Alaska Town Is Giving Away Land

[imported_cheapdude]

I wonder if amazon prime cover shipping to alaska.

 

[SKORPI0]

GoggleMaps - Anderson, AK

Looks like it has a runway (private?). Nice hideaway place for somebody.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: everman
If I moved to Alaska the last place I'd go would be a housing development with 1 acre lots. I'd want at least 4 acres and no close neighbors.

Indeed:thumbsup:
I looked it over. No airport there. Nearest runway at Clear, AK and over at Nenana. No year round services or fuel. Nearest avgas is at Fairbanks. I too shall pass

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: SKORPI0
GoggleMaps - Anderson, AK

Looks like it has a runway (private?). Nice hideaway place for somebody.

Too many buildings to be a house, probably the town airport.

 

[91TTZ]

Why do towns and countries always feel that they have to grow? Don't they realize that the Earth is limited in space, it's already overpopulated, and that having such a mentality only promotes the using up of resources?

Admittedly, this place isn't even close to being overpopulated as it is today. But given the choice, where would they stop? Would they like it to be non-stop sprawl like the North East? Don't some residents choose to live there because of the small-town feel? Even in New Jersey, with its extremely high population density, I always hear towns claiming that they need growth. They don't even have room to grow, they just want more tax revenue.

I guess I just don't like hearing of people's desires to sell out the final frontier the USA has. I don't want it to become like New Jersey.

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Why do towns and countries always feel that they have to grow? Don't they realize that the Earth is limited in space, it's already overpopulated, and that having such a mentality only promotes the using up of resources?

Admittedly, this place isn't even close to being overpopulated as it is today. But given the choice, where would they stop? Would they like it to be non-stop sprawl like the North East? Don't some residents choose to live there because of the small-town feel? Even in New Jersey, with its extremely high population density, I always hear towns claiming that they need growth. They don't even have room to grow, they just want more tax revenue.

I guess I just don't like hearing of people's desires to sell out the final frontier the USA has. I don't want it to become like New Jersey.

prob because the people that live there are bored and realize that it is almost impossible to sell their house because few people want to live there, so they want to populate the town. This would help the people in the town get more services and also let them sell their house easier if they want to move.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Why do towns and countries always feel that they have to grow? Don't they realize that the Earth is limited in space, it's already overpopulated, and that having such a mentality only promotes the using up of resources?

Admittedly, this place isn't even close to being overpopulated as it is today. But given the choice, where would they stop? Would they like it to be non-stop sprawl like the North East? Don't some residents choose to live there because of the small-town feel? Even in New Jersey, with its extremely high population density, I always hear towns claiming that they need growth. They don't even have room to grow, they just want more tax revenue.

I guess I just don't like hearing of people's desires to sell out the final frontier the USA has. I don't want it to become like New Jersey.

Economies of scale. It's expensive to offer necessary services with such a small population. Small towns are nice, but too small is not so great.

 

[arrfep]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Why do towns and countries always feel that they have to grow? Don't they realize that the Earth is limited in space, it's already overpopulated, and that having such a mentality only promotes the using up of resources?

Admittedly, this place isn't even close to being overpopulated as it is today. But given the choice, where would they stop? Would they like it to be non-stop sprawl like the North East? Don't some residents choose to live there because of the small-town feel? Even in New Jersey, with its extremely high population density, I always hear towns claiming that they need growth. They don't even have room to grow, they just want more tax revenue.

I guess I just don't like hearing of people's desires to sell out the final frontier the USA has. I don't want it to become like New Jersey.

Economies of scale. It's expensive to offer necessary services with such a small population. Small towns are nice, but too small is not so great.

I think it also has a lot to do with the fact that many of these towns (maybe moreso the Kansas ones than the Alaska ones) feel they are in danger of simply vanishing. I spent an extended period of time travelling through "Small Town America" a few summers back and it is scary to report that it is mostly dying. The only small towns that I visited that seemed alive were University towns, or trendy tourist towns like Telluride and such.

Everything else, the middle-America Kansas and Missouri towns were slowly shrivelling into nothing more than a Walmart Super center and a bunch of surrounding homes. I don't think these towns are looking to grow, per se, as much as they are looking to not shrink and fade away into obvlivion. I think there is a point where population drops too low that it's not possible to function as a town anymore and the "town" has to just dissovle. Seems to me these towns just want to prevent that.

 

[mortong]

Wow. 2 of 2 is REALLY impressive.

 

[Mardeth]

Weird. Same thing happens here all over the country side. Thought it was common. You have to pay ?1 for the lot and build a house on it in 2 years. And these are in villages with like 10,000 people and services but with the population going down thought.

 

[Analog]

High speed internet?