Hey everyone, it’s Justin! If you want my FREE relocation guide with information on all things Fairbanks, Alaska you can download it here: contact.buyorsellrealestatenow.com/jhinfo

It was great hearing from you today, Justin! TY Glad I found ur channel. We are a fam of four considering a move to Fairbanks from northern NY this summer.

We have lived outside of Fairbanks for over 30 years. We love the warm summers and gardening, canoeing, fishing, backpacking. We love our neighbors that are always helpful. We love that there is an International Airport 15 minutes away. We love the sugar snow for cross-country skiing and snowmachining. We love big game hunting and fishing for huge fish to fill the freezer. We love that there is no traffic lights across a thousand miles of highway from Fox to Circle, North Pole to Valdez, Fox to Manely Hot Springs, Ester to Healy, etc.

You have such a great presentation style--thank you for the effort and time it must take to put these out. You are a great representative for the City of Fairbanks. I think it would be cool to live there so when people ask you where you live when you're traveling , you can say "I live in the 'banks!" There is a coolness vibe to that, I think!

This is really cool. The solstice was yesterday and it fluttered me up a little knowing it’s gonna get a little bit brighter each day. I live in Chicago and I just realized how far away AK is; I’d really like to visit.

Realtor in Las Vegas here. What a well done video! Good job! Great content & entertaining as well.

Lived here in Fairbanks for 20+ years. I live in Fox right outside of it now and we mind our own business but all our neighbors know each other and we do help each other out often. In Fairbanks itself you'll noticed we have a crack/meth head problem they love going to Walmart/Lowe's/home Depot and steal all sorts of goodies. Had a light bar stolen off my truck when going in the store to grocery shop. Military wise it is a military town and being stationed here I'd advise especially to new military that they go out often and enjoy the nature and not just latch onto Wainwright or Fairbanks. I also served and this was my last duty station so I'm honestly not just talking from one side but from both civi and military side. Don't go out and party because most the "clubs" are trashy places that only spawn garbage and have the same people causing the same drama for the past years. Many of military marriages are ruined in these wonderful clubs.

Informative and well presented, looks good. (However your audio is out of sync.)

Fairbanks does have some quirky people and that’s why I love going there for supplies. But so true about Alaskans helping out!

You made a very helpful video

Thanks for doing this video!!! I have been living in Fairbanks since 2005. Although I originally came here when my father first got stationed at Fort Wainwright back in 1987. I happen to agree with your list of reasons not to move up here. However, I would also like to add that Fairbanks lacks any major chain restaurants such as Chili's, Outback Steakhouse, Golden Corral, etc. Because if you wish to go to these places you'll have to go to Anchorage.

Could I get a copy of your relocation guide?? Thank you for all the information!

Noting your way in 2 days driving from colville washington..need a small parcel to start.im excited to move..

You have a shot of Mt. Edgecombe from the island side, cool.

Thank you for this video! I am going to marry a man in the military and we will be moving to Alaska later this year! I have been preparing myself through videos like this and I am stoked to live there, I think I will fit in great! This video is reality and I appreciate you creating it

36 years in Alaska, it will always be home regardless of where I lay my head down to sleep.

Sounds like 5 reasons to move to Fairbanks. These are the same reasons why I moved to Sheridan Wyoming, especially #5, I love the outdoors and it’s an outdoor paradise. The toughest decision I have to make is where to go play on the weekends.

I am interested in your Fairbanks relocation guide!

Could you please send me that relocation guide. Thanks

I'm from Fairbanks and I haven't liked the weather during the summers for the past few years. Like we got through -20 temperatures, and we get paid in smoke.

I am from Asia, I am planning to move and live in Fairbanks starting from January 2026 to December 2029.

Nice presentation of the Fairbanks facts but I think you should try a little harder to get your photo/video stock to be at least from Alaska if not Fairbanks. It sort of hits a jarring note to see hardwood trees and manicured lawns when talking about that nice wild place we live.

My name is Kenneth Boren I'm from Washington State my mother and I moved to Fairbank's in summer 1978. I went to Ryan Jr High and winter hit and yhe lack of day sucked . So at end of the school year my but was on Northwest Orient DC-10 for Sea Tac never to return,mother stay and work on the slope. Summer was great but the little daylight in winter killed me, area is neat for the right kind of person. So good luck and hello to everyone in the great white north from the Tri-Cities Washington. Also 2003- 2009 lived down in Arizona about 60 south of Phoenix so I been to the coldest and the hottest back in home state to stay..........

Does it get cold during the winter?

All that bad reasons are good reason in my book. Now i have a reason to grow mints and catnips!

Your comment about a "special breed of people" in Fairbanks cracked me up. I'm curious as to how many people you know in that category have lived in Alaska since it was a US Territory?

as someone who has lived in fairbanks my whole life,

I will be moving as an international student at Fairbanks university. I am scared of this city. What do you recommend me? I am just 23 and I will be living alone as a student. I was so excited but now I am scared because of animals and crime ratio.

I didn’t know y’all had palm trees in Fairbanks. I didn’t see any the last time I was there.

To make sure you don’t have mosquitoes and you can sit outside all day and night is take a bag sandwich bag fill half full of water put 10 to 12 Pennies in the bag and then make your area where you do not want them to come in there and they will not cross we do it all the time so you can sit out on your deck all night long not be bothered

Anchorage is bad enough. Now I would do Glennallen.... Glacier View school area

I was born there and spent the first 30+ years there. It would be a great place if more people followed your advice and did not go there. It has lost so much of what made it great. It started going down hill with the advent of the pipeline. I went back years after leaving to do some construction work in Circle and felt like going home. Just did not like what had happened to the charm that was Fairbanks. All those things you say are negative are the very things that make it what it was.

I was born here in Fairbanks.

I'd like a copy of that relocation guide! I'm an expat who's been living in the Philippines for 4 years now, but it looks like I'll be relocating to Fairbanks sometime next year for work. Talk about a big change. I currently live just 400 miles north of the equator, so it'll be literally night and day.

I was told there's many native Alaskans living in Fairbanks. I'd definitely live with them around cuz I like them and think their culture interesting . But it's sad cuz I will need to convince my girlfriend to move to Alaska. But the problem is her family is from Connecticut. It's too far away from Alaska 😩🥲

The weather, the dark, the distance

Justin …. i think you should do a video of whats 5 reason people want to come and live in fairbanks as opposed to what you did in this video and i’d be very interested to know the opposite opinions of fairbanks

I've lived in Fairbanks Alaska for 42 yrs. I don't know if I would want to live anywhere else. We don't have all the bull going on here that they do in the lower 48 all the woke bull

Can I get a guide?

When I lived in Fairbanks from 74-03 we burned our lawns every fall so the grass would be epic in spring. When I went back in 2013 when my dad passed… not impressed.

not portland or austin weird lmao. got me on one of those but the other, well i was in southern oregon so bam couldnt hit me with the double wammy

I people don't Ike fairbanks leave! People are very helpful here! I have lived here for40 years and wouldn't live anywhere else! The lower 48 can just stay down there! We like our different kind of people!

I thought you were just going to say the weather and be done with it lol

Ill keep you in mind never know 😅

Ah sounds like my type of place.

I spent a a total of 8 years in the Fairbanks area '80-'88. Two and a half years in the army at Fort Wainwright, five and a half years as a civilian, four of which I was a full time student at The University of Alaska Fairbanks. I tell people Fairbanks is an open air septic field with an army post on one side and a university on the other. I tell people that in Alaska, if you can get two people to agree on anything you can start a political party, and if you can get five people to agree on anything you can start a religion.

phoenix or fairbanks?

a little sunshine would do you some good

Lived up there 32 years give me a chance i will be back

Use citronella soap, the mosquitoes will avoid you like the plauge.

Curious as to why no mention of the high crime rate….one of the highest in the nation.

oh we weird huh takk about a hater its called caring for others its what real people do

Yeah, but the people in Fairbanks are not Wasilla Weird. Fairbanks has very bad airpollution due to wood stoves and being in the interior, which sucks all the filthy air downwards, Fairbanks is dreadfully hot in the summer as well. Fairbanks is a college town. Fairbanks has less trails and mountains to explore than many towns in Alaska. Also, it floods a lot. You have a few big rivers flooded by Spring breakup. One good thing is Fairbanks has an REI and you can buy new or used gear there.

Es recomendable que vayan a vivir los indocumentados latinos?

We don't have a homeless problem; thank the weather for that.

Greetings from North Pole everyone. I don’t need to watch. I already know.

I can think of more than 5

😂🎉

The SUN is your first reason to not come here? Really? Put aluminum foil on your bedroom windows, shiny side out. Or invest in black out curtains. Easy and cheap. Some footage of snow but no comments on the winters here? Again. Really? The winters are my number one reason to not live here and I've lived here pretty much all my life. Certainly agreed with you about the mosquitoes, the fires, and the people.

Fairbanks isn't as pretty as other parts of alaska but its where all the money is!

Put up a bat house. They love mosquitoes!

No one needs to convince me not to move to Fairbanks. I grew up in Anchorage and went to Fairbanks a few times but Fairbanks is one of the ugliest cities I've seen.

i wouldnt ask him for no advice someone who not from fairbanks and complains like a bit@@@ but from and ocs worker who dont care about no one

Cool place and so different from anywhere else in the US, but I did not find the people in Fairbanks friendly at all. When I walked into stores was never acknowledged and unfriendly hotel staff.

or i meant us weird ppl do

Here's another reason the real alaskans that live here don't want you to come we like it just the way it is. That's being polite

#1 - #2 - #3 Meth - homelessness - crime

Fairbanks is one of the most reactionary, right wing places in Alaska.

Oh, God no, anything but the mosquitoes, noooooooo 😭

Kill what you have to the mosquitos must go.

you left out reason 1A... What goes with 8mo of winter? Alcoholism

Spoiler alert: this guy loves fairbanks.