Well, Roadrunner, each to his/her own, I guess. I was raised on a farm in a small rural town in Minnesota and hunting and fishing was our life after the chores were done.
Don't get me wrong, tho;, I do like people but deep down inside me tells me that I would go back to the isolated life in a heartbeat cuz I crave for the communion with Nature for longer than just the occasional vacation.
And Alaska being "the last frontier" really appeals to me as I approach the sunset of my working life, especially southeastern AK where the mean temperature in the dead of winter is actually milder than Minnesota's. Alaskans are a really great people BUT you have to FIRST show you can make it on your own there and THEN those people will give you the shirt off their backs. Just think of all the hunting and fishing there is to do not only for the "thrill of the tournament" feeling those sports give one but also for one's daily sustenance. Oh, and did I mention the grand vistas!!?? Oh, to die for....glaciers, mountains that beckon, the most sheltered waters in the world because of the thousands and thousands of islands there are out there on the ocean. Why, by golly, there are so many islands off shore that cartographers have traditionally failed to put onto one regular map every island that is out there! Ya gotta buy topo maps but those only cover a few square miles. I remember motoring out to a remote island and staying there a few nights and get this: Remember, this is out in the middle of the ocean, right? Well on this island , a little bigger than the deaf school campus I work at, has a fresh water lake on it!
Oh, I can go on and on but by now I think ya got caught up with and understand that which smolders in this bosom, right? LOL! Ya have a good day now, hear!