Long dark winters. Bone numbing cold. Yeah, sounds delightful.
Back around 1975 when I was a civilian employee of the Depament of Army I was offered transfer to Fort Richardson outside of Anchorage. One of the "selling points" in the recruitment package they sent me was the free depression clinic for all employees and their dependents. (I was working at Fort Shafter, Hawaii at the time. Didn't need depression counseling there.)