>>1253539Shitty.
Everything costs double what it does in CONUS, except gasoline which is triple and diesel quadruple. The natives get all the good hunting and fishing, kill loads of game, cut off the best bits, and leave the rest to rot on the roadside while they get drunk. You can’t stop them because the rez police are racist against whites.
All the roadside carcasses attract bears so it isn’t safe to get out of your car hardly ever. If you do manage to find a passage through the wall of bears you can get only a couple hundred yards on your snowshoes before a drunk native hits you with his snowmobile. Again, can’t do anything about that because he speeds back over the rez property line and his brother is the police chief there.
Saddened, you go into town to get drunk as an indian. The one road into town is clogged by tourists hoping to take pictures of the aurora borealis and/or fly fish, but since there are too many bears to do either they are busy buying authentic made in china eskimo crafts.
You decide to just go home but there is a cruise ship excursion going on so the one road home is blocked by a rusted out tour bus crowd taking pictures of some rusted out delapidated cannery that was on TV, or a rusted out fishing boat that was on TV, or a rusted out gold sluice that was on TV, or a pack of bears. Meanwhile your car is slowly rusting out and you’ll never be able to afford a new one because oil prices are down so there is no work and the stipend payment was for shit.
And that is the coast, which is the nicest part of Alaska. The interior is much shittier.
