Do people who live in cold climates dream of a green Christmas?

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No.
We get around 48" per year. I love this shit.
- I wish I got 48" every year 😔
  Or at least like 2", once
  
  ... that's what she said...
  I'm so sorry.
  
  2 inchers that last one thrust are very easy to find on lemmy

No, a green Christmas would be extremely concerning
- Shrek disagrees

I live in a northern country with cold winters. The alternative to "white Christmas" is really an icy or wet Christmas. Green would not even cross my mind.
And certainly I prefer snow over sleet or black ice on the roads.
- i mean, australia we have summer christmas and it’s kinda amazing… new years and christmas parties and festivals outside are amazing

If it's not snowing, it's still not green. It's just grey. Grey is worse because at least the snow is pretty.
- Snow becomes pretty ugly pretty quick, at least in cities.
  Grey christmas it is, every year.
  
  I figured it was more about fresh snow. :) fresh snow in the city is at least white, and pretty in a ... Chaotic sense.

Depends on the person. It sometimes gets into the negative double digits F where I live. Its forecasted to snow around Christmas and I'm hyped as fuck.
- I used to live further North and I miss the snow. We still get some here, but it typically melts off within a week or two.

No. Give me snow. Give me snow year round.

I live in the north of Sweden. I always hope for a white Christmas. If there's no snow, it's so dark, and gloomy. A few hours of sunlight in a day. No snow usually means it's cold enough for rain and a little bit of snow, but also warm enough to melt it to turn it into slush.
So definitely, we always hope for a crisp, snowy Christmas. Every year. More opportunities for outdoor activities then, too.

Never. Christmas time should be cold af, dark for most if not all of the day, and in deep snow.

I spent Christmas one time in Australia. It was surreal. I don't think I'd ever get used to that, so, not me.
- I often wonder if people who live in Australia feel a similar way considering how Christmas time is typically depicted.
  
  Aussie here, to me xmas = summer time. Xmas movies always felt irrelevant, and the idea of Santa wearing all his gear is mental when it's often 40C+ and humid af.
  Being cold would feel alien that time of year, even more so if it snowed because that doesn't happen in 99% of the country regardless of the time of year.

No way. Keep your heat, I’ll be snowboarding.

Im not in a "cold" climate, but its the pacific northwest. It gets chilly this time of year. People still dream of white Christmases. Its the idealized Christmas.
- I'm surrounded by pine trees, blackberry bushes, and ivy. Christmas looks pretty green to me!

Nope. Who doesn't love the idea of a winter wonderland Christmas?

We can like snow in December. Hate it until next december. We will have brown Christmases some years, and there is a sense of disappointment over it.
- Last year I had the all you can eat mexican buffet on Christmas eve. I ended up having a “brown Christmas.”

Judging from the answers, it seems like no. And really, most people I know that live up north go somewhere warm in January or February, so get the escape then. I’m 45 and two winters ago I had my first white Christmas. And let me tell you, it was freaking MAGIC. We got like a foot to two feet depending where you were on the property. We were exposed to someone with Covid on Christmas Eve so for the next week we were sequestered away, with food and drinks and a beautiful winter wonderland. None of us ended up with covid but my daughters best friends grandfather is immunocompromised so we’re extra careful. We made a slide off the deck, walked in the woods behind the house, lounged around, did puzzles and read books, and just generally had the most peaceful and relaxed time.
I’ve always lived in warm places, and the Pacific Northwest now, so for me, snow is the most magic thing in the world.

No, because snow is nice and beautiful. The problem is, we don't get a white christmas (or have snow for most of the winter) every year, because where I live we mostly either get wet warm winds which lead to rain or we get cold dry winds which just lead to cold days without snow.

We live in cold climates because we like cold climates. 😉
- This; it's only 3 months out of the year (well, at least the snow) and I like that there's variety in my year.
  Being an adult also means I get to choose when I go out, now, so the cold/snow bothers me even less.
  But, like you said, I also live here because I like snow.
  
  Yup. Though I do understand many people can't afford to move, most that I know wouldn't want to even if they could.

I like to pretend that song is racist as fuck and then pretend to be upset every time it comes on the air. It amuses me.
It's also fun to pretend that it's about cocaine.

It used to snow and I would get tired of it, but now that doesn’t happen much anymore …i don’t mind it if it does.

My red and green this Christmas is fat sweet cherry tomatoes ripening in the sun on my balcony. I would love a little rain to ease the fire danger in the hills, but I had all the snow I need for life during college. It's funny the snowy people who said they can't even fathom green, if it weren't white it would be brown, they're right about their reality but you asked for a dream. I'm living the dream.
The other nice thing about being in Los Angeles at Christmas is that it's quiet and there's very little traffic, because so many people rushed off to visit the snow, either local skiing or far away.

The snow doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the -20 degree F temps. These nips could cut glass.

I have always wondered what a white Christmas would be like.
Usually it is baking hot here, none of the "traditional" foods make sense...
- Same where I live. And then you see all the shop windows dressed with fake snow and people buying santa hats when it's 40⁰C out there and the whole ordeal feels so out of place
  
  Christmas and guy Fawkes are especially out of place.
  Yes, let's encourage the public use fireworks in summer. Great plan.
- Yeah, here we celebrate Christmas with the high probability of heavy rain and flood.

No. But, lately it's not white on christmas.

Nope. Christmas just isn't Christmas without snow

I don’t live anywhere cold now, but when I did it was in an urban area. Urban snow is pretty for a couple of hours max before the cars, people, pollution, shitting dogs, etc give it a disgusting tinge. It was also miserably cold to me, regularly getting down into the 10s and 20s F (-12 to -6 C).
I wouldn’t say I was dreaming of a green Christmas necessarily, but a white one isn’t all it’s cracked up to be if you’re not living in a cottage in the woods!

We used to have white christmases and dream of them too, now with climate change we dream of them but have green / brown ones in reality.

This is the song "Hot Christmas" they used to play on the radio in Florida.
https://youtu.be/iUDywEojT88
And this is the wiggles on the beach singing their song "Christmas Picnic". Looks like fun!
https://youtu.be/A0XCKRCBuhs

I love the snow covered scenery if it’s like 30 F (-1 C) outside. We got our first big snow yesterday, and it’s definitely an improvement over browns and grays we’ve had for a month. When it’s negative degrees F though, that can piss right off.
My favorite season is spring, when the very first spring ephemeral flowers pop through the slush and mud, before the tree leaves bud out. I wouldn’t want to miss that.

Tasmaina, Austalia here, gets to 23c around Christmas where I am.
I'd not live somewhere where it snowed, id not live in the tropics (I used to do the latter from being a kid until it got too much and I left)

Only Heatmiser

No. We enjoy the shit out of spring, summer, and fall.

Interesting question. I live in Belgium and... well first of all I don't care for Christmas. I do like to celebrate with family and friends but the religious celebration itself, no. Second I never actually considered it. I do love snow and ice. I recently took on ice skating and... even though I also love the Summer where I can roller blade and skate, knowing that something else is coming is a genuine joy.
So... I can't speak for others but I absolutely love the Winter, from hot chocolate to waffle outside to ice skating, hikes in the snow then relaxing by the file place, there is just so much to look for during that season that ... never dreamt of "a green Christmas".
Edit: I actually had one last year, going to Madeiras, Portuguese island West of Morocco, North of Africa, and... that was fine too. Honestly truth is I don't really care where and how as long as we share a good time.

It won't be green because of the cold.. If it doesn't doesn't snow it is a brown / yellow Christmas.
Also you can't use your cross country skis, sleds, snowmobiles etc if there isn't any snow. No one wants to go out in the cold MUD.