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Is life set forth among us, that those of us who inwardly consider themselves better than the rest, desire a frontier for self-preservation?

Frontiers are places where lawlessness is the norm. So criminals should be most attracted to a Frontier or frontier society.

That is, do the wealthy tend to flee from places where poverty has taken root, and choose to group up among themselves elsewhere?

Yes, wealthy people tend to stick-together, to help each-other preserve their wealth.

Wealthy people enjoy to live in first world societies with few or no taxes, and upper class neighborhoods secluded from their 'inferiors', including private schools and universities, and private education designed to inflate the ego of the wealthy and justify their greed to them.

Do the fashionable desire to be among the fashionable? Do the artistic among us prefer to be around the artistic? The musicians among the musicians?

Of course, likeness attracts likeness in some cases.

Yet further: have the Northern European people chosen the outskirts of civilization for their own self-preservation? First to Scandinavia? Second, to the isles of Britain and Iceland, as the "civilized" masses pushed northward? Thirdly, as Britain flooded, to North America? Then onward to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, etc.?

EET: Embroidered Edge Theory

You maybe onto something here, yes.

Northern Europeans seem to have psychological tendencies for Seclusion and Introversion, coinciding with thousands of years of cave-dwelling (staying out of sunlight) and isolation from others. In a harsh, cold, Northern climate, staying indoors is mandatory and necessary. Maybe Northerners have tendencies for introversion while Southerners (Italians/Spaniards) are the "extroverted" types who like to go out and party in a warm/hot atmosphere.

Partying outside is not very fun in the freezing cold, unless you are a Ruskie loaded-up on vodka…