Pretty much all the reasons why we moved away ... and nothing encountered today makes me want to go back.
URGENT CALL TO REPENTANCE: All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord. And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee. For the Kingdom is the Lord’s and He rules among the nations. (Psalm 22:27-28)
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It is for those very reason I have decided that being housebound is not necessarily a bad thing. :)
Agree with you 100%, Reverend. I am so glad that unless the farmers here stop farming, we are not likely to have more than a handful of neighbors.
Been wanting to say I like your new header. Is that a hunting cabin?
God bless.
Los Anchorage. lol, pretty good.
I hear you, Vicki. We're not housebound, but sure don't like leaving our little town on the weekends.
Linda, I know the trend is for the farmers' children to sell the farmland to developers, but I hope your area bucks that. The cabin is a prospector's, on the grounds of the El Dorado gold mine north of Fairbanks.
threecollie, I'd love to claim credit for that, but it was coined years ago by folks living anywhere else in Alaska, watching Anchorage's desire to be bigger & better. All they achieved was the "bigger" part.
Reverend, I can assure from dwelling in another one of the large areas that nothing has gotten better here either over the last 8 years. It is odd to me that people somehow rate "convenience" above not being crowded, traffic bound, and overpriced/overtaxed.
Ah, Anchoragua. Bet it hasn't gotten any less crowded and... itself... since I left!
Although, living in the Lower 48 does serve to remind me how small it is. Once upon a time, in a very long line at SFO waiting to check luggage at the Alaska Airlines counter, I finally broke down enough to whine "I wanna go back to where Lake Otis and Tudor is a traffic jam!"
About half the line did the polite big-city thing of pretending I didn't exist. The other half the line broke up laughing. (You could tell who was going home!)
I now live in a tiny town in North Texas, where a traffic jam is four people at a four-way stop, all trying to wave the others on politely. Bet Los Anchorage would be aggravating to me, too, now!
TB, we've been here nearly 15 years now, and I assure you that driving in the Lower 48 (I won't drive in Hawaii, for good reason) is worse than here. And you're right: "convenience" is poor reason for living like rats in a cage.
Wing, it has only grown. Some 330,000 now call Anchorage 'home'. I love your line about Lake Odor & Tudis (yes, that's on purpose). And having grown up in Smallville, MO, I hear you about 4 folks at a crossroads. :)
Anchorage, it's not Alaska but you can see Alaska from there.
ML, we read that comment - and others like it - in real estate brochures when we were planning our move 15 years ago. It's true. Anchorage, in its headlong rush to become North Portland, has abandoned much of what makes Alaska unique.
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