• AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I grew up in Florida. I didn’t see proper snow until I moved to Minnesota as an adult, it kinda blew my mind a bit, lol. I had no idea what was meant when people said the snow glistens - pictures can’t really capture the effect.

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      I’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.

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        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

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          I’ve always loved the snow. 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.”

          edit: I have a bad habit of writing run-on sentences. Tried to fix one here.