"If you are desperate for income but "cold" is holding you back from getting it, you deserve a face punch.
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I live in a cold, remote area, and honestly it shouldn't be dismissed as easily as you are doing. When it gets to -50F/-60F (-45/-50ish C) for over a week and it's dark all the time and your family isn't in the same town let alone the same state, it can feel pretty isolating. Especially for new people. Those of us who've been here for a while have networks of friends to help us cope, as well as experience in what keeps us sane. (For me, lots of plants. For others, sun lamps and "happy lights" to ward off SAD.) People who've just moved here miss out on all of those things. Not to mention, it takes them much longer to acclimate.
And I'm speaking from both personal experience and from what I'm observing right now. At work we had a lifelong Floridian move up here. She's miserable, constantly telling us how "weird" Alaskans are and how if she knew just how bad Alaskan winters would be she never would have accepted the job. Poor research on her part, true (who doesn't realize that Alaskan winters are long and harsh?!), but she's also away from family for the first time ever and illness (perhaps terminal?) has struck a loved one back home and she's not there to take care of them. All this is compounding and making her one miserable b****. And because she's unhappy, she's doing her best to make everyone around her just as miserable. (Unfortunately, she's the boss, so she has the power to do so.)
If the climate, location, or circumstances are going to make you miserable in one location, even if there are extremely well paying jobs there, don't move there. It's not worth it to you OR to those who will be forced to be around you. Seriously.