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I'm so jealous. Our family lived in Anchorage from 1970 to 1999. My husband wanted to retire outside to get away from the winters. He was a police officer for 20 yrs and 10 yrs in Prudhoe Bay before retirement. He passed away in 2007 i've now decided I want to go back home to AK. Been looking on Zillow etc but have decided to come up there next year. I'm thinking the Soldotna area since we once had a place up Funny River Rd and we loved it. I'm in Idaho now where he picked to live....I hate it. Loved this video...and your saying only one life live it. That's what I want. To live the rest out in my beloved Alaska.❤❤

simple living alaska has a good youtube channel. i believe theyve been up there for a few years, coming from the states i do enjoy their channel i was fortunate enough to be able to visit alaska during the summer (fairbanks) and winter (anchorage) also visited quite a few surrounding cities/areas... such beautiful country and beautiful people! tyfs

A true dog person would never ask why so many dogs? ! The more the merrier!

We like the fact that you are so honest and real with your audience. Kudos to you for sharing your journey.

Thank you so much for sharing your story, it makes it so much better to know a little bit about the people you are watching. We wish you the best and can't wait to see what the future holds for y'all!

I have 4 dogs and a cat. They are my little loves. I feel safer with them.

Thanks for the explanations!! Give those GSD Doggies a good long pet for all of us!!! LOVE them GSD’s. Good Luck with the weather. I hope you get totally in to the cabin before the weather hits.

Your dogs are gorgeous! I have five GS . Raised them for 40 yrs. Their the best ever!

You two are such kind, beautiful people. Thanks for sharing ❤️

Hi guys! Really enjoyed learning more about you and your story til now! I’ve been watching from the start when you pulled up to the snow covered driveway back in April! I love your determination and the ability you both have to keep your sense of humour when things are not working out. So important! Looking forward to tagging along as you work on your property! T. from Ontario Canada!

You both are awesome and you make a great team, I use to live in anchorage back in early 1974 to 1975 and had a blast, the fishing and hunting was great and the scenery was amazing, I love your story and it is inspiring, Love your videos keep them coming

Great to see you guys 👍🖼

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Great Q&A. It's nice to get to know you guys better.

Thanks for sharing this with everyone helped us know about you and family 👪 and how awesome to be able to do what you love ❤

Awesome job.

Your dogs are Beautiful! Tugs at my heart strings.

Inspiring stuff! Can't wait to see your garden videos in the future so we can learn from you both.

Thanks for sharing. Just found you guys and am exited to follow you on your new journey.

You Gys are good people ❤god Bless you greating Form Germany

You guys are great! Thank you!

Great Video. We moved up in 2017 as well. What a wild ride, but totally worth the tradeoff for freedom!

Hello there nice to know you both good luck to you thank you for sharing and your time👍👍👍👍

Howdy, new scriber here. This is interesting. I give you guys well deserved credit.

Dogs are family. They love you unconditionally.

Love your Dogs we have 2 GSDs great job on videos

I understand about the nice friendly community your living in and how Alaska seem to pull you back, I get that same feeling here in Ontario when ive been up in the north country, Its about 6 hours from me, people are friendly always willing to help you clean fresh air. hopefully I can go there after i clear some debts , Thanks for sharing your story as to how you moved to Alaska and why. your inspiring big time folks. Thanks a bunch. Watching from Ontario Canada .

I think I made some comments on your shed building. I have 55 yrs in construction but I am in Alberta Canada. I am happy to help people but by the vid , you have already done it. I don't comment to be critical in a bad way but I do comment to help . Thanks for sharing your stories.😮

Hello, you are a wonderful couple, I wish you the best and I will continue to see you as long as you are here.

Good to get to know you both. If I was younger I’d be there too. Good luck with your adventure. Take care from Cape Cod🥰🇺🇸

Great video Craig and Chandra

New subscriber here. Merry Christmas! I left Florida and moved to Alaska with just me and my two boys (although my youngest son is in the military now). I go back to visit every 6 months to see my Mom, Step-dad, oldest son and grandkids in Florida. Like yourselves, I also miss out on family reunions and holidays. But I love it in Alaska. Best decision I ever made.

Good video guys

I loved Alaska. I was able to visit when my family moved to Kodiak with the Navy. He was a career Captain in the JAG with Mom and my four sisters and I. I left for college and came back for visits. He was there for 2 years and we lived on base. We drove up the AlCan HWY in an Open Road camper. Wow! Talk about dusty inside. But so beautiful. That was before the hwy was paved. Mom did work in town as a part time night nurse while there. My sisters attended school in town. There was a strong rivalry between base people and town folks. Very interesting. But the family was very busy with other military and town folks in a church there. Met many wonderful people! My second sister and I worked in the summer at a salmon cannery and a King crab cannery. It was an amazing experience. Hope your new homestead does well. Will pray for everything needed to be provided. God bless!

Nice to know your before moving story! Best of luck to you. Enjoying your videos.

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Great informative video! New to your channel.... enjoy you all very much!!

We moved to Homer in 1965 when it was a small fishing town. so we lived through all the changes… now live in Tennessee. But still go up every few years.. so I enjoy seeing all your videos with familiar scenery..

hi from Oregon! i just stumbled upon your channel today and am excited to get caught up on your adventures. i too love watching Simple Living Alaska and following Eric and Ariel as they learned as they went along the same as you are. they've tackled the solar and explain everything they do very well. they've done the chickens and built the coop, they've learned the dip netting and learning to fish with the rules and regulations. i hope you check them out and let them help you along your journey.

You both are just the sweetest couple. Just found your channel and I will be checking in often to see your progress on your home and property.

Thank you for the Q&A as someone who is struggling to make the final decisions on “ the move”I appreciate any amount of information. last August I was on the Kenai peninsula for six days for four days in Homer absolutely loved it .i’ve enjoyed your channel from the beginning.

Loved the A Q video. I wished I started watching from beginning but I didn’t , know I’m going back. What a journey you have been on. So enjoy all the videos. Always looking for a new post. Keep it up, you two are amazing.

Very interesting information and it's nice to learn some background on the two of you. I've only just started watching today, six videos in so far, but feel like I already know you.

Block those trolls asking about dogs...you have all the animals you like...

my daughter is a combat medic in the Army. i hope your son loves really hot weather here in San Antonio, because that is where the school is at.

I like how real and honest you are. You are right, you only live once. I lost money in real estate not being in town and moving to a new area in the mountains, but we have lived every bit of this crazy experience. We have tried to look for something else to capitalize on what we could have made in the up-rising market, but once you find, it’s hard to give up this lifestyle. Thanks for sharing your journey. Be safe. Get that firewood put up, and enjoy! Happy New Year!!

Just found you all! Im stuck in ohio. For all my life(61 yrs old), I've wanted to go to alaska. Your living my dream! Can't wait to see what shenanigans yall come up with! Where'd you come from in ohio?

Thanks for this video. I watched your videos starting with the oldest....hoping I could learn your "story". Your videos are greatly improving. I think that you will be successful with RU-vid.

We fish the Kenai every year, my husband is the BEST teacher. My first year bank fishing, I out fished all around. Made them mad! 🤣 So if you want to learn, let’s do it next year! End of July early august for Reds. ❤️🎣

We are in Soldotna and it's a little cheaper but make an Anchorage run and hit Costco and really stock up there.

It’s good content I’m from Indiana but live off grid in Colombia. I’m in the mountains

Very nice intro.

Extremely informative! You both had so much information to share that at times you shared it simultaneously LOL But you managed to keep it real by correcting one another over misquoted dates and other equally critical minutia. Those veiled criticisms' aside I have nothing but respect for the both of you and how you reached this point in your journey. I await each Vlog release with great anticipation to be able to see your progress toward "getting ready for Winter" If I lived nearby I would come cut down some dead standing and get your firewood supply in better shape. Take care of each other and stay safe!

I'd take you fishing some day next summer. I go out of Homer quite a bit in June/July. I'll check in. Good luck with your projects

New subscriber love your channel

Hey guys, Wild Alaskan Homestead here, just watched you Q and A, My wife has talked to you guys or commented on your videos a few times, I think she was the one RU-vid channel you were trying to to think of. We live out by Anchor Point, I’m her husband Alan Nelson, I’m actually in Vermont working a Nuclear job right now but I put in my notice at work and should home in a couple weeks, We’ll have to get together sometime for a chat and a BBQ. I’m not a professional at playing guitar and haven’t played for a few years but I love playing Bluegrass and Country music and I play a little mandolin also Ha Ha ( I guess all mandolin’s are little. I’ll eventually buy me a Dobro to learn how to play. Anyway I’d love to go hunting and fishing with you guys some times and We’d love to hang out sometime and get to know you guys, We’ll eventually have horses out there so we can maybe spend a day riding horses, My wife and I used to train our own horses and other people’s, We live on 80 acres over by Nikaevsk

I can't believe how many states they lived in. I still live in my same state and hometown my hall life.

Just found your channel, have watched several so far, skipped ahead to Q&A to learn more. I saw in comments on early vid you were in Morrow Co., I am east of Johnstown. Thought I would live on this land all my adult life, bought 20 acres in 1982. The Intel buildup will likely force me out, property values going thru roof. Destroying farmland hundreds of acres at a time. So sad, the entire area will eventually change and not be rural. Dream of Alaska, but CRPS/RSD means I struggle here, realistically I know couldn’t do AK. Was nice to see someone start out building and not in mud, swampy area. Good luck, will be watching.

Roscos is good but Keen Kow is awesome. For us the 45 min. drive is worth the meal.

Great Q & A. Thanks for being so open and honest with all the background and financial questions. Great information for those looking to make a move to Alaska.

The travel vlogger Peter Santanello uses a gopro eight and he's been at this awhile and said it's small and not intimidating there are always trade offs sometimes less is more .

if you had some big trees you could get a portable saw mill i use a chainsaw mill but its a very slow process

By the way, on dipnetting… Kasilof is obviously much closer to y’all, but the fish suck IMHO. The south side of Kenai has sockeye and Kasilof only has Silver. The silvers are much smaller, and don’t taste as good. Definitely either do Kenai, or go crazy and hit up the copper. Both Copper and Kenai are better with a boat, especially copper because otherwise you are climbing up and down a veritable cliff face and that sucks. If you want a King you can almost guarantee you’ll get in on the copper, and I’ve never seen one in Kenai or Kasilof. Kenai and Kasilof can easily handle the full 5’ hoop. Copper you are much better off with a 3’hoop because the current will drag you like crazy with a big net there. Anyhow, good luck dipping! It is a great time, and so nice to get that food stores.

It will always be Barrow for older Alaskans 😊

Nice video! Good info & background. You guys don't look old enough to have grandkids. lol. That small square box is kind of irritating though.

Maybe Ford should sponsor you for wearing the hat

😢Unfortunately Rosco’s is up for sale so if it switches hands it may not stay “best place ever” status!

I agree with the hubby people really do want to know costs and it's no big deal if they really want to know it's all public knowledge so just say it .

How much property do you have? I have to say have enjoyed watching you getting into your property and building your house this year .

When you both talk at the same time, we can’t understand either!

New subscriber, my wife and l are moving there in 05 or 2006. Hopefully Kenai Alaska.

I dream of moving to Alaska

videos are interesting so invest and I know for sure you will recoup the money back in nice and cameras. And set up an account with patron.

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Not to be a Debbie Downer here but.. .. as super awesome as being close to the Ocean is..... have you looked into the Tsunami Dangers in your area?

It is bovious anyone asking why u have so many dogs have never owned a German Shepherds. Hands down the best breed of dog on earth. We have 2 working line shepherds would have 10 of them if it was possible!

Hey do you know Sean in Alaska he has You tube channel he does fishing he is near Holmer Alaska works in the suppermarket there in that town he is all round good man build his own cabbin like yours he just got the roof on to he might teach you all the rules ??maybe oh i love your channel to your great people to know im in Australia nearly retitred

been thinking about moving up there solo would it be feasible?

What kind of boat do you have ?

You guys are exactly right and you made the right choice Ohio has turned into a pee hole just about all the woke states are going out of their minds it's just not even safe to go to events anymore being in Michigan next to the Ohio line I get a slice of both States stay blessed be safe

Will yall make a garden and raise animals

Can you add on to your house for more room

What are the local truck driving job opportunities like in Alaska? I've lived in Florida my whole life, with all the new people that has moved here over the years this state has zero opportunities left. I can no longer afford to buy a house in my home state let alone attempt to start a family I'm ready to leave

Where in Florida did you live? We're in South Florida Palm Beach County. Close to Boynton Beach in Broward County.

Do you Alaska people can fish for salmon and hunt moose

i was not going to subscribe but i seen you ford hat lol

What part of Ohio are you from. And do you have any ties to Ky.

What do you for in come?

What is your nursing specialty?

If I ever move to Alaska, it's going to be live in condition house\cabin. No Dick Proeneke!

I wish I could have more dogs so I don't know why people are asking you guys that question

Why didn’t you answer my?

RU-vid university….

Hard to understand what is said when you both talk at same time.

Love your channel, but I have to say it’s really very annoying to listen too you guys talk as you talk over each other and never let the other person finish what they are saying. Would be nice if you guys wouldn’t do that. It would make your videos a lot more interesting to watch and listen too! I’m not being an a&$ here, but that exactly the way all my northern friends do that I know from MI, IN, PA and OH. So like I said, love your videos but could you guys Not talk over each other so it would be more interesting to watch? I really would like to talk with you guys about moving to Alaska and I’m a veteran of the Army. So I have a lot of questions if you guys would be willing to chat with me? I’m sorry if I came off as an A-Hole, but I do enjoy your videos and look forward to your new ones. Thanks for making this one about the cost of moving and living there. God Bless you two and I look forward to hearing from you if you’re able to? I’d be glad to give you my email address if that would work? Thanks, Todd

he talks over her too often

For the future you guys need to stop talking over each other. It's hard to follow you.