Ok, maybe salaries are lower because whole Greenland is in the middle of nowhere, [...]
Having visited Iceland, the cost of living is higher on islands with limited agriculture and high cost of imports.
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Not when the critical infrastructure is the infrastructure for storing and moving those materials.
Also people tend to settle where trade happens and work is available.