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I'm not personally familiar with those cities (I know of Stockholm, of course, but have never been there), but I'd heard that Stockholm doesn't get much snow?And you think Stockholm or Umeå don't have a climate like that?
We've been talking about real life cities in hard winter climates that have existed, as cities, since medieval times or even earlier. They weren't as big then as they are now, of course, but for most of history a city's population would've been closer to a small town by our standards. That didn't stop those cities from being the seat of government, location of the university, and seat of however many other things.The point I'm trying to make is that a hard winter climate limits how big a city can be in the sort of setting you're talking about. These days it's fairly easy to keep cities supplied in winter, especially when trucks and trains can carry tens or even thousands of tons of grain. But back in the days of horse drawn carts it didn't work, because you couldn't physically bring that much food to the city even if you could produce it.