Winter drive thru Downtown Juneau Alaska

A winter drive through downtown Juneau and by the Alaska Governors' Mansion. See the new companion piece with a Summer Drive.

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Travel & Events

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• Alaska
• Juneau
• Governor
• Mansion
• Drive

[erfans22]

My goal is to graduate and move to Alaska. I love nature and been wanting to move to Alaska for a while. What is the economy going to be like in 6-10 years? I heard housing is very expensive over there, is that true? Any info would be appreciated...Thanks!

[bfluetsch]

It depends, Alaska is three times the size of Texas and would cover nearly a third of the lower 48, so as with all real estate, location location location. Juneau housing is very expensive, Sitka I understand is even worse. Rural Southeast Alaska property and housing is relatively cheap, everything else is outrageous (Milk at $8 a gallon, Diesel at $6.50 or more). Anchorage is the cheapest place to exist in Alaska, who wants to live there?

[AlvinHDavernport]

Really? What's wrong with Anchorage? (Not a trick question. I'm not from Alaska so I wouldn't know.)

[bfluetsch]

No Evergreen trees.  It is like the worst of Tacoma plopped in the middle of a point. You have to drive out of Anchorage to find Alaska. Here, you are surrounded and engulfed by it.

[tlingitpower]

great idea. i was born and raised in juneau and no longer live there. i moved away in "96" and come back 1-2 times a year. beautiful town but dealing with the weather was too much.

[bfluetsch]

I moved up 20 years ago from Seattle/Olympia. I have concluded that Alaska picks its people, people don't pick it. Oh people move here or were born here but the darkness in winter and when the weather settles in as it has now, Alaska is doing its population picking.

[arbiter58]

well i actually live in the part of the flordia with the most OLD PEOPLE in the U.S, so there will be no robbery... unless a 90 year old makes a bad choice...

[TimGBone]

Alaska looks beautiful, just a bit too cold in the winter.

[CurstSaden]

I so have to see this place one day. It looks really cool (pardon the pun)

[zzzarkka]

@erfans22 I heard there's no taxes there, so that might explain why it cost so much?

[megaminiman]

I love the cold and dark weather. The only bad thing is, I live in texas :( i wish i lived here so bad!!

[buckskinner410]

Hey, where did all the tourists go? haha.

[jabp891]

This is the "tourist" part of Juneau, all the shops and stuff where the tourists get off the Cruise ships in the summer, so most everything is closed during the winter

[cabwhisperer]

LOL... its ok to be jealous, this is my hometown...just kidding.

[hamsterface22]

the vally has all the trees and housing

[JuneLis]

how are the Juneau housings there? I'm from the big city. How's Juneau?? It looks really pretty on google images... give me some feedbacks. Is it crowded there?