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Originally Posted by lio45
Actually, it's not about the amount of snow a place gets but rather, all about the quality of plowing.
If you live in downtown Montreal, where parking spaces are small and where any snow gets immediately removed by an army of municipal plows... you'll be fine with a small car.
My ex lived in Edmonton for a while and told me that they didn't really plow much over there (by our standards), and that her little Ford Escort wagon was doomed to stay in the driveway on many winter days... and that she understood why people "needed" SUVs over there.
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Roads are shit in Edmonton which is embarrassing for a city that's a frozen tundra wasteland for much of the year. You can get around in a little shitbox but having clearance and four wheel drive is a nice benefit. People don't really "need" an SUV but the city is car-centric and unlikely to change that anytime soon so if you're going to have a car you may as well have one that can handle our crumbling potholed streets and navigate the piss poor conditions in the winter
If we moved to Vancouver I'd take a long look at what's really required for vehicular transportation, as it's a night & day difference between there & here.