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Maybe the most stupid question ever, but I always asked this to myself.
I mean, in this modern age, you don't nessecarily have to live at places where agriculture is possible. Nevertheless, in places north of the 60th parallel, polulation growth is mostly negative (Iceland is an exception).
Cold and darkness will give some explanation but there should be more reasons.
Any ideas?
It may be possible to control interior climate. Creatign economically sustainable activity is not so simple. Especially with permafrost, short growing seasons, etc.
Upstate New York does not have brutal winters. There is nothing else to say on the matter.
Winnipeg has brutal winters. Fairbanks has brutal winters. Buffalo and Syracuse do not. End of discussion.
A place like Utica doesn't have exactly mild winters, either. It gets below 0 °F (-18 °C) quite often, often enough to be noticed. Add windchill to it, and you know how is that. I wouldn't call those winters the most brutal, but they're very cold. A mild winter to me is Barcelona's, Melbourne's, Sacramento's, but not Upstate New York's. It would be like saying a summer in Sacramento is not brutal just because Baghdad has hotter summers.
A place like Utica doesn't have exactly mild winters, either. It gets below 0 °F (-18 °C) quite often, often enough to be noticed. Add windchill to it, and you know how is that. I wouldn't call those winters the most brutal, but they're very cold. A mild winter to me is Barcelona's, Melbourne's, Sacramento's, but not Upstate New York's. It would be like saying a summer in Sacramento is not brutal just because Baghdad has hotter summers.
I never said anything about Upstate NY having mild winters. They have cold winters - but not brutally cold winters. Saying a city like Buffalo has brutally cold winters is like saying a city like Washington has brutally hot summers.
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