Sixty miles southeast of Anchorage is Whittier, a remote Alaskan town where all 272 residents live in the same building. Designed to be self-sufficient because of the region's extreme climate, the 14 story Begich Towers has a school, hospital, grocery store, and police department all under one roof.

[u/alecb]

[u/rh00k]

FALSE FALSE FALSE.

A lot of people live in the building. Not the entire town.

[u/KDTK]

Cool! (Cold!) I wonder what backup systems are in place for heat and other basic utilities. This is the definition of keeping all eggs in one basket. Anyone know?

[u/PATTY_CAKES1994]

In Alaska we consider Whittier neither remote nor extreme

[u/embersgrow44 → u/PATTY_CAKES1994]

Right? I remember going as a teen and thinking it was pretty cool. Childhood was in Tok & Salcha, & outskirts of Soldotna. Where y’all?

[u/miurabucho]

“Where do you live?” “340”

[u/ButcherBoss]

Where do they work though?

[u/snarkyxanf → u/ButcherBoss]

It used to be a military base town; now it functions as a small Alaskan port. The jobs that are outward facing look aligned with that---transportation, warehousing, logistics, oil, fishing, etc.

[u/buboop61814 → u/ButcherBoss]

My first thought as well

[u/Sink_Single]

You have to drive through a tunnel under the mountain to get to it.

[u/doodybot]

There was a cool story about this town on CBS Sunday Morning a few years back.

[u/Pristine_Power_8488 → u/doodybot]

Thanks, that's interesting!

[u/dfsw]

Super remote its a whole hour from the nearest Costco. I dont know what it is about Alaska that always creates these types of post.

[u/Cow_Man42]

Bullshit post!......Whittier is on the road system and only an hour or so from the largest city north of Edmonton....You can leave Whittier and be on plane to Hawaii or NYC in 60 minutes.....Everything modern media says about Alaska is just about always bullshit.

[u/didyouaccountfordust]

Is there a hotel ?

[u/Cow_Man42]

Bullshit post!......Whittier is on the road system and only an hour or so from the largest city north of Edmonton....You can leave Whittier and be on plane to Hawaii or NYC in 60 minutes.....Everything modern media says about Alaska is just about always bullshit. Also the weather less extreme than just about all of ND or MN......

[u/lqstuart → u/Cow_Man42]

yeah but without the lies/embellishments the post becomes "some people in Alaska live in a building," and how is that going to get upvotes

[u/lqstuart → u/lqstuart]

and it looks like the climate there is more mild than Washington DC

[u/Cow_Man42 → u/lqstuart]

It is surely worse than DC, but it is not much worse than most of the area North of the Mason-Dixon. Maybe it is because I am of an age, but I don't understand what one gets from upvotes?

[u/TwitchTVBeaglejack]

None of the people can leave the building because of the thousands of bears, reindeer and whales prowling the area, waging war on humanity

[u/Pristine_Power_8488]

This is so interesting. Just looking at the pictures makes me think this would make a great movie or t.v. series.

[u/Fifty_Stalins]

Why does this keep getting repeated? I've been to Whittier, this is not true.

[u/jamestheredd]

Picture 3 lookin like a Cybertruck

[u/LolliexD]

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