainland" thing?
 
“You’re not a part of SouthEast!” If anything it’s coastal, but not a part of southcental or the interior. It is still apart of the Tongass Rainforest (until they clearcut the whole place at least).
I won’t get into the cultural reasons. Funny thing but understandable? Ketchikan is significantly further down along with the others, they are all warmer.
 

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