What do you do for a living? Much of Alaska is a pretty good place to live, though my wife and I are planning to move back to Northern Idaho, Eastern Washington, or Western Montana now that I've retired (we're tired of the rain in Southeast Alaska). I have never understood why more people DON'T move away from nasty cities where the crime is bad.
I grew up in western New York State. It was very rural farm country, and a good place to grow up, however I knew from the time I was five years old (or BEFORE!) that I would not live there when I grew up. It didn't have the things I wanted in my life, and it had things I DIDN'T want in my life! I went to SUNY Morrisville for my first two years of college, then I transferred to the University of Idaho for my last two years of college. I lived in Idaho from 1975 until my job took me to Alaska in 1990. I LOVED Idaho, and I still love it there. When I lived in Idaho, there were lots of people moving there from urban areas in California. The thing I never understood were the people who moved to Idaho, then complained about the fact that Idaho didn't have the fancy stores, movie theaters, and other stuff like that. When I moved to Idaho, and then to Alaska, I moved there because of what Idaho and Alaska did or didn't have. I did NOT want to bring western New York State with me to Idaho or Alaska. Our saying in Idaho at that time was, "Don't Californicate Idaho!"
If you REALLY want to move away from the city, you should do it! Look honestly at your situation, decide what is most important to you, and make it happen. Just don't move to the new place and bug those who live there by trying to turn it to somthing it isn't.
One of the worst things to happen to Juneau, Alaska is some damn do-gooder from another state moving here, getting themselves into a position of power, then deciding the High School was no place to have an indoor shooting range. Most of the REAL Alaskans think an indoor range at the school is a good thing. The thing I hate most about do-gooders is how they think YOU need to live your life by THEIR rules. I don't care how they live as long as they don't make me live like them. Oh well... I guess I'm getting off track. The big thing is, if you want to move away from the city, I think you should do it! More power to you!
