I don't especially mind snow - especially as much as Nancy doesn't like it. We live on the south side of Lake Superior and therefore get lots of "lake effect" snow. Relatively warm and moist air blows off the lake and to the frozen ground surface. As the air cools the moisture "precipitates" and falls as snow. It takes a few miles of cold ground for the snow to get going really well. We live about 15 miles inland from the lake shore, and we're also about 600' elevation higher. Higher elevation means colder - so more lake effect snow. To summarise, when the shore line folks -- the city of Marquette, for instance - gets maybe six inches - we'll be honored with 12 or 18 inches at home.
But we have good stuff about being close to Lake Superior, in that the lake, even while very cold, doesn't freeze over more than once every ten or fifteen years (last time was this past February and March), so that humongous reservoir of "warm" water keeps us from the bitter cold. We might have a few nights when it reaches 15 below zero, but more often none -- and only some when it gets to or below -10F.
It's all relative, see? And, as many folks up here say, 15 feet of snow helps keep out the riff raff.
