I was born in Rochester, NY and have lived in this State all my life. I currently live 45 minutes east of Syracuse in the Mohawk Valley. The weather here sucks most of the time. If it isn't raining, it's snowing. You must get a lot of snow too. This is the first year in a very long time that it has snowed so early and so much, with temperatures in the single digits overnight, and in the teens and 20's during the day. This weather is what we can usually look forward to in late January and February. I'm hoping it's gotten it out of its system early, and that the rest of the winter won't be so harsh.
I retired in 2003, and at one point had wanted to move to South Carolina, but then I discovered that they'd tax my State pension, and dropped that idea.
I live in central Illinois and this has been the snowiest start to winter in over 50 years. We have had close to 20 inches of snow so far. For most years, that is about what we get for the entire season, maybe a bit more. It is warming up so most of the snow should be gone in the next few days, except for the snowplow mounds.