Ketchikan, with Homer a real close second.

And I'm thinking a million bucks is a ton to spend on a squatter shack and a hunting lodge in Chiniak, even if you do have all the island to yourself.

Yeah, the Chiniak 'estate" is a dump.

Even that broken-in looking mattress couldn't sway me. Lots of nice looking 2x4's though!

I'd definitely to the 50K over all that land and shanty.

I'm 50K all the way in these polls based on my current situation, but I pick based on "if I had to live there". I still can't believe the average price for a home in KC is $111,300.

All very nice but I will take the 50k and stay where I am

Big Lake

Yeah, I keep thinking about how to fix that, but at the same time I want to give people an out if they don't like any of the properties or locations. So you may have to continue with your assumption to play the game if you're completely settled and happy.

I debated whether or not to put the Chiniak option in there, because I had to kick out this cool property in Soldotna http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...9_M75230-43984. But I wanted to have a more isolated place in the mix for any of our isolationist people. But apparently we're less worried about isolation than comfort for the most part.

Wow, that's funny to hear about Big Lake, because that's a pretty darn nice house to be in that type of neighborhood.

Yeah, that place would have been a contender, for me at least. Kind of a cookie cutter house, and the bathrooms need a remodeling, but the views and access to the streams would have been worth it.

No bush house?

http://r.ddmcdn.com/s_f/o_1/DSC/uplo...own-S2-bio.jpg

I'm just assuming I would take it for an extended getaway, but leave and let the lottery give it away again after a couple of years. Just enough time to write that novel/screenplay/manifesto I've been meaning to knock out, or plan my revolution, or start my new religion, and then head back to where I came from.

I can't think of any place I'd move to forever. I really liked Wellington, New Zealand when I worked there, but it is small, and very isolated, and my limit would be right at about two years before needing to come back.

Probably a pretty noncommittal way to participate in this game, but I think it is fun! I enjoy seeing the properties and views.

big lake or ketchikan were the two that appealed to me the most

loganberry is overpriced..been on market approaching 2 years

im gonna have to go with the 50G as written though...i dont wanna skew the results and add anything into them.

If I had to take one it would be big lake or maybe ketchikan close 2nd though

I went with Big Lake. Loved the house and the lot. Homer was a very close second though.

That works for me on the beverage. :D Move up there or move back to Montana?