Who the hell would choose to live in International Falls?

[DrGonzoLives]

According to the news last night, they are at -30 or so, with wind chill even lower. Who in their right mind would choose to live there? Just curious...

[ewagner]

1. Worse yet

They were at -44 this morning........

I think that was the inspiration for Frostbite Falls of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame......

[HereSince1628]

2. Well, clearly... You've never seen the northern lights...

never seen a raven on the wing,
never felt the fire warm a frozen night...
and never heard the lumberjacks sing!

[Bluzmann57]

3. I have relatives in Ft. Francis, Ontario

which is right across the border from International Falls, and lets just say that in order to live there, one has to be a bit...different. They are something of a different breed up there. Mostly good people, just different. And they probably don't care for -30 either. I bet towing services are all over the place up there. Cars need to be started ya know.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. I can't even fathom that kind of cold...

let alone live in it! Brrrrr

[Twillig]

5. Bronko Nagurski!

http://www.gophersports.com/history/mfball/72BronkoNagurski.asp

On Jan. 7, 1990, Nagurski died. Two years later, International Falls honored its most famous son by opening the Bronko Nagurski Museum in Smokey Bear Park. It is the only museum dedicated to a single football player.

[eyepaddle]

6. It's a very pretty area,

Very northwoods--but a wild and unruly northwoods around I'Falls and Fort Francis. Most of the folks up there love being away from it all. The temps can be a challenge (when I did a job there we had to leave the truck idling all night as there was ZERO chance it would start in the morning) but the thing that makes it really a tough place to live is the gigantic paper mill. Some friends and I were driving to Ft. Francis to obtain remote area border passes and we were a good twenty miles away and the horrid fart-like stench of a paper mill made its presence felt.

Some days when I'm up there it doesn't smell at all though.

on edit: once again I type GOOD!