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toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days agoI’ve started watching a YouTube channel of a guy trying to handbuild a homestead in Alaska. I forget where he said he came from, but like you, it was somewhere without snow.
On a recent video, he recorded himself seeing what I think he said was the third snowfall he’d ever seen and the first with accumulation. It was nice to watch his clearly genuine joy and surprise.
NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Joy? I’ve gone to the snow as a kid and have chosen not to go as an adult. I consider myself a bit of a masochist but not that much
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve always loved the snow, though I will admit that since it hurt me, I’ve preferred to enjoy it through a window or from a sheltered place rather than to be in it.
I moved several hundred miles across multiple states in part to be where there’s sometimes snow. Shortly after I got here, I was chatting to a local and mentioned that fact; he responded something like “wow. Most people don’t move to here for the weather.”
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s truly wonderful, as long as 0C isn’t painful for you.
I’m much better adapted to the cold, so it’s in no way painful (unless I were to pass out in it or try to build a snowman without gloves or something). For me, German summers are so unpleasantly warm that I can’t eat enough calories without being fully nocturnal. People tend to have a temperature and humidity range that works well for them, and they only adapt to new environments slowly