[SpringheelJack]

Not mentioned, but one reason you'd likely have problems getting skilled workers to move up there is because Alaska has a reputation in the States for being the Land Without Women.

[rahbert]

(J. Horton)

Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.

Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92,
With George Pratt, his partner, and brother, Billy, too.
They crossed the Yukon River and found the bonanza gold.
Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome.

Sam crossed the majestic mountains to the valleys far below.
He talked to his team of huskies as he mushed on through the snow.
With the northern lights a-running wild in the land of the midnight sun,
Yes, Sam McCord was a mighty man in the year of nineteen-one.

Where the river is winding,
Big nuggets they're finding.
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.

Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.

George turned to Sam with his gold in his hand,
Said: "Sam you're a-lookin'at a lonely, lonely man.
"I'd trade all the gold that's buried in this land,
"For one small band of gold to place on sweet little Ginnie's hand.

"'Cos a man needs a woman to love him all the time.
"Remember, Sam, a true love is so hard to find.
"I'd build for my Ginnie, a honeymoon home.
"Below that old white mountain just a little south-east of Nome."

Where the river is winding,
Big nuggets they're finding.
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.
North to Alaska,
They're goin' North, the rush is on.

Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
Way up north, (North To Alaska.)
Way up north, (North To Alaska.)

[thackney]

We are a little under the average, but at 48.3% female, we are much different than days of yore.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/02000.html

[Eye of Unk]

Not true in most of Alaska, Houston TX to me was extemely bad about the ratio of men and women, I actually think its stabilized at about 40/60% women/men here in Alaska. Not for more than 20 years was it mostly men, then women moved here looking for men.

[Vote 4 Nixon]

The only kind of woman I've seen illegals favor has greasy yellow hair, wears spandex, has a face like a hundred miles of bad road, and would field dress around 400lbs. Other than that your average American gal should be safe.