>>127686
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I think I've encountered these here before already, actually, not too long ago. I decided to go hiking up into the San Gabriel mountains and was swarmed by these little fly-like insects I'd never encountered before. I assumed they were harmless enough so I didn't even really bother swatting them away unless they got annoyingly close to my face, until I started to itch maybe an hour or two later. Oops. Not so harmless, after all. They seem a lot less bothered by DEET as well, but I'd probably just layer up, like I said.
Yeah, I think, universally, cities tend to collect dross. I'm not really intent on living in any city, though. With that said, how much worse than Los Angeles can Anchorage be?
>There is, the scholars tell us, something deeply buried, inherent to the American character... Alaska is the last place left that isn't more or less full already...
"American boy, American girl, most beautiful people in the world, son of a frontier Indian swirl"
That assessment's mostly correct, I think. Wherever it is I go, there'll always be that lamentation in the back of my head at that I'm carving out just one more nook of this already-teeming continent.
>See also, Christopher McCandless.
Lots in common between him and I, archetypally at least.
>And if you aren't intent on a one-man homestead
I am.
>$5K a year for necessities is not going to go far
That's the figure I came up with for off-grid living down here, where sun's a-plenty to provide for electricity. Imported water made up the bulk of that reckoning, which may not be so great a concern in a place like Alaska. For food, my intent is to live entirely off hunting & fishing. A pipe dream wherein a billion things are only bound to go wrong, I know, but-- though that's the optimistic figure-- it's not the amount I intend to set my income to. Sun's not quite so bountiful up there in the winter, but summer should make up for that.
>The bugs get pretty big up around Lincoln Park.
Dammit! I was too caught up in this thread's SRS BZNS like that one oldgiraffe (whom I've a suspicion you might so happen to be) likes to say, to catch the reference.
>>127702
I was going to use "nopalnyagger" at first but I'm not so sure many'd get that one, though I'm sure you would and your Texan compatriot, too >>127710. I could've sworn it was an actual slur. I remember stumbling across a "slur database" of some sort where a bunch of the entries were just retarded combinations of word+nyagger as a suffix that I'm sure no one had ever used more than once or twice. I do recall beachnyagger specifically, and found this: http://www.rsdb.org/slur/beach-nyagger , though I'm not so certain this is the site I'm thinking of.
>>127778
Morocco's climate and biome is not too dissimilar to the one here. I know that much. Never been to those other two countries, though.
Stick framing's really convenient, yes. That wattle-and-daub pic you attached is basically a hybrid system between earthen and wood-framed construction. You might be right about the humidity issue with going underground, though I'm also sure there must be some solution devised a while ago probably by means of adequate venting and draining to the more arid exterior. Seemed to work well enough for Forestiere in Fresno and the Pueblo Indians. And adobe seems to have been the preferred material for the Spaniards who arrived later as well. Looks like the building codes are gearing up for it to become more commonplace soon (in decades).
>how much does a medevac from a remote homestead in Alaska cost
Probably more than my life's actually worth. Always keep money saved for such emergencies, but, frankly, if you're that far away from the world, you must acknowledge that there's a good chance you can simply meet death at a moment's notice. Such is life.
In the case of appendicitis, I suppose I could cut the damn thing out myself gek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWxFzvi0j_8
>>127779
Yesss 🫰
Thank you for your elucidation.
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