that's one freakin' headache I am glad to NOT have ... left the snow behind years ago when moving from the Rockies to California and I don't miss it one bit ... I was never a skier and not once did I derive any pleasure from snow ... MrsS and I have talked from time to time about whether we'd relocate after retirement and while that remains an open topic, we agree that if we were to move, it will not be to a place where snow might fall and stay on the ground ...