It's most definitely not a luxury here! I live in a very humid area, so we get wet snow rather than the pretty fluffy powdery stuff you see on TV. It freezes over and compacts into ice, or partially melts into slush and then refreezes into more ice. If we get heavy snowfall it can literally lead into weeks of walking and driving on ice - and I live in the middle of nowhere which means no one comes out to grit the roads! It's fairly dangerous. My at-the-time-partner got hit by a car not far from here about 10-12 years ago due to the ice.