The Workbook · Free Download
The 64-page relocation plan Alaskans actually open on the kitchen table.
Built in Fairbanks by the team at Goodbye Fairbanks. Not a generic moving checklist — a working document for the Fairbanks-to-Contiguous corridor, covering PFD exit timing, the Alaska Highway, interior home sale, and the first 90 days in your new state.
9,400+ Alaskans downloaded. The workbook that warms you up before a 30-minute call with an advisor.
Inside the 64-page Exit Plan
Eight chapters that follow your move from the Tanana to the Lower 48.
Every chapter is a Fairbanks-specific working document — checklists, timelines, and cost calculators you'd spend a week assembling on your own. Generic checklists skip the chapters that matter most for interior Alaska. Ours don't.
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01
The Decision Frame
Honest worksheets on whether this move is financial, lifestyle, family, or health-driven — and how each reason changes the plan. The opening chapter most generic checklists skip entirely.
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02
The PFD Exit Window
How to read your Permanent Fund Dividend eligibility date against your move date, and the math we use to decide whether to collect one final dividend, two, or none. Built around what the State of Alaska actually publishes — not estimates.
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Selling the Fairbanks Home
Interior Alaska pricing, the 2024 inventory reality, the 22-agent partner network we use to avoid low-ball cash offers, and the closing timeline from listing to wire. Written for North Pole, Two Rivers, Salcha, and metro Fairbanks.
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04
The Alaska Highway Move
The 1,420-mile run from Fairbanks to Dawson Creek and on down — fuel stops, weather windows, vehicle shipping vs. driving, what to ship ahead vs. carry, and the customs/PIT paperwork at the BC border.
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05
Choosing the Destination State
A short-list framework for the most common Lower-48 landing pads our clients choose — the Carolinas, the Mountain West, the Pacific Northwest, Arizona, Texas — with cost-of-living and tax comparisons framed against a Fairbanks salary.
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06
Veteran & Military Transitions
For the retirees leaving JBER, Fort Wainwright, or Eielson: VA enrollment portability, TRICARE relocation, Survivor Benefit Plan moves, and how military move entitlements (DLA, DMPO) layer on top of civilian logistics.
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07
The First 90 Days Down South
Driver's license, voter registration, residency declarations, new-vehicle titling across state lines, utility hookups, and the small-but-real mistakes Alaskans make in their first three months in a new state.
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08
When You're Ready for Help
An honest page about when the workbook isn't enough — large estates, complex PFD timing, special-needs moves, tight 60-day windows — and what a Goodbye Session with our team actually looks like.
A reader's note
“We moved from Goldstream to Asheville in late 2023. I downloaded the Exit Plan on a Tuesday and read it cover to cover that weekend. By Monday I'd caught two things I would have missed — the timing on my last PFD, and the fact that the moving company I'd already booked didn't actually drive the Alaska Highway in November. The workbook paid for what it would have cost us to fix those two mistakes in about an hour.”
Workbook vs. a Googled checklist
Why this isn't another moving-day PDF.
The internet has a thousand "moving checklists." None of them were written for someone leaving the Tanana Valley. Here's what's actually different.
Generic checklists stop at the moving truck.
A standard checklist covers what to pack, when to call the utility company, and how to label boxes. It assumes the move is a U-Haul across two time zones. For a Fairbanks departure, that's about a third of the actual work.
Built for the Fairbanks-to-Contiguous corridor.
The Exit Plan opens with the chapters other checklists skip: the PFD eligibility date versus your move date, the realities of selling an interior Alaska home in the current market, and the 1,420-mile Alaska Highway leg with its own weather, fuel, and paperwork realities.
Written by people who've done the move.
Every chapter is reviewed by our 14-person advisor team. Each one has personally made the Fairbanks-to-Lower-48 move — an average of 2.4 relocations per staffer. The workbook reads like advice from a friend who moved last year, not a template a marketing team downloaded.
By the numbers
The most-downloaded Alaska relocation workbook, in four figures.
64
pages of Fairbanks-specific planning, checklists, and cost calculators.
47
standalone checklists covering every leg of the Fairbanks-to-Contiguous move.
9,400+
Alaskans have downloaded the workbook since it was first published.
1,840+
completed relocations our team has guided out of interior Alaska since 2017.
Step one · The Exit Plan
Send the workbook to your inbox.
Drop your email below. We'll email the 64-page Exit Plan as a PDF within a few minutes, and once a week you'll get our short note on Alaska out-migration — the parts that don't fit inside a checklist.
No phone call required. No follow-up sales sequence. Just the workbook.
Ready for more than a workbook?
When you're ready, book a free 30-minute Goodbye Session.
The Exit Plan is the preparation. A Goodbye Session is the plan — a 30-minute call with a relocation advisor who's actually made the Fairbanks-to-Lower-48 move, walking through your specific timeline, PFD math, and home-sale strategy. No cost, no obligation.
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