Subject: Re: OT, out
I could never live in a country where retiring to the south for the winter puts you on the border of North Dakota.

I hear ya.
Do bear in mind that it rather depends where you are...it's a big country. Victoria has snow on an average of only 7 days a year, total accumulation about a foot. Around twice that in Chatham Ontario. Just enough to offer a few photo ops for the Christmas card : )
Of course this didn't keep me from heading somewhere warmer to dodge the winters, so pay me no heed.

Jim