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If you're going to live where it snows, you might as well pick a place where they are used to it and can handle it. When we get a foot or two of snow here it's no big deal. The busses still run and everyone gets to work. Most people have AWD, 4x4, or at least good snow tires. We have snow blowers ranging from small 5hp 24" units up to 13hp 45" monsters that can clear the average driveway in minutes. Mine is an 8hp 28 " with 6 forward speeds and 2 reverse, and it moves a lot of snow, fast. The city has a battalion of snowplows, loaders, and dump trucks and everything is cleared and back to normal in a day or so. Even massive blizzards like we had in '86 and '66 are cleared in a couple of days, and there are lots of people with snowmobiles to keep things moving while we dig out. Our houses are well insulated and have adequate furnaces so that even a prolonged stretch of sub-30 weather really isn't a big deal. Our cars all have electric block heaters so that they will reliably start in cold weather.
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