Well, I'm a Wisconsin girl, IIRC, they imported us and some Minnesotans up there to settle because the climate was similar. It's not the same, but similar. In winter, the sun rises about 7:30, it gets dark here by 4 pm. Not quite the same, the cold is similar, I know you have more severe climate, but we've had our share of -20° weather without windchill. That's a joke too. Windchill.... LOL! It's fun to watch the weather babes and news readers assigned to Milwaukee, working their way up the corporate ladder, listening to them tell us how bad it is. No ****, like we don't know it already. Anyway, I love hearing what's going on there.
We have some former Minnesotans up here. Couldn't take the heat of the summers down south any longer. Fifty or eighty years ago the Feds even offered free farmsteads north of Anchorage to those of north europe ancestry if they would come and farm some. They came, but the effort has kind of faded. Economics, I guess, although the land is okay for dairy and some crops like barley and potatoes.