Would you rather live in Alaska or Montana?

[Kuumo]

Two of Atlas's favorite states!

[Left Wing]

Alaska is too remote.

[Goldwater]

Montana, I guess. Both are far too cold.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

The sun literally did not rise today in Barrow, Alaska.

Montana.

[Gracile]

Alaska would be cooler to visit in the warmer months, but the extreme winters are pretty much a non-starter. Easy Montana vote.

[KaiserDave]

Enthusiastic Montana vote. Not because Alaska is bad necessarily, because Montana is great

[Santander]

Alaska would be cooler to visit in the warmer months, but the extreme winters are pretty much a non-starter. Easy Montana vote.

The Panhandle has milder winters than Montana. And there are plenty of days of the winter when Montana is colder than Anchorage.

[KaiserDave]

Alaska would be cooler to visit in the warmer months, but the extreme winters are pretty much a non-starter. Easy Montana vote.

The Panhandle has milder winters than Montana. And there are plenty of days of the winter when Montana is colder than Anchorage.

Excellent

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

That's called a win-win, but I hear AK has a terrible gender imbalance that would make even Atlas Forum blush.

[TDAS04]

Alaska is the best state when it comes to wilderness, but it would be difficult and expensive to travel to other places if I lived there.  So I would rather live in the best wilderness state in the lower 48.

[Alben Barkley]

Montana is less isolated, climate is less extreme, and I’m probably at least slightly less likely to be eaten by a grizzly bear. (DEFINITELY less likely to be eaten by a polar bear.)

I would love to visit Alaska some day though. It really does seem to be the “last frontier.”

[Alben Barkley]

The sun literally did not rise today in Barrow, Alaska.

Montana.

This is the biggest thing for me. More than the weather itself. The days of all sun or no sun would be crazy.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

The sun literally did not rise today in Barrow, Alaska.

Montana.

This is the biggest thing for me. More than the weather itself. The days of all sun or no sun would be crazy.

Yeah, Montana is cool in the summer, but even there it’s too dark in the winter. Hell, I don’t like it when it gets dark at 5 PM.

[morgankingsley]

Montana by far

[Mr. Smith]

Lean Alaska.

[Badger]

Missoula please

[JA]

Montana would be less isolated, so I choose there.

[Hope For A New Era]

Difficult choice, actually.

I think I'd use politics to break the tie and go for Alaska, so I can be part of its "dark and cold sunbelt state" transformation.

[Lechasseur]

The sun literally did not rise today in Barrow, Alaska.

Montana.

This is the biggest thing for me. More than the weather itself. The days of all sun or no sun would be crazy.

Yeah, Montana is cool in the summer, but even there it’s too dark in the winter. Hell, I don’t like it when it gets dark at 5 PM.

Well you wouldn't like Europe then.

Even in France the sun sets at 4:30-5:00 in winter (even now I have to turn my lights on at home around 4:45 PM) and it sets at like 10:30-10:45 in summer.

If anything I found it weird in America how there seems to be so little of a difference between the seasons on that.

[AkSaber]

Alaska would be cooler to visit in the warmer months, but the extreme winters are pretty much a non-starter. Easy Montana vote.

The Panhandle has milder winters than Montana. And there are plenty of days of the winter when Montana is colder than Anchorage.

Very true. Southcentral Alaska may have a higher-average snowfall than most parts of the country, but we don't get the sudden and drastic blizzards very often. Like years apart.

Same is true about bitter coldsnaps. They're just not that common in this part of the state. I have no doubt the Rockies and Midwest have winters are far more brutal in terms of cold spells and sudden blizzards that shut everything down. The only thing I'd say is extreme about this part of Alaska is the daylight hours. 19 hours in summer, 5 in winter.

[Former President tack50]

The sun literally did not rise today in Barrow, Alaska.

Montana.

This is the biggest thing for me. More than the weather itself. The days of all sun or no sun would be crazy.

Yeah, Montana is cool in the summer, but even there it’s too dark in the winter. Hell, I don’t like it when it gets dark at 5 PM.

Well you wouldn't like Europe then.

Even in France the sun sets at 4:30-5:00 in winter (even now I have to turn my lights on at home around 4:45 PM) and it sets at like 10:30-10:45 in summer.

If anything I found it weird in America how there seems to be so little of a difference between the seasons on that.

Yeah, I remember when travelling to the UK in winter it was incredibly depressing to see the sunset at like 3:30pm. That would not be too far from lunchtime for me lol

Though Spain, being quite far south in Europe and being in the "wrong" timezone thankfully does have some reasonable sunset times. The sun sets at somewhere around 18:00 in Madrid right now.

[7,052,770]

Alaska is too remote.

This, but as an argument for Alaska.

It would be very tough to get used to the snow, but since they have it in Montana too, that's a wash.