[grecy]

> I was told the week I landed "there's two type of people

Same when you live somewhere remote like the Yukon or smaller places in Alaska. People won't even really associate with you until you've been there a full 12 months because they don't want to invest time in someone that is likely to just leave anyway.

-48C (-55F) is a hell of a thing, but the lack of sunlight I personally found much, much harder.

The wonderful part though is that virtually nobody lives there that doesn't love it, because if you don't love it, you leave. That means the people that stay are passionate about it, and do every possible activity all the time - more so in the dead of winter!

(I stayed 4 years, miss the place intensely)

[mickdeek86]

I'm right now sat on a comparably remote island in the Alaska fishery, relatively new here. I've always romanticized the sea, landlubber as I am, and after a few months here, I went to Waikiki for vacation and - hated it. I couldn't leave soon enough. Too much happiness. The people here have mostly been here for many years, and will remember someone they worked on a boat with for a few weeks in the 80s or what-have-you. I have time to read, be left alone when I want to be, grab a beer off-site. I can see why healthy people would go insane, and why insane people would go healthy.

[grecy]

I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the isolation!

>I can see why healthy people would go insane, and why insane people would go healthy.

When I got to the Yukon a friend was introducing me around for the first 6 months or so. Every introduction would go "This is <Dave>, he's a bit crazy." "This is "Mary, she's a bit crazy".

It took me a while to catch on, and your quote captures it perfectly.

[passwordoops]

>I can see why healthy people would go insane, and why insane people would go healthy.

That's the best line I've ever read on this site