Thanks, gentlemen.
Bob - Yes, especially in the North of Iceland where the sense of isolation can be overpowering. For the Icelandic farmer, it has never been an easy life dealing with the isolation and the weather and I'm talking just of the post-electricity modern times (you can imagine what life must have been in the old days in the turf houses). That is why the entire Hornstrandir area of the Westfjords lies abandoned today, the last of the farmers moving out in the 1950s. Today with the near-total high-speed broadband penetration in Iceland you have the ability to stay connected. Iceland is perhaps the northernmost you can go and still have a civilization. Any further North and the extremes of the polar day & night make living a normal life difficult.
