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Subject: Re: [OM] Tea Time
From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:19:28 -0900
> Berkeley ........ you are kidding :-)
> ...
> click forward to number 10

I was picking on Moose.

As to #10, I can certainly see why. I'm mighty happy being
here--frostbite and all. But the crime-rate is also rather high. Part
of that has to do with the extreme diversity, but it also has to do
with the "island" characteristic that prevents people seeking
opportunity elsewhere from being able to get there. Unlike the
lower-48, you can't just hitchhike your way from one state to another.
Anchorage is the funnel point where everybody ends up at from
elsewhere in the state. Another part of this is that there are
multiple Alaskas. There is the Anchorage Alaska, there is the Oil
Industry Alaska, there is the Fishing Industry Alaska and there is the
Bush Alaska. All Alaskas connect to Anchorage in some form. And of
course, there is the Aviation Alaska. That's another story altogether.
But it is said that Alaska is pretty much its own country that happens
to share currency with the USA. We have statehood, but other than the
fact everybody is a Seattle Seahawks fan, we're more attuned to what
is going on in China, Japan, the Koreas, Singapore and Vietnam than we
are Washington DC.

Maybe THAT is why we are so happy. We're so far away from DC.

AG Schnozz
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