It is Big Wild Country up here in Alaska, but the nation's largest state is still a small town. It is one thing that we share with Florida (other than our castmate, the beautiful and talented Bella Coley) - Anchorage is the second largest city in the United States, in land mass.
Anyone know what the largest is? No, not New York, or Chicago, or Los Angeles. That would be Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm thinking that Alaska needs to annex Sarah Palin's backyard. In addition to picking up our castmate Rada Khadjinova's hometown - we would also grab the square footage we would need to beat y'all out and have the biggest city as well. Forgive my competitive nature.
Hmmm, wonder if Russia is willing to trade Sarah and some tea for a couple islands? What do you think?
Dorene Lorenz
Living Wild ~ Alaska
You want them to give Sakhalin Island back to the Japanese?
Well they could have back Attu! That joint is cold as hell!
Actually, Alaska has four cities with larger land areas than Jacksonville. And Juneau is larger than Anchorage and Anchorage is twice the size of Jax...
Jacksonville is #5 on the largest american cities list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_area
Land area has nothing to do with a city. Jacksonville certainly has more sprawl than Anchorage, but that is nothing to be proud of. Juneau is barely a small town; nice town, but small.
Is Sarah up for trade? I'll take her as long as she's wearing her Runner's World getup.
BTW, sorry for the lack of "welcome" from my previous post. I'm glad you're with us Dorene!
If you take off those dark sunglasses you will note that Wikipedia is adding boroughs in with the city. That artificially makes four Alaskan cities, including Anchorage, bigger than Jacksonville. Take out the boroughs, you have us beat.
Jason, you have to understand that it isn't easy for an Alaskan to admit that anything, anywhere, is larger that we are - size does matter here. Having been to Anchorage, Juneau, Yakutat, and Sitka I have to admit that, damn it, Anchorage came in second. That is why I am offering Palin up for trade. What color is the watch?
For a consolation prize, will you please send us some sunshine?
Thanks for the clarification. All of this beautiful North Florida weather must have me a bit distracted. ;)
Does Palin cook? If so, I have a couple of old surfboards and a jar of beach sand and seashells I'd be willing to part with. Of course, I'll send some sunshine along with it.
Quote from: DoreneMLorenz on October 11, 2010, 07:27:50 PM
If you take off those dark sunglasses you will note that Wikipedia is adding boroughs in with the city. That artificially makes four Alaskan cities, including Anchorage, bigger than Jacksonville. Take out the boroughs, you have us beat.
Jason, you have to understand that it isn't easy for an Alaskan to admit that anything, anywhere, is larger that we are - size does matter here. Having been to Anchorage, Juneau, Yakutat, and Sitka I have to admit that, damn it, Anchorage came in second. That is why I am offering Palin up for trade. What color is the watch?
For a consolation prize, will you please send us some sunshine?
Not to push my nerd-glasses any higher up my nose, as I'd surely do some damage, but....
In those Alaskan cases, the city and borough are coterminous now, so you can't separate the land area figures of borough from city because they're one and the same now. Or if you did, you'd have to figure out a way to do the same for Jacksonville, too, because it's also a consolidated city-county, just with some tiny hold-outs (Baldwin and the 3 Beaches). There are many cities+counties/parishes/boroughs in the US that are consolidated these days, and they're all legitimate competitors in size rankings, so... Alaska still rules with its 4 biggies, technically:
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city%E2%80%93county
Yup, broke my glasses again.
Quote from: stephendare on August 31, 2010, 10:45:18 AM
I cant imagine anyone with any sense trading Sarah Palin for something much more valuable than a 1970s digital watch, personally.
Actually some of those '70's watches have become pretty collectible, especially the ones where you had to push the stem to light up the numbers.
How about a high number Beanie Baby?
They are #1 as far as the cold is concerned! The Alutian chain does not have a summer to speak of......just days that are not as cold as normal!
Quote from: stephendare on August 31, 2010, 10:45:18 AM
Anchorage is pretty awesome!
Btw. Welcome to the forums Dorene!
Incidentally, Dorene is Nichole's partner on Living Wild In Alaska! Pleasure to have you here! ;)
I cant imagine anyone with any sense trading Sarah Palin for something much more valuable than a 1970s digital watch, personally.
If it's one of the cool ones that had a calculator built into it, you have to have 2 or 3 palins to trade.