Realize it takes a forty dollar an hour job in Alaska, to equal 15 in the lower 48. Housing ,food, beer, cars, trucks, fuel everything is real expensive. We visit the kids every year. The last four trips I bought used pickups, took them up sold or left to be sold, and paid airfare back, plus a few dollars in the pocket! Not enough fishing boats and slope work to keep Alaska resident's employed. That's why parts of Anchorage, is as slum like as many other cities. No work for the masses! Not trying to start a conflict, just relating experience!
