A middle class person should have no problems with cold in modern America, central heating, modern cars with heated seats, modern snow free roads, modern clothing and heated buildings, modern recreation and work, almost entirely indoor based.
as long as the grid’s up
We moved from the DFW area of Texas to Florida. Our utilities bill is about 1/3 to 1/4 what it was in Texas, real estate taxes 1/4. And housing prices are half.
You still have to go outside some time, I’m actually not looking forward to going home from work because that means walking out into the cold, sitting in a cold car, and just generally not being warm. And cold sinks into your body, which heat doesn’t. It takes a good half hour to warm up, 5 minutes tops to cool off. And you never have to shovel heat out of your driveway to go somewhere, it’ll never blowup your pipes either. Doesn’t matter how you slice it, cold sucks.
Some people don’t have those things. And you forgot the snow blower. It was the happiest day of my life to sell mine when moving back to my native Texas after 7 years of Montana winters.
Those things make it bearable, but it is still not fun to be in pain from the stinging cold every time I step outside. Although after a cold November, December was nice with above average temps.
I think we are lower middle class and don’t have heated seats or vehicles with remote start. Since they no longer pour salt on roads, they can be icy even when clear of snow. I’m biased, have lived in MN my whole life and am liking winter less and less every year.
Where are these amazing “modern snow free roads”?
Only if they stay in a city where everything is just the flip of a switch away, albeit expensive.
The ones that move to the country here, thinking that would be nice end up leaving within a year or two-getting a job in a big city where they can live in a condo like they did in the beehive in the colder state. They can’t make do without having all the buildings, streets and stores less than a mile away, never mind having to deal with an electrical co-op, a water well, septic tank, unpaved roads and wildlife in the yard.