I come back to sound like a broken record.

[ridicully]

I really like living here, but the way life just shuts down because of a bit of snow is driving me insane.
Especially since I was in northern Finland just last week where snow is just something that happens and then you deal with it sensibly.
No, 10 (or even 15) cm of snow do not equal "being snowed in". And I say that as someone who very cleverly left her winter tires in Germany when I brought the car over here.

*grumblemumblegrumble*

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[eva]

Oh God yes, I was going to say that nowhere can be as bad as Cologne. You'd think there were meters and meters of snow, the way people are carrying on. I come from an area where knee-high snow and temperatures of minus 15 aren't unknown, and people here think we face cold death with 10 centimeters and minus 5.

At least people are finally forced to get winter tires with the new law. The typical Cologne citizen thinks he doesn't need any because there's never any snow anyway, and when there is snow, he tries to drive with those summer tires, doesn't know how to drive properly on snow, and is "helped" by a city that doesn't get the hang on what to do when it snows and tends to run out of salt when the streets are iced.

[liz_mo]

*lol*
I moved from Bonn to Duesseldorf and my boyfriend was born in Cologne, so I can attest you IT NEVER SNOWS HERE!
I remember winters with not ONE SNOWFLAKE. Or if there were it was "Puderzucker", gone by midday.
So why use winter tires and/or stock up on salt? ;-)

[ridicully]

I grew up near Frankfurt, not the most snowy area of the country, but I remember winters when we had a couple of days of snow when I was a kid.
Of course after learning how to drive, I moved to Leipzig and Berlin and learned how to slide around corners on the snow.
I've looked down on anyone who doesn't think its fun ever since ;D

But yeah, bigger cities, people will be even bigger idiots in the snow. But yesterday it took one of my clients over an hour to do a 10 minute drive in a proper old school farmer's Landrover. That's not worth complaining about any more, that's just *sad*.