Growing up in Anchorage you are accustomed to the sun being up for 20 hours during the summer and the long winters that seem to last forever. You are also used to the very brief fall and how spring in Anchorage is almost non existent. Growing up there for 19 years of my life I've learned to enjoy these things, especially the the beautiful mountains that surround the city. Although I may not want to live there, it is definitely a city people must visit sometime during their life.