Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Why the Northernmost Town in America Exists" video.

  1.  @finn7094  Not everybody works for the oil companies, but the town provides services to those that do. Also, Alaska has a sort of NIT, paid by the oil companies. It is like any other town, a major employer enables a market for local businesses not working directly for the major employer.
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  2.  @LoganCharlesII  I think that's still illegal.
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  3.  @lukethiele3197  I suppose both in Australia and California the parts near the ocean have the more moderate temperatures, but since Cali is long and narrow (and smaller), that is a higher percentage of Cali than Australia. Coastal Southern California is cooled by a cool ocean current.
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  4. @Gregory Smith Oil was not a strategic resource when Alaska was sold.
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  5.  @simplerstrength  Well, you apparently don't know that hillbillies are from Appalachia, so we might not consider you an authority on geography.
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  6. It's cheaper to fly in the wool than to fly in the feed for the sheep.
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  7. When was that? The US bought it from Russia.
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  8.  @Red-Magic  That's why they aren't having enough babies.
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  9. "Out of context"?
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  10.  @fjosephgonzales6870  "Out of context" does not refer to every case of using a word improperly. It refers to lifting a quote in isolation from the context in which it was spoken or written in order to distort the speaker or writer's meaning, which would have been clearer in the context in which the speaker or writer placed it. You can take a quote out of context. You cannot take a WORD out of context, in the sense you are describing.
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  11. @Rayne SG a.k.a. inkyrayne Not me, it's the same situation as for astronauts, only not quite as bad. It is just as cheap to ship caviar as cornflakes. The shipping cost will be driven by bulk and weight, not quality. You might find Raman in the grocery store, it's light. I doubt that anybody bothers with balogna, it would be $14 for an equal amount to $15 of ham. For the extra dollar, I would get the ham. PB&J sounds good, but it would damage my psyche to buy the bread.
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  12.  @thomaskauffman96  The sun is up all summer, that's a growing season for many crops.
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  13. No, Alaska is a state, like the rest. Guam is comparable to British colonies, no representation, Alaska is not. The "isolating" body is Canada! Juneau is closer to Seattle than Seattle is to Miami. Hawaii is not connected to the mainland, and is more distant from the closest point of the contiguous US than Alaska is.
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