Well since its early morning, I have had my coffee and I’m not quite ready to go to work yet I will offer some insight.
Those that come up here and find its not so easy usually wind up leaving with nothing but the clothes on their back, beaten into submission, broke, busted and possibly forever scarred.
I have tried to help many, and I have failed often, I have many items picked up for next to nothing, vehicles LOTS of guns, tools that people have sold to me at a better price than a pawn shop.
The homeless camps are quite small and every winter a few die of exposure, there are only a few small shelters, if anything the survival rate is better if an existing family is already up here. Another way to survive is to have funds to pay for food and lodging for a whole year, that might get you by for 4-6 months up here.
After time its possible to start cutting the expenses down, buy don’t rent, get a cheap new vehicle instead of a high maintenance problem prone clunker that was cheap to begin with, more than likely it was abandoned by another refugee the year before and was too difficult to operate in sub zero weather or icy roads for six months.
It really still requires true pioneers here in Alaska, and yes Anchorage is indeed the fake Alaska, its a liberal town heavily populated by gays. Sort of a Northern Exposure San Fransisco.
My moonbat niece and her husband of similar persuasion just bought a house in Anchorage. She has roots in East Tennessee and he in Portland OR (not Maine). They are into their fifth year in your fair state.
Thanks, I’d have stayed longer than 5 years had the USAF honored my request.