Why did humans decide to settle down in very harsh environments like Siberia or the Saharan Desert, why not live in places more moderate and more accepting to life and civilization?
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Like in most of nature, it’s far easier to deal with slightly harsher environments than it is to deal with a huge huge population concentration. Eventually a population will spread out and a big enough population will spread out to the more harsh places.
Every environment has its ups and downs, but like in everything, the good ones are always taken. If this spreading out wasn’t an option, fighting for the good spot would be far more common, and the resulting losses make it an unappealing path to take. Moving away to a slightly less ideal area is much safer.
If it’s easy to live there, we are already living there. Competition is an insanely strong determination for the distribution of populations, and I’m not just talking about humans here.
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