“Cold” tends to keep the riff raff out.
Right, Bill?
Oh, yeah. My old realtor kept a separate, private set of listings that he called the "Broken Dreams" listings. All out-of-staters who didn't last past the first winter. All with dwellings of one sort or another, from broken-down trailers to - I swear I'm not making this up - a "berm" house that was really a cave dug into a hill by a small California "back to nature" commune. That one he showed to me. Bears are better housekeepers.
Folks, it's real. If your neighbors all have large, 4WD pickups and snowmobiles, it might be not because they're rednecks who watch too much TV, but because they know something you don't. And on a more general principle, if you want to be happy, don't move from something, move to something. Personally I love looking at eagles circling a frozen lake - spent the last week doing so - but it's cold up here and heat moves up in priority with water and food and they all cost. Trust me.