Is anybody talking out there about the cost of living? Oh, absolutely. Particularly when I was in Kodiak, I heard a lot about that in coastal Alaska. In the more rural parts of Alaska...cost of living [is] an even greater concern. among folks. And everything from the gas prices to the food prices to the cost of housing, and even among business owners, the availability of labor to kind of keep up with all the demand out there. (09:50–09:57)
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