I was actually going to add that yes, it’s cold, which just shows that at any given time and place there are always exceptions to broad generalizations. Sorry I missed the sarcasm, I thought you might be slyly implying that since they don’t have very many demonstrations and protests there (since most people would prefer not to be sent to a gulag) that it must be “peaceful”. That is, in fact, a point that’s been made about dictatorships. Also, I understand that the trains run on time.
If they’re late, they shoot them to make an example to the others.
Shooting at trains is very effective at motivating them.
Now I want to see a TV show, “Tolya Comrade Tank Engine”. Where anthropomorphic train engines glumly go about their day in Russia, trying not to run afoul of the secret train police, and lamenting how cold the winters can get.
And being told they have to haul twice the tonnage on half the coal.
Or just up in altitude. I lived in the Colorado mountains for 33 years and never saw an air conditioner.
Or stay closer to the coasts now that I research it. Hudson Bay, the Pacific coast of Alaska and Kamchatka/Chukotka stay a lot cooler than the deeper inland areas.
You don’t have to be even that far north along the coast. While there can be some hot summer days, the average summer highs on much of the Pacific coast down into California don’t hit 70.
Coastal will always have less diurnal and annual temperature variation than 5 miles inland. Much less 500.
If you want stable temps live next to a jillion gallon thermal mass. Then it’s just a matter of movi g equatorward or poleward to adjust the average to your liking.
Plus/minus affordability. One hell of a lot of humanity figured this out before you did and bought up all the good stuff.
Can confirm. I live a couple of miles from the coast in a town north of Boston. Sure, it can be bitter cold or horribly hot, but it’s hardly ever as extreme as inland areas.
Oh yes, on a recent visit to San Diego, I thought many times “Lovely city, wish I could afford to live here (in the same manner I live in Dallas).” Alas, many other people thought it lovely before me. So I live with my current climate. To be honest, it’s no so bad about eight months out of the year, give or take a couple of weeks.
I grew up on the beach in SoCal. I now live on the beach in SoFL. Both are examples of “just bring money” climates.
When in mid-life I was forced by work to live in St. Louis MO I found that the weather there was quite decent for ~2 months in spring, and ~2 months in fall. And beastly the other ~8: summer, winter, and their respective shoulders.
In my then line of work it’s practical, barely, to live in a different city from the job & fly back and forth weekly. We looked seriously at buying a place near Denver or maybe Salt Lake City to enjoy the summers and a place on the gulf coast, say near New Orleans or Pensacola to enjoy the winters. Then split our time with about 4 months per year in each.
All three homes put together would have been cheaper than what we ended up buying when my job transferred to Miami. All for comparable square footage, age, features, etc.
Allow me to present a living, breathing literal Crazy Uncle, complete with a patriotic-looking red T-shirt with the word “FREEDOM” above what looks to be a blue '57 Chevy emblazoned with white stars. Perhaps not technically a sovcit, but his T-shirt and attitude are damn well close enough!
Police were called by his niece because he’s been freeloading at the house for two years, does absolutely nothing around the house, and she wants him out because he scares her. If this isn’t the quintessential Trump voter I don’t know what is. As to why he scares her, watch the video.
Hell just the look on his face in the preview still is scary. Assuming this was taken by the bodycam of another officer, whatever he’s looking at, it isn’t that LEO. Unless the cop is 8 feet tall.
The other officer we can see certainly seems suitably impressed by his lecture harangue.
And I haven’t even watched a second of the vid yet. Mostly afraid to. 
You should watch it, it’s really quite entertaining. And because I am a kind pup from the northern climes not given to cheap jabs, despite allegedly having “a screw loose upstairs” for wanting to live where I do, I will not name the state where this all happened, except to say I wasn’t surprised! 
She was the first one on the scene, and very quickly called for backup. That particular screenshot is from the second officer, and pretty soon a second backup arrived.
“This is fucking America. I’ll do anything I goddam wanna do.”
MAGA or SovCit: You decide.
There are so many more similarities than differences between the two that they’re often indistinguishable. A SovCit is usually just a MAGAt with a very specific set of bullshit rationalizations for why the law doesn’t apply to them.
BTW, in case anyone didn’t make out the writing below the Chevy image on Uncle’s T-shirt, I think it’s the word “Tradition”. So we have “FREEDOM”, a blue ‘57 Chevy with patriotic white stars on a red T-shirt, and “Tradition”. So what is this guy pining for? Apparently a world where he could tool around in a brand new 1957 Chevy, them furrin’ cars had not yet invaded with their “quality” stuff, and most of all, women and Blacks knew their place. You can see the palpable contempt with which he treats the female officer (“you’re crazier than she is”, pointing to the niece) while initially showing deference to the newly-arrived male officer, until he starts defending his partner, who Uncle is still yelling at.
It’s really a fascinating insight into a dark aspect of America. And as I said before, Crazy Uncle has every element of the quintessential Trump voter.
It’s a little like the game that Howard liked to play on the Big Bang Theory: “Emily or Cinnamon?”
At any rate, I’m not sure that the truck pictured on the T-shirt is a '57 Chevy, though it could well be. To me, a '57 Chevy is a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air, preferably with a convertible top. My dream car; I had the opportunity to buy one years ago at a reasonable price, but the previous owner had repainted it in non-factory colours and outfitted it with so much aftermarket crap that it would have cost thousands to restore. Seriously, it comes with an ashtray built in; why did you have to buy one that you stuck to the dashboard with Scotch tape?
I managed to watch about 1 minute of it. Then my revulsion at morons, and at angry people, and especially at angry morons, made me shut it off.
I used to watch more videos like that but then I realized that there are just too many idiots.