Most years we get a lot of snow, but this winter it seemed to have decided to go vacation on the East coast. I don't think we even got two feet total, and it was dry going into winter.
I personally take credit for the lack of snow here. I have been living under a weather curse* for most of my life, and I bought a nice little electric snow blower that I only got to use once.
* The worst was when we had a garden center and decided to do contract snow removal at a townhouse development. The first year we were paid a flat amount per month and there was over four feet of snow on the ground by New Years day. So we were getting up at 4:00 AM every day and working our behinds off while losing money. So the next year we contracted to be paid per time - so we only got two heavy snow falls all winter.
And of course buying the garden center/yard care business to start with meant that I caused a massive two year drought.
I think that the thing I miss most about living at the farmstead is having chickens. They are so much fun, plus you get eggs. But little rural towns (even with a population of 80) are the worst about allowing "barnyard" animals. They seem to just really want to seem urban.