[org.whodat]

My brother was up there on a couple years back, said everyone he met lived somewhere else. Oh, and I looked it up Alaska ranks 5th down from the top in welfare per-capita. My brother was stationed up there years ago in the air force, sixties, was very disappointed in the place.

[Eye of Unk]

There is almost no factory jobs up here, hardly any place for unskilled workers. There are places like the big box stores and of course the slime lines of the fish factories but hardly any year round assembly jobs that you are accustomed to seeing in the lower 48.

But with the right skill a person can make out like a bandit and should only have to really work just a couple of months a year.

Kinda makes a real knock against a socialist society in a way because you just cannot force or introduce a peoples work force in Alaska, unless its a prison. And even that project has recently failed.