Juneau, CarolC, is urban - we have one little "farm" that consists of 5 acres - but it has only a little over 30,000 in population so it is scarcely representative of city life, per se. Juneau is #3 in population size in Alaska; of our 600,000 plus state population far more people live in villages of hundreds, rather than thousands, of people.

Anchorage, at 250,000 plus, is more typical of cities everywhere. It is about 600 air miles from Juneau. If one goes by surface from Juneau, it entails 4 1/2 hours on the water and then about 800 miles over land.

By the way, I read the other day that if Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, it would have 16 residents!