When a place gets so cold that you could die by being outside too long, it's nature/god's way of telling us that people shouldn't live there.
you could say the same about a place that lends itself to having large quantities of water come out and drown the local population. Or a place that can become its own Island if the ground shakes just right.
The cold only becomes a problem say if you didn't pick your DD just right.. and your place is a lil further from down town than you thought..