Good suggestion!
Completely defeats the object. I love cold, snowy winters and warm, dry, sunny summers. I could move to certain places in New England and get those sorts of seasons most years.
But, apart from New England being full of Americans, which is always a negative, I wouldn't get the same level of satisfaction. There's a sense that it's all a bit artificial. A bit like a footballer being the star man for their boyhood team but the team can't quite win the league, so the player signs for a 'plastic' moneybags team who has bought success - the player wouldn't get anything like the sense of euphoria if they won the title with their new club.
Then there's the chaos issue. In places where snow is a regular feature, they cope well, even with deep snow that is unheard of in most of the UK. Here in Blightly, we go to pieces - and I love that. I grin like a village idiot as I watch people slither round like Chicken-Licken on roller skates, chuckle to hear the usual corporatist twits whinge about how much it's costing the British economy the reality is a net nothing, as output is always caught up afterwards), smile at people's ineptitude when trying to drive in snow.
Martin
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