入住阿拉斯加》第3季 P9 - Living Alaska_S03E09_Alabama to Galena.UMMU.NET

阿拉斯加 最後的邊境 只有最有趣的人才能住在邊境 在廣闊的無殘骯髒的森林裡 太美了 這就是我想說的 太棒了 如果你想住在阿拉斯加 真正的優點就在外面 這裡有你的第二間洗手間 有著一百萬的景觀 而那些景觀隨時都會改變 這就是阿拉斯加 我的天啊 每天都充滿了趣味 當你正在住在阿拉斯加 看看這裡 阿拉斯加 這裡的生活速度非常慢 在阿拉斯加河流 沒有交通 非常放鬆 這裡有什麼特別的地方 人們一起工作 在阿拉斯加河流 到處去旅行 在戶外是非常特別的 好了 來丟一些石頭 他們很喜歡這裡 是的 我們在阿拉斯加 這裡是阿拉斯加 這裡 阿拉斯加 Brian和Jamie Landrum 和他們的五個孩子 正在移民到阿拉斯加 以追尋自由的生活和探索 以及與家人更好的聯繫 我們一直在討論移民到阿拉斯加 我們覺得阿拉斯加是一個很好的選擇 當我們決定移民到阿拉斯加 對我來說 很多都變成了孩子 丟得用力 讓他們來這裡 探索自由 在一個可以這樣做的地方 丟進水裡 不 我們的家人不安靜 我要移民 他們非常興奮地移民到阿拉斯加 我從來沒有想過 我們真的會移民到阿拉斯加 我從來沒有 Landrums移民 從Haleyville, Alabama to the remote village of Galena, Alaska on the Yukon River Good morning from the studio Where Brian got a job offer he couldn't refuse KIYU in Galena This is Community Radio He's offered a job as a general manager of a radio network in the middle of Alaska at a town called Galena serving six Yukon River villages The Yukon, Housliya, Galena Kaikook, New Lotto, Ruby Galena is in the center of the Alaskan interior It's one of the more remote towns in the United States being 300 miles from the nearest road Very remote, low-tech lifestyle When something breaks and we have to fix it which duct tape and zip ties are very popular in Alaska The town grew from a native fish camp on the banks of the Yukon River into an air force base during World War II Today, the town of 500 year-round residents is proud of its hospital, airport, three schools and a trademark wave for anyone who passes through You go down the road and you better have your wave ready Of course, it is a small community It's sort of like Mayberry in the Arctic But a major flood in 2013 nearly wiped Galena off the map Yukon River flooded the whole town 99% of the buildings were flooded The community pulled together after the flood People are very resourceful They figured out a way to help each other It was either do or die It had to happen or the community ceased to exist The flood has affected our home search pretty significantly A lot of the homes we're looking at are damaged by the flood And what that means for us is sweat equity Roll up our sleeves and be willing to do some work ourselves We're going to have to rebuild with the rest of Galena Until they find a house the Landrums are living in a tiny two-bedroom apartment above the radio station All right, who's ready for pizza? We've been living in the radio station apartment for months now We've certainly outgrown it I am your father There are seven people in this apartment and we need a house Well, hey guys, how's everything going here in Galena so far? Going pretty good Today, Brian and Jamie are meeting with John Korta, the local mayor for advice on finding a house in Galena What kind of place are you hoping to find? I would like running water Yeah, I understand that I would like an indoor toilet And I'd like a wood stove You know, three bedrooms I mean, I know you think a lot of kids need a lot of... But we like the girls' room and the boys' room How about you, Brian? What are you looking for? Well, you know, just something to store our stuff We know we're going to get a lot of toys You mentioned the snow machine Yeah Stuff like that So what kind of budget are you guys working with here? We're thinking probably between 150, 160 to 180 or something like that With that kind of budget, I would think you guys should be able to find something The real estate market here is sort of like the old west There's not real estate agents So a lot of times you kind of have to be creative Good morning, Galena We've got five crazy kids My wife and I just moving into the interior And we're looking for a place to live So if you've got a house for sale or know somebody who has some property give us a call here at the radio station To find a house, we're digging under rocks We're calling people up We're knocking on doors I got a call from a guy named Chris Yeah He heard my ad on the radio I hear it's pretty Alaskan So let's go ahead and take a look at it Brian and Jamie are heading to a house that's two miles from the river but still within walking distance to town Oh, look at that Oh, I hope that's it Oh, I love that Hello Chris, you must be Brian Yeah It's like a great place What a beautiful place Yeah, it's a three-bedroom house 1,700 square feet And it's 35 years old I built it 35 years ago Wow Built the house, built the baby sled And built the babies Now, did it have much damage from the flood? No, I only had that much water above my floor 18 steps Great neighborhood Okay, well, here we are Wow, look Look It's got a log stove, baby You've been talking about it Does your wife ever cooked on it? Oh, yes, she does Pot of soup or a roast I love the logs all the way around So you built this yourself Yes, I did I went up the Yukon about 90 miles up the river and rafted these logs down Yeah Back then, I was a lot more frisky Well, I see a sink So you have running water Yep, I've got a well here There's a well And a pretty big kitchen opened up to the living area That's basically all I need Okay, back here is Wow Compact boiler and water softener Well entrance If there's ever a problem It's not like we can get a technician out here How do you get things fixed? You get a book You've got to fix things yourself You've got to be your own plumber You've got to be your electrician You've got to be your own mechanic Check out upstairs? Sure, absolutely Three bedrooms and a big bathroom One, two, three That's what you wanted Boys, girls, ours Three rooms, that's perfect How about let's look at some of these cool outbuildings Yeah, that woodshed there Has seven and a half quarters of wood in there That has all my hunting gear There's no room in the house for any other stuff So we've got to have these little outbuildings Chris, what range of price are we thinking about here? Oh, $150,000 to $200,000 You know, it's a 1,700 square foot house That's fairly close to the range we were talking about It's in our budget Yeah, definitely in the budget All right I just decided that we're going to sell out here Hopefully in the next eight months to a year Eight months to a year Yeah, well, I don't know That apartment's getting pretty tight at the radio station So that's a little far out there It's a gorgeous home It's a great house Has a lot of things that we want The wood stove Yeah, I like that one too The right amount of bedrooms Great, I love it What did he say the price? It could be upwards of a couple of hundred thousand That's way up there on our budget Eight months Eight months to wait That's a long time to be in an apartment I don't know if I can wait eight months I just, I don't know Eight months is a long time You have to be pretty tough to live here It's expensive to ship food out It's expensive to ship yourself out If you need to go anywhere You have to really want to be here Or you're not going to last Wait Do you think they can see us? Brian and Jamie Landrum and their five young children are moving to Alaska He's offered a job as a general manager of a radio network in the middle of Alaska From the studios of KIYU and here in the middle of Alaska scattered showers today So we knew it would be a fun place to be This free-spirited American family is trading in their North Alabama farm for the rugged and remote adventure of Galena, Alaska Brian and I, we love adventure Not just for ourselves but the sake of our children This gives them something to tell for the rest of their lives What would you want your house to be? Big or little? Galena is located in the Alaskan interior along the banks of the Yukon River Yeah, I've heard that people put flyers here Brian and Jamie are determined to make a new life in Galena But first, they must find a home The real estate market in Galena is really unusual It's between you and the seller And so you're kind of on your own Nice and colorful All right, hopefully we get a call Making matters worse A recent flood from the Yukon River damaged or destroyed 90% of the homes in Galena There's a house I heard that house is possibly for sale In post-flood Galena housing has become a premium And you can't really be picky I talked to several people who told me different places we could look We'll figure something out that works Brian and Jamie's word-of-mouth house search is working A new seller just called about a smaller house for sale on the east side of town Well, we'll head over to that cottage that I heard about Hey Whoa This looks like it Wow Wow, under construction Be an understatement, but I like the trees I like how they surround the whole house Very quiet Of course our kids aren't here yet Oh, that's true Jason Hey, must be Brian Nice to meet you, Jason Thanks for calling us up Let us know you had a place Tell us a little bit about what you've done Well, the house has been flooded I've been pulling it apart Getting it back together Two bedrooms? Two bedrooms It has one full bath It's about a thousand square feet How much longer do you think Till you get it done? Definitely within the month Really? I should be done Okay, wow, a month That's not bad What kind of price are you thinking about? Well, I'm hoping to get Somewhere around $100,000 But it's kind of hard to tell here in Alaska We can haggle over that after a while You mind if we go in and take a look? Sounds great Wow, he's done a lot of work already I like how open it is Look at that window That's nice Picture windows Very Alaskan, I would say Not the biggest room But the way he's got it, as bright as it is I think it makes it appear a little bit bigger Which is nice These look, they're all new These cabinets are nice Oh, there's the wood stove Does it work? Yeah, it works You put wood in it, light the fire But with the fire The water actually didn't get up that high To get into the burn box So it only had a foot of water in here How cold does it get here? All the way down to negative 70s That's one reason why you'll see in villages A lot of smaller houses Is because it takes a lot less energy To heat those houses The smaller is better Yeah, in this case, yeah Oh, wow But once it gets past like negative 30 Doesn't really matter Oh, wow The bathroom Yeah Still obviously under construction But look at this tub Look, it's a jacuzzi tub Right, out here in the interior of Alaska A jacuzzi tub Fancy for Alaska Just two bedrooms? Just two bedrooms Okay, so I don't know if just two bedrooms Is gonna be enough So five kids, all of them in one room How are we gonna make that work? I don't know, bunk beds maybe Hey, Jason, do you think we can build Another bedroom onto this place? Well, actually when I rebuilt the house There was a wall in this room over here And they were using part of this entryway As another bedroom So this could be an additional bedroom Well, what do you think about it? It's small It is a bit small I mean, two bedrooms That's, you know, pushing it pretty tight Look, it's definitely It's not much bigger than what we have right now That's true You know, being smaller It's gonna be a little bit easier to heat for energy That's a plus It's got that wood stove I love the wood stove And he said it would heat it up adequately Those cabinets are gorgeous That's one of the most beautiful kitchens And the view is awesome But we've got a lot of stuff And I don't see any outbuildings Yeah, a hundred thousand dollars, baby I mean, that's well below our budget It gives us plenty of cushion to add on Do whatever we want to make it Our Alaska dream home That is true There's something special about this place Heavy dependence on each other And on the natural resources around us Strong supporters of education And the importance of community This looks neat That's pretty Look at all that wood I guess they're stocking up for the winter, man Yeah The Alaskan winter is coming And Brian and Jamie are struggling To find a home for their family Wow, looks like the leaves are changing colors quickly We need to find a house fast No kidding If they don't find a house soon They'll be stuck in their crap two-bedroom apartment With seven people for eight more months Well, there's a house up here That John Korda, the mayor, was telling me about Hasn't been lived in in a while Uh-huh Today they're meeting up with the mayor To see a derelict house That may be for sale in the center of Galena Oh, my goodness Is that it? That looks... He said it was set back in the trees like that Look at these trees Wow It doesn't look like it's too big Yeah But it doesn't look too small either So, I mean, this may be perfect This three-to-four-bedroom one-bath house Features 2,000 square feet of living space And a large outbuilding to store equipment The Alaskan dream home comes as is With a bargain basement price Hey, John, thanks for meeting us out here Right on This place is owned by a gal named Kathy She used to live here a few years ago She was a nurse here And she's been looking to sell it It has been flooded But with a big family, this is a big house It might be the right fit for you guys The nice thing about this house Is all the living area is upstairs And the downstairs is mostly utility It'd be the kind of place Where you could work on it While you were living in it Nice Wow Look at this It's a nice open space Look at this island You could put the whole family around this thing You don't even need a kitchen table You got a nice wood stove here Which you are definitely gonna want It's gorgeous It's really a nice warm feel I think you can heat the whole house with this There is a boiler downstairs as well It looks like there's two Yeah, that's an old-fashioned wood cook stove Which I think Kathy brought up here Yeah, and you can do that old-fashioned cooking Like your grandmother used to cook Yeah, my grandmother cooked on the wood stove Not something you find in every home in Galena for sure You know how hard it is to get stuff out here This is a centerpiece for sure Yeah Wow Pretty nice, huh? Yeah, it sure is Cement Golly This is something that not every house has Nice summer or spring nights Summer time You're gonna spend a lot of time out here It's screened in And you're gonna totally appreciate that Because the bugs can be horrendous Up here in Alaska in the summer time I like this because it feels like We're at a tree house It is like a tree house Wow, Abigail's gonna love this Yeah, I think this is gonna be perfect For the two girls This must be the master bedroom Not that big No, it's kind of small I don't know if we can fit a king size bed in here I'm not even sure we can fit a queen Double sink, not a bad size One bathroom for seven people I don't know about that, baby So this is the downstairs As you can see this place Took a hit during the flood for sure I'd say it did Wow Water got up to about here They started ripping some of this stuff out Which is a good thing Try to get rid of some of the mold But I think How much mold is there? You can smell, there's still some You may have to reduce some of your baseboard heating The boiler, water softener They all got wet Your internal water pump Yeah You're gonna have to probably go through And bleach between all the studs Probably gonna want to bleach the floor You guys, it's definitely a fixer-upper But I mean there's not a lot on the market right now You don't have a lot of options A lot of work Are you ready for this? There's no one out here to do the work for you So if you want to get it done You're gonna have to do it yourself That's just the way we do it out here in Galena I'm not sure I'm ready for this When I first walked in the door upstairs And I saw that island And then I saw there was a small wood stove Then I saw the big cook stove And that porch I was like, oh my goodness This is our Alaska Dream Home The size is good That's certainly a big plus But then I go What about that basement? The smell, I could smell the mold So I know, that's a lot of hard work, I know And it's gonna mostly have to be you Because I've got the kids We got school We, you know, I'm gonna be busy But like John said We might have to be willing to do that Because most houses in Galena Had that type of damage So beautiful, I cannot believe That we are living in Alaska And as beautiful as the fall is It's reminding us that winter is on the way We need to talk about a house There's the log cabin home Now that's an Alaskan home right there Right, and your wood stove that you like It's a beautiful home It's well built You saw that utility room It's ready to go It's the cleanest place I've seen Okay, it's got all those outbuildings So you're not gonna have to add on an outbuilding But it's not gonna be ready to sell For about eight months Eight months? Could it become a year? But it is our dream home It may be worth the wait That house screams Alaska Well, one that could be available Would be the cottage You know, it's got those gorgeous cabinets We like in the kitchen You know, the plus about it being renovated Is the fact that a lot of things are gonna be new So there's less maintenance on some things God, the price of that one, man That was below our budget But considering the size Do we wanna go from small apartment living To where we are now To the same size square footage And we already know that this size Is not gonna work for the energy That our kids are producing Well, there's a sweat equity house With the two Not one, but two wood stoves How about that island area? Oh, my God And when the weather's pretty good The kids can go onto that awesome screen porch Isn't that great? You feel like you're at a tree house all the time That house needs a lot of work Are you gonna be able to do all that? It's a lot to think about But with the size, the potential it has Could that be our dream house? Well, knowing all that Which house do you want? I think the house that's right for us The sweat equity house Yeah, I think I agree with you Let's do it Hello, Cathy It's Brian and Jamie We'd like to make you an offer We were thinking, you know Considering all the sweat equity That has to go into it And the work to put into it How about 120,000? She said yes Okay, that's great, Cathy Well, we're officially Alaskan homeowners We did it Can you say boat, Claudia? Where's the water? Right there Feel great about it We're excited The kids are excited We're gonna forget you Probably gonna put about 20 or 30 thousand dollars into it Plus our time I feel great I mean, we're finally gonna make Alaska home We're gonna be living Alaska