I have a friend in New Mexico who bought one of these. Why, I have no idea. He doesn’t even own anything that needs to be pulled or hauled.
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Ok now snow sounds harsh. But I still want some experience, coz I know there’s a fun part to snow, isn’t there? Coz here, I’m having too much heat and you don’t feel like doing anything even though you have everything. As I said, yesterday was scorching, ended with extreme windy weather so even then, you can’t even go outside.
Not my worry, I’m mostly a stay-at-home person.
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Not all snow is as @Just-B described. It is going to vary based on where you live. In my part of the country, we’ll get maybe two to five snowfalls a winter. They could be just 2 or 3 inches or they could be 10 to 12 inches. Snow can vary from light and powdery to really heavy and wet. Kids love to get out and sled and build snowmen. It’s nice to look at from the warmth of my house.
The funny thing is that everyone panics and runs to the store for eggs, milk, and bread when there is snow in the forecast. I joke that it’s a French toast emergency. Anyway, people convince themselves they’ll never get out of their house again so they have to go the grocery store and stock up. In reality, roads are all very travel-able within 24 hours of a snow event and life goes on.
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The Canadian winter dictates that, if you leave your beer in the backyard, you’ll have beer icicle.
It will happen because beer freezes between -5ºC and -10ºC, not an unusual Canadian winter temperature. It won’t happen to me because I consume my beer fast enough.
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When I was a kid, I remember my Great Grandmother’s back porch was her second fridge. After every big family meal, (she had 10 kids and they all had spouses and kids who had kids) especially the holidays, all leftovers including the turkey, ham or chicken (I don’t remember ever having beef) went out to the back porch. She would keep bread, cookies and cakes out there as well. If you were still hungry or wanted something, you just walked out to the porch and grabbed it. That’s how cold it was for most of the Winter. I’m not so sure I would trust that these days, but she lived to 99 so I guess she was doing something right 
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In Toronto, however, it’s inevitably
Human 0, Racoon 1.
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When I was little, we literally moved into our sitting room coz it was so hot - we ate there on the floor, slept there (on the floor too - like camping), did everything there under the air con. The other rooms were just about abandoned in these summers.
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Ha, sounds like us in the winter. We camped on the floor in the living room on cold nights cuz that’s where the wood stove was. We had electric baseboard heat and even in the 70s it was too expensive. It was set at 55 to keep the pipes from freezing.
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