I have lived there.
In Calgary.
Minnesota doesn't have anything on Canada's plain provinces when it comes to cold ass winters.
Seriously, mind-numbingly, when-is-this-sh*t-ever-gonna-end-I-wanna-go-to-Florida-right-frickin'-now, cold ass winters.
Where plugging your car into an electrical receptacle just so the engine will turn over isn't even close to optional.
Where I live now (Colorado) is like winter for pussies compared to Alberta or Saskatchewan.
Central Canadian winters gives the phrase, "When you pry my gun from my cold dead fingers..." a whole new and quite literal meaning.
I don't ever want to go back. Not on a bet. Not ever.