A day in Kotzebue, Alaska | Remote Alaska
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2022
- To the north of the Arctic Circle Alaska becomes really different. Views are minimalistic and so are the pleasures of the local life. Nature is unforgiving. Practicality prevails. Weather is not too generous. But Alaska remains Alaska, it just changes its feathers. In the town of Kotzebue life is stunningly amazing. You can see American flags above front yards with dead seal bodies. You see a bottle of milk in the grocery and want to forget the crazy price immediately. I saw so much uniqueness in Kotzebue, and my only wish was that the camera doesn't stop working in the brutal wind and cold. Luckily it didn't.
My hometown
also my hometown, haven't been home in almost 18 years, it
Yes this is right before spring clean up. Im 42 and for as long as i can remember lions club and the city buy bags of trash for a dollar and get entered into a drawing for bikes for kids. This is the thaw of 3 feet of snow
My birthplace❤
Congrats on being born in Kotzebue! Wonder what it was like in your childhood.
@ I was born there but raised lower 48 but returned as a young teen. That's why I said my birthplace. Majority of family still there. God chose I be born there so I choose to love it. I will always call it home.
@@charlene3884 This is great you got to come back to this special place. Thank you for sharing the story.
Pretty for lone looking town
Acabo de ver esta región por una radio radio FM que se escucha desde el 75 sino me equivoco
What time of year is this?
This is May.
What language is that on the stop sign?
I believe the signs are in Iñupiaq
I’m leaving Louisiana heading there in a few days!!! I’m so excited
Have fun! What's bringing you to Kotzebue?
@ I’m coming to spend some time with my fiancé, she’s been working there for almost a year at the hospital.
@ how does she like it . I was just offered a job myself…
it's been a long 18 years, it saddens me to see it continue to deteriorate, that is what legalizing the sale of alcohol does to an already dark, depressing, cold and difficult place to live, don't get me wrong, I love Kotzebue, I only wish the best for it, but the people who have been in charge for the last decade really don't want what's best for Kotz, they only want to line their pockets with profits of the alcohol business and everything else it brings to the "economy" so instead of the people using their Native Corp Shareholder checks on the future, their kids, cleaning up their property, anything productive, they are drinking it all, more violence, more trauma, more jobs I guess
Great to read your perspective on this, Jeremiah, thanks for taking the time to write it. Not sure how the town management influences private property clean up though? I would think, standards of front yards could be incorporated in the city code and then enforced. When it comes to junk cars, it's easier. For the rest of the personal belongings on front yards, the question becomes - what is used and what is not. You can't force people to throw away what is 'used', even if once in a long while.
If you find another minute to spare, what productive you as a former resident would like to see the town doing?
People just need to clean up there yards
their
maybe you should go pay for the removal of the yard it cost more to throw trash to the dump than you would pay for your morning coffee
Hi from Russia Yakutsk
i live there but im on vacation
On vacation or went down south for winter?
@ went down south till january
Go to 811
I'm going to Kotzebue for romance with nature and someone I hope
The best of luck, Greg! Give yourself enough time to enjoy it.
I’m heading there in 5 days. I’m excited!! To be with my fiancée who’s been there almost a year now. Coming from Louisiana.
It's rough place getting rougher because loss of Native food. Lots of pollution in paradise. I hope plane don't crash to cold nothing to eat
I loved Kotzebue! One of the most unique places I've been to. Plenty of options of eat, including local dishes like reindeer stews etc. All that's missing can be ordered from the lower 48.
Kotzebue is a place to be, but rather than showing all of the houses that are not taken care of and junky would have been a better view on our town. There’s a lot of other place that could have been shown rather then what you portrayed my hometown to be. Kind of annoying that an outsider came in made out town look like it was t great on the eyes when there’s a lot of other areas that are. I wonder did you get permission from the owners filming their property? Do better.
Hi Vera, it is always great to receive a comment from a local! I respect your opinion and apologize if the video appears this way, this was clearly not the intent. If you read the description, it doesn't convey your point of view. I loved Kotzebue and among my travels it will always be a special place. Kotzebue's people - due to the remoteness and unavailability of MANY things - have a completely different sense of practicality than those on the mainland. What appears as 'junk' is needed, time will comes and it will be reused.
For the places that look better there's of course the Northwest Arctic Heritage Center but it looked almost out of place to me. I'll remember Kotzebue by the roaring aircraft motors and barking dogs, I genuinely liked it.
I'd love to hear more what you expected to see in a video like this. Next time I'm in town, I can do a different shoot.
Why are you complaining? This is EXACTLY what Kotzebue looks like.
Small towns and villages in Alaska on the west and Arctic coasts are supposed to be unsanitary and full of trash with the exception of Nome.
It’s the only large bush town in Alaska without a swimming pool and their crime is higher than any other bush town. Unless it’s work on a rotating schedule and you live elsewhere, stay away from this horrible place!
That bad… I was just offered a job there.( nursing)