Can you see the milky way anywhere if there was very little light or are there only certain places

In principle, the Milky Way is visible from anywhere, but:

1 You need a moonless of virtually moonless night to have a real chance of seeing it;

2 You need to be well away from cities and other sources of light pollution, which make the night sky too bright, and drown out the faint band of light which is the milky way;

3 You need a clear night, with no residula cloud or mist

4 There are some times of the night when (parts of) the Milky Way will be igher in the sky than others. Your best chance of seeing it is when some of it is really high in the sky, near the zenith.

Here, in a small Scottish village without street lights, we often see it, but not in high summer, when astronomical twilight lasts all night (latitude >55 degrees north)

Sometimes the milky way is overhead, so easy to see, sometimes it runs along the horizon su et is difficult, either behind the trees or in the dirty air low down.

The difference between these 2 times is six hours.

Use your planisphere to check wher to look, if you don't have one download stellarium, it's fun and it's free, shows you the sky from ypur house with labels and zooms

when you consider that we ARE IN the Milky Way, and we can see ourselves, YES. Obviously, as we are in it, we will never be able to see the entire Milky Way from one place-while we see a portion in the night sky, there is still another side of it on the other side of earth (where itis daylight). You can best see a portion of it in the night sky from a rural area - at least about 30miles or more from a city. Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, Greenland, and Iceland all have amazing views of the Milky Way and you can google photos or videos on youtuve. The Hubble Telescope photos of the Milky Way can be found on nasa.com

The less light you have around you, the better. At a truly dark location (nearest lights are miles aways), the core of the Milky Way is so bright as to be considered a major source of light pollution.

My first experience with a true dark sky is fairly common. There are way to many stars to figure out where you are looking.

The link below is an example of what you might expect -
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090729.html

There is too much light pollution in cities, but if you get out into the countryside, more than 50 miles from a city, you can see the milky patch in the sky which we now know is our galaxy, surrounded by the apparent blackness of space, sprinkled with stars.

Don't think so.