• @toynbee
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    73 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 hours 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
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        213 minutes 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.”