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If you can spare a minute, our local field is under fire from some misguided NIMBY's. They think somehow closing the airport is the answer to our affordable housing issues. Thanks!
It's here, but not nearly as bad, and practically everyone likes airplanes here. The only Nimbyism I have seen here is related to not wanted nuclear power around (which is kind of dumb). You moving to Anchorage?Hopefully the NIMBY virus doesn't follow me to Alaska.
Palmer/Fishook areaIt's here, but not nearly as bad, and practically everyone likes airplanes here. The only Nimbyism I have seen here is related to not wanted nuclear power around (which is kind of dumb). You moving to Anchorage?
Welcome! I like it in town for a wide variety of reasons, but I spent a bit of my youth out there. I hope you enjoy it here, it's a good place to be.Palmer/Fishook area
Thanks! NIMBY'ism is an ugly look for sure. Occasionally gets mislabeled for legit reasons, but most hide their actual fears behind semi-valid concerns.Done but good luck. Colorado has become a nightmare of this kind of crap and it isn't the same state I grew up in. Such a shame and it breaks my heart . Hopefully the NIMBY virus doesn't follow me to Alaska.
Christain and now you? You guys might be on to something.Done but good luck. Colorado has become a nightmare of this kind of crap and it isn't the same state I grew up in. Such a shame and it breaks my heart . Hopefully the NIMBY virus doesn't follow me to Alaska.
Speaking of NIMBYs ... and in truth, this is the case for every airport I've ever worked at/for. 1-3 people account for about 80% of total noise complaints.
Reagan National Airport Received Almost 7,000 Noise Complaints In One Year From A Single Household
This household's complaints made up 78 percent of the noise complaints against the airport.jalopnik.com
Christain and now you? You guys might be on to something.
One of the first people I met up here after Pat told me “before I moved here, I thought that if you could make it in Alaska you could make it anywhere. Then I came up here and found out that if you can’t make it anywhere else, you move to alaska and maybe you can make it here.”Lol...no...
I've found that people born and raised in Alaska are some of the nicest people who live on this planet. People that move up there from the lower 48...not always...but generally...box of broken toys.
I haven't been able to tolerate anywhere else I've tried to live. I am not sure why, but literally everywhere else in America has been too... I don't know... it just feels wrong? I would say that so far, this has actually been correct for me.One of the first people I met up here after Pat told me “before I moved here, I thought that if you could make it in Alaska you could make it anywhere. Then I came up here and found out that if you can’t make it anywhere else, you move to alaska and maybe you can make it here.”
Thank you (though I may be the uncouth dickbag exception to that rule lol), and those who move up here are sometimes controversial but welcome. In Anchorage we have a lot of refugees that come in - that's kind of a point of pride of many here (myself included) and something like 95 languages are spoken in the school district. We're proud of that and culturally many of us feel a strongly that we have an obligation to help when we can. Apparently it may not be true, but I was always told as a boy that if there was a disabled vehicle on the road, or there was someone who appeared to be injured it was required by law here that you inquire if they were ok. I wish it was on the books though.Lol...no...
I've found that people born and raised in Alaska are some of the nicest people who live on this planet. People that move up there from the lower 48...not always...but generally...box of broken toys.
One of the first people I met up here after Pat told me “before I moved here, I thought that if you could make it in Alaska you could make it anywhere. Then I came up here and found out that if you can’t make it anywhere else, you move to alaska and maybe you can make it here.”
Anchorage yo - it's connected to literally everywhere in the hemisphere, she's got her problems, but I tell ya, it's a good place to live. You've just gotta leave for 3 weeks in the winter if you can.I miss Alaska every day. It became my home, and if I thought I could get away with commuting from Juneau, I'd probably move back.
Anchorage yo - it's connected to literally everywhere in the hemisphere, she's got her problems, but I tell ya, it's a good place to live. You've just gotta leave for 3 weeks in the winter if you can.
Still, it's 30min away from real Alaska.
One of the first people I met up here after Pat told me “before I moved here, I thought that if you could make it in Alaska you could make it anywhere. Then I came up here and found out that if you can’t make it anywhere else, you move to alaska and maybe you can make it here.”
Gotta hang with the right crowd, the valley is super conservative, and south Anchorage is super conservative, but there are at least dozens of us leftists here. There are bike punks here, a mutual aid network, and sometimes the anti-abortion protestors have counter protestors. Alaska isn't like Seattle, but there is definitely a significant left-wing contingent here. I even met a man with a Anarcho-Syndacalist flag on his house while I was canvassing for Peltola, though to be fair two blocks away a man threatened me for supporting the "baby killers." I imagine you'd find that in Seattle too.Anchorage is ok ... super conservative and weird, though, in my limited experience. On the bright side, at least it's close to Alaska.
If you lived here and want to live here again, you are more than welcome to use that joke, hell use that joke if you hate it here, I ain't your keeper lol. The great irony is that in some ways I find Anchorage more Alaskan than many other communities up here, but I too use the same joke and would be loathe to admit that in certain company. Still, in our own unique way, I find this place very Alaskan. One of the things that I do truly enjoy though, is how here, of all places in the world, I've always been able to make a decent middle class income. There have been times when I struggled, and times when I made a crap-load of money, but if you were willing to bust your ass, you could always find a decent income here. I thought this was just me being one of "the olds," until my neice got a job throwing bags for the ferry and cleaning houses part time and was making about $50k a year at 18... so I feel like there's still opportunity here, which is something that's really nice.I'm probably not Alaskan enough to actually make that joke, but screw it. I left enough blood and sweat there to at least claim part of it.