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Right, remember that houses in this neck of the woods are typically prefab houses that are shipped to Alaska, then shipped to the middle of nowhere, then assemb
by monknomo 10y ago
Right, remember that houses in this neck of the woods are typically prefab houses that are shipped to Alaska, then shipped to the middle of nowhere, then assembled.
It gets expensive really quickly.
There are no hardware stores with building materials already there, and no trees to make a cabin with. A locally sourced house would probably be a permafrost dirt hut, which would melt as global warming continues or maybe a discarded shipping container. They must bring in prefabs, just full stop.
Look at the pictures, they aren't living high on the hog, but I guarantee the buildings you see in the picture are comparable in price to the 300k/person.
- ensignavenger 10y agoIf that is the case, moving the houses should be no problem (Maybe not no problem, but easier than getting brand new ones!)
- monknomo 10y agoHard to say. It's entirely possible that there is no heavy equipment suitable for house moving and this is all just for cranes, dozers and telephone poles to roll houses on, not to mention barges and tugs. The ground is pretty soft, so moving big loads may be problematic, and they probably don't have a dock with a lot of house loading provisions, so maybe all that would need fixed to move houses. Could also be that existing housing is too fragile to move, conditions are mighty rough out west. But, it could also be a tiny bit of pork helping out some disadvantaged people in the boonies. Maybe a combination of all of them I guess my main point is that things are surprisingly tricky in the arctic, far away from developed places