Originally Posted by
uofWaPilot
if youre single and in your 20's-30's GUM would be an amazing experience. if my company had a hub there id bid it in a heartbeat. great food, friendly people, little to nonexistent crime, and easy to find tight knit community among many other reasons. dont regret choosing the path I did but GUM base does sometimes make me think of the what if. As others have mentioned, would not recommend staying there past the family starting stage of life
If the schedules had more Japanese, Taiwanese overnights I'd lust more after it, possible if it were more commutable. (I'd commute from Japan not mainland US)
To each their own. What I do know is most people there like it and the pilot group is very close. I tend to be more of a slam clicker, so I don't know if the other pilots in my domecile being my social circle is maybe for me....but it clearly can be for some.
From what I understand: Very limited food and very high prices to due to heavy imports.
Limited entertainment/cultural options
I'm not familiar but I would imagine local hots would tend to leave the island as quickly as they can, so not a real good "Singles scene" or whatever we call it these days.
Extremely slow shipping and receiving: (a concern for 20-30 somethings nowadays as there tends to be more of a "order it off of amazon" lifestyle.
Very inefficient and corrupt local officials who embezzle all the money and divert all resources away from schools.......which YES really suck.