What is Fairbanks AK like?
Tell us more about you. Moving for military, for university, for some specific job? Are you an architect or engineer or nurse or doctor? As a city, Fairbanks is much like any city of 30-40k residents with a university and an Army base, it has plenty of restaurants (though few particularly nice ones), all the fast foods, car dealerships, Barnes & Noble, and so on; there is lots to do (well…depending on what you like to do), but is isolated (7 hours to Anchorage for big box shopping other than wally-world and Fred Meyer). You can watch the Yukon Quest start or finish (depends which year), see the aurora, fish, hunt, go to the symphony, watch the WEIO games. Of course it gets blisteringly cold in winter, with only a few hours of daylight; but it also gets almost to 100F every summer, with nearly no nighttime. Prices are high (including gas, even though Alaska produces oil), veggies and fruit at the grocery in the winter can be dreadful, but delightful from local farms in the summer. Ren
