It is incredible how little self reflection people have as a whole. It is so easy to have smug self satisfaction in the misery of others for some reason.
Most people are tongue and cheek about this type of thing. When you spend every year dealing with snow, it is just a bit wacky to see how it affects people and areas who aren’t used to it. The topic has come up plenty of times in my life and it always immediately transitions into listing the obvious reasons why it happens.
But it’s an opportunity to get all territorial and worked up so we get threads like this.
Except that it isn’t very whacky at all. Infrastructure and climate differences aside- My assumption, as someone who grew up in the Great Lakes and now lives in the Puget sound area, is that people who do think it is whacky have little to no idea the difference in terrain between the upper Midwest/New England and here.
But it’s an opportunity to get all territorial and worked up so we get threads like this.