To this day I do not understand why humans would settle in an area with such a harsh climate. “”
Keeps out the riff-raff.
“....To this day I do not understand why humans would settle in an area with such a harsh climate.“
“Keeps out the riff-raff...”
That it does.
As one 80+ year old sea-faring Mainer from Cutler, Maine told me one day when I asked him about the harsh climate in the winter as he and his crew were unloading a catch of lobster: “Let me tell ya a little something, Sonny. It’s like this: There ain’t no poisonous snakes here, and there ain’t no baggy-ass pants around the ankles types in these parts....just too damn cold for both and that’s the way we like it. IF ya can’t stand the winters here, you sure as hell don’t deserve the summers. Now, move along now....unless ya want to buy some of these here fine Maine lobsters....” He said it all in a deep eastern Maine accent. I busted out laughing my ass off and ended up buying a couple of those “fine lobsters” off him....talk about delicious.