Five Things You Need to Know Before Moving to Alaska (WITH NO REGRETS!)
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Moving to Alaska is not an easy decision! In this video you'll learn the top five things you need to consider if you're going to move to Alaska with no regrets. These are some basic things to consider, but they are a great way to get you thinking :)
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Do you have anything else you wish you'd known before moving to Alaska? Post them below!
@@Alaska_Gal Good question. I'm assuming you mean for restrictions in rental properties. There are restrictions for many of the larger rental properties so private landlords is probably going to be your best bet. Vets are very sparse up here as of late but not impossible to find. For walks, if you're concerned, you can put bells on them. Realistically, though, they have much sharper senses than we do and will know if something dangerous is in the area before you do. Stick around the south central area and it won't be hard getting food/supplies and there's easy enough access in most other places.
@@Alaska_Gal Oh wow, I'd never heard of that! No, there are no restrictions here.
We just moved up here in Aug and love it! The people are awesome! We’ve been able to stock up on salmon and halibut and lots of blueberries!
We moved to a small community (village) in SE Ak, basically in the rain forest, so yeah, it rains a lot, but you just adjust your plans according. We bought our land and cabin outright when we sold our property down in Mo. I’m just happy to get away from all that heat and humidity and traffic! We see more bear and moose than people and I’m fine with that!😆
Thanks for your vids. I learned a lot before moving here. Take care 🙏
@@adriannafosse2485 we must be neighbors lol
Hello, I am from INDIA, had been a software engineer of a MNC, from INDIA, under 48, wanted to re-locate here, can anyone be so kind that can share the LINK to apply for the same. FYI- I am a family member of a small family with men, women and a chairmen Thanks for help.
I moved up a year ago. My tip to anyone thinking of moving to AK is to watch a lot of videos and even watch live webcams of Alaska. It will help give you a small understanding of what the weather and seasons are like.
I would also advise you to do a lot of research on the cost of living, look at the cost of housing and utilities and come visit before you make the decision to move here - once in the summer and once in the winter.
In 2023, most housing up here is actually cheaper than all the western states. It’s food you need to take into account. A pound of ground beef goes for about $8, a pound of chicken breasts for about $13, a package of bacon for $8,
and a bag of apples for $6.
And if you look around, most middle and working class Alaskans are overweight or obese. In Fairbanks, even worse. They stay inside all winter. The more well-off are trim
because they go to the Alaska Club to work out daily and ski in the winter.
Wealthier people are trimmer because they eat more meat and fish and fewer carbs and junk foods.
I think it's going to be fun coming from Florida. Nice change of pace and snow is just amazing
Great info! Hope your channel grows! Greetings from Spain!
Thank you! Your country is beautiful btw :)
Great vid! Temps, light, PFD, crime, isolation, and mosquitoes. One thing I would add is that when the temps drop below freezing, they stay below freezing until Spring.
That is true!
@@alaska_realtor late, but how cold is northern Alaska near the artic circle, in the summer and winter
Not completely true, we’ve had quite a few chinooks for the past 10 years or so.
Hey kudos to you. I watched your videos alot before I moved here. Thanks. I will say though, Alaska is a huge state land wise. So it all this depends on where you live and where you are coming from. I live in southeast Alaska, I think the mosquitoes are on vacation in Florida. The weather in southeast is like Washington. Nothing extreme just rainy.
That's very true! The climates here are just so diverse that it's tough to really nail down a specific weather that accurately summarizes it all.
I appreciate the honesty first and foremost!
Secondly I'm not so much sold on moving to Alaska( I hate the cold! Lol) but to see the Northern lights in Fairbanks is on my bucket list , what would you recommend the best way to do this hotels? Air BnB ? I know Alaska is isolated and I would want to stay about 2 weeks at a time and am trying to learn as much as possible
If you visit Alaska plan a flight to Barrow. There is a decent smaller older hotel “The Top Of The World” in the middle of town in a village of 3,000 population.
There after Christmas you will see the Best Northern Lights! Plus a guy for a fee takes groups to the dump where you can see an easy 10 Polar Bears. Best wishes from Anchorage, Greg
I spent a week in Juneau in August and fell in love with it! The rental market is rather sparse though. Any tips? I'm thinking about retiring there next summer. Thanks!
That's exciting! The best tip I can think of is to try to find contact information for landlords of homes previously on the market. That specific home might not be on there anymore, but they may have other options on the market. Juneau is always going to be a lean market, so developing some relationships with landlords is going to go a long way.
I was curious, the jobs down there do they pay well ..... and the money they CLAIM you get ....suposedly you get 1 amount in october or something. Some places say its 1200 a month some say its 1 time ..900$. Which is is? Aprox i mean. I work in computers, sale and repair them. Is there a market over there for that?
❤I like your more recent videos and you're an excellent interviewer in my opinion. I'm super glad you shared important opinions inforned by your profession and experiences. So thank you for that!
In my opinion, and I could be wrong, this video from 2 yrs ago felt insulting at some points. I felt condescended to. A lot, actually, rather than receiving valuable information from a friendly equal. It felt as if you were imagining people that were next to being "low lifes" when you talked about the grants for becoming permanent residents. Oh my goodness. Your guidance as a knowledgeable expert was terrific! But it wasn't kind. I'm an educated woman and you made me feel yuk. I got over that quickly but, I think you're just too smart for me and in this video you seem to know it.
Well, in your defense 😊 you had very good intentions. And you don't sound at all the way you did in this video. People grow and get better all the time! Usually. LOL! God bless you! Thanks for reading my feedback shared in goodwill. 😊
If I ever get the opportunity to move to Alaska, I'm not coming back to the lower 48, ever again.
It may not be mega cold for mega long periods of time but surely can be colder than -20. I have witnessed-30 by the powerplant off Muldoon. Cold spells can also last 3 or 4 weeks straight and winter is llloooonnnngggggg! Were talking snow on the ground from September,October to March, April and on rare occasion even May.
True, and exactly where you live can really play a big factor in how cold the winter will be.
How long have you lived up here?
What about Fairbanks? How do You keep Your spirits up during long periods of darkness and cold? How do You encourage Your Family during this time? Is their a BSL breed specific legislation against American Staffordshire terriers? Service working dogs friendly?
@@earthlycolorbrown6246there are no BSL laws here. Many places don’t even have leash laws.
Hello, could you do a video about building a house in Alaska (your area) from start to finish. The cost involved, the problems building in the winter etc. Any kind of other challenges
That's a good topic, thank you!
I second this request!!! Please include what to consider in finding land.
I would also like to see a video on this as I am planning on building.
@@eyoung6943 I actually just recorded a podcast with an agent who specializes in new construction. Stay tuned, I'll post that in the podcast!
@@shannoninalaska Keep an eye on the podcast! I just recorded an episode with an agent who really specializes in that.
From my book" MAKE ALASKA GREAT AGAIN by a native born Alaskan that fished king crab 22 years and salmon 74 years. We lost a billion dollars a year Kodian and Cook Inlet shrimp and crab fishery due to oil tanker ballast water taken from foreign ports like Korea, Japan, China, Hawaii and Long Beach California. Two oil tankers a day each dumping 20-million gallons of ballast water carried in the same tanks they used to carry crude oil altered the food chain. It wasn't over fishing becasee the put us on pot limits, short seasons and restricted areas.
It took twenty years to destroy the crab and shrimp fisheries. Twenty years of dumping toxic waste plus the city of Anchorage dumping another, ten-millions of gallons of sewage a day into upper Cook Inlet and twenty years of offshore oil wells dumping radioactive drill tailing and drilling mud, the shrimp, crab and clams were exterminated. When I was a young man living in Seldovia I could walk down any beach in the bay wearing hip-boots. There were so many clams that your pants would get wet from them squirting water three feet in the air. You could look down the beach into the sun and see continuous water jets spouting like a fountain. The clams were so big and healthy that they couldn’t close their shells. Now there is nothing. It’s a sad state of affairs when you can’t trust your government to take care of your resources!
Shrimp, crab and clams are bivalves. After their eggs hatch the spat must swim to the surface in the spring to feed on the first plankton bloom. When the ecosystem had been altered by contaminates such as bacteria and algae that suck up all the oxygen the plankton dies. The entire ecosystem is poisoned by chemicals, plastics and heavy metals in solution. Add to this a layer of oil on the surface that suffocates zooplankton and you have a recipe for disaster. I believe our food supply was purposely poisoned for the purpose of getting rid of most commercial fishermen so there would be less opposition to future offshore drilling. Practically all the shrimp and crab were exterminated. To add insult to injury the state blamed the depletion of the resource on the fishermen. Many fishermen like myself, lost their boats, wives, houses and everything. My loss totals several million.
The state also wanted to get rid of commercial fisherman so they could sell billions of dollars in oil leases in lower Cook Inlet south of Kaligan Island and in Kachemak Bay. They had visions of grandeur making it look like the Gulf of Mexico will oil rigs in every direction from horizon to horizon. The oil companies weren’t interested in dealing with Alaska’s bureaucracy so very few oil leases were sold.
Due to state greed the people living in the cities of Homer and Seldovia were cheated out of their livelihood. I was forced to fish further west out of Kodiak and King Cove in order to earn enough to support my family. Being away from home for months at a time and the stress of trying to make a living with an old 70-foot boat Mary M built in 1929 resulted in my divorce. I lost everything, my boat, three-hundred crab pots worth $600 apiece and my house in Halibut Cove.
If the State had not destroyed the crab fisheries you would not be reading this right now. When the forty+-year-old pipeline starts springing leaks, the carpet beggars who came here to get rich will scurry away likes rats leaving a singing ship to go back to the hell holes they came out of.
People coming to Alaska with the idea of making a living off the land have no idea how hard it is to survive her let alone make a living fishing, trapping and hunting. It takes a mindset that most people would consider insane.
Greetings’ fellow enemy Combatants.
We have gold in the hills but the government bureaucrats won’t let you mine it. We had clams on the beaches but the government allowed big corporations to kill them with pollution. We had shrimp and crab but government bureaucrats allowed two oil tankers a day for twenty-five years to dump 20-million gallons of ballast water taken from Honolulu, Hawaii, Korea, Japan, and California into Cook Inlet containing bacteria and killer algae that can double in numbers every twelve hours. The tanker ballast water also contained nematodes that eat the inside of crab and shrimp eggs. From, 1960 to 1985 Trillions of different species of bacteria were brought to Alaska that having no natural enemies infected and replaced the natural food chain.
All during the 1960’s and 1970’s oil tankers used the same tanks to carry ballast water so there was a foot or more of crude oil or more in the bottom of the ballast tanks. Much oil was dumped into Cook Inlet because powerful pumps loose suction when there is a foot of crude left in the bottom of the tanks. We lost a billion-dollar a year shrimp and crab fishery.
Then there was a total of eight oil well blowout in Cook Inlet. One blew natural gas and oil 1,200 feet into the air for one week and simmered down to 500-feet above the rig tower for over a month. Commercial fishermen lost a billion-dollars-a-year shrimp and crab fishery because the government cannot manage the resources.
We had trees in the forest but government bureaucrats would rather burn the forests than allow the private sector to cut down a tree. We have to buy all our building material from Canada and other states. They won’t let you build houses and turn trees into lumber. Now the forests are burned and have deep ash pits that are still on fire.
We used to have clean air to breathe but government bureaucrats tasked with managing forests allow more than 2000 square miles of forest to burn up each year. Now more than 600 personnel are working on the Swan Lake fire that covers an area of over 264 square miles. The cost of putting out fires in Alaska will be more than 60-million dollars this year.
We have to beg some bureaucrat sitting behind a desk for a permit to cut firewood. Then you have to have another government worker come into your home to inspect you stove to see if it meets air quality specifications including particulates that might affect your own health and welfare-this, when the air outside you home is unfit to breathe. Our own government has declared war upon us.
Bureaucrats sitting behind desks are not free. They have to sit there for twenty years to get a pension and they hate the private sector because we are free! They relish the power they have over us and want you to grovel at their feet begging for a permit to cut firewood to stay warm in the cold Alaska winter. They don’t want you to grow your own food, raise animals because it might make you less dependent on the government. They sit there for year dreaming up ways to tax or license every human activity. We cannot remain free when there are no more resources left to be harvested.
Now the only resource we have left is salmon and that may be gone soon because water from planes and helicopters mixed with fertilizer was sprayed on the 260-square-mile Swan lake fire. When the fall rains come much of that fertilizer will be washed into the Kenai and Skilak Lakes a long with tons of alkali wood ash and carbon. This will raise the PH of the water so that natural foods the young salmon eat may not grow in abundance and foreign algae blooms may take the place of natural foods. On top of that State Fish and Game let an additional million salmon up the Kenai River. What few salmon survive their average weight will be less than five pounds. It’s doubtful that we will have a salmon run ten years from now. What will we do when all the natural resources are gone?
Ancient Greece fell when 16% of the population started working for government and there weren’t enough people making and growing things to support the government. Government workers don’t contribute to society they tax and restrict society by creating laws and regulations.
Ancient Rome fell when 18% of the population became civil service workers. Constant wars and overspending had significantly lightened imperial coffers, and oppressive taxation and inflation had widened the gap between rich and poor. One in three families in Alaska is receiving a government paycheck from State and Federal agencies and there are too few producers. We now have so many laws and regulations that put people in jail and restrict their activities that government has to fall.
The same thing is paying out on a federal level.
The Hill: “After eight years of reckless expansion of the federal workforce under Barack Obama, Donald Trump vowed to downsize the wildly growing bureaucracy of Washington. In 2016, he promised to “cut so much your head will spin.” However, during the first two years of his presidency, there has been no significant effort to reduce the bloated federal payrolls. In fact, the federal government is the largest employer in the nation.”
The sheer size of our government workforce is alarming …The Hill..
Apr 14, 2019 - The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. More people are in prison in the United States per capita than any other nation. It cost money to keep people in prison.
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I lived in Nebraska for 8 years in a town of 8,000 that was an hour from the closest Walmart. Do you think I can handle it up there?
You wouldn't have a problem.
How much money would you recommend to have when moving from the lower 48 to Alaska? Starting from scratch that is.
If it were me, 3-6 months worth of living expenses. Don't come up with just barely enough to make the move, it's asking too much of yourself
I mean I live in upstate NY around mohawk valley and the andirondacks is just as expensive(for different reasons mainly tourists) and similar from what I've experienced learning about Alaska, specifically why I want to move there is to be MORE isolated and it just suits the way i want to live better. Idek what payment dividend thing you're talking about I've never heard of it anywhere until now. It just SOUNDS like bullshit lol.
But I was looking at houses for rent and it's similar if not 100$ or so less than from what we ushered here. But it's still inSANLEY populated up here. I'm 100% aware of ALL the costs of isolations and those "prices" are something I'm willing to pay to suit MY quality of life.
Sounds like AK would be a great fit for you then, especially if you're used to the NY cold :)
@@alaska_realtor I think the hardest part would be moving my whole like and 5 animals across 2 country's LOLOL
@@unicornwizhez4115 Nah, that sounds super easy 😆
Any demand for power lineman? I’ve got almost 18 yrs and hate Ky. Looking around.
If it's anything with a hard skillset, you will probably not struggle to find work.
Why do you hate Kentucky?
Hoping to have no regerts. Not even one letter.
Can you tell me the process to be a permanent resident in Alaska?
It’s part of the US so it’s the same process as wanting to come to the US
Ok another thing and I will leave lol. People ask this question alot and yes it's good to do your research to know what to expect but if you looking for all your T's to be crossed and I to be dotted, hmm Alaska might not be for you
There's always going to be some level of making it up as you go along, regardless of how much research you've done ahead of time. That's part of the adventure :)
I've been doing my research and talking to people I know who have moved to Alaska. The biggest thing that kind of makes me nervous is the high cost of living. I live in Maine. Our cost of living isnt super high but we are taxed on everything. We have a state income tax. I'm trying to get a job with AlaskaDOT but unfortunately I can't get a job there until I have an Alaska address it makes me nervous moving up there with no job lined up
The biggest thing that AK has going for it is that we don't have income tax and no sales tax in places like Anchorage. Cost of living will be higher, but you have to compare that against what the tradeoff is.
We moved up without jobs and found kind of dead end jobs almost immediately. That can float you until you land something better. It can take a really long time to land a good job. My husband is still looking and a lot of the businesses here have corruption and you’re forced to get away from them so your reputation doesn’t get ruined.
@@rockstarofredondo I have a CDL so I'd be looking for trucking jobs. Even if it was a dump truck or something. It's just a matter of getting there and finding the job. I want to get there and apply for Alaska DOT.
I really wish I had known how unfriendly (to put it mildly) many of the people were going to be, and how bad the deeply embedded corruption culture was going to be. I knew the winter darkness was going to be a problem. I do love the long days of summer.
hooray isolation, sick of neighbors :)
Yeah, that should be a welcome change, not within the tone of a warning before you move here.