perplexed said:
I've been here 51 years. I'm at 64 degrees North. I live here because I can. Born and raised, and will be planted in the frozen tundra. Traffic is passing one car on my way to work, a real snowstorm comes down horizontally. I know everyone in the grocery store when I go shopping, there's little crime. I don't lock my house or vehicles...ever. My kids play in the street. There are no property fences...anywhere, and no No Trespassing signs. The view from my couch is the Bering Sea, I watch the sunrise every morning. I have cable TV, the internet, a cell phone, lots of guns and fishing poles. I have a well paying job, two recreational cabins, a boat, 5 ATV's and 4 snowmobiles, and fill my freezer with meat and fish every fall. I own a nice 3br home that rivals one in Anywhere, USA. I fish King Crab through the ice in the winter within eyesight of my house, and give loads away to friends because I tire of eating them after a couple of months. I pay no State income or sales tax, all residents are exempt. The State gives me an oil royalty dividend each year (for the past 20), that this year was 2 grand. When I need firewood for my stove, I just go cut it....anywhere, no permission needed from anyone.
Why do I live here? Beats me!