There’s a sociological theory (surely out of favor nowadays due to PC) that climate is a huge determining factor for economic prosperity and criminality.
The theory goes (in simplified form), if you live closer to the equator where you can get all your daily nourishment by picking fruit from the trees or plucking a few creatures from the sea, you don’t need to develop a strong work ethic to survive. If you live where it’s cold 4 months a year, you need to plan ahead to survive and cannot be as frivolous.
Basically, a human version of the ant and the grasshopper fable.
Absolutely true.
I moved to the south from Northern Maine - you can count yearly good weather weekends (plenty of sunshine, no rain, no snow, no mud season) up there on two hands, usually with a few fingers left over. My lovely and talented wife still pokes fun at me, occasionally, for overworking outside sometimes. Got to get the painting, yardwork, gardening, etc taken care of while the weather is nice, dontcha know.
When we first got married, she also poked at me for laying in a stock of food and water, wood for the fireplace, plenty of propane, and so on "Just in Case". First year we were married, an ice storm more-or-less stranded us for the better part of two weeks. She doesn't poke at me anymore for being prepared.