Shhh!
You are suppose to tell about the -65 temperatures and the 7 months of winter! Keep on talking about Alaska and even more refugees will try to drive here!
But realistically Alaska IS a safe if not the safest place in America to be should such events like Yellowstone erupting, illegal immigrant invasions, terrorism or political dangers.
The interior of Alaska nobody gives a dam about. But the natural resources are outrageously abundant, provided a person can live with that mindset.
No netflix, no cable TV, no phone lines, gas lines, hardly any real roads. Gun laws? Hardly any. Cost of living? Extremely high in the big city and living like you would in the lower 48,in the interior its a different story, chop down your own trees for a log house, mortar your own fireplace, harvest local game, grow foods VERY quickly and then you have this natural barrier against the outside of sheer distance and of course the weather and in most respects Alaska is a natural fortress.
I've never owned a cell phone, but have a sat phone for emergencies and I never use it. We are still on slow dial up but have dir tv. More importantly, we live off what the land and river provides as a matter of seasonal subsistence. I could put up 100 hundred kings if I needed to, use to always put up 3000 chums for my dogteam. Everybody here snares rabbits come winter, gets all the caribou they need in fall, and heck I was shooting spring mallards last night myself. People here do what the Indians have done since time began and it becomes quite part of lifestyle.
Most lower 48ers can't deal with giving up the city when it comes right down to it, no joke. At first, I missed some things too, but quickly figured out what I gained was more important; but I still get hungry for big macs mid winter.
Food & supplies will always flow if you have the bucks to buy them. High cost of living is what will kill people everywhere; the less I spend and more I make it on my own the better. It's a way of life we have always followed here. The State of Alaska could survive economically on it's own also with resource development. Just look at how many fed regs are not enforced here and matter of law of the land back east.
WE feel quite good about the future out here, not much will change except higher prices. When you can control what you spend, half the battle is over. People in urban areas can't control their cost of living, just keeps going up; everything you do costs big bucks.
Luv the freedom I have out here, the country is just icing on the cake, and the minus 60 for 2-3 weeks a winter is a minor distraction.