It's cold eleven months out of the year, cool for one month, everyone speaks Norwegian and eats pickled fish, and they all go ice fishing in the winter. How's that for stereotyping?
But seriously, why would you want to move from beautiful, mild, liberal Oregon to freezing, barren, out-there-on-the-prairie Minnesota? Probably being transferred with your work, eh? (That reminds me, they say "eh" a lot).
Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. But then again, considering the forum, perhaps I did!
PS: My signature line is purely coincedental!