Why do people live where it's cold and snowy? Wouldn't everybody want to live where it's nice and warm?

Answer 1

When it's cold, you get to snuggle with some one. Hopefully human hopefully the opposite sex!

Answer 2

Oftem becaise they moved there, or their parents or more distant relatives moved there, because of economic opportunity at the time. Sometimes because they like cold and snow, or something (like skiing) that often comes along with this climate more than they like surfing or pr year-round tennis or golf or some other activity that may relate to being in a warmer climate. Sometimes by sheer chance that brings them or an ancfestor to a cold climate, adoptation to economic or other activities that are a family heritage over the generations, or sheer inertia: youre there and you don't want to move, or don't have the skills that give you confidence in moving.

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. My grandparents came there because (a) in the pre-World War I period it was a booming city at the center of transcontinental trade and (b) becausse, in the case of my father's father, he could get some farmland near there very cheaply, as part of a homestead deal, and then builid — and later sell, at the height of the wartime wheat boom, a thriving farm. My parents stayed there all their lives, because they developed friendships and built a successful business there. I left to get my higher education in the U.S., stayed in California where I taught, then came back to Canada during the Vietnam era (I wasn't draftable, but it upset me) and wound up in Ottawa (not so cold as Winnipeg, but still wintry) because (a) that's where the opportunity existed for me to pursue a career in government consulting and later iin high-tech consulting and (b) because I was really bored with a non-winter climate where the seasonal change was the rainy season in Northern California. Looking back on my life so far (I'm now 70) I have few rerets, can rationalize some reasons for choice of where I and my family lived, but believe that much of it was chance and reaction to tempoirary circumstances and feelings.

I wonder, now that people move around more, whether there will be changes in choice and whether most people make permanent chioices of where they live. I doubt that it will be the same as in the past.

Answer 3

Please remember that in neolithic times (10,000-20,000 years ago) the climate of the whole world was colder. Winters were rough throughout what we now call the "temperate zones." That is, it snowed in what is now Florida and the South of France from September through May.

Growing seasons were shorter, but crops were easier to grow because the cold winters killed off most of the pests and crop diseases. Also, people's health was better in colder areas because the cold killed parasites, fungi, and the like.

Also, the hunting was better in the colder climates. So people just got used to cold weather. As the climate has warmed over the last 10 millenia or so, people have migrated to the south, but natural resources like coal and iron tend to be further north, so people had to stay in those reasons to create an industrial economy.

So there are lots of reasons. Most people of European descent have ancestors that lived north of the Arctic Circle long ago. And "nice and warm" just makes most people want to sleep. So the people who lived in colder climates tended to be more industrious and prosperous.

Lots of reasons.

For more information, do an internet search on "history of population distribution."

Answer 4

We like spring, summer, fall and winter. Some winters are hard, no doubt about it. I just spoke to a friend who is so sick of the snow where she lives. There was 3.5 feet, then another 8 inches and more heading that way.
A little snow is very lovely and clean.

Answer 5

Is there enough nice and warm areas for all to live?

Answer 6

Not me. I love the cold and snow. I can't stand it when it gets above 80 degrees. of course, I like all four seasons, but i mostly like the cold weather.

Answer 7

we never have to worry about global warming

Answer 8

you would think