Can decide.. need help

[Mattya1ic]

Come on now El Paso is the self proclaimed safest city in the US.

http://www.elpasoredco.org/news/el-p...ation-over-500

What I love is that NYC and Honolulu are on that list! Two known hotspots for crime! That study proves that 89% of statistics are made-up!

[JSF]

Alaska for sure

[gonehuntin68]

I would freeze my ... off in Fairbanks. Look at these averages. You need better choices as I wouldn't live in those two places. I lived in Anchorage for a while but it's not near as brutally cold as Fairbanks. 8 months of the year average lows in fairbanks are below freezing and seven months out of the year have record lows below -23. Throw a 20 to 30 mph wind in there and you will not even want to go outside. No thank you.

Alaska has the highest rate of suicide per capita in the country.

The rate of suicide in the United States was 12.0 suicides per 100,000 people in 2009 (the most recent year available from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control).

In 2010, Alaska’s rate was 22.6 suicides per 100,000 people.

Alaska had 1,389 suicides between 2001 and 2010 - an average of 139 deaths by suicide per year.

At least one suicide occurred in 176 Alaskan communities between 2000 and 2009.

In 2010, 79% of suicides in Alaska were by men and 21% were committed by women, according to the Bureau of Vital Statistics.

Alaska Native men between the ages of 15-24 have the highest rate of suicide among any demographic in the country, with an average of 141.6 suicides per 100,000 each year between 2000 and 2009.

[brent.westbrook]

Those are the only two options I have right now and they are not clear cut options. I may be able to trade duty stations with a guy who has AK and is not wanting to go there.

[billfromtx]

I love Texas but I'd move to Alaska before wanting to move to El Paso.

Without a doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!b

[brent.westbrook]

I would rather be somewhere where people kill themselves than somewhere right next to the highest murder rate in the world.

[mojorider]

I'd stay in Texas

[papabearclif]

If you're worried about the cold, just remember that you can always put more clothes on. You can never take off enough clothes to be cool. PLUS there are more animals to hunt in Alaska.

[Formerhr]

Are you from Texas? That would make the decision for me. Being from Texas and having family here, friends here, etc., I would choose El Paso. I'll take an 8 hour drive over a 10 hour flight to get back to what I know.

With that said, if I wasn't from Texas I'd choose Alaska.

[elkbowhunter]

Fairbanks is the deep freeze of Alaska. El Paso is the butthole of Texas. I'd rather live in a deep freeze than a butthole.

I dont know if the people of El Paso would agree with that? I didnt know we could say the b word??

[elkbowhunter]

If you're worried about the cold, just remember that you can always put more clothes on. You can never take off enough clothes to be cool. PLUS there are more animals to hunt in Alaska.

haha...I take it you have never been in -50 below weather with 30 mile an hour wind. Its not livable for very long-it also does a number on your lungs.

[brent.westbrook]

Are you from Texas? That would make the decision for me. Being from Texas and having family here, friends here, etc., I would choose El Paso. I'll take an 8 hour drive over a 10 hour flight to get back to what I know.

With that said, if I wasn't from Texas I'd choose Alaska.

I'm from e tx and my wife is from w la. Not exactly close to friends and family.

[brent.westbrook]

Anyone else been to both?

[str8shooter]

If you're worried about the cold, just remember that you can always put more clothes on. You can never take off enough clothes to be cool. PLUS there are more animals to hunt in Alaska.

Just the opposite papa! If you are already cold, putting on more clothes don't work. You need to have enough of the right stuff on BEFORE going out into the cold. You can always take clothes off if it's too much.

That being said, I lived in Fairbanks for five years. Beautiful and all, but wicked cold in the winter. Fairbanks is in a valley, and the cold air tends to settle in there. You get a cold streak that lasts 2 plus weeks every winter of 40-50 BELOW zero. The rest of the winter is zero to minus 30. Now, that being said, I'd take Fairbanks.

Also spent seven years in Kenai and ten years in Anchorage. If I was moving back, I'd go to the southeast (Sitak, Ketchikan, Juneau).

Good luck on whatever you decide!

[str8shooter]

Anyone else been to both?

I've been to El Paso several times but never lived there. Not a fan with the current political and socioeconomic environment. BUT, New Mexico is close and there's some decent hunting there.