[ROTMetro]

Seasons get less nice the older you get. At first I loved them, but 20 years on I really wish I was in California and just went to Tahoe to get my snow fix. If you leave California, think hard about how much snow you have to remove when looking at homes. My ex was smart and she nixed a lot of homes with crazy long driveways because she knew. Also remember that in super heavy snow you don't just shovel the sidewalk/driveway but also the roof to prevent collapse.

I miss California so much, but then I grew up there.

[allturtles]

> Also remember that in super heavy snow you don't just shovel the sidewalk/driveway but also the roof to prevent collapse.

Where do you have to do this? I've lived in several areas with snow (midwest, east coast, and Colorado), and never seen anyone shovel snow off of their roof. This sounds like an outlier case, not the norm for "leaving California."

In the midwest and east, snow shoveling has just never been a big deal in my experience, other than the occasional big storm that drops a foot or more (maybe once every 2 years).

[sydbarrett74]

With climate change unabated, the seasonal variability in most parts of the country will largely cease to be hot vs cold. In more and more places, it will be hot vs hotter.

[CameronNemo]

California gets snow though?

People forget how big of a state it really is. My family friend was facing a four figure cost to dig out their Truckee cabin this past winter.

[reducesuffering]

That's why they said "just went to Tahoe to get my snow fix." Truckee is Tahoe. The Sierra Nevada mountains are really the only places in CA that get real snow. Most people visit them though as only 1% of the state lives there, hence no daily snow shoveling.