I, otoh, was born in and to snow. Culturally, geographically and personally. Born in a blizzard. Where blizzards were the fact of life. Where winter was the fact of life. Summer's function was to get ready for winter (with all that fun stuff you got to do in the heat and plus mosquitoes).

OTH, running away from winter if you can, which started in my cultural geographically locale about the time of my parents getting to be Our Parents, became a natural thing -- for some. It wasn't almost ideological, it became political, the people who went away for some time or all the time of winter to warmer climates when it got to be financially feasible for people to do.

Love, C.