text: No, Jay, I am, and I do live in Southcentral Alaska.  I am just tired of all this vague and sloppy "The Valley" talk.  Maybe you haven't noticed, but just in Southcentral Alaska there is far more than ONE single valley!  Girdwood Valley, Eagle River Valley (actually vallies, North Fork and South Fork), Portage Valley, Eklutna Valley, etc. etc.  Please be specific.
  
  Oh, and by the way, not to be pedantic but there is no such place as "The Mat-Su Valley" (although there is a Matsu Valley in Japan), because there is no such thing as the Mat-Su River.  There is the Matanuska Valley, and there is the entirely separate Susitna Valley.  So again, please be specific.