Buzd, based on your reply here, would it be somewhat fair to argue or infer that living in a small remote town, or medium-sized city in Alaska would be sort of akin to kind of an outlaw existence? What I mean by that is that due to the harsher winter climate, living conditions would be far less advantageous, more pre-industrialized, old Wild West, less technologically advanced society or culture? I suspect if I lived in a place like Alaska, or Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Yuppers), where wild animals out-number people 20-30:1 or more, the surrounding conditions, lack of a solid, maybe rudimentary sort of infrastructure, it would sort of resemble living in the 1870's or 1880's Wyoming, Utah, or Arizona Territories (made up of the modern states of Arizona and New Mexico).