From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:41cbe490{at}w3.nls.net...

> > I thought there were oilfields there?
>
> Yes. Fat lot of good it does the locals. The money flows steadily out of
> there. Maybe some corporate managers visiting the oil fields have laptops,
> but I don't think the actual workers get much more than a sack of (frozen)
> potatoes.

Really? When the oil companies were hiring help to work in Alaska, they
were paying big bucks to draw people there.

Geo.

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