"I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, but I've spent the last four years going to college in the lower 48 and doing summer internships in Germany. I haven't spent serious time back home for years, but I recently graduated and have been back living in Anchorage for the last couple months. It's "
"Anchorage is probably up there with Phoenix in terms of "cities that were majorly developed after the car" and it really shows. I hate to sound like an urbanist bugman, but feels legitimately dehumanizing to even try and walk around."
"It's the last truly wild frontier in America. From what I can tell it's full of natural beauty and despair. I often spend time reading the Wikipedia entries for random towns with 80 people in Alaska. I imagine living in anchorage to be a surreal experience."