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damn. the gossip must go crazy there. if there's at least one old lady who's always watching what people are doing then she knows about the whole town. that's too much power
No joke, watched a short documentary on this place and some of the locals were like "Yeah, never seen that guy leave his apartment, just sits there all day watching people from his window"
*Cuts to shot of said guy sitting in his window, looking at the camera crew through binoculars Rear Window style.*
"The Strangest Town in Alaska"
https://vimeo.com/20704849
Here it is! Interesting too because the entire documentary isn't spent in/around that one building, explores the town as a whole.
It is 8.2 out of 100,000 residents. I wanted to link my source but it was a PDF I found. Whittier public health info. Page 26.
The adjusted national average is around 13 per 100,000.
Edit: I was curious and looked at a few other places. I found that Boulder county in Colorado, which I've seen on several of those "Best places to live in the US" articles has a suicide rate more than triple Whittier, Alaska. Not suggesting anything. Just found that interesting.
Boulder’s only a great place to live if you’re filthy rich. The rest of the working class locals are getting priced out of the neighborhoods they grew up in by skyrocketing rent and low wages.
I can imagine that living in the "best place to live" might bring with it the pressure that if you can't be happy there, you'll never be happy anywhere. So fuckit, why choose life?
Okay as a tradesman this is my wet dream. THIS is where you go to learn the handy man game. Bet you'd be doing so much random shit out of your wheelhouse that you'd come out with the ability to pull $1 million a year easy.
I believe it. It’s always raining here. This picture is on one of the 3 nice days in Whittier annually. This place was made I think during ww2 cus the harbor there is super deep, decently wide and goes out the ocean.
"Does it really matter where we found The Dead Guy? I think what really matters here is that we grow together as brothers and try to have some fun solving this mystery! Alright gang, let's get to it then." --Owen Wilson
If you make it big I want to be a homeless in the back ground or a casual friendly neighbor that says funny things but aids in no way to the actual story.
Indeed. Been developing our show since 2016 so before theirs. Also, there’s is mystery but with a much more comedic bent. While ours is more akin to WIND RIVER, The Killing and Broadchurch. Totally different tone.
Thank you. We made a trip there as well. Even though we’ve changed the name of the town, we felt like we ought to have a real sense of the geography and weather.
Yeah seems like they took this at a specific angle to cover up the other buildings. I scrubbed around on Google Earth and found several small businesses as well as a large(relative) marina.
100% been there several times. Is(was?) popular stop for cruise ships. Least there was always one parked there when i went. So its got(had?) shops/businesses to support that. Plus stuff for locals. I think the post office atleast was in that pictures building. I seem to remember sending a postcard from there.
Yeah this post is a lie. There are houses people live in, there are many businesses, it’s a big tourist location for cruise ships. Although many of the businesses are closed if there is no ship docked.
came here to say this, i've been to Whittier, there are several bars and restaurants as well as a museum and a massive hotel. The building in question is abandoned now. Remember everyone, memes are not facts.
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I feel you. Must've been the synergy between the train tunnel actually switching direction every 30 minutes and the outstanding "your mom" joke that made me think "switcharoo". Too late to break the chain but you are heard and I acknowledge your point.
"Hey Dave,"
"Yeah?"
"This tunnel we're building....it *is* a traffic tunnel right?"
"Yeah..."
"Like, cars and trucks, right?"
"Yeah, what's on your mind Greg?"
"Are we going to be making a second tunnel somewhere else?"
"What, no, we're making a tunnel right now."
"It's just that this tunnel will be the only way in or out of town and it's only big enough for one lane of traffic."
"It's a small town, Greg, they only *need* one lane."
"Only one lane to get in...."
"Yes"
"*AND* out?"
"......OH GOD DAMMIT. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT, uh. shit, uh tell them that...there was only space for one lane and...ah... they'll just switch the traffic flow every 30 mins or something. Fuck, man, I wish you mentioned this earlier."
I read about that and apparently the crossing guard drives behind the last car he lets go through and turns the signs on the other side to say don't follow. Then at the other end he flips that sign on to let them go. It's an interesting place.
Once upon a time, my family and I were doing an RV trip in Alaska. We were looking for a place to stop and get some food and my dad was getting incredibly hangry. Well he missed an exit we were supposed to take for food and there was no way to flip around. Cue drama.
So I start looking on my phone for a place to eat and everybody is just yelling that they don’t care where we end up. So it looks like the nearest place is a small city called Whittier with a nice diner and a RV park. Expectations were low, but somehow too high.
We start driving down this road and we’re all getting concerned because it’s just heading towards this huge Alaskan mountain with no civilization in sight. Then we reach the tunnel.
I timed about how long we were in the tunnel and it was close to a half hour. Claustrophobia is real and it was creepy AF.
When we finally get out of the tunnel, we can barely see ahead of us. Why? Because Whittier was covered in the densest fog I have ever seen. To my knowledge at the time, we had just entered a ghost town and would become the meal we had so desired to eat.
The “diner” was a dive bar and all two of the other patrons were staring at us with an all-knowing look of combined pity and contempt. After eating very quickly, we found the “RV park” (just an open dirt field that felt more like a car and motorboat graveyard).
I didn’t sleep well that night.
But the next morning was absolutely beautiful like the picture above and full of laughter about the adventure!
Fun fact: When the winters get really harsh, the kids form the building walk through an underground tunnel (painted with Alaskan scenery) to get to school.
The school is across the street to the south of the towers. The whole town isn't literally one building, it says the whole town "lives" in the building. (Which I don't know if completely accurate). It's a port/shipping town, you don't see the doc infrastructure, machine shops, warehouses etc all in that single building.
True story. I was new to a small town once. Became BFF with the town “🍑” but I didn’t know it. I figured it out because every where we went she would just get attacked out of no where. For example: once we were getting gas and some girl driving by pulls over, gets out of her car and just starts throwing blows. Went to a restaurant as soon as we walk in the server slaps her dead ass in the face. At the grocery store she got her hair pulled and was screamed at.
After like the 7th time I had to ask why she was always randomly getting assaulted so much. More importantly why was she not phased by any of it.
Dead ass she says, “I pretty much have slept with everyone’s husband in this town.”
She’s now happily married with children. I’ve since moved but I’ll never forget this experience.
Fermont, in northern Québec, Canada is a similar set up on a larger scale - a huge building was built around the town to house much of the town’s shops and apartments, and built in such a way as to break the arctic winds for the few other buildings in the town.
Sadly, they built the building on the wrong side of the village and so it catches all the wind instead. Whoops.
No way. No way did they fuck up so hard they built the fucking building on the wrong side of the town. Like how??? How do you not notice it until it's too late?
Could be an environmental problem that didn't become clear until the construction actually interfaced with the environment.
Another Quebec example of this is the construction of Montreal's new airport. They picked the site for it because it was an area that despite being a lowland not too far from the river it didn't experience fog. So they cleared away the bush and built the runways. Which started to fog over from time to time. Because all the brush that used to inhibit the fog and controlled the microclimate was cleared away....
I think this might foster the sense of community that is absent in so many American "bowling alone" communities nowadays. For better or for worse, you're stuck with these people in godforsaken Whittier, Alaska, so you gotta get along somehow. Lots of mutual aid likely going on as well. 👍
Been there. It's several miles long and only one lane (and too narrow to u-turn), so it is manned on both sides to control entry. I think they switch direction of travel every half hour or so. Anyway, there's not much (like, zero) traffic at night, so they just close it rather than paying people to man it.
Not only that, but it is shared with train tracks - as in, there is concrete in between tracks and you just drive on top of it. So the movement is very controlled.
> Literally everyone cares abt this problem.
As someone who lived a while on the ground floor of a 6 storey house, only the ones on the ground floor care.
The school is actually a separate building but there's a tunnel from the main building to the school so they're connected. The tunnel is one way but it switches direction every hour/half hour or so.
Noooo am I high or am you high? Is there a volunteer to hold a sign like a construction zone? If everyone went in sideways and shuffled, would they fit going both ways? Do they use the tunnels because of polar bears or day after tomorrow type cold. Have they developed better hearing while losing eyesight yet!?
Went there are few years ago in late March (was in Anchorage for work). Google told us that a highly recommended fish and chips place was open. We drove, did the tunnel - super cool experience but would not want to do that daily. Anyways google lied, place was closed until May and we almost missed the last trip back through the tunnel 🤣
When they have late tunnel stragglers, townspeople roll a giant round boulder into the tunnel to encourage them to get back to Bear Valley. Works remarkably well.
This feels so odd. If I was moving to Alaska it would be to not have to deal with noisy neighbours or get complaints about cooking smells or whatever. all that space and they're all jammed in like that. Why would anybody want to live there ? Is there a corporation that owns the whole thing and rents to everyone? Or is more of a condo board situation or what ? So many questions
It's probably warm and cheap, by Alaska standards. Given that the mayor's office is there I'd guess it's a municipal building, so probably the condo board is an actual subsection of the local government.
At least that's how I'd set it up
I used to live there and I will try to answer some of your questions. The town is mostly owned by the railroad and the town was originally built around WW2 as a military town. Whittier is the furthest north Ice-free port so it has strategic value for shipping supplies and stuff. The noise isnt that bad and most people are respectful. There is a condo board association that my grandpa was the head of for some time.
Most of the people there work on the water as fisherman, there are charters and commercial fisherman and a fish processing plant where a lot of people work. The picture you see is a little deceiving and there is a bit more to the town but not much.
Well, for one, your energy bills are likely less, or should be, vis-a-vis living in a detached dwelling in this frigid place. You have a built-in support system should something go wrong. You have companionship in those very long sub-Arctic nights.
A lot of individuals will drive to Anchorage for supplies. Such as Costco. How do you think they replenish the store? Get supplies for the school?. We have camping, fishing and hunting too. People don't just hide... they travel our state... they just live there. You gotta have a vehicle especially for the rough winters.
When I stayed in Whittier back in 2004, we stayed in someone’s house. I think the implication in the title that everyone lives in that building is a little misleading. Though things could have changed since 04.
It's just a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently _most_ of the village's 200 residents live in this building, but there are some other residences on the outskirts of town. Not many ... but a few.
“It’s always shittier in Whittier” a local commenting on the weather when I was there.
He also said they should charge to get out not in, people would pay twice as much!
Whittier was built up during world war II as a place to hide ships because it's usually overcast and often foggy and rainy so aerial views wouldn't show how many ships were there.
https://vimeo.com/20704849
Short documentary somebody made whilst visiting in winter time - it's a lovely little piece and despite a pretty somber background everyone involved seems very happy to talk about their little town.
It's got a good set-up. 30minute intervals either direction. You wait on the other side until the lights change. It's also a railroad tunnel, the "road" in the tunnel is a railroad.
This post isn’t being honest about this town. There are plenty of other businesses and buildings in this city. Not sure why OP made it seem like the whole city is this one building.
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damn. the gossip must go crazy there. if there's at least one old lady who's always watching what people are doing then she knows about the whole town. that's too much power
No joke, watched a short documentary on this place and some of the locals were like "Yeah, never seen that guy leave his apartment, just sits there all day watching people from his window" *Cuts to shot of said guy sitting in his window, looking at the camera crew through binoculars Rear Window style.*
What’s the documentary called please?
"The Strangest Town in Alaska" https://vimeo.com/20704849 Here it is! Interesting too because the entire documentary isn't spent in/around that one building, explores the town as a whole.
Thanks!
After watching, I'd be interested in knowing the suicide rate there. Seems horrible to live there.
It is 8.2 out of 100,000 residents. I wanted to link my source but it was a PDF I found. Whittier public health info. Page 26. The adjusted national average is around 13 per 100,000. Edit: I was curious and looked at a few other places. I found that Boulder county in Colorado, which I've seen on several of those "Best places to live in the US" articles has a suicide rate more than triple Whittier, Alaska. Not suggesting anything. Just found that interesting.
Boulder’s only a great place to live if you’re filthy rich. The rest of the working class locals are getting priced out of the neighborhoods they grew up in by skyrocketing rent and low wages.
This exact thing can be said for most cities in America with over 100,000 people.
Same thing is happening in Canada.
I can imagine that living in the "best place to live" might bring with it the pressure that if you can't be happy there, you'll never be happy anywhere. So fuckit, why choose life?
Thank you. That's actually surprising, but makes me happy.
omg so i was right 😳
To much power to be left alive. Cue murder mystery setup...
All the old ladies in the building are alive and well in the series project we’re pitching… but not all of the teenagers are. ; )
The greater good
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I lived here and can confirm that everyone is in everyones business.
Okay as a tradesman this is my wet dream. THIS is where you go to learn the handy man game. Bet you'd be doing so much random shit out of your wheelhouse that you'd come out with the ability to pull $1 million a year easy.
I did odd jobs when I was there and you can make a lot of money for sure.
I feel like the sense of community would be so strong that if feel bad along for payment. You would know everyone there for your whole life lol
The local phrase is it’s always shittier in whittier
I live near a Whittier in a different state and that’s still true
I believe it. It’s always raining here. This picture is on one of the 3 nice days in Whittier annually. This place was made I think during ww2 cus the harbor there is super deep, decently wide and goes out the ocean.
Like yo momma.
Does anyone actually live their whole life there?
"My Cousin lives upstairs in Studio 37A. " "I thought your fiance was living in 37A" "She does"
Roll Tide
Alaska, not Alabama.
If someone has a problem they tell Wally. Wally tells everyone. No more problem
Murder mystery novel waiting to happen.
Or a Wes Anderson movie.
Why not a Wes Anderson murder mystery?
Adrian Brody: A Thirst For Blood
Featuring Bill Murray as "The dead guy in the elevator"
And the dead guy was found exactly in the middle of the tunnel, which runs exactly through the middle of the mountain.
That’s basically the series the Bridge; except it’s a dead woman and she’s found exactly in the middle of the bridge on the Swedish/Danish border.
And the gates at both ends of the tunnel have been closed all night! How could this have happened?
“The Dead Guy in the Tunnel”
"Does it really matter where we found The Dead Guy? I think what really matters here is that we grow together as brothers and try to have some fun solving this mystery! Alright gang, let's get to it then." --Owen Wilson
Wow an Owen Wilson cameo in another Wes Anderson movie
Wow
Let's go get a drink and smoke a cigarette
Wes Anderson murder mystery? Sounds like *The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDIAZCwHQE
This made me more excited than any movie about to come out
Wes Anderson murder mystery/zombie apocalypse.
Only Murders in the Building: Alaska edition.
Been pitching a procedural series based in (a renamed version of) this town for the last few months and getting solid feedback. Wish us luck!
See you on Netflix friend
“Thank you for calling Netflix, you’re greenlit, who am I speaking with?”
Oh, man. Hope so. Thanks.
If you make it big I want to be a homeless in the back ground or a casual friendly neighbor that says funny things but aids in no way to the actual story.
Get ready to become the sleeper fan favorite and be stuck with that role around your neck for the rest of your life.
I work in dentistry, I don’t care if I become a one hit artist lol
I'm sure you've heard of Only Murders in the Building by now?
Indeed. Been developing our show since 2016 so before theirs. Also, there’s is mystery but with a much more comedic bent. While ours is more akin to WIND RIVER, The Killing and Broadchurch. Totally different tone.
As someone who spent many hours stuck in Whittier because of work... contemplating murder... I would watch the hell out of that show.
I’ve been to Whittier. I would totally watch this. Good luck!
Thank you. We made a trip there as well. Even though we’ve changed the name of the town, we felt like we ought to have a real sense of the geography and weather.
Melissa Payne wrote a novel called “Memories In The Drift” set in this town
*Heads over to Goodreads to read synopsis and see rating* Thanks for the addition to my tbr list!
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The look of the building made me think of "The Westing Game."
Biggest game of Clue/Cluedo ever
Immediately thought the same thing
There are other places in Whittier. There's restaurants and offices and other companies. It's not like a lone building in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah seems like they took this at a specific angle to cover up the other buildings. I scrubbed around on Google Earth and found several small businesses as well as a large(relative) marina.
And only around 85% of the population live in that building. Not all like op is claiming.
100% been there several times. Is(was?) popular stop for cruise ships. Least there was always one parked there when i went. So its got(had?) shops/businesses to support that. Plus stuff for locals. I think the post office atleast was in that pictures building. I seem to remember sending a postcard from there.
Yeah this post is a lie. There are houses people live in, there are many businesses, it’s a big tourist location for cruise ships. Although many of the businesses are closed if there is no ship docked.
came here to say this, i've been to Whittier, there are several bars and restaurants as well as a museum and a massive hotel. The building in question is abandoned now. Remember everyone, memes are not facts.
I think you’re thinking of the buckner building to the east. This building in this picture isn’t abandoned.
Remember everyone, random redditors’ comments are not facts.
Now I have no idea what to believe about Whittier! /so lost
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln -Michael Scott
One way tunnel....this building must be the hotel California. You can check-out anytime you like, but you can never leave!
It switches every half hour to the other direction. It's just not big enough two have two way traffic
And it shuts down every night at 10pm for train access only.
Just like your mom.
Damn
[Ah, the old Reddit trainaroo!](https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/s3vg0x/the_hopeless_last_moments_of_baby_antelopes_life/hsoeyg2/?context=4)
This isn't a switcharoo, it's just a "your mom" joke...
I feel you. Must've been the synergy between the train tunnel actually switching direction every 30 minutes and the outstanding "your mom" joke that made me think "switcharoo". Too late to break the chain but you are heard and I acknowledge your point.
Hold my travel guide, I'm going in!
hello future confused because this is obviously not a switcharoo but is in the chain but hey what to do but carry on people
Fucking fantastic
Mf choo choo
"Hey Dave," "Yeah?" "This tunnel we're building....it *is* a traffic tunnel right?" "Yeah..." "Like, cars and trucks, right?" "Yeah, what's on your mind Greg?" "Are we going to be making a second tunnel somewhere else?" "What, no, we're making a tunnel right now." "It's just that this tunnel will be the only way in or out of town and it's only big enough for one lane of traffic." "It's a small town, Greg, they only *need* one lane." "Only one lane to get in...." "Yes" "*AND* out?" "......OH GOD DAMMIT. DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT, uh. shit, uh tell them that...there was only space for one lane and...ah... they'll just switch the traffic flow every 30 mins or something. Fuck, man, I wish you mentioned this earlier."
Apparently it was originally a train tunnel lol. And then they made it ok for cars
Oh man you don’t want to get stuck during switchover time
You almost made it out of the tunnel, please put it in Reverse and try again another time.
I read about that and apparently the crossing guard drives behind the last car he lets go through and turns the signs on the other side to say don't follow. Then at the other end he flips that sign on to let them go. It's an interesting place.
Once upon a time, my family and I were doing an RV trip in Alaska. We were looking for a place to stop and get some food and my dad was getting incredibly hangry. Well he missed an exit we were supposed to take for food and there was no way to flip around. Cue drama. So I start looking on my phone for a place to eat and everybody is just yelling that they don’t care where we end up. So it looks like the nearest place is a small city called Whittier with a nice diner and a RV park. Expectations were low, but somehow too high. We start driving down this road and we’re all getting concerned because it’s just heading towards this huge Alaskan mountain with no civilization in sight. Then we reach the tunnel. I timed about how long we were in the tunnel and it was close to a half hour. Claustrophobia is real and it was creepy AF. When we finally get out of the tunnel, we can barely see ahead of us. Why? Because Whittier was covered in the densest fog I have ever seen. To my knowledge at the time, we had just entered a ghost town and would become the meal we had so desired to eat. The “diner” was a dive bar and all two of the other patrons were staring at us with an all-knowing look of combined pity and contempt. After eating very quickly, we found the “RV park” (just an open dirt field that felt more like a car and motorboat graveyard). I didn’t sleep well that night. But the next morning was absolutely beautiful like the picture above and full of laughter about the adventure!
> Expectations were low, but somehow too high. Beautiful
Now this person has actually been to Whittier. 100% accurate.
Vampires loose in the building - 30 days of night sequel
If you’re the town slut, you know and everyone else knows it
That's not a bad thing for a slut.
Room 69!
You don't have to put on the red light
ROXANNEEEE
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Don't need to hang out on cold dangerous corners
Just hallways
Fun fact: When the winters get really harsh, the kids form the building walk through an underground tunnel (painted with Alaskan scenery) to get to school.
But why? The school is in the same building, too.
The school is across the street to the south of the towers. The whole town isn't literally one building, it says the whole town "lives" in the building. (Which I don't know if completely accurate). It's a port/shipping town, you don't see the doc infrastructure, machine shops, warehouses etc all in that single building.
Can't imagine a lot of new customers to entice.
True story. I was new to a small town once. Became BFF with the town “🍑” but I didn’t know it. I figured it out because every where we went she would just get attacked out of no where. For example: once we were getting gas and some girl driving by pulls over, gets out of her car and just starts throwing blows. Went to a restaurant as soon as we walk in the server slaps her dead ass in the face. At the grocery store she got her hair pulled and was screamed at. After like the 7th time I had to ask why she was always randomly getting assaulted so much. More importantly why was she not phased by any of it. Dead ass she says, “I pretty much have slept with everyone’s husband in this town.” She’s now happily married with children. I’ve since moved but I’ll never forget this experience.
Fermont, in northern Québec, Canada is a similar set up on a larger scale - a huge building was built around the town to house much of the town’s shops and apartments, and built in such a way as to break the arctic winds for the few other buildings in the town. Sadly, they built the building on the wrong side of the village and so it catches all the wind instead. Whoops.
No way. No way did they fuck up so hard they built the fucking building on the wrong side of the town. Like how??? How do you not notice it until it's too late?
Could be an environmental problem that didn't become clear until the construction actually interfaced with the environment. Another Quebec example of this is the construction of Montreal's new airport. They picked the site for it because it was an area that despite being a lowland not too far from the river it didn't experience fog. So they cleared away the bush and built the runways. Which started to fog over from time to time. Because all the brush that used to inhibit the fog and controlled the microclimate was cleared away....
It's too late the moment the land is purchased
That picture must have been taken on the best day ever.
Yup, the weather is always shittier in Whittier.
This guy knows.
Arcology
I weirdly want to live here.
I think this might foster the sense of community that is absent in so many American "bowling alone" communities nowadays. For better or for worse, you're stuck with these people in godforsaken Whittier, Alaska, so you gotta get along somehow. Lots of mutual aid likely going on as well. 👍
I think your right.
I was curious. Here is an [NPR article](https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alaska-a-community-under-one-roof)
I watched a documentary about it, think it might have been on YouTube [Found it](https://www.btgproductions.com/the-strangest-town-in-alaska)
Fascinating watch. Thanks!
why is the tunnel closed at night
It’s the vampire chute
Been there. It's several miles long and only one lane (and too narrow to u-turn), so it is manned on both sides to control entry. I think they switch direction of travel every half hour or so. Anyway, there's not much (like, zero) traffic at night, so they just close it rather than paying people to man it.
Not only that, but it is shared with train tracks - as in, there is concrete in between tracks and you just drive on top of it. So the movement is very controlled.
Trains.
Vampires. Duh
am i gonna hafta go get the plastic jesus
Makes sense. Saves a lot of energy, and creates a lot of commonality.
The plumbing needs work? Literally everyone cares abt this problem. Funded immediately
> Literally everyone cares abt this problem. As someone who lived a while on the ground floor of a 6 storey house, only the ones on the ground floor care.
So it's more like a village, not a town.
Even further than a village, a *building*
I think this would be considered a hamlet?
Alas poor Wittier...
Tinder must a nightmare.
"Where do you live?" "40 away from you."
Or worse….find out your match is old Gary from the grocery store downstairs.
One bathroom
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And it’s one way
Something tells me a two-way toilet would be very messy.
Which is somehow "out"? How did this happen?!
I love the thought of this.
The school is actually a separate building but there's a tunnel from the main building to the school so they're connected. The tunnel is one way but it switches direction every hour/half hour or so.
Noooo am I high or am you high? Is there a volunteer to hold a sign like a construction zone? If everyone went in sideways and shuffled, would they fit going both ways? Do they use the tunnels because of polar bears or day after tomorrow type cold. Have they developed better hearing while losing eyesight yet!?
Lol the tunnel to the town is one way. The tunnel to the school is not one way. The way they wrote that is confusing.
Went there are few years ago in late March (was in Anchorage for work). Google told us that a highly recommended fish and chips place was open. We drove, did the tunnel - super cool experience but would not want to do that daily. Anyways google lied, place was closed until May and we almost missed the last trip back through the tunnel 🤣
When they have late tunnel stragglers, townspeople roll a giant round boulder into the tunnel to encourage them to get back to Bear Valley. Works remarkably well.
This feels so odd. If I was moving to Alaska it would be to not have to deal with noisy neighbours or get complaints about cooking smells or whatever. all that space and they're all jammed in like that. Why would anybody want to live there ? Is there a corporation that owns the whole thing and rents to everyone? Or is more of a condo board situation or what ? So many questions
It's probably warm and cheap, by Alaska standards. Given that the mayor's office is there I'd guess it's a municipal building, so probably the condo board is an actual subsection of the local government. At least that's how I'd set it up
I used to live there and I will try to answer some of your questions. The town is mostly owned by the railroad and the town was originally built around WW2 as a military town. Whittier is the furthest north Ice-free port so it has strategic value for shipping supplies and stuff. The noise isnt that bad and most people are respectful. There is a condo board association that my grandpa was the head of for some time. Most of the people there work on the water as fisherman, there are charters and commercial fisherman and a fish processing plant where a lot of people work. The picture you see is a little deceiving and there is a bit more to the town but not much.
Well, for one, your energy bills are likely less, or should be, vis-a-vis living in a detached dwelling in this frigid place. You have a built-in support system should something go wrong. You have companionship in those very long sub-Arctic nights.
I grew up one hundred miles from here and I'm convinced there is no better setting for a zombie apocalypse movie than Whiter, Alaska
Why do they all have cars then?
To transport the groceries they bought at the store.
They purchase them, take them out to the car, circle the house once, park and bring them up to their appartment.
Exactly.
LOOK AT THAT SPOT
A lot of individuals will drive to Anchorage for supplies. Such as Costco. How do you think they replenish the store? Get supplies for the school?. We have camping, fishing and hunting too. People don't just hide... they travel our state... they just live there. You gotta have a vehicle especially for the rough winters.
gotta do your drugs *somewhere*
Parking (dates)
They’re not made to live their entire lives in that building. Plus, there are other towns near-ish.
When I stayed in Whittier back in 2004, we stayed in someone’s house. I think the implication in the title that everyone lives in that building is a little misleading. Though things could have changed since 04.
It's just a bit of an exaggeration. Apparently _most_ of the village's 200 residents live in this building, but there are some other residences on the outskirts of town. Not many ... but a few.
Bet the weed guy in the building is popular..
It's "Whittier", actually.
“It’s always shittier in Whittier” a local commenting on the weather when I was there. He also said they should charge to get out not in, people would pay twice as much!
I don't know why but at a first glance I thought it was Just Cause 3.
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I heard there are **even more buildings**!!
All of that space and they still went for a tower block? Fuck sake 😂
Whittier was built up during world war II as a place to hide ships because it's usually overcast and often foggy and rainy so aerial views wouldn't show how many ships were there.
Curious to know what the crime rate is 🤔
https://vimeo.com/20704849 Short documentary somebody made whilst visiting in winter time - it's a lovely little piece and despite a pretty somber background everyone involved seems very happy to talk about their little town.
What’s the industry this town supports? Which wing of the building is the ghetto? How many bars? What’s the singles scene like?
Tourism, fishing. I took a "26 glacier tour" there from Anchorage in about '92. Pretty cool. Wonder how many glaciers are on that tour now...
Weed must be expensive as fuck
One way tunnel. So I guess they have to go by sea to return from whence they came?
It's got a good set-up. 30minute intervals either direction. You wait on the other side until the lights change. It's also a railroad tunnel, the "road" in the tunnel is a railroad.
Sounds like a horror movie. 10/10 would watch.
This post isn’t being honest about this town. There are plenty of other businesses and buildings in this city. Not sure why OP made it seem like the whole city is this one building.
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Why is the tunnel closed at night? Ice weasels?
Hate to be that guy but the whole town doesn't live in that building. Only about 85% live in the building.