Why we moved to Alaska 

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No state tax, no building codes, no property tax, no HOA! That’s a few reasons I picked where I am. Of course no building codes is how my cabin ended up needing a bunch of work! And yeah, I carry because of animals mostly too. No state lets you live more free than Alaska. Love Ron’s channel! I found him because he comments your videos! I would never live in California (sorry Ron)and glad I left Colorado which is trying to become California 2.0! LIVE FREE!!😉

Hey friend! We just retired from the military too! Just a few days ago. Thanks so much for your service! 🇺🇸 Just bought our off grid cabin in Alaska! Totally resonate with EVERYthing you said. Let freedom ring!🤍

Hey guys, I haven’t commented for a long time. The last time I did, I was living in Mt Tamborine Australia, I’m now fully off grid in a place called Monduran Australia. 40 acres of my idea of paradise, thank you both for sharing your journey. Cheers from Australia, stay safe, Mick.

We love Idaho, but after a family vacation to the Kenai Peninsula we want to move to Alaska! The beauty, the wildness and the people were just awesome! Someday! Live Free!

Your 100% right brother it's so important to live free America is changing and not for the good!!!

If I was younger, Alaska would be great. We're both retired military and we retired to Texas. No state income tax, and where we are everyone carries, fresh fruit and vegetables year around in our area, seldom get below 40 degrees and good neighbors.

*An Alaska Homestead* Bravo well said, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along with you. GOD Bless.

i must say Alaska is a great state and it is a wonderland to live in. My uncle has been there for over 40 yrs and loves it. Thanks for sharing and please have a wonderful week ahead. i will see you on the next video

Had to put a coat on just to watch this video. Brrrr... You folks are living the freedom dream no doubt. That is pretty cool they pay you to live there. Bear meat is mighty tasty!! Just say'n.. Thanks for the info on why you live there. Just to cold for me buddy. I will check out Ron's channel. Looking forward to seeing the new boat!! Stay safe my friends.

Just found your video because of your chicken coop build. I found your videos to be very informative and love listening to them. By the way, thank you for your service. I wish I lived in a state that had all the perks Alaska does. I do believe in living free. Thanks again.

Awesome video Brian! You think the same as we do! It’s all about freedom and quality of life. ❤

I lived in Juneau for a couple of years and I absolutely LOVED it there! Southeast Alaska truly is a BEAUTIFUL place!

Much as I love Utah I can't wait to move back to Alaska full time. Worked four summer tour seasons up there in college over 10 years ago and always said I feel like I left a piece of myself there. The beauty, wildness, personal freedom and responsibility, no income tax, no codes or permits, outdoor recreation, are some of the many reasons I love Alaska. An extended family member may be inheriting an old cabin on the Kenai Peninsula and they've offered to let me live there for free for a few years in exchange for renovating it. That will be my foothold into living up there full time forever I hope.

Yep!!! That’s why we moved to Idaho! 10:21

I’m so happy I found your channel cause you’re so honest and teaching so much that I need to know financially/guns/rules and laws of Alaska. Etc…thanks 🙏🇨🇦

I always enjoy your videos! Y’all stay safe and warm!!

Love this video. Can't wait to see your new boat and the adventures to come. Hey man I share your videos on Twitter once in a while and I shared this one. I also just found you on Twitter! You should post all your videos there. You'll get a bigger following. Everybody loves an adventure and especially from a patriot. Thank you for your service, Brian. God bless

Can’t wait to see your new boat! Good video Brian.

So excited for the new boat! Good for you! Freedom is so often overlooked by those who just "settle" for their current situation and states law. It's those who seek out the lifestyle and governing that suited their beliefs that I admire. Great chat B! #keepitburning

If I ever left Idaho it would definitely be for Southeast Alaska. Wishing you and the wife a blessed 2023. Keep up the great videos.

Thank you for your service!

you are living what many people dream off..freedom...all the best..

Alaska is beautiful!! I do envy you. I live in Minnesota and I enjoy the 4 seasons. We just got over a very cold snap. Now 20's this week. Stay warm, stay safe and have a great week!!!!

Your videography and editing is stunning. I've always dreamed of having a homestead and want to learn more about it so I just subscribed. Thanks!

Thank you Sir for your service ❤

All great reasons to live here :) Thanks for sharing Ron !

Brian, Thank you for your service. We are living free, because of servicemen like you. I love your videos, the hawks flying by, the passing of the whales. Diana's garden and her chickens. Please, continue videoing as long as you possibly can, I just love your channel.

Enjoy your new boat, Happy thing s are so free there, good video again

I didn’t know you wanted penny by penny..😂 Great video. I love the climate here but you guys have absolutely beautiful place. Can’t wait to see more scenery from the new boat. Thanks Brian..👊 You guys have a wonderful week..!!

Great videos as always! ☆☆☆☆☆

Every little bit adds up. You have to what's best for you.

Have fun Brian 😉.

Pleasure meeting you at Anchorage airport!!!! Much love to you and your family!!!

Brian I see why you and Diane love it there. What a beautiful property you have and have developed. Thanks for sharing your reasoning about living life there. Hard work but like you said freedom, not constant government regulating your every move! Looking forward to seeing your new mode of transportation. Best wishes, Deb

Super good video Really enjoyed it I will listen to this one several times Great job

Mother Nature is acting strange this winter for sure! We've had a pretty mild winter so far here in Copper River Valley. Congrats on the boat. Live Free!

I live in Texas. I just got stuck in this life handed to me. Too old now to make a change. New to your videos and am loving!! Thank you

Grew up in Idaho. Agree the mindset of Freedom is solid there. Alaska is next level. Utah where I'm at when not in AK is decent as well. Only looking at an entire State is tricky as cities in most states turn the wrong way. Boise. Salt Lake. They are the wrong path. Rural is the key!!

It looks like the dogs love all the snow !! Have a great week !!

New follower here. Thank you for this video. One day I would love to move to Alaska

Fantastic Video!

Thanks for another great video.

Congrats on the new chair.

That’s a good life you have I wouldn’t mind being up there myself but I’m here in the state of Maine and I like it here pretty well so enjoy and keep up your good living and I will be watching you have a nice day God bless

Thank you ❤️😁🤗

Glad to see y'all are doing alright and keep living that dream . Thanks for taking us on your journey of life . Well I. Live here in Kentucky and we have alot of freedoms here , like the freedom of concealed carry without a permit or a license and most 9f it is extreme country living . God Bless Y'all and Stay Safe ❤️🇺🇲🙏🇺🇲 . I'd have to say that Kentucky and Alaska would be my only two choices where I'd want to live at . I've been hunting , fishing and trapping with my Dad all of my life and been shooting and owning all types of guns all of my life .

Man seeing that wind mill, I seen you & Noah Brown putting it up on tv, I told my wife I watch him on U tube. Lol

Great video, as always, duder.

superb vlog squire

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Good morning Brian. Yes Alaska is beautiful. You are so lucky to be there. Enjoy❤️. What can I say about Massachusetts. We live on the shore and it is beautiful but we are dealing with tourist year round now. Big changes but I’m too old to move now and that’s ok I got you and others to show me what it is like in other places. We can’t do anything ( maybe breath) without a permit and the costs are horrible. Thank you so much for sharing. Take care and enjoy your life✌️🇺🇸

Thank You

Thanks Brian I enjoyed it and as I may have told you previously Alaska is the only state that I would have immigrated to, but being old and ill that time frame has come and gone now. My second choices were the Yukon Territory or northern British Columbia, but don't get me wrong I still love Northern Ontario as it's my birthplace and my residence too...See You and Diana next week, stay safe and enjoy your Alaska Dream!

Y’all are making me itch to get out to Alaska

Awesome that you live in Alaska after the wife followed you around. I live in Okinawa for the same reason. My Okinawan wife gave up a high paying job to marry a Lance Corporal (E3) and put up with all the USMC stuff, including tours in Iraq. I call this her Payback Tour. We are about to build a house here and will stay for life. Good on ya and thank you for all the great videos!

I live in Texas but Alaska is the most beautiful place I have been to. Have gone 7 times and hoping to go more. Most of my trips have been to the inside passage. I understand how you decide to live near Juneau. What a beautiful place.

Great video

What's important to me is personal freedom and access to true wilderness. 👍🇨🇦😎🌲❄

well said... thanks..

Enjoyed your video

This is amazing you talked about what you did. I am from Ohio back in August I drove up from Denver with 2 friends for salmon festival. It was a dream of mine to visit the state and after the time I spent up there I want to come back hopefully forever. Trying to find property and a job now. #2AShallNotBeInfringed

Beautiful. You are so blessed.

Sadly, we have city sales tax in Sitka (5% off-season, 6% during terrorist season), PSG has city sales tax, and I know KTN does, too (borough + city = 6.5%). We bought our big boat through BayCo in KTN, and at the time of our purchase, their sales tax applied to everyone equally, regardless of where you live, and it was capped at $65. Now, they're required to charge you sales tax for large purchases based on the sales tax of where you reside, which means our Lund that we just purchased from them cost us 11X more in sales tax than our North River. Seems like they get you coming or going, but I'd rather the tax dollars stay local. The other great thing about living in AK is that you can, if you put enough effort into it, live a subsistence lifestyle and spend little on meat or veg. 😊 We're excited for you guys and your new boat--let the fun, and an all new level of anxiety, begin!

FREEDOM!! Sounds like Red Dawn.. 😆 ❤ Good movie..

Very beautiful where you are..

Hello Brian! I love your videos and it's a dream how you live, I would like that too, unfortunately it will remain a dream! I wish you a great and long life on the island! Alaska is just a beautiful part of the world, I love it. Greetings Tom from Austria!

Good evening here from Romania I greet you with respect Marius 🇹🇩🖐️

Wow you are right that Fairbanks is so different from the area you live. I was stationed at Eielson AFB, Alaska in the early 80s. The winters there are damn harsh and long to put it mildly. I am a very outdoorsy person that was born and raised in Montana. However, I did not enjoy my time at Eielson AFB. It was mainly because I was a 20 year old single Airman living in the barracks. Being single my tour at Eielson AFB was 1 1/2 years long. I arrived at Eielson AFB in October if you count the 18 months I was there you will realize that I spent 2 winters and 1 summer there. It took a lot of the fun away from it. That fact that I was stationed more than 30 miles south of Fairbanks and there were very few young ladies made it much harder for a young Airman. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to enjoy a lot of Alaska the way that others do. Even if I did go hunting, salmon and halibut fishing I wouldn't have been able to store the meat. I did do some catch and release fly fishing for grayling during the one summer I was there. Oh, the one thing I almost forgot is the skeeters. It was almost impossible to go outside during the summer months unless you had skeeter dope on. I have never seen a place with so many of them, and they are very large.

New sub here on taxes nice. I'm from Southwestern PA lots of taxes here not bad living here I like it thanks for the video my friend.

Lucky man it’s my dream great video

Love watching the dogs run wild in the snow. Alaska is just somewhere a good sidearm is pretty much a requirement unless you're never getting off the asfault in Anchorage. Even then, the moose are like stray cats here and I have my 10mm even when I take the dog out because you never know when you walk out the door and a moose is right there. Usually they don't pay you any mind but there is always that chance you step out on a big bull or a cow with a calf and things can get "wild" real fast. If I was healthier and was able to live out like you guys, i'd do that in a heart beat.

I love where I’m from and that’s Maine I live in Mississippi retired Navy SeaBee

Alaska is beautiful, and yes, a hard living like ya'll do, but in the end I see the deep appreciation ya'll have for your life there. And Florida is way to expensive and complicated for me to live here anymore either, look for a new neighbor...lol Love ya'll ❤️

Interesting man, it's got to be so different living out there

I know Palmer Houston Wasilla Anchorage each have a sales tax Im not sure about other city's or towns. I buy as much as I can outside city limits. Every penny counts tou know. AND MY FEELINGS ON THE PFD ARE it helps midigate the extra cost of living in Alaska and also never depend on it for anything because some years they take a lot of it away "FOR YOUR OWN GOOD OF COURSE " GOD BLESS

I’m in Nashville and I hate it. I’ve spent most of my life in the Pacific Northwest. Moving to Petersburg next summer and I’m never coming back to the lower 48.

That's a lot of snow.

I live in Petersburg, we have sales tax and property tax here, we don't live in area 1 of the borough so we can do and build what we want. It is also a island, love my Alaska, stay free and strapped.

Difference between your pipeline and the Keystone pipeline is the oil in Alaska is U.S. Oil....The oil for the keystone pipeline is Canadian oil destined for the open market...Only ones that will make money off of that is big business refineries where the Canadian oil is going to to be refined...Love Idaho...After my parents divorced my dad moved there so have been there quite a few times...Very pretty state....Sure would like to see Alaska someday...Stay safe, be well...

Anchorage has sales tax on "tourist" items like hotels, vehicle rentals, etc. The MatSu has a sales up to a certain amount. Live Free!

As magical as all that snow looks I am sure it isn't that easy to live in let alone when it thaws, still looks beautiful though. Glad you bought a decent chair ;) Great job you guys see you soon

Life as it should be!

FREEDOM!!!

Personal freedom... you got that right. Living in Washington now. The water is getting a bit on the warm side for this frog. Looking real hard at Idaho or Southern Alaska.

I hear what you’re saying. Life without freedom is not a life, but one’s personal freedom cannot trump or impede on the rights of others. I reside in northern Canada, a very similar environment as yours except, I don’t have the limitation of living on an island. I wouldn’t want to have to leave here. Americans are a proud people, so proud that hey are extremely biased about their country. That’s fine. Pride can be blinding. What is important is that you are happy and comfortable with who and where you are. I enjoy checking out your channel once in awhile. Man this global warming is literally changing our lifestyle. More reason to honker down. Enjoy!

MatSu Valley has a sales tax and so does Palmer and Wasilla. But I would trade it for anyplace. Well maybe the Kenai Peninsula where we have our cabin.

We love your channel and we hope you don't get political. We live in northern Michigan and we probably get more snow than you. Mostly lake effect. Thanks for sharing.

south dakota...cc is just a thing here too(2nd amend)... no state tax ... good gov and alot of personal freedom.... but where you live... sounds great too

Soldotna and Kenai charge sales tax inside their city limits. Also, that PFD check was the largest ever. It's usually not nearly that much.

It’s funny, you mention New Hampshire, I live in New Hampshire, and I absolutely love the four seasons and the fall foliage. However, you cannot do anything in this state without drawing a permit, and everything in the state is astronomically expensive and you cannot afford to buy property. I’m looking to buy a house now and I can’t even find a double wide on more than an acre of land for under $350,000.

Just started watching your videos brother, spent 15 years in SE falling timber all over from Ketchikan to to Icy Bay sure miss AK what part are you living in SE somewhere by Juneau, I’m retired now living in Yaak Mt. God bless and be safe , Henry n Susan

So I'd been researching a place which fulfilled some of my ideas for personal freedom. I live In Texas, while you'd think it was a free state, there's some things I don't like. We have annoying sales taxes and you can't buy full cannabis products. While there is a lot of freedom with personal armaments, it's kind of not the whole package when it comes to other things. It's really crowded and people like to impose their beliefs on you, both left and right. But like the vibe I get from Alaska is folks kinda mind their own business. Yall seem friendly, but not in the fake southern way (sorry if that rubs other folks from around here the wrong way.) I'm not a living off the grid kind of fella but I appreciate that in a place in Alaska, someone could do so if they chose to. It's just, pardon the pun, a more chill place from what I've seen and watched other youtubers post. Keep up the good work my man.

I'd love to go visit Alaska I heard is was a beautiful place to visit

I can't imagine that amount of freedom. The part of Pennsylvania I live in adopted building codes and ridiculous permit requirements back in the 90s if I remember correctly. The gas tax is the highest in the country. So, no, I don't like the state I'm in except during hunting season when I'm chasing deer around in the mountains. It's about the only thing I would miss. 😂

I wish Congress would pass the national reciprocity law for all the states. I live in OH but cannot take my firearm through PA or NJ because they don't recognize OH.

When you come get the boat just remember that you have followers here. (At least 1 Lol ) I'll wave if I see you.

well said, cheers from da ROCK.

1 ISOLATED AND SAFE FROM THE HORDES 2 BEAUTIFUL, PEACEFUL, AND MAJESTIC 3 YOU ARE THE LAW OF YOUR LAND ?

I'm glad to hear the boat is coming soon. The only thing that I have that you don't is property tax and my tax for this you was 80 dollars. I live in N.E. Texas in the country. I do carry a gun and we have both types of Constitutional and permit. That's so you can cross into another state with your gun. But you have the Best scenery around you it's Beautiful up there.