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Who benefits from alcohol?
Moderate drinking can reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and hardened arteries by 25-40%, possibly due to increased HDL cholesterol levels. Heavy drinking, on the other hand, increases the risk of heart disease. Moderate drinkers are more likely to exercise and may experience more healthy effects. However, the more they exercise, the more likely they are to drink occasionally. Regular moderate drinkers are less likely to get kidney stones, possibly due to increased urine production, which helps clear out the crystals that form stones. Excessive drinking can lead to dehydration, increasing the risk of kidney stones and other health issues.
Is drinking alcohol part of a healthy lifestyle?
Research indicates that drinking alcohol in any amount poses a health risk, with moderate intake reducing the risk. People often drink alcohol for personal reasons, social activities, or cultural and religious practices. Those who choose not to drink may do so for similar reasons. Understanding personal risk based on habits can help make informed decisions. Moderate alcohol use in healthy adults is still being studied, but evidence suggests high alcohol consumption is linked to health problems.
What are 3 benefits of alcohol?
Moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to improved cardiovascular health, positive effects on glucose and fat metabolism, decreased blood clotting, and enhanced mental well-being. However, the balance between the benefits and risks of alcohol depends on how much is consumed. While some believe that drinking red wine can boost heart, brain, and gut health, chronic alcohol consumption can cause damage to vital organs.
It is important to balance the benefits and risks while enjoying alcohol, as the cumulative effects can take a toll on the body. It is essential to understand how to balance the benefits and risks while enjoying your fix.
What are the five advantages of alcohol?
Moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to improved cardiovascular health, positive effects on glucose and fat metabolism, decreased blood clotting, and enhanced mental well-being. However, the balance between the benefits and risks of alcohol depends on how much is consumed. While some believe that drinking red wine can boost heart, brain, and gut health, chronic alcohol consumption can cause damage to vital organs.
It is important to balance the benefits and risks while enjoying alcohol, as the cumulative effects can take a toll on the body. It is essential to understand how to balance the benefits and risks while enjoying your fix.
What is the importance of alcohol in daily life?
Alcohol has numerous social and psychological benefits, including improving digestion, offering a soothing respite, and serving as a social tonic. These effects may contribute to health and well-being. Genetics plays a significant role in determining an individual’s preferences for alcohol and their likelihood of developing alcoholism. Alcoholism is influenced by multiple genes that interact with each other and environmental factors. There is evidence that genes influence how alcohol affects the cardiovascular system.
Alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme that helps metabolize alcohol, comes in two “flavors”: one quickly breaks down alcohol and the other more slowly. Moderate drinkers with two copies of the slow-acting enzyme gene have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with two copies of the fast-acting enzyme gene. Those with one gene for both enzymes fall in between.
Why giving up alcohol is beneficial for the environment?
Alcohol is made by fermenting various fruits, grains, or vegetables, resulting in the production of ethanol. This process breaks down sugars with yeast or bacteria, producing by-products of ethanol and carbon dioxide. The longer the product is left to ferment, the higher the alcohol quantity. This high consumption of alcohol leads to the mass-production of natural resources like grapes, hops, and barley, which consume a significant amount of water and pesticides.
Agriculture is the largest contributor to water consumption and responsible for 69 of the world’s freshwater withdrawals. Mass-production also encourages deforestation, destroying habitats of wildlife and absorbing carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases. On average, 18 million acres of forest are destroyed annually, affecting 80 percent of the planet’s wildlife. Manufacturing factories use 95. 1 kWh of electricity and 536, 500 Btu of natural gas per square foot annually, causing air pollution and polluting the surrounding freshwater.
What are five benefits of living alcohol free?
The sober-curious lifestyle is a recent trend in health and well-being, promoting a reduction in alcohol consumption. This lifestyle encourages individuals to adopt healthier choices and examine their relationship with alcohol. It takes a holistic approach to well-being, encouraging healthier lifestyle choices. Common short-term health benefits associated with reducing alcohol consumption include weight loss, improved memory function, deeper sleep, balanced moods, improved heart health, enhanced liver function, and a boost in the immune system.
By reducing alcohol consumption, individuals may experience significant health benefits, including weight loss, improved memory function, deeper sleep, balanced moods, improved heart health, enhanced liver function, and a boost in their immune system.
What are 5 reasons people drink alcohol?
People engage in the use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) for a multitude of reasons, including relaxation, enjoyment, group involvement, avoidance of pain, curiosity, excitement, rebellion, problem-solving, stress relief, and the overcoming of boredom. Such substances are frequently employed as a means of coping with difficulties, alleviating stress, and overcoming monotony, thereby engendering a sense of exhilaration and stimulation.
Why do people need alcohol?
Alcohol induces euphoria, relaxation, and disinhibition while reducing stress and anxiety, according to human self-report and animal studies. However, the effect of alcohol on human brain circuits involved in reward and emotion has been limitedly explored. A study administered alcohol intravenously to social drinkers showed that alcohol robustly activated striatal reward circuits while attenuating response to fearful stimuli in visual and limbic regions.
Self-ratings of intoxication correlated with striatal activation, suggesting that activation in this area may contribute to subjective pleasure and reward during intoxication. These results show that the acute pharmacological rewarding and anxiolytic effects of alcohol can be measured using fMRI.
Why is alcohol useful?
Moderate drinking is believed to protect against cardiovascular disease due to its biological and scientific benefits. Moderate alcohol consumption increases high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels, which are associated with greater protection against heart disease. It also improves insulin sensitivity and blood clotting factors, preventing the formation of small blood clots that can block arteries in the heart, neck, and brain, which are the main cause of heart attacks and strokes.
Drinking patterns are more important than what you drink, as the amount consumed is less significant than the regularity of consumption. For example, consuming alcohol on at least three or four days a week was found to be inversely associated with the risk of myocardial infarction. In Danish men, the amount consumed was less significant than the regularity of consumption.
A review of alcohol consumption in women from the Nurses’ Health Study I and II found that smaller amounts of alcohol (about one drink per day) spread out over four or more days per week had the lowest death rates from any cause compared to women who drank the same amount but in one or two days.
📹 Alaska’s Most Dangerous Hood – What It Really Looks Like 🇺🇸
Today we walk the streets of what many Alaskans call the most dangerous place in the state. Mountain View–a neighborhood in …
I visited Anchorage once and cried when I left. The sky was the most pure color of blue my eyes had ever seen. Moose are a surprise! I thought they were the size of horses. Nope!!! They are gigantic! I loved the people. What the world needs to gain back is community. It’s truly “a different world.” A better world.
Jasmine is amazing! This article is amazing! Thank you❤ edit: I lived in Alaska and like anywhere, I didn’t go to some areas at night. But I don’t go to certain areas in any state where i have lived. What i like is the effort that the folks are making to make a difference in their hood, to help each other. Not a fool, I get that this is a rose colored glasses of some times, but not all times. The people shown are the extroverts and activists. Kudos to them to want to support their hood. I have no doubt everyone knows each other. And no doubt some people hide out there, too. That is not limited to Alaska either. Stand by my statement: this is amazing and I wish them all well. ❤
6 years ago I was working for the natural gas company in Anchorage, and I conducted a leak survey on the entire neighborhood of Mountain View. I visited every. single yard. I saw some wild things. The gray apartments that she said were new were such a great addition, because holy shit the buildings that were there before were terrifying. Definitely an improvement to their neighborhood.
Wow, the stereotype of media has my mind thinking of Alaska of a cold place where people live miles away from each other. I grew up in New York City and didn’t expect Alaska to be this diverse. Thank you for sharing and changing my perspective of Alaska! I can honestly say that I’m interested in visiting now (and never had interest prior to this article)! ❤
I love the way Peter shows us places! Jasmine was a great guide and an amazing lady! No hype or news sensationalism. Just a nice pace, meeting real people, seeing local places and Peter’s easy conversation style of asking the questions we’re interested in without prying or ever making anyone feel uncomfortable.
This reminds me of the lower enlisted neighborhoods on the army bases I grew up in in the 80s and 90s. Very, very diverse, no racial issues. First of all, commanders of units took very badly to hearing that there were any racial issues involving one of his soldiers or the family of his soldier. That just didn’t fly in the army so much. It happened here and there, but this neighborhood really reminds me of what we experienced, we were all poor, crime wasn’t a big problem but there was crime. And really was very mixed and race wasn’t an issue which is really atypical it seems because the establishment has done everything in its power to keep mainstream American society racially divided. Here we see that it could be done rather seamlessly as long as the politicians stop grifting so much.
LOVE this young ladies lack of ‘poor me’ and jump in and add elbow grease. I started my construction business 30 years ago out of not wanting to drop my babies off for daycare to raise. They grew up perusal in the construction world nor realizing their mommy worked hard because I was always there with them. GO ladies! We don’t have to be on Government assistance. Stay independent and proud ❤
I remember clearly growing up in NewYorkCity( Spanish Harlem) where I can honestly say it felt like this all the neighbors helped eachother out. We all played outside. When their was illness,death,birthdays,you name it people used to come together. Until: Gentrification,Technology,you name it came and it became something else very quickly. It was very refreshing to see this happening still in Alaska of all places…😍
Came across this article accidentally but watched the whole vid. I think the words “Alaska” and “hood” in the same phrase piqued my curiosity. This was so interesting. Peter’s not only a handsome host 😉but he chose the perfect tour guide for this episode. Jasmin is awesome! How did you find her? Great personality, very knowledgeable, and I love her story. I also enjoyed the people you interviewed and I love this community’s sense of family as well as their diversity. Really enjoyed this one, Peter! 👍🏼
I was born and raised in Anchorage and spent time around the MV area. I lived in Muldoon. Always seemed to me if you mind our own you will be just fine most of the time. There’s always the chance for random crime but I never had any issues. Used to ride my bike all over anchorage in my elementary school days. I was always more concerned about the wildlife than the people.
This is a very clean cut version of Mountain View. I went to Bartlett Highschool and I knew girls who had been raped there, people who had bullet holes in their houses, and an old friend was murdered there. I even met people running from the law in the lower48 who stayed there only to be later extradited (it’s a big thing in Alaska). I’m sure it seems alright as a tourist but I’d be cautious of anyone perusal this who thinks it’s homely and not that bad. I’m glad they are cleaning it up but nearly everyone I knew that stayed behind eventually left or is trying to leave. When the winter sets in, the sun is barely up, people get anxious and into trouble fueled by drugs and alcohol. Couldn’t pay me enough to live there, not even the yearly dividend.
I was there for a month in August 2018. I had just come back to the United States from Australia after 8 years(I’m originally from California) but I stayed with my family for a month in Mountain View. I loved it there, people were telling me how dangerous it was. I went all over Mountain View, even ate some delicious Polynesian food from the Mekong Market(really good food) I felt very welcomed by people there, and felt safe. Im back home in SoCal, I have seen some pretty bad places in LA. Mountain View is a true community, and I miss it.
Thanks for doing this Peter :). I grew up in East Anchorage, near UAA and the Alaska Native Hospital, but I remember going to Mountain View for some kind of kids camp during spring break or whenever my mom made Mary Kay deliveries here. It’s been about 16 years since I moved; it’s really nice to see how much growth is happening in the community. Some of the best people I know live in Alaska,
I’m happy that you got to visit Mountain View and meet Jasmin and others in the community. It’s been great to watch her business flourish and her help others in the area. You did more positive messaging with this article than I can remember any other one doing while I’ve lived here. I’m surprised you didn’t check out the Red Apple grocery store or the local farmer’s market. Next time. Thanks for reminding me to check out Mekong. Those egg rolls looked delicious.
This is by far the most amazing Alaskan article about the people who live and work here in Anchorage Alaska I have ever seen. Having seen many documentaries on TV over the years but they never got down t the nitty gritty of the people like this article does. No Hollywood studios pulling the strings on where to go our who to talk to. This is very refreshing.
Thanks for coming to Alaska Peter. I enjoyed your articles a lot. I have lived in mountain view myself without issues(life long Alaskan). My friend owns a home right where you walked by. I now own a small home in south anchorage where I keep to myself for the most part. Cool you’re sharing our state. Come back soon, Dennis.
Been living here 4 years. I literally pass by Mountain View on my way to work every weekday. Sadly that’s the extent of my experience with Mountain View (aside from Hula Hands, West Berlin, Red Apple). I’ve always wanted to check out Mekong Pho. Will be bringing the family there for dinner tonight. Thank you for this article, really good eye-opener.
I thoroughly enjoyed perusal this! It gave me a complete and different eye-opener about Alaska now. Before, I would just think of Alaska as a cold, almost desolate place with nothing but grizzly bears. I would never imagine, not in a million years, that I would ever see a neighborhood quite like this there. And major props to Jasmine for being an amazing tour guide! Props to her and her success with the vending machine business, as well.
I just want to say thank you for making these articles. I think we all sometimes get caught up in our worlds that we rarely stop to think that other people could be living so different from us. I don’t have the opportunity to travel as much as I’d like to and when I do, I am always curious to learn about the community’s perspective of living where they do. I appreciate your articles very much and I support your drive!
Mountain View was the “USA Neighborhood of the Year” in 1989 for the steps they’d taken towards cleaning things up, but it’s been a tough battle for them. I remember as a college intern for the city, I was sent to evaluate the pavement there and we had people throwing rocks at our van because it had government plates on it. I love seeing the people who are lifting rather than leaving their community. It’s awesome to see them highlighted because it doesn’t get reported nearly as often.
I LOVE WHAT YOU’RE DOING PETER…YOU TAKE US AMONGST PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS WE WOULD NEVER KNOWN ABOUT AND/OR HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT. YOU BRING IT TO US LIVE AND DIRECT…I THINK OF THESE PLACES M, PEOPLE, AND/OR THINGS IN MY HEAD, BUT DON’T HAVE THE WILL AND/OR CONNECTION LIKE YOU. I’M A SILENT SUPPORTER, BUT I’M HERE FOR IT ALL.
I’m from Juneau. Thank you for doing this article. Something for non-alaskans to take from your article (possibly 🙂), is that you were in our largest city. As the cities become towns, then villages you will see that community spirit even more as survival can literally depend on it. Again, Thank you so very much for a great article on our State and it’s largest city. (hugs)
All that I knew about modern Alaska I learned on the tv show Northern Exposure. Everyone was quirky and there was a sense of community. Mountain View is a much edgier version of that; yes, there’s community but also the reality of gangs and violence does exist. I do get the sense of caring for each other; family life is important and even folks who are alone are embraced by neighbors. Thanks again, Peter.
I grew up in Anchorage. Spent 23 years there. Was definitely a culture shock for me when I started meeting people outside the state and how unfriendly and fake everyone is. Alaskans are a different breed. Racism is almost not existent, everyone treats each other with love and respect and will help other when they need it. The sense of community outside of Alaska is trash
I visited Anchorage this August for a week. Literally one of the kindest places I’ve been. I was surprised by the amount of diversity. And people are much more united than other places I’ve lived or visited. Not saying there aren’t issues like poverty and homelessness which isn’t helped by the government and cost of food. Anyway, the Anchorage Museum had a great rotation called “Black in Alaska” and another photography installation detailing locals in AK.
What an incredibly strong community judging by the appearances in this article! It would be a blessing to live next to genuine, wonderful people like you all! Wishing you all the best, stay safe! I’m sorry for all your hardships, but you all seem to look out for each other. Thank you Peter for this article, we all need to take our heads out of the clouds and see what the real daily challenges are and try to make a difference via support, albeit raising awareness, financially, prayers, or donations to those who are struggling.
this reminds me of what i grew up with… nowadays this is a rare thing in most major cities… am glad the Alaskans are keeping it alive along with other rural communities in the states… as always enjoyed and thank you for the look into what is often shunned.. be well and safe .. much love and respect.
Fyi, Jasmine was on shark tank with her babyvend idea. Unsure if it was mentioned what her business was or not. I don’t think I heard her/him state what kind of business she owned. Nonetheless, We are So proud of You Jasmine. Accomplishing your dreams. Showing other little girls they can do the same thing. Showing your own children, the sky is just a view it’s NEVER the limit.
Bro I lived in Anchorage for 35 years born and raised. Personally, when I was a pizza delivery driver, I felt that there was a place more dangerous than Mountainview. Mountainview certainly, historically, was a slum-always was. However a few other places come to mind: Oklahoma street downtown. Independence park, which used to be a nice condo neighborhood, turned into a slum full of and man I hate to say it but lot of Pacific Islanders who loved to deal drugs, kill each other and be a general threat. Not all Pac Rimmers are like that-I get it. But the worst neighborhood, in the agreement of myself and all the other drivers was Reka Drive in North-ish Anchorage. Specifically the NORTH side of Reka Drive but not the south side. The one side had nice family housing the other side of the street was slums. It was really weird to see that street itself be such a dividing line. Spenard is also pretty bad, but had been getting a bit better. Just my two cents.
Growing up in Mtn. View was like the best thing ever for me. Loved walking with almost everyone at school from Elementary and Middle School years I had there. I had friends who didn’t live there, who were scared to even come and pick me up from my house lol but overall the community really help each other out. My family had a lot challenges and struggles living in mtn view and my grandma loved going to Mother Lawrence’s House (an amazing lady who gives and donates food etc to everyone who came to her house) every week, we had neighbors who always helped out and on birthdays or holidays we’d share it with our whole neighborhood. Mtn view always has a spot in my heart and I always love going on drives and going back to memories living there 💓
This article was amazing. Mountainview is the definition of COMMUNITY. Nevermind what the media says…the closeness in this community is beautiful. The way everyone supports one another and works toward the greater good…it’s just amazing to witness. Jazmin is a powerhouse. The fact that she’s determined to stay in the neighborhood and help it thrive…absolutely beautiful. What most people don’t realize is in most poor communities…this is what life is like…community, family. Thank you for showcasing them.
Another unique thing about Mt. View, is the Lions Park. It is a community park that is maintained by the Mt, View Lions Club. Members build the structures, basebal fields, rugby fields and provide the equipment to include maintance. All funded from the club, not the city. The people who belong to the Lions club are selfless and caring individuals. Dave whom you met, is amazing, he volunteers by coaching many sports events. He is inspirational to the children and community,
AWESOME EPISODE. It would be great if the lower 48 could figure out how to live in harmony. There will always be challenges, but when we realize we, as humans, have more in common than differences, this world would be a little closer to how Heaven will be. Congratulations to a very positive, hardworking, community loving and positive woman. I pray her business continues to thrive.
I live in Fairbanks, Alaska, the 2nd largest city. I teach ESL, and when I started here, I was told I was working at the “bad” high school. Ha! I’ve taught inner-city high school in major cities in Texas. This is nothing. Yes, there is some violence, but nothing by comparison. Overall, Fairbanks, and it sounds like Anchorage also, are true “melting pots”. I do not see racial problems, just personal problems, either domestic or drug-related.
I live in Anchorage and Mountain View is dangerous–the elementary school used to have a really bad principal. I was standing outside the church near the boys and girls club and a shoot out began and one dead two injured. One of the shooters hid in the club. There are a lot of shootings there. A child was killed when a stay bullet went through the wall.
When I moved to Anchorage from Baltimore in the mid-2000’s, people tried to scare me away from Mountain View. By the time I left, Mountain View was my favorite place in the city. It’s a true melting pot of cultures that’s unique for Anchorage, and it’s just such a welcoming part of town, despite the crime.
What I love about these articles is it shows the disparity between what the “media” shows us vs. what is really happening. These people are happy and chill and diversity is a good thing. They see the value in it. If mainstream media came to this neighborhood they would cut out some soundbites that makes it seem like one person hatted another and then (based on that story) things would actually turn that way.
That, my friend, was a superb piece of story telling. After meeting Jasmin, Dave, Rozlyn and Jack, I feel welcomed already. I’d love to take a ride on that Moose Loop! So let the folks up there know that we down here in the ‘lesser forty eight’ love you guys in Mountain View, Alaska. And what’s up with that Russian Jack neighborhood next door to you?
Wow I’m really shocked the way that they all look out for each other it give their kids a much better childhood jasmine is such a beautiful person she should be really proud of her accomplishments I think that I would love it here especially that they are of different color and get along so well it’s beautiful other than the cold weather 😂 I pray that they keep thriving to better their community blessing to you all great article ❤❤❤
THANK YOU! THAT WAS AWESOME! So proud of Jasmin who made it thru divorce with TWINS to a successful business. She’s a GREAT example for mom’s EVERYWHERE! BTW her shirt says, minding my black owned business is another way of saying, I’m minding my own business by doing something positive. Not a negative statement in any way. LOVED IT!
i admire their sense of community, i live somewhere where i feel really disconnected with my neighbors and the people around me, i was born after 9/11 so that explains a lot of it as well, but i really want to live somewhere where i can depend on my community and they can depend on me. this town is far from perfect (what place is perfect anyway) and has a lot of problems that need to be worked out, but people seem relatively friendly and close knit, seems nice in that aspect!
Jasmine is an inspiration! What a brilliant woman. Alaska is so many things. Urban, suburban, rural and in parts of the interior for example, brutal. Folks in the lower 48 either think that the Sarah Palin type represents the state for better or worse depending on your politics. As this article demonstrates, that’s not the case. Good job Peter.
Thank you Peter for inspiring us concerning this MV Alaskan community. We know that every state has crime, which we know correlates to poverty, drugs and oppression. But a lot of the people who live in these areas have good hearts and want to help their communities progress & be safer. Thank you Jasmine for your inspiring story and giving us a tour of your community & neighbors. God bless you and the community of Mountain View Alaska. 😊🙏🏾❤️
I love Mountain View!! My grandpa built his house in Mointain View before Anchorage was even developed, before the neighborhood got a bad rap. My dad was raised there so I spend alot of my childhood in Mountain View. I also lived there as an adult. Even though there were some shady people and interesting characters, I personally never had a bad experience or witnessed any crimes. We have shootings all over town, but for some reason it’s the Mt. View ones that get attention… and I’ve actually seen the most crimes (including someone pull a gun) in midtown, near Fred Meyer. Anyway, this was an awesome article. Jasmine and everyone in the article was awesome!!! Fun fact, there used to be a guy with lions (yes, like the king of the jungle) in mountain view before Alaska made really strict pet laws.
Wow! This was an awesome article. Thank you, Peter Santenello, for such an interesting walk-about in Mountain View, Alaska. The denizens are so friendly and down-to-earth. perusal this article was so cool! …and so inspiring for the soul. That kind of harmony speaks to my, nature…that’s for sure! Better to live in harmony, than to live in a place soaked in chaos!. Dang, the town of Mountain View in Anchorage Alaska puts much of the USA to a crying shame!!! Thanks again, Peter, this was truly an enjoyable viewing experience for me. Rock-on, Peter Santenello 🙂 SHALOM PS. The young lady that showed you around was so cool as well. And I wish enduring success to her and her child-friendly business.
I was born in Anchorage back in the late part of the year, 1980. Grew up mostly in Mountain View and went to school at the Elementary school there before moving closer to West High School, Denali Elementary to be precise. That pink apartment building, near the start of the article, was a neighbor’s place of residence that I stayed across from, and it felt pretty strange to see that since I haven’t been home there in Anchorage since 1995 (it was not pink then). Anyway, not too long ago I looked on Google Maps to take a virtual tour of sorts since I could tell I was massively home-sick and needed to see where home was. It reminded me of the wonderful people I met and still maintain relationships with those wonderful friends and extended family who also grew with me in Anchorage. The diversity seemed less expansive back then but, it appears that this place has changed, as time tends to do to things. The idea of Mountain View being a “hood” is, I don’t even know, it was kinda REALLY not that surprising to me, in short. Disclaimer: I see a hood not in terms of race or similar but as a collective mind-set, as I stopped seeing color as soon as I was old enough to know there was NO difference between others and myself(maybe around 9 or 10 years old), at the end of the day. Just how we deal with life in our own terms. Being in Army and traveling, around and back again, has shown me that people often times group together for comfort or security or any number of reasons. I won’t lie that perusal this and looking at virtual pictures of Mountain View and others, brought tears to my eyes.
I used to live there when I was in the army. 2019-2022 didn’t know it was the hood because when I moved it it was snowy and it looked like a normal neighborhood. Believe it or not guys, this area had a lot of shootings and murders and a lot of property crime. I used to live in north park street next to that Mekong spot. Btw I’m from south Florida
I remember all of this. I lived in Anchorage back in the 80’s when it was really more dangerous. I played baseball in Mountain View “Davis Park.” Lived off McCarrey and Bunnel St. Mountain View which is Eastside Anchorage had a lot of drugs and gangs from Seattle and California. Because back in the 1980’s and 90’s the gangs of L.A & Compton would come up to Anchorage trying to recruit and bring people back to California. I was approached by the bloods from L.A. but thank God I never left to go back with them. My favorite color is blue and it just so happens that the day I met a L.A. blood I was wearing Chicago Bulls colors on that day. Also, the gangs trafficked drugs, prostitution and drama trying to get away from California laws etc… Over time I had friends from all over California. One of my friends was from Compton who was a Crip. Ever summer Royce would go back and forth to Compton and he and his little brother would come back worse every time. He was always banging his set and wearing blue clothes. This was in 1989 I was 11yrs old seeing this. Another one of my close friends was from Philly named Hakeem who also knew Royce. Hakeem got murdered in Seattle. He used to traffic drugs from Alaska to Seattle and California. The guy who killed him was a gang member from L.A. He shot Hakeem in the head while they were on a mission trip heading out of Seattle so he could profit all the money on the dope sales everybody helped him sold. It’s very sad but I tell people all the time.
I know mountain view in Anchorage. My friend used to live there and I was between Dimond and the airport. Anyway, the crime there is terrible. Also people do not like pets at all. They throw rocks at pets and when pets react to that they call police. This happened several times. My friend always wanted to leave that area, but it is very difficult to move out. One good thing about that place is the Hawaiian restaurant close to Elmendorf AFB front gate. They have excellent bbq chicken and a big portion. Anyway, beyond that, both Army and AF base is right behind it and the base has small skiing area.
I recently moved down to Anchorage a few months back and currently reside in Mt. View. The rent here vs other neighborhoods is more affordable, for example the same type of newly remodeled quadplex that I currently reside is almost double in price monthly than the south side of town and not quite as nice in terms of quality.
She keeps talking about unification while wearing a sweat shirt that says “black owned business” So we should all be unified and the same unless your black? i’m confused. If the dude who owned the daycare was wearing a shirt that said “Proud white business owner” would he be able to speak on unification?
I live about 40 minutes from Anchorage in a town called Wasilla. I grew up in So Cal (Southern California) in the Inland Empire that has an area of 26k square miles and a population of 4.7 million people as of 2024. Wasilla the town I live in is about 1/2 the size, 13k square mile but only has 10 thousand people in it! We have all the same stores as anywhere, Like a Home Depot, a Lowes, Target, super Walmart, Petco, Joanne’s, Sally beauty supply, Ulta, Ace hardware, most fast food chains 3 grocery stores, planet fitness etc.. Only a 30 minutes beautiful drive to Anchorage for all the other stores like Costco, etc … But, only 10k people in Wasilla! I can walk a couple hundred feet in several directions to fish salmon etc.. It’s such an awesome State and place to live period! Less than a million people live here 750k in a state almost 3 times the size of Texas.. Plus every year the oil companies pay every man woman child a portion of the oil profits called PFD and it can be 3 grand and that’s every year! I literally get paid to live here.. I will never live in the lower 48 again, you can take that to the bank😊
The BabyVend is fucking genius and is literally something I’ve thought should exist before. I had a similar experience to hers when I was a young mom. I had been breastfeeding my daughter since she was born and one night when she was about 9 months old, I woke up to feed her around 1:00 am, and quickly realized my milk had just dried up sometime between her bedtime feed and then. I didn’t even own a can of formula because I didn’t think I’d need it. There wasn’t a single store open that sold formula. Our 24-hour gas stations carry diapers and small packs of wipes, but no formula. My daughter was screaming, she was so hungry, and it’d be another 5 or 6 hours before Walmart opened. I even googled to try to find if baby vending machines existed anywhere but at the time, in 2014, they didn’t. I ended up calling my mother-in-law and waking her up; I got really lucky and she actually happened to have formula at her house for my daughters cousin so I drove over and got it. But if she hadn’t had that on hand, what would I have even done? Like, yeah, my daughter wasn’t at risk of starving to death in that 5 hour period but no one who hasn’t experienced it can fathom how excruciating it is to listen to your child scream in agony from how hungry they are and to not be able to do anything about it. That’s why this idea is so brilliant. The fact that it didn’t exist until now is absurd. The vast majority of the U.S. is rural and doesn’t have 24-hour supermarkets, especially since COVID. Even our 24-hour stores have stopped staying up 24/7 since then.
What a dazzling, eye-opening, jaw-dropping report Peter. Although I have been to Alaska twice, many years ago, none of this stuff was ever talked about or known by me. And to find out that Samoans are packing in there is a total shocker! I would never have imagined such a thing. I wish you would have gone into that tent camp in the woods. That is a whole article episode waiting to be captured on film. Great Work Once Again Peter S.!
What a fascinating neighborhood. Sure, crime may be high, and winters brutal, but, that’s just one of many statistics to consider. People shouldn’t put on a filter like that when deciding where they want to live. Having friendly neighbors who aren’t indoctrinated by a government agenda, is something you don’t see in many places. They are their own government, and that’s bloody aweome.
Mt View looks like a healthy and well connected community. That’s something that we have lost here in rural Southeast Kentucky. Our community used to farm and the area consisted of close farming families. Growing up, there were 14 homes on a 3 mile section of road. We all knew each other and helped each other. I still live on the same road and there are approximately 200 homes now, and other than my family, I know no one. I’m only 45 and it’s crazy how the community has changed over the last 30 years. More on Alaska, please! Also, if you’re interested in topics concerning Southeast Kentucky, hit me up.
lived in mt view for 13 years, i can tell you I’ve known every inch of the view and walked every street there was there. I’ve known every house and lived on all sides of the view. very nice hood actually, we looked out after each other as a community, i do miss it, now I’m living in the lower 48 and still reminisce those day late night walking the hood.
I lived in the Interior for 24 years😊…my daughter still lives in Alaska. .(Midtown Anchorage…for about 20 years…now)🥰 I miss Alaska from time to time…and I’m sad after I visit🥺…but I have to remind myself…I’m on to a different life chapter.🤔 This was lovely to watch…as my youngest Son spent much of his older teens in Mountainview… Blessings to you all🙏🙏🙏
What’s so funny is that the guy asked the black girl and the white guy at the boys club is there any racial issues? But the girl with the long hair has a sweatshirt on black owned businesses. I would think that’s a racial issue because you’re throwing it in people’s faces what color you are when you start your business. It’s just like me saying white owned businesses because that would be a racial issue. I just thought it was funny they said that there’s no racial issues at all in mountain view, and the black girl had a black owned businesses shirt on come on now really are you effing kidding me. Stop separating race on color no matter what you do, if u just stop then there might not be racial issues. I don’t want to hear the color of your skin if you start a business who gives a crap just start your business and be successful. I don’t care if you’re the first black to start a model business I don’t care if you’re the first black to start a food store I don’t care if your first black to start a library just start a business and stop separating color and work hard and be successful that’s it that’s all you got to do.
Hi Peter, Saudi Arabia has developed very, very noticeably during the past two years that you were in and became a tourist and many tourists there. Now come to it to see, I am sure that you will be surprised. I hope you will see my comment and come really again because it has become like another country in a limited period of time. Thank you Peter for all his progress ❤️❤️ We love you
The lady with the little girl said you can hear police and ambulances going into the hood all the time. I don’t think she was lying. If you look at my initial post I said I didn’t trust what those two black women were saying and they were trying too hard to sell the hood. I said you couldn’t trust what they were saying. 😂😂. I’m a black woman that’s why I know.
This is fantastic! Our country could take some lessons from this beautiful community….. I lived in Alaska. When I went to this neighborhood they were the nicest most welcoming people (back in 2017). I was abandoned and going through a horrible divorce (34 yrs) at the time. I was looking for a place to live. This was my first pick. But I moved back we’re my kids and grand babies lived back in the lower 48. I miss Alaska. There is no other place like it.
@34:07 100000% agree. My relation to that is when I worked for a local cable company when I was living on Long Island, people in the rich neighborhoods were mean, snobby, greedy and never tipped me after a repair or a cable installation. The “poor” neighborhoods, “ghetto” areas were the nicest people to me. Very welcoming, happy to see me when doing an installation or replacing broken cable boxes, modems etc. They tipped very well, and I ALWAYS gave them extra splitters and cables to use. Those were my favorite areas to work in. The working man areas.
Love your articles…. but this lady gave an extremely poor and biased representation of mountain view. That tiny area she showed might be an OK place to live, but the rest is a mess. I lived in mountain view for a few years and delivered paint to different areas in mountain view. It’s a very dangerous area with tons of crime. Activists like the lady in this article usually stay in their safe bubble in a bad neighborhood and say things like “we’re amazing and diverse”, while not telling you the reality of the area.
MtnView is gravely misunderstood. I used to walk around there all time back in the 80’s when we lived there and never had issues. The Justices have lived there for more than 45 years and never felt threatened. Then in 2004 moved to Eagle River then moved to the lower 48. The Burrough has been beautifying the slums of anchorage for decades.
I’m a local, and it’s definitely an area that occupies both extremes, there’s a great sense of community, and diversity, but I’ve also had 5 people get shot right outside my house. Don’t underestimate Mountain View if you come here but if you’re polite, respectful, and not getting mixed up in the craziness it’s not that bad here.
Did she take you to Lions Park? I’ve always considered that park to be the heart of Mountain View. I grew up in Anchorage. Spend 28 years there. I moved around a lot but didn’t land in Mountain View much. I’ve always thought of Mountain View as dangerous and “The Hood”. This article opened up my eyes! Thank You! Growing up in Alaska is different then anywhere else. I miss the diversity!
I so enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I moved to Mountain View in the 80’s as a single mom with 7 kids. I watched this whole article trying to spot any of the houses we lived in back then, sad to say I recognized some other places I didn’t see our homes on McPhee or Flower streets. Still my kids participated in the Boys and Girls Clubs and it sounds like the Hood is basically unchanged. I remember someone who moved up to Mountain View from a southern state and they tried to cop an attitude on a People Mover. 4 People on the bus stepped up to tell this guy that “we don’t treat each other like that here”. It was a good place to raise my kids. Thank you for sharing!!!
Mountain View wasnt bad really and it had a STRONG COMMUNITY FEEL TO IT. I grew up in New Jersey, Philly & NYC the feeling was TOTALLY DIFFERENT.. I was messing with a half native girl that went back home to Mountain View so I took the trip with her for like 4 months or so, plus certain items the value is WAY WAY MORE than where I’m from. At least that’s what I could of possibly heard because a good boy like I was and am would NEVER bring a “PACK” from where I’m from up there and make a ABSOLUTE KILLING!!!
I live in Anchorage….and occasionally in this article you will see construction signs up, those were for my job…I worked nights paving Mt. View and replacing some ADA curb ramps over the course of a couple weeks…heard gunshots 7 or 8 of the 15 nights I worked in the neighborhood, with 2 of those being fatal shootings…don’t let these people fool you, it’s still a “hood” and I would never want my wife or my kids walking through Mt. View even in the day time….no way
I had the pleasure of living in anchorage back in the late 80’s. My family was stationed at Elmendorf AFB. I didn’t get the full experience because I was still in high school but just seeing the images of downtown, 5th avenue Mall and hearing familiar locations like Muldoon brings back memories. Waiting for the bus in the frigid cold and watched the Northern Lights, looked like angels floating across the sky. I remember riding the People Mover public transportation. I remember wings and things restaurant. To this day I need blackout curtains in my bedroom because late sunsets in Alaska. I vaguely remember Mountain View but I don’t recall it being a “bad neighborhood” in 1988. I could definitely be wrong. I have friends that were there because of the Elmendorf and Fort Rich but after they graduated from high school they made anchorage home. It was a beautiful state. We definitely still reminisce about those dividend checks…
Good vid. I live in a southwestern state in the middle of a huge city in a very diverse lower income neighborhood and after living in a very high income part of the city, I also like the feeling of community I have here and the hugely diverse population – everyone just working together to get along. Wouldn’t go back to the snobville life I had before.
I was born and raised in and still live in Anchorage Alaska at 48 years old. If you want to see the real “Hood” go walking around on foot through Mt.View, Fairview, Muldoon(Some parts.), or Spenard at 2-3 A.M. not in the middle of the day. I live about 4 miles South of Mt.View and I can hear the gunfire at night coming from Mt. View. Fairviews nickname is Crack-view. I am also half Athabascan Indian(Derived from Apache and Navajo and we all speak the same language.) and Alaska is the most beautiful place on earth. Especially my Homeland about 220 miles outside of Anchorage in The Copper River Valley. My village is called Chitina and the Copper River flows right through it.
I really appreciate being able to meet through your website these amazing individuals in an incredible community. I grew up and still live in a community where the only danger was an injured dog that was ‘dangerously on the loose’ and took all day for the pound to catch. Not perfect, but very chill. What I admire and completely respect in this Youtube, is the amazing strength, intelligence and caring of the people of this part of Alaska. I’d absolutely love to visit. ❤
My family and I moved out of Wasilla to Anchorage which is polar opposite of what the majority are doing. Since moving here I’ve had more problems in the Fairview neighborhood than Mountain view. It’s not like New York City at night where people will walk past you when something is going on and just ignore it. People helping people and it seems like everyone wants to tell their stories. These are places that you really have to go looking for trouble to be in trouble. Just lock the car doors and don’t leave valuables in sight like any other cities around America.
I lived in Anchorage from 1972-1976, and had visited off and on many times over the years from 1951. I didn’t live in Mt. View, but I had quite a few friends who did, and I also loved a couple of drive-in restaurants up there. It actually was one of my favorite places to just go to get away from work and hang out with friends. I remember a lot of the older buildings you showed around the middle of the article. I’ve always loved Anchorage in general. I lived in Valdez (growing up–before statehood, and then again as a single mother of four, before moving down to California in 1978 (and then all over the place since then…we’re now in SD, where my family ties are from way, way back). I also lived in Anchorage, Fairbanks (College…the town), Seward, and Soldotna. I miss the state very much. I’ve been very happy to see this set of articles you did from what I consider my home state. Thanks again.
It’s so true most of the people I know living in neighborhoods with big expensive homes know their neighbors by sight occasionally a name but other than throwing up a hand wave while cutting lawn there is no community it’s just people who’s house was built it a neighborhood. Love seeing this part of true community!
Thank you so much for this! After binge perusal what’s been going on in places like Philly, Phoenix, Portland etc. for the last couple of months I needed this breath of fresh air. It kinda restores my faith in humanity and leads me to conclude that if everyone pitches in everyone pulls through. Thanks again!
Good job Peter of interviewing different random people! Seems like many are wanting to portray the area as being so wonderful and without any blemishes. Then when you said hi to the random trio at 23 min, she immediately told of how there were cops always being called for issues of crime and disturbances. But great job of portraying all of the positives of the area! Perhaps at the end, you could play some uplifting music, rather than the gangsta rap song again, which has such negative connotations to it.
Great to see stereotypes misrepresented. Appeared to be a nice little town in Anchorage, Alaska. Some of the same problems as the rest of the country, but on a smaller scale. I was really impressed with the people,& how they’re building a family oriented place to live,& raise children. Well done Peter!💯❤️👏🏾😀🙋🏽♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸
Peter has a great amount of talent to find these amazing and genuine people who otherwise wouldn’t ever be heard or noteworthy. This typically wouldn’t be very interesting to me, but I really enjoyed hearing about these little communities and bubbles It makes me wonder how often articles go poorly or seem too unentertaining? Loving your consistency and quality of these vlogs, even when the locations themselves aren’t necessarily noteworthy.
I live in a very diverse area of western Massachusetts and I thought my community was extremely blended, but this community is something else. People know everybody, will do things for another. In my community there is still a large segregation between the lower income and higher income side, with many of the immigrant communities settling in lower income neighborhoods. Although our school systems are very well integrated, I wish our community shared that same trait because we don’t know each other like that and I find that sometimes it can even be very cliquey.
Mountain View reminds me a lot of South Minneapolis. Very active community spirit, lots of diversity, including a very large African-born and Native population, lots of small businesses that focus on developing the community, etc. It looks like a really cool place, overall. Wishing Jasmine and everyone else there the best.
I lived in Alaska from 69 to 01 grew up in Anchorage mostly Mtv went to clark jr high and graduated from East high class of 82 worked at a little restaurant across from Renners gas station and lyons park called the “Ten-4” cafe and worked at the bowling alley Mtv was a lot of things but hood aint one it could be tough at times but i never had an issue and there aint a street in Mtv that i havent walked or road a bike on as a young kid and young adult i lived in about every area of Anchorage till i moved to the Wasilla area in 90 my kids were all born there and i have life long friends still in Mtv and all over the Anchorage and Matsu valley was just there last September and plan on going back in a year for a longer stay
Awards for being “diverse” isn’t something to brag about. Diverse isn’t a term to describe many ethnic backgrounds but is a euphemism that it isn’t a save place to be. For a knowledgeable person who believes in the just people are people regardless of ethnicity the term diverse is utterly meaningless. It’s an indicator of less save.
White dude went to what he could afford. Not a hood but careless noise and yelling. It’s one thing if that’s normal to u it’s totally different if u have been on the totally opposite side. When u live poor u will find happiness to ur situation. When u live rich or Middle class u see and hear lol the difference
The Moose Gang. The one reason I’ll never go to Alska again. One of their members almost killed me driving at night in Alaska and then just ran away. Hit and run. Totaled my car. Airbags went off, and the wife was crying in the passenger seat, this needs to stop. The member just wrecked my car and ran into the woods, probably to smoke the reefer, but that’s something I’m talking to my lawyer about. We will not just be another victim anymore.
I, as one of the palest white people to ever live, live in a predominately black community with my four kids and I’ll have you know I have never had more friendly neighbors who care about my family and then I do now. I have experienced zero racism but I know that the reverse would most likely not be true for a black family moving into an almost all white neighborhood. There are issues because there is quite a lot of surrounding poverty and that does breed crime if we leave certain things outside they will walk off but sorry that can happen anywhere. I love it here and don’t foresee leaving this area of the city I used to think I couldn’t live in.
I’m confused by the disconnect the lady has who says she carries a gun (for protection) but the lower 48 (stateside) doesn’t have the same needs for personal protection (self defense). Apparently the 2nd amendment should only apply to Alaska. Hahaha never thought I’d hear that come out of an Alaskan’s mouth. “Rules for thee, not for me!”