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Haha this year I moved more rural and to the interior, 987 residents on a whole lot more acres of land 😂 thanks for the comment and have a nice weekend 🙂

But that will ruin all the fun of trying things out haha most likely though rock salt is in the future. But I'm going to try a tarp tunnel first.

Haha I noticed one thing that's happening is if I edit the video on my older/cheaper laptop the volume is lower so I increase the volume while editing and if I edit the video on my newer/better laptop the volume is much higher and I lower the volume when editing. I'll try to stick with one laptop to prevent that from happening again. Thanks.

Sorry about that. I would advise to do what I do when I get motion sickness, close my eyes and just listen 🙂

There wasn't much more to take from that Plaza, but if you watch the video five times in a row or more, the video will be as long as you would like and you'll basically see everything on the Plaza. 😇

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- LOL love it

@north2green sometimes I don't know how to reply to complaints like this, and sometimes I'm just silly to be honest. But since I always try to respond to every comment, I have to say something 😂 also most of the people who leave these type of complaints rarely come back to read how I reply, so it's really just another way for me to entertain myself.😂

Yeah the statue was really cool, I liked it enough to make a video haha honestly I got bothered by some homeless people you see walking around in the video so I kind of left fairly quickly and didn't get a closer look at the church

Thanks Dawn, that's always my hope to make the viewers feel like they're there with me 🙂

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the comment 🙂

Lol I have to admit, if it wasn't for Taco Bell ( okay seriously for cheaper groceries) I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much. But I also have to admit I will probably go to Fairbanks 2 or 3 times every year just to take a day vacation and eat some tacos lol I guess I compare it to Anchorage and it's a million times better with a billion less people 😂

Maybe next summer I'm going to hit the places around Fairbanks, I just haven't decided which part of Alaska I'm going to spend time in when the summer rolls around again.

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It was neat mainly because the antlers came from all over Alaska

It's funny because like any place the people who live in small towns in Alaska of course don't like all the tourists because it makes everything crowded as well as tourists seem to not consider that people actually live there and are often inconsiderate, but at the same the locals realize they need them for the town to survive. I heard a joke, I told someone one time the people at the post office were so extra friendly this weekend and she said that's because all the tourists left 😂 but seriously, where I'm living now near Denali I understand a lot of tourists go there and yes sometimes they walk on the side of the road where the streets are narrow and the speed limits are 45 mph and they do get in the way but more so they put themselves in danger of getting hit by cars, we're driving running errands so we have to be extra careful for them, but I don't find as many tourists here as I heard there were before I got here. In short yes tourists are annoying just like I'm annoying when I go and visit a small town in Idaho. I get in those people's way, but I try to be considerate and understand people live there and it's their home, unfortunately most people don't think that way when they're on vacation. Anyhow, the benefit here is the tourist season is so short they come and go pretty quickly.

I don't think I singled out Florida. But my point was regardless where you live, "depression" is not something that comes and goes simply because you move because one thinks it would be a nice change. Low wages and overdevelopment don't cause depression. It may cause someone to not like where they're living, and therefore leading them to be in bad moods often, and not very happy with their life at the moment. But you don't need to move across the country to change that. I'm pretty confident there's places in Florida that are nicer places to live than in other parts of Florida. Depression is a serious mental illness. A change of scenery or a move does not make depression go away. And moving to a place that is extremely cold and dark for longer periods of time is one of the worst places someone who is depressed should move to. I'm sorry if you disagree with that...... now assuming a person is not depressed but he's just not happy with where he's living, if they chose to come to Alaska they may like it here and they may not. But any baggage they're carrying with them, whether it's insecurity or trouble with the law or depression or family problems comes with them to Alaska. Some things cannot be changed just because one moves..... but you are certainly right there are people who are depressed in Florida and move to Alaska and they sit here and after the excitement of living in a new place wears off which is typically within one year, those people are depressed again, and they either leave Alaska or they sit here in a remote community still depressed but happy to hide in the shadows for the rest of their lives, typically because they fall into alcoholism or drug use. Or they commit suicide. But none of them lose their depression without professional help...BTW I hate to be the one to say this but there is a lot of stupidity and a lot of underpaid jobs in Alaska. And if you want to live anywhere where it's convenient, the cities are so small, they could easily be described as a bit overdeveloped. You only see less stupid people in Alaska if you live in a small remote community but you're still going to see stupid people. Also if you live in a small remote community most likely your career job is not going to be here and you're going to have to take a job that pays $12 to $18 an hour ( by the way minimum wage in Alaska is around $11). And your rent for a very small place, much smaller than you can get in Florida, it's going to be about $900 a month and you may not have running water. Add in The Long Dark cold Winters. Are you sure that sounds better to you than Florida and a place where someone who is depressed should move to?

I guess it's fair to say Alaska's like any other state where there are no set dates/months when snow may begin to fall... last year in the snowiest city in the US in Valde we got no snow until the third week of November. I think it's not common that Anchorage would get any snow before November, other than a mixture of rain and snow flurries. In the interior from what I was told you may have an inch or two fall a couple of times in October.... but it's definitely different every year, for example over the weekend about 4 inches of snow fell and four more inches fell yesterday and today, and tonight and tomorrow night the lows will be between 4 and 12 degrees but that's because there's an arctic cold front blowing over us the next couple of days and next week we should be getting at least six more inches, but temperatures will get back to the twenties close to 30 after Sunday, so this is going to be considered a snowy and uncommon cold temperatures for October in Healy......BTW the video you watched is when I went to Fairbanks on September 22nd, it's not common to snow that early in in the interior between Fairbanks and Healy. I was just told three days ago that before 1992 they always had plenty of snow in September.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- Interesting fact

I heard about that legend also. I think that's where the miners wanted to come up with the name for the city, and none of them could spell ptarmigan haha it's like the alaskan town that had a cat as a mayor for like 20 years.... I'm not sure if any of these are true, but it definitely helps bring tourist to the towns. I was disappointed though finding out the cat was never mayor of Talkeetna.

Welcome, South Africa 🙂 I don't know if you saw my most recent videos but now I moved to the interior of Alaska in a small town near Denali National Park. I just met a girl from South Africa who's working in the lodge as a receptionist over the winter. She's looking forward ( out of curiosity) to the winter because it gets really cold here, up to =40 celsius.

Thank you 🙂 in the summer cabin it was a Toya stove( if I needed it). In this tiny house its electricity, and it is floor heat. I also have one of those heaters that's on wheels that I can plug into the wall if I need it when it gets colder. Since heat is included in the rent, I'll use whatever I can to keep warm haha.... quite honestly if in the future I wind up buying my own small cabin, I prefer electricity for the stove and Heat simply because I don't like the smell of propane inside, and the Toya stoves as great as they are often have little issues and I'm not a handyman. So I would have to pay a little bit more to have the heat and stove with electric but it makes things a little easier for me. It's not that I have extra money to spend but sometimes you just have to accept your capabilities lol which also saves you money in the long run.

​@Life_Is_A_Highway- That's good electricity is included in rent!! Your going to use lots of it I would say. Looking forward to hearing your feedback on the comfort and insulation capabilities of the tiny home.

@WestCoastRoller I asked the owner to share with me the electric cost in December and January and February. She expects it to be about $200 a month. I have a feeling she's not considering you definitely need to have the heat set a bit warmer in this tiny house than a normal house, and she probably also didn't consider plugging the car in. I'm also the first person renting this because they just finished building at 2 days before I moved in. But I want to know the cost of electric because it will also give me a general idea of how much I should expect to pay for my own place in the future... right now I'm pretty much just living like I would live in an apartment, in terms of not going out of my way to save a penny since it's all included. Because that's the way I would want to live in my own place. Pretty much everything I do now it's just learning what to expect in the future.

Welcome, thanks for the comment 🙂

It was pretty cool to see, definitely something to look at if one is in Fairbanks.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- I'll at it to my list

@OldSchoolAlaska and then go to the Pioneer Park if you have time and also there was a really cool statue on Golden Heart Plaza 😉

I love it that the antlers came from so many different places.

@davidlacroix6769 yeah, that wad cool, good job at noticing that in the video.

It's pretty neat, it was also rainy when I was there but the rain had slowed down a lot.... what are your thoughts about not moving to Wasilla but instead moving to Palmer? Or is there a particular reason you want to be in Wasilla?

Welcome, Bulgaria. Happy that you enjoy the videos 🙂

I'm going to guess maybe it's only open from May 5th until mid September. I'll go visit Fairbanks again during that time next year and I should have the answer by then haha

Lol that would be a great Halloween decoration they should sell at Home Depot, they just need to make the eyes flash red, the wings flap a bit and the head tilt sideways as his beak opens.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- yesssss!!!

If I understand you correctly, you mean I should buy and not rent? I agree with you, but here are my 3 problems with that. First off, I just don't have enough $ to buy now. Secondly, I'm patient and I'm saving and plan on buying a piece of property and a cabin in the next 5 years, I need to find someone who offers a generous owner financing plan. It's easier to find that once you're here for a while and you get to know people because when your new, almost everybody thinks you're going to leave in a few months like most people do. Lastly, the reason I'm patient is I'm learning a lot by renting, particularly what I should and shouldn't have inside a cabin, for example, if I buy one or if I have one built in the future. And I'm also learning a lot about the different areas in Alaska and where I would be willing to buy something. So in a way, I feel that I'm better off than people who just come here and buy right away because they often make quite a few mistakes and often regret buying so quickly. So I think I'm lucky that not having money is actually preventing me from rushing into things. So it's actually a benefit now that I'm poor haha but trust me when I say the owners don't ruin anything for me, they only teach me what I need to know for my own place 🙂

I've never been to Juneau, coincidentally there was a couple in Valdez who I knew who were from there and the guy hated it there and the girl loved it there. He didn't like it because it's so far from the rest of Alaska. The only reason she didn't like it is because all of the tourists, which is going to happen in most places in Alaska but in Juneau it's a little more difficult to get away from them according to her. She didn't care that she was so far from the mainland or the rest of Alaska because she just didn't have the urge to visit as many places as he did. It's one thing you will notice in some of these places like valdez, some people haven't left the town in 20 plus years, some of them have never even been to most other parts of Alaska. It's not many people but you will always find a few. So I think whether you'd be happy or not in a place like Juneau will depend on how much money you have and how much free time you have if you do want to see a lot of Alaska.....I'll get to Juneau one day, and glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

Hello Algeria, good luck in making it to Alaska 🙂 you definitely won't regret making it a vacation.

@chrisgibson3670 you're my first relative who commented on a video. Now I'm going to ban you lol Kristine can still watch my videos though.

@@TheBlessedSon-sz4dl ❤️

Lol I guess it could have been worse there could have been someone's hand in there 😂

Do you live in Alaska or you visited? I have a feeling when you said that you visited that Park that you may live here. I'll get there next spring, maybe with a little more life in the park, not heading that way anytime soon cuz the roads are just not safe anymore.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- oh no , I live on the east coast. I felt as if I visited through you. I’d like to visit ,at least, somewhere in Alaska, in the summer. It’s a matter of money.

@Biglake-yf5sc okay because there is a place called Big Lake in Alaska and I thought maybe this person lives there haha I lived on the East Coast my entire life until I move to Europe in 1991, originally from New Jersey but I also lived in massachusetts, new york, Connecticut and Virginia.

May I ask why did you move from the tiny house into the cabin, for more space? I bought the -40 muck boots for the deep snow in Valdez but it's going to be good for here too, even though I don't get 400+ inches of snow anymore haha but I'm not a particularly outdoorsy kind of person, I like sitting around home and in the yard as well as going and visiting places. But I'm going to break from that until spring time cuz cars are already sliding off the roads around here.

Welcome, Australia 🙂 I think the people always make the town, the views and things to do or just extra bonuses 🙂

I'm guessing you guys have been there . Do you know is it normal they have the gates open when they're closed? There wasn't a single worker/person anywhere inside of it and I was inside for over an hour.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- I've never been there lol. I stay out of the city as much as possible haha!

@TheSimpleAlaskans haha okay but the next time you go to Fairbanks I think you guys would like that place. Hey maybe next summer when you go to Fairbanks let me know and we can spend the day there. I will keep the city Folk away from you lol

Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂

Thanks. Will bring that up with the owner as well as look up on that stuff myself with the company that built the house.

12 years ago it was one of the places I thought I was going to be moving to when I came here.

This one is only 15 by 6 and it would be doable with two people but really really tight. You definitely would have to store some of your things in the car, or it would be way too cluttered inside I would think. Or everybody could get rid of half of their clothes lol

I got a full video of pioneer Park coming out in 2 days 🙂 I was waiting for the police to show up and tell me to get out lol

@Life_Is_A_Highway- 😃 looking forward to the video

Lol sometimes it's better not to think about certain things. Actually the cold made me tired and just happy there was a bed

Oh please give me a clue some type of hat I'm coming up there one day soon I hope to Fairbanks to vacation ​@@Life_Is_A_Highway-

Starlink has worked great for the week that I've had it, faster than the local provider... I love going to places during the off-season because you have a front row seat to all of the sites even if the little stores and tourist centers are closed. It's much more enjoyable without the crowds.

It made me want ice cream though 😂

Yeah it was in a great location with Safeway right across the street and the manager was really really friendly. I don't really get bothered by things like that, I left them a good review. I actually went back to Fairbanks a week later and stayed there again.

@@Life_Is_A_Highway- Agree with you, just to have a place to stay 😊

@@Biglake-yf5sc yep, exactly. And it's nice when the manager is so friendly also, he was really cool to talk to.

Is building snowmen exercise, cuz the only thing I can shovel are my steps, and they're very small haha

Thanks, well before it gets too cold I'll continue playing around outside, and in the winter I'm going to watch five football games a week after work( which wipes out 90% of those days), I'll go down to the laundromat and shower which wipes out an hour a day, and then work on the RUclips videos and when I have extra time watch some netflix. 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. I work my job from home. I did the same thing last year in Valdez without the yard, I find my ways to keep myself busy 🙂

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂

Did you by chance also visit whittier, AK or did you just spend your time in Valdez?

Was the first thing I bought after I moved in haha thank you 😊 if you have any other suggestions, let me know 👍

I would also add insulated curtains.

@isoldedoyle3483 I'll take a look at those online, thank you 🙂

Better yet: Get sheepskin rugs. A must in mountain cabins in my country (Norway)

@pezlover1974 I love those rugs I used to have them in my apartment before I came here. Now you made me want them again lol

Haha, oh yes I hate heat, I just melt and I wind up being a puddle on the sidewalk.