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We're moving to Alaska!!
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posted by phil at 2:23 AM
13.10.07 |
PHIL
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole day long? From morn to night my friend."
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16 Comments:
Girdwood, Alaska? Because Alpine Air is in Girdwood Alaska.
"Wave to the moose during your 180-autorotations. Fly over glaciers. As of 2005 it is easy to say that [Alpine Air] is the best helicopter school in Alaska because... it is the only helicopter school in Alaska." -- Philip Greenspun
ALSO...
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293552,00.html
... it's all about the Volcanos.
Also Girdwood is only about 40 miles from the University of Alaska, Anchorage (nursing program - check). AND there is a major road across 90% of that disance(good for while I'm still learning). I'll leave it to you to check specifics but... hells yes!
look, Milwaukee, it's not that I don't love you...
Ha! That's FANTASTIC!!
I haven't checked out COL or anything yet... but according to the Simpsons Movie they pay you to live there...
Besides, Milwaukee is the most racially segregated city in the nation. And if you're going to be cold, well... you might as well be cold in Alaska.
My main concern is SAD (seasonal affective disorder). "In Alaska it has been established that there is an SAD rate of 8.9%, and an even greater rate of 24.9%[13] for subsyndromal SAD." The icelandic word for it is, "skammdegisthunglyndi". (short day, heavy mood).
Anyways, just some thoughts...
You guys, SAD is horrible in WI, much less Alaska. I can't imagine how you'd live with the gloom and darkness. Alaska would be a super fun place to visit, but to LIVE there?? C'mon. You'd have to park Maggie under a therepeutic lamp for days on end. That's what you'd have to do to me. BLAH. If I were to live somewhere besides Milwaukee, I'd pick Denver. You still get the seasons, yet it's nice and SUNNY, even in the winter! Perfect.
But don't forget, if you live in Milwaukee you've got a built in babysitter who already has all the toys and supplies and playmates necessary at her house. ;)
Actually, its not so dark in Alaska. Anchorage gets 19.5 hours of sunlight. Crazy.
That's only in the summer, though. Winter for Anchorage gets a few scant hours a day. Check it out: http://www.alaska.com/about/weather/story/4481284p-4460281c.html
Yeah, but maybe you could store up on all that extra sunshine so you wouldn't crave it come winter. :)
Yes! exactly. Well, sort of. But in a way that makes sense or something. I mean, you're going to go through cycles throughout the year anyway so why not live somewhere where you have to deal with it? When the change in seasons is that dramatic and impossible to ignore you're going plan to have a somewhat different life, be in different moods etc. I think it could be kinda fun actually.
..or a basement full of mirrors and crystals arranged just so.
Ohhhh, how you know the inner yearnings of my heart...!!
... mirrors and crystals arranged just so... and in the summer they can make RAINBOWS...
Also, I'm informed there's no income tax and the government pays you dividends on 25% of oil revenue made by the state...
I heard something about being paid for the kids you have in Alaska... some such rumor of populating the state.
Um you didn't call me this weekend... i was all prepared to tell you wild and crazy things. Really.
I got scared because I had a girly-stuff doctors appointment today and I didn't want to think about that part of my body in horrific ways until after I'd dealt with it. I WILL call soon, though!!
Paid for populating the state?
And Phil wants to move there?
Something here just smacks of infidelity to me... tell me you're planning on getting a job, baby... phil(andering) doesn't count...
On a sidenote, a) have you ever wondered if that term (philander) was named after someone named phil? and b) Are you aware that there's only something frighteningly pathetic like 640,000 people in the WHOLE STATE OF ALASKA, which constitutes one fifth of the US land mass? There's way more people than that in piddly ol' MILWAUKEE. Thoughts?
the good thing about living somewhere so racially segregated is that you don't have to feel as guilty for making a blanket racist statement.
heheh, did i actually type that? oh well its true.
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