I moved from Central NY to Connecticut about 15 years ago. If we get 6 inches it’s a disaster. I say to myself you don’t know what snow is.
I grew up in Orchard Park, NY in the suburbs south of Buffalo. Six inches of snow was just a normal winter day. You went out and plowed or snow blowed and everyone went to school or work. Here in southern NH, if we get 4” of snow they cancel school. I guess it is all about legal liability.
Having lived SE of lake Ontario myself, two feet of fluffy LE snow has very little water content and doesn't compare to two feet of snow down here at the coast where I live now.