Every day we make a dozen choices about whether to maintain the status quo or make a change in our lives.

I just happened to be born in what became one of the highest cost of living areas of our country. It would have been incredibly hard both financially and psychologically for me to have attempted to remain there.

I chose to move away for myself, for my family, and for the quality of life that I could sustain elsewhere.

Please explain to me why I, or anyone, should have expected others to financially support my decision to stay in the place I was born, should I have made that choice.

 

Just peeking in here...and there seems to be a lot of posters that don't understand sociology. That's ok.

I'm not a sociologist.

I said this before and I'll say it again, it's a rudimentary thought to think people can up and move from their upbringing. If 'you' did it, congrats. It is not the norm. Nor is it comparable to Alaska. Moving from the city to suburbia is much simpler from a logistics POV.

People cannot just up and move from villages in Alaska. Logistics aside, they are not emotionally equipped to. The 'major cities' in Alaska aren't able to absorb them without consequence. The largest city, Anchorage, already has a homeless problem it can not control. It's getting worse and worse. I would rather pay for EAS than to pay for the homeless.

It's simple for those that do not understand to say it's a choice to live in a village. I get that. It's easy to think so.

It just makes me think that they're very uneducated on the topic.

I feel like I'm on repeat-peat-peat-peat-peat.

 

So the entire Industrial Revolution and the urbanization of the agricultural community was unnatural? Because WOW, there were a lot of people who violated the academic rules of sociology then!

 

Apart from that, a significant land shortage too that prevents building new housing. Housing shortage is a significant problem here.

But we have established an answer to my question. It was, "when you can financially support the move"

 

Not to mention that ever since our antecedents left Africa around two million years ago our species has constantly been on the move searching for a better life. The compulsion to migrate in search of better food and living conditions is hard-coded into our DNA, including Paleoindians who first made it across the Bering land bridge and settled what would become known as North America.

But let's talk more about sociology instead...

 

It was... rugged. And slippery. And muddy, many parts. Saw quite a few big critters up North of FBK. If you ever go, highly recommend bringing your own gas; there may be some, there may not, but for sure, if you buy it on the 'slope, you'll pay more! (Ever hear about the price of a gallon of milk in Barrow?? WOW!)

 

I'm not sure, but based on what I have been seeing and hearing around me this past year, about the same time you decide on your gender identity.

 

You do know that sociology is not socialism, right? It's purely the studies of societies and the one field of study that allows you to say WHY people left Africa. So, technically, by saying that, you are citing sociology.

 

The world may not have this big checklist but the social contract you speak of does exist, it's our constitution. And within it is an actual big check-list of things we have already decided what to pay for with our taxes and what not to pay for. It's in Article One Section Eight, a list of 18 things that enumerate exactly what our federal tax money is supposed to pay for. You'll notice that nowhere in there is anything about essential air service. Also within it are things like the military and national defense. But the social contract (our constitution) does say that anything not in the contract or prohibited by it, can be taken up by the states or the people (tenth amendment). To me, this means that if EAS is important to Alaskans, that state can pay for it. Or they can persuade fellow citizens that it's also important to all citizens and deserves a constitutional amendment to add it to the big checklist. Of course, this is only true if we believe in this social contract. If we don't care what it says, we just do what we want without actually changing the wording.

 

I am laughing