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I was watching Alaska: PD for the first time the other night and they were following this officer in Kotzebue, and I looked it up on google maps, wiki, etc. and it blew my mind. The stores are just like "Liquor store" and it seems so funny that there's literally one store of each type, but then they also seem to have their own DMV, post office, radio station, etc. Idk, everything about that is just fascinating to me. I wish I could visit. Can any goons shed some more light on these places?
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I fell down a youtube hole once and ended up in a couple of these in the remotest areas. I think one of them is the furthest west town in the US or something. It's out there. Way way out there.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:41
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i often wish i could sell all my posessions and buy gold mining equipment and lose all my money looking for gold in alaska
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Feb 2, 2020 15:42
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Do they have exotic Spanish names for roads/trails that are boring af when translated? 
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Feb 2, 2020 15:43
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One of the towns is called Diomede.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:44
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Do they have exotic Spanish names for roads/trails that are boring af when translated? no it's weird all of the towns have these very proper sounding olde englishe names but all of the roads are obviously alaska native words
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Feb 2, 2020 15:49
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pepsi lover posted:no it's weird all of the towns have these very proper sounding olde englishe names but all of the roads are obviously alaska native words View road. Tree road. River road. Taco road. 
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Feb 2, 2020 15:52
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:i often wish i could sell all my posessions and buy gold mining equipment and lose all my money looking for gold in alaska I did this and it was great, I believe in you
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Feb 2, 2020 15:52
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:View road. Tree road. River road. Taco road. you bigot
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Feb 2, 2020 15:53
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pepsi lover posted:you bigot Gotta have a theme. I drive around SoCal sometimes that’s like every small town. 
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Feb 2, 2020 15:54
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pepsi lover posted:no it's weird all of the towns have these very proper sounding olde englishe names but all of the roads are obviously alaska native words In finland it was customary to mess with the surveyors when they came asking for place names. Therefore we have hundreds of places officially named "lake washcunt" or "poo poo bog" etc.
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Feb 2, 2020 15:56
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Been all over the Arctic.. The small towns are pretty cool I would say its a hard life winter time with the isolation. Lots of nice outdoors poo poo to do tho
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Feb 2, 2020 15:59
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Everything is hilariously expensive in the grocery stores in those remote towns because of how hard/expensive it is to ship anything there. The larger an item is the more expensive it typically is. Here's a video of a guy going around one of those stores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQpxNFbDV4w Some notable examples : A 24 pack of water bottles can be 25 dollars, a 12 pack of paper towel rolls costs 30 loving dollars, a single head of iceberg lettuce is almost 6 dollars.
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pepsi lover posted:I was watching Alaska: PD for the first time the other night and they were following this officer in Kotzebue, and I looked it up on google maps, wiki, etc. and it blew my mind. The stores are just like "Liquor store" and it seems so funny that there's literally one store of each type, but then they also seem to have their own DMV, post office, radio station, etc. No but I read extensively about life on an inaccessible Indian reservation in Alaska and let me summarize: it’s hosed and places like that mostly exist outside the rule of law.
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Feb 2, 2020 16:04
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A BYOBer who lives up there showed up in AI a few weeks ago and got shouted down for telling stories about how it is on the edge of civilization (driving his snowmobile without insurance or something was I think the flashpoint).
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Feb 2, 2020 16:06
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I'm from one, our most successful restaraunt is Baja taco. A taco truck which was so successful they built a restaurant around it, literally. It's still only open during fishing season.
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Feb 2, 2020 16:47
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm from one, our most successful restaraunt is Baja taco. A taco truck which was so successful they built a restaurant around it, literally. It's still only open during fishing season. which one i wont stalk you i promise i just want to look at it on google maps
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Feb 2, 2020 17:10
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I've been to Glenallen a few times, my aunt/uncle have a cabin nearby, there's an ice cream shop that's pretty good.
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I lived in a city in AK for quite a while in the 80s-00s and took many trips to such places to visit friends. People who live there spend their time, hanging out and socializing with their neighbors, working on their homes, reading, watching movies, etc. Most of the people I knew were in the tourism industry. They'd make their living running sightseeing/flightseeing trips, fishing trips, hunting trips, river trips and stuff like that. Otherwise they'd work on the slope for big oil or construction, or be the owners of shops. Everybody knows each other and yes a lot of places have a single general store, bar/restaurant, lodge, stuff like that. Goods are expensive because you have to fly them in. Like one of our family friends lived in a lodge that in order to get to you you first had to fly to a lake, get on a floatplane, land in some other lake, then take a boat up a river to get to. Most people would make Costco orders that a pilot would fly in periodically. People grew/hunted for a lot of their own food. Most everywhere has cell service these days, so CB radio isn't as important as it was back in the day. People still have CB though. Gun culture is VERY different. In the lower 48, people who don't live in rural areas are proud of their guns and 2A rights simply for the sake of owning them. However in remote places in AK guns are a necessity. Like you could die if you don't carry a 12ga with you to the shitter and a bear/moose comes out of the woods. Alaska owns and I'll probably move back for retirement.
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I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it??
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it?? Bears can tear open a car like a tin can to get to food if they want.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it?? It's less that and more that there's no point in locking any doors at all. Like everybody knows everybody's business. If you broke into my truck and stole something, I'd learn about it pretty quickly.
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it?? Picking up hitchhikers and helping people out that are broke down out anywhere like that is a basic requirement of living out someplace like that, and tons of alaska and places like northern montana have a lot of urban interface settlements where the big wildlife is a concern because they're accustomed to going down and getting into poo poo when food is scarce.
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angryrobots posted:A BYOBer who lives up there showed up in AI a few weeks ago and got shouted down for telling stories about how it is on the edge of civilization (driving his snowmobile without insurance or something was I think the flashpoint). lol
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angryrobots posted:A BYOBer who lives up there showed up in AI a few weeks ago and got shouted down for telling stories about how it is on the edge of civilization (driving his snowmobile without insurance or something was I think the flashpoint). aww someone remembered me  Drunk Driver Dad posted:I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it?? it's not a rule you just do it if you're chill. garbage cars lying everywhere for anyone to use. there's nowhere to take them even if they were worth stealing Pewdiepie posted:No but I read extensively about life on an inaccessible Indian reservation in Alaska and let me summarize: it’s hosed and places like that mostly exist outside the rule of law. it's rad, the gently caress do you know?
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good things about living in the woods no feds harvesting nature's bounty no one likes feds great weed actually part of a community until this bullshit, corporations weren't people here and money wasn't speech. we're like 10 years behind the rest of the country in hosed-upness. that article is old, it did go to the supreme court and now our elections are for sale like everyone else's bad things about living in the woods if you're some kind of fuckboy who has to have doritos instead of dried seaweed they're gonna be like $8. tendies are a rare treat rather than a dietary staple no hospital, i will boil a needle and some fishing line if you need stitches. your illnesses will be treated with herbal tea and fish antibiotics 2pm sundown gets old quick prime shipping is a LIE, half the stuff won't actually ship the other half takes a week. ebay sellers cancel your order as soon as they see where it's headed monster jam has never visited, someday i hope to attend monster jam
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owlhawk911 posted:good things about living in the woods What do you eat on an average day
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Drunk Driver Dad posted:I heard you are supposed to leave your cars unlocked in case someone needs to escape from a Polar Bear or something. That sounds like an urban legend, but at the same time, also makes sense sort of. Which is it?? Town bears know how to open car doors so some people figure they're better off just letting the bears in instead of making them break a window or tear the door apart just to see there's no food inside
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PinheadSlim posted:Everything is hilariously expensive in the grocery stores in those remote towns because of how hard/expensive it is to ship anything there. The larger an item is the more expensive it typically is. Here's a video of a guy going around one of those stores. Those prices make living in Honolulu look like a bargain, holy gently caress.
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kazr posted:What do you eat on an average day my default meal is smoked salmon/dried mushrooms sauteed up and dumped on rice. canned beach asparagus for the veggie. generally lots of seafood and deer, with stuff like rice and pasta and soup mix coming from group costco orders. potatoes/carrots/garlic actually grow super well here, peas and greens and stuff do alright so in the summer there's plenty of veggies and in the winter anything other than carrots and canned beach asparagus is kind of a treat Maguro posted:Those prices make living in Honolulu look like a bargain, holy gently caress. the only people buying this stuff will be a teacher who will last one year, resource extraction surveyors travelling through, and kids after pfd
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Feb 2, 2020 19:57
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owlhawk911 posted:aww someone remembered me You live on an Indian reservation?
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owlhawk911 posted:
Are you making toilet paper from deer hides or something?
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Pewdiepie posted:You live on an Indian reservation? there is only one res, that we gave to some canadians cause we felt bad for them. we have native corps instead, and they own more land than anyone but the state/feds as national forest. and it's native, not indian. you don't know poo poo about nothing
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Maguro posted:Are you making toilet paper from deer hides or something? it's definitely that and not just part of the costco orders i mentioned
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owlhawk911 posted:there is only one res, that we gave to some canadians cause we felt bad for them. we have native corps instead, and they own more land than anyone but the state/feds as national forest. and it's native, not indian. you don't know poo poo about nothing Well enjoy your thread. I'm afraid you know less about the topic than I do.
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Pewdiepie posted:Well enjoy your thread. I'm afraid you know less about the topic than I do. please tell me more about how we live, swastika pewdiepie. doing it for decades has taught me nothing
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pepsi lover posted:which one Cordova, it's gotten all fancy since I was a kid because now more than Main and 2nd street have pavement.
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Alaska sounds cool
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owlhawk911 posted:please tell me more about how we live, swastika pewdiepie. doing it for decades has taught me nothing Easy friend, don't fall victim to GBS doing GBS things.
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I made over half a million dollars mining gold at a remote mine in Alaska ama
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