Moving from Alaska back to the "Lower 48" and can'
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7/18/2006
I never even knew this website existed until just now while scouting about jobs and apartments in Raleigh, North Carolina. I've spent 12 years in Alaska--3 in Anchorage, 5 in Fairbanks and finishing up 4 in Delta Junction and am leaving for Raleigh in 2 months and I'm counting the days. I was looking at everyone's opinions on Raleigh and was shocked to hear criticism but then I haven't lived there in 29 years. However, I'm counting the days unitl I can get out of here. I'm newly-divorced and there's nothing up here for me. My grown children live in Fairbanks but I'm tired of the isolation, cold and high cost of living. I have to drive 90 miles just to get to Fairbanks and shopping there is limited. I want to hang around single people my own age and there's no one around. I love cultural things to do--even something as simple as a movie. There's nothing here. The long, cold dark winters drive me crazy. I don't care how it it gets in Raleigh--anything is better than 40- in the Alaskan Interior! It's a beautiful state but unless you like hunting, fishing, long winters and isolation--don't even bother to come up here to live.
wendy | Deltana, AK