RE: [OT] Life in Alaska

Job prospects are MUCH better in Anchorage.

And any community against the ocean is going to be rainy.
That includes Seward, Homer and Anchorage too.

"My advice is free and worth every penny!"

-Christopher Erickson
Network Design Engineer
5432 E. Northern Lights Blvd., Suite 529
Anchorage, AK 99508
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> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]=20
> On Behalf Of Kenneth D. Weinert
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 9:41 PM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [OT] Life in Alaska
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> My wife always wants to plan ahead and since we're planning=20
> on moving up
> in to the Homer / Soldotna area in two or three years (after our
> youngest graduates from high school.)
> She'd like to have some idea, from folks that have lived=20
> there a while,
> what it's really like.
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> Things like cost of living, job prospects, that sort of thing.
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> We know we don't want to live as far north as Fairbanks (yes, we know
> there's a lot of Alaska north of Fairbanks) but after living=20
> in Colorado
> for 20+ years with more than 300 days of sunshine on the average, I
> worry about her and the shorter days during the winter -=20
> another reason
> for not moving very far north.
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> We've also talked about Seward, but on one of our visits up=20
> there it was
> raining and it seems like it rained a lot and that didn't seem like it
> was an unusual thing.
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> I really like rain, as long as I don't have to be out in it - 20 years
> in the Army/National Guard sort of turned me against rain :)
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> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated - feel free to reply offlist
> as this is definately off topic.
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> Thanks.
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> Ken Weinert
> http://quarter-flash.com
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Received on Sun Sep 23 21:50:59 2007