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Considering you’re on a sight used by 50% Americans I’d get used to it 😁 learn something new
Not to mention you guys handle the heat better in the summer, and heat is 10x worse than cold to me, so I'm damn jealous >

I was born and raised in Georgia. I hate summer. I dread it every single year. I catch so many funny looks for it but I hate sunburn. I hate humidity. I hate mosquitoes. None of which are an issue when it’s cold outside.
Never understood what was so hard to believe about people actually enjoying going outside without drenching in sweat. >

I was raised in north Georgia! I only moved away about 5 years ago, I definitely didn’t appreciate it as much as I should have growing up but my perspective has shifted significantly as I’ve grown up. North Georgia is beautiful, you get 4 clear distinct seasons every year, spring is glorious, summer can be pretty hot and gross but not always, fall is breathtaking and you can normally count on 3-5 decent 6-10 inch dustings of snow! I love it and I honestly miss it! Just not the people so much lol >

Dang, we haven't gotten good snow in years. >

Snow in the south is an absolutely magical experience. You don’t have to dig out your car and go anywhere. You can just take walks and play in it and enjoy it 🥰 >

Snow in the south is terrifying and usually leads to fights at the Piggly Wiggly
Source: born and raised in Alabama >

Man it’s crazy, I grew up going to piggly wiggly in the south, and then I went to a piggly wiggly in Wisconsin and let me tell you, it’s night and day. A completely different experience between the two >

I'll go to the Pig before I go anywhere else 
Publix is my second choice for the hard to find items. Then Winn Dixie. I'll go to Walmart if someone puts a gun to my head lol >

I love it! I used to live in Alaska and I love snow. I didn't love shoveling my vehicle out of the snow just to go to work.
Here it snows just a little bit and I don't have to go anywhere! >

Most people handle unfamiliar weather very poorly.
Where I live we get a lot of cold weather (-30 Celsius) and a lot of snow every winter but ice storms or flash floods are extremely unusual. These rare events wouldn't be noteworthy compared to places where these are common occurrences, but when they happen people freak out.
These freakouts are normal/expected because these weather events are dangerous (even if mild) and people have little experience with them. We offen take for granted the knowledge/experience we have built up and a lot of "common sense" is actually related to this. People in Florida know to treat every water source as if it has gaters, and people in Hawaii know about the dangers of tides/etc, and these would be foreign concepts to much of the world. >


Most people handle unfamiliar weather very poorly.

It's not just that.  The South isn't really equipped to handle blizzards.  Unlike the North, there are no stockpiles of road salt, and much less snow clearing equipment. >

I love it too. The snow or ice tends to only linger around for a day or two before it’s back to being sunny and decently warm. And you get a couple nice snow days off from school. >

this is the entire country i live in 💀 ONE snowflake on the train rails and suddenly everything is delayed by a decade >

Until you get mass power outages and people start dieing... >

It’s sad that that’s the case, that’s why we all need to do our due diligence to pay attention to what’s happening and educating ourselves and our loved ones on proper precautions and protocols when an extreme weather event is inbound! There’s numerous methods to being safe and taking care of yourself even in horrible weather conditions and systems failures! You just have to be prepared and aware! Most of the deaths you see are because people weren’t able to take care of themselves, or didn’t take the threat seriously, or were foolish or uneducated in some way that could’ve been preventable with care and due diligence. >

Or terrible infrastructure which could have been prevented if the city/state used money properly >

I was opening a restaurant  in Atlanta when it snowed one weekend. People lost their damn minds >

South of where? >

The North >

Of where? >

The South. >

When I lived in the US, I lived near Dallas.
People from the north do wonder why we don't drive on snow and ice. The reason why is that our cities aren't equipped with snow plows like theirs are. We don't have snow tires or chains either since it rarely snows much here . When it does snow it usually barely covers the ground and Northerners don't understand why we don't want to drive on it . The reason why is because our snows are usually accompanied by more ice than snow . But Dallas is a 24-hour City now, with the greater DFW area containing almost 8 million people . So the freeways stay pretty warm from all the traffic moving all night long.
We used to just sand our roads, but now they've got some kind of white powdery stuff that they throw down.  It does a much better job of keeping roads from refreezing. Unless we get really heavy stuff with extreme cold, the most that is going to happen is a 2-hour delay in getting to work. We still have to go work.
When we have a huge winter storm like we did last year and with extreme cold, our roads are a solid sheet of ice that we can't move because we don't have the proper equipment >

South of what? China? Russia? Uk? >

Usually when people say “the south” they’re referring to the southern states of the United States >

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