As weird as it sounds, If I was rich, this is probably where I would move. Barrow is a very unique place.

@kelliejohnston850

Ай бұрын

I’m with you on that idea! I would love it!

The best part of a visit to Barrow? Leaving!

5 ай бұрын

I hear this sort of a comment about Utqiagvik sometimes and wonder what's in the perception that paints it so bad? That land has a different way of life, pace, organization of physical goods, logistics and more. Also there's the native way of life. You don't see that often in a regular lower 48 American town. But it is admirable how people live there and the choices they are making every day.

@tedgrowney8981

2 ай бұрын

@ well, the fact that you never see anybody outside must mean that it's too miserable to be outside. no thanks.

@user-fx9or3hc7y

Ай бұрын

😮😅😂👍👍

For anyone wondering, those little birds were Snow Buntings

9 ай бұрын

Thank you! Birders community will be happy to know, I'm sure :)

@Azalais24

9 ай бұрын

For anyone wondering those little birds are called imoathligallooks😂

@VoorTrekker88

9 ай бұрын

@@Azalais24 huh? I don't get it

@eddiew2325

9 ай бұрын

@@VoorTrekker88 what dont you get?

Barrow is not depressing rather gorgeous with cold gray skies, vety calming. Thank you for this video

@strangevideos3048

5 ай бұрын

Utqiagvik is gorgeous? You have mental illness bro 😮

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for the positive outlook! Take care!

@JBags72

3 ай бұрын

gorgeous? 🤔

Excellent Video!!!!!!!!!!!!! not a bunch of loud music or somebody talking all the time trying to be a movie star. Enjoy moving there but just I"m just too old!!!!!!!!!!! DAMN IT!! haha

4 ай бұрын

Hi Southern Rebel, thanks for the comment. Never blame it on the age, only on mileage haha

@jimgreen5788

2 ай бұрын

@southernrebel, if you have the money, you can always visit. You're not too old for that. Go for it!

I’ve seen several videos of Barrow, but this is the first I’ve seen that shows many places are a frozen ghetto.

@charlescarpenter3758

4 ай бұрын

The others must have been Chamber of Commerce ads.

@albertwells8503

4 ай бұрын

@@charlescarpenter3758 I believe you’re exactly right.

Lovely. It’s an anything goes type of place. No judgment zone.

Thanks! I’ve been a Barrow webcam fan for years. Excellent camera work and editing.

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, glad you liked it!

I was there Jan2 thru May 15 1976 at NARL, U.S. navy station, a lot nicer homes now, bless the Inuits still there, rugged individuals for sure.

4 ай бұрын

Let me compliment your memory for remembering the exact dates. The Inuits indeed take care of the this town and it is now twice the size it used to be in the 70s.

Looks just like where I used to live in Nevada but with snow.

Really interesting, Thanks!

If all else fails, I’m faking my death and moving here. Stay safe bro

I went there 9/8/2023. 35F no snow but it was freezing at night. Stayed in King Eider one night but heard someone playing tennis outside of the hotel but when i look outside there wasnt anybody. I wanted to talk to front desk but they are closed after 10pm wow they didnt tell me its a haunted hotel, anyway Barrow has lots of muddy road, info window at police dept close all weekend. Lots of warehouse at the other end, most houses are bungalow. The asian restaurant was very good without nice family work there serving me food. The airport was Alaska airlines transit hub close everyday at 6pm. Seen lots of seafood vendors who are native alaskan buying seafood and taking with them to the airplane. Anyway i left to Anchorage to challenge the Chugach mountain despite seeing the most scariest Arctic ocean in my life.

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story, Paul! The tennis sounds may be somebody watching TV in a room around you. Local spirits are not so much into tennis haha, they have other inclinations. King Eider is a great place, Jack and Macie are amazing hosts. Take care!

Cannot be below 35-40° F ! 🥶🧊🌨️ To visit yes ! 💪🇺🇸🙏😊 Love a verbal narration !

Unless you were born here many would have a very difficult time living here !!! I would absolutely HATE it but wouldn’t mind visiting just to see what it’s like and the. Getting the heck out lol

Search beautiful photography of such a desolate place. I really love this. Thank you for making such a great video. Very much enjoying the uniqueness of it.

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. Glad you liked it.

@soniadowney7427

4 ай бұрын

I love this video ..beautiful sounds

It looks like Syria on a good day except replace the sand with snow. I feel sorry for the teathered dogs out in that weather, l realize people are limited to what they can do with thier properties and most are in it for the quick cash and then to leave once the oil/contracts expire. It would be interesting to visit though.

@megatuanis

6 ай бұрын

It's horrible to see dogs tied up anywhere! It breaks my heart.

We lived in Barrow for a couple of Years. Its exciting for a while and after the excitement is gone its pretty boring. Although my Kids got bullied in School pretty bad for being white .

5 ай бұрын

Sad to hear about bullying. That is never good under any circumstances. Hopefully you and they still have good memories of town.

Fascinating video! Not that it makes a lot of difference, but was this filmed before or after the 2-month darkness?

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! This was filmed in spring, nights were pretty light, didn't feel like true nights I used to.

My family is from here !!

8 ай бұрын

What's your family now and why relocated?

Thank you for this video about a place very few people will see for real. The first comment about it being depressing was my first thought, but watching to the end, the people who live here and similar places are a very special breed who just get on with a daily routine. I would imagine on a beautiful day with much less snow the place would be transformed. One thing I did notice was the amount of scrap cars and other debris. The local authority should be responsible for the cleanliness of the area and if they can get cars in, then a scrapping and recycling plant to crush damaged vehicles and “exporting” of scrap for cash would provide employment and make the place look as if it has pride in itself. At 75 I am very unlikely to ever see the area, but there are many worse places to live in , even in America I would guess. Good luck to the inhabitants.

@ricka.a.

4 ай бұрын

Because of it's remoteness. New car parts are hard to come by. Broken down vehicles are slowly stripped of their good parts as needed. A lot of the metal itself is reused eventually. Trying to haul away scrap metal would be nothing but financial losses. The metal would never pay for the shipping costs. These are people who want nothing to do with home owners associations. Yes. It would be nice to have storage buildings for all the parts vehicles, instead of just sitting outside. They can't afford it. Just keep your opinion to yourself. They don't care what you want. Because they want to live as far away as possible, from people who want to dictate how they should live. These people value their freedom. Even if it means living in a harsh environment.

365 shades of gray, mud,cold, dark and nothing green. I’d curl up and die.

@tendrmoon

2 ай бұрын

I agree, it’s gotta be the most depressing place on the planet.

Can we see more of what people do in a day, beautiful place but it would be nice to see people enjoying it.

6:43 What's going on with all these trashed cars?

I feel so so bad for the dogs. It was not their choice to live there.

In which month was this footage taken, please?

10 ай бұрын

This was in May

@adarajennifer

10 ай бұрын

@ Thank you!

Sergey, how did you get a car in Barrow? I thought there’s no rentals or Uber.

4 ай бұрын

There are a few cabs in town, drivers are helpful and friendly. Totally possible to negotiate a quick town tour.

poor puppy ❤❤❤

Im sure almost everyone moves outta barrow ak as soon as they graduate high school

They’re not the prettiest homes, but they are at least substantial… more than I can say for many parts of the world.

5 ай бұрын

This is very true. Glad to read positive comments about the town.

8:01 Farthest North Little Library, 6476 North Star Street, Little Free Library Charter #109967

Does anyone know if those birds have any yes?

I met a girl from barrow two decades+ ago. A real funny experience! She looked at me like as if she saw a ghost. The reason was that I without her asking for it, I put her on coming from Barrow. She was an exchange student to Stockholm and that's where I ran into her.

9 ай бұрын

How could you tell she was from Barrow? What was so special for you to see?

Got lots of respect for the folks living here!!

Im gonna stick with Puerto Vallarta👍

3 ай бұрын

Looks like someone made their choice :)

What was that orange house at 1:18?

27 күн бұрын

A local's cabin

@lothanamarie6326

27 күн бұрын

@ oh ok i couldnt tell what the material was it looked strange is why I asked.

Are you still here?

10 ай бұрын

Not anymore. Did you want to meet?

@Jacob1O9187

10 ай бұрын

Nah just questioning

@eddiew2325

9 ай бұрын

@@Jacob1O9187 i remember that time i went to barrow to chase some tail. good times

It's too cold for dogs to be outside.

Why are t there people out or kids playing out.what do one at barrow.

I often think how cool it would be to live in polar Alaska. Then I remember the six weeks I was there for training with the Army, where a tiny mistake such as forgetting your gloves or mittens can be a life threatening situation. Many changes at -50 F. I loved it when I was up there, but I can see where it would get extremely depressing and boring, holed up in a tent, a cabin, or even a 4 star hotel, where there is no real day to speak of.

Well I glad they like it. How lifeless, and terminal.

Well okay 😂 🤷🏼‍♀️

Living in a tip. I don’t know how the residents manage it.

No, thank you. I couldn't stand all of the junk piled up everywhere. That is so depressing. And I don't like being cold 24/7/365.

are there homeless people or poor people who cant pay rent here, how do they get by

@RemoveDataHarvesters

Жыл бұрын

they move to anchorage

11 ай бұрын

Such town are not forgiving for those who prefer to be a public expense. As someone already mentioned, they usually move to Anchorage or the lower 48.

@bobsap1723

10 ай бұрын

They get their loser butts out of there and become somebody else’s issue

@jamiekanayurak7908

10 ай бұрын

Their is a Homeless shelter in Barrow.

@RemoveDataHarvesters

10 ай бұрын

@@jamiekanayurak7908 yeah? what's it look like inside? what's the state of it Mr know it all?

Well that would be a difficult place to live

Bring the dog in the house… better yet…… MOVE🤔🤔🤔

Who’s brilliant idea was it to change the name to something no one can pronounce

Мне нравятся наши домики в деревне , они такие душевные , с разными вырезками, не у всех есть машины, многие топятся дровами, но нет таких дипресивных видов , костей животных, раздолбаной техники, надеюсь это самое худшее посиление в США.

4 ай бұрын

Что такое "наши домики"? В какой деревне, например, среди полукочевых поселений на севере Чукотки будет резьба по дереву на домиках? Или Вы сравниваете самое северное поселение Аляски на берегу Северного Ледовитого океана с уютной деревней в средней полосе Восточной Европы?

@margo7059

4 ай бұрын

@ Почему в Средней Полосе? Под Архангельском, например, полно уютных домов с резьбой. Согласитесь, что место на видео очень напоминает помойку(((

THAT POOR PUPPY THEY MAKE IT STAY OUTSIDE IN THE COLD THATS SO HORRIBLE!!! PEOPLE IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LOVE AND CARE FOR A PET BETTER THAN THAT DONT GET ONE!!! HE DESERVES TO BE INSIDE WHERE ITS WARM LAYING BY A FIRE OR HEATER BEING LOVED AND FED WELL!!!

Any vampires?

5 ай бұрын

No vampires. Just good people

Compared this to how people live in the same latitude just across the Bearing Straits in Siberia for all you negative people.

A bit too desolate for me

Shitty life for those dogs.

Certainly lacking in crime!

11 ай бұрын

No kidding!

@eddiew2325

9 ай бұрын

too cold to commit crime and too warm to go skinny dipping with polar bears

@stevehedman7969

6 ай бұрын

I really hope you had sarcasm dripping from your lips

@eddiew2325

6 ай бұрын

@@stevehedman7969 no that was semen

@splintcell22

4 ай бұрын

​@@eddiew2325how did it taste

where are all the homeless? 😊

@dzxn3728

5 ай бұрын

They freeze

5 ай бұрын

Hard to be homeless in this climate

@pberPSR

5 ай бұрын

@ duh

@justindeming3553

4 ай бұрын

They all have homes this what the rest of America will look like when everyone is reliant on the government. Socialism is coming keep voting D.

Вот так и умирают империи...

Crazy that they have NO pride with their homes or town. Sure doesnt take much effort at all to keep the outside free of junk, neat, and just show you care!!

@GLARebel

4 ай бұрын

I wanna say they have no junk yard. I saw a garbage truck, but then why are there so many vehicles on the side of the road clearly broke down and being picked for parts? It's like they have no place to take large things like that so they just leave it where it lay.

Why does this place look so miserable? Compare it to say Svalbard in Norway which is much farther north and Svalbard is beautiful, looks like it's out of a fairy tale. This place looks sad, cold and miserable. Every house looks like it was tossed together with no pride in craftsmanship and on the verge of collapse. Every car looks trashed. I'm not trying to be a troll but why is it like that?

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for such a great question. Each people constructs according to their cultural tradition. Svalbard inherits the Scandinavian traditional and Russian Arctic construction principles, while Utqiagvik hails to Arctic nomads of Northern Siberia and American Arctic. This is way deeper than on the surface, it goes into archetypical concepts of organizing the space.

@NmpK24

3 ай бұрын

Those buildings are sinking due to building on permafrost and the extreme weather. And Svalbard is a different situation. Firstly, access by sea is pretty much all year round and its important for Norway to keep a strategic presence in the region. Unlike Utqiagvik it has no indigenous people and its population is limited to a few thousand, mostly in Longyearbyen. There are also strict environmental laws and rules when living there such as the deceased cannot be buried and pregnant women cannot give birth on the island. Though its a duty free zone, the cost of living is also expensive, but then the mainland Norway is too compared to rest of Europe. Lot of money comes in to Svalbard through tourism and research grants, meaning local investment and jobs.

@OneStrangeJourney

3 ай бұрын

its sad, Svalbard ir beautiful and these alaskan towns look sad and depressing.@@NmpK24

Misery

Why would anyone live there maybe if your wanted .

4 ай бұрын

It is their ancestors' land, to the locals this is home. Although the way of life is very different from other towns down south and much harder, most of those born and raised in Utqiagvik choose to stay.

@user-ln9mj7tn8l

4 ай бұрын

@ I bet food is really expensive

4 ай бұрын

@@user-ln9mj7tn8l Food is really expensive, true. Just to give you an idea, a gallon of milk is north of $13.

@user-ln9mj7tn8l

4 ай бұрын

@SergeyMishenev that's alot by me 2.99

what a depressing dump

What a depressing place

@muntthedubious_9308

Жыл бұрын

That may be true but not gonna lie, I kinda dig the vibe of this place.

@muntthedubious_9308

Жыл бұрын

It’s not so much as depressing as it is just freaking cold.

@jamiekanayurak7908

10 ай бұрын

We manage to figure out something to do on the daily. Some of us work 2 or jobs & we make things happen.

@d3adbatt3ry

10 ай бұрын

It’s not that terrible up here.

@Azalais24

9 ай бұрын

Bro I live here

Question do they have Uber or DoorDash?

5 ай бұрын

Nah, you just walk to the store and buy a $13 gallon milk bottle

It's only depressing so a "certain"group of people who believes everyone else on earth is beneath them.

Im sure almost everyone moves outta barrow ak as soon as they graduate high school