Is the cost of living really that much higher?
The cost of living difference between your current location and Juneau (or another Alaskan city) could be quite high or it could be about the same. Evening movies in Juneau are $10.00 ($9-$9.75 in Anchorage), a loaf of good bread like Oro Wheat is about $3.50, gas in Juneau is $2.65 a gallon and is about the same in Anchorage. Housing in Juneau is still expensive, even with the turn down in the housing market. I bought a 1300 square foot house in downtown Douglas for $163,000 in 2000 which was recently assessed at $256,600. Rent for a two bedroom apt. can be around 900 bucks and up. Electricity/oil heating another 100 bucks a month (or more) but that has gone up quite a bit lately too. My annual oil bill last year was around $1,700 but if the price of oil stays low, it should only be about $900 this year. In April of 2008 an avalanche took out Juneau’s hydro power so the electricity rates temporarily went up by more than 500%!!!, but barring natural disasters and provided there’s enoug
The cost of living difference between your current location and Juneau (or another Alaskan city) could be quite high or it could be about the same. Evening movies in Juneau are $10.00 ($9-$9.75 in Anchorage), a loaf of good bread like Oro Wheat is about $3.50, gas in Juneau is $2.65 a gallon and is about the same in Anchorage. Housing in Juneau is still expensive, even with the turn down in the housing market. I bought a 1300 square foot house in downtown Douglas for $163,000 in 2001 which was recently assessed at $212,500 (which has come down about 30,000 in the past 4 years). Rent for a two bedroom apt. can be around 900 bucks and up. Electricity/oil heating another 100 bucks a month (or more) but that has gone up quite a bit lately too. My annual oil bill last year was around $1,700 but if the price of oil stays low, it should only be about $900 this year. In April of 2008 an avalanche took out Juneau’s hydro power so the electricity rates temporarily went up by more than 500%!!!, b
(updated March 2011) The cost of living difference between your current location and Juneau (or another Alaskan city) could be quite high or it could be about the same. Evening movies in Juneau are $10.00 ($9-$9.75 in Anchorage), a loaf of good bread like Oro Wheat is about $4.00, gas in Juneau is $3.65 a gallon and is about the same in Anchorage. Housing in Juneau is still expensive, even with the turn down in the housing market. I bought a 1300 square foot house in downtown Douglas for $163,000 in 2001 which was recently assessed at $265,000. Rent for a two bedroom apt. can be around 900 bucks and up. Here’s a link to the Juneau Empire’s classifieds for unfurnished apartments. Electricity/oil heating another 100 bucks a month (or more) but that has gone up quite a bit lately too. My annual oil bill last year was around $1,700. In April of 2008 an avalanche took out Juneau’s hydro power so the electricity rates temporarily went up by more than 500%!!!, but barring natural disasters an
