Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
That's not the same as Alaska. There are no roads out there. Whether it's wrong or right for people to be living there, it's not the same IMO.
Unfortunately many of these Alaskan villages are bloated past what can be supported "by the land" due to the EAS, so now it's an intangible situation where you'd have to rip people from their homes or let them die.
Agreed on the first part. But on the second part, most villages have actually been shrinking for a while now and many are a shell of their former selves.
On the turboprop note, we have lots of those (208, 1900, dash 8, slaab, etc)! From what I can tell no one is clamoring for pilots to fly them.