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If I was not a software engineer/tech entrepreneur, I would be Alaskan Bush Pilot.

• benaiah 13y ago
  As someone who actually lives up in Alaska, I think you guys may be romanticizing it just a tad. Sure, it's adventurous and everything, but do you really want to live somewhere where you have multiple feet of snow nine months out of the year (or more - we had a snowstorm just about a week ago. Yes. In May.) Everything is more expensive, jobs are hard to come by unless you want a two-weeks-on two-weeks-off rotation to somewhere where it's even colder (-50 F plus wind chill is pretty normal for the Slope), etc. If you do want to deal with that, good-for-you, but it's not like the grass is verdantly greener here. And yes, I know you both were probably only half-serious. It just amuses me when people refer to Alaska like its some sort of mystical Last Frontier. It is pretty cool up here, I must admit.