Bah, it depends.
I had the best winter in years. We were bundled up and outside at least 3-4 nights a week. We're a couple minutes from the river, and that makes for excellent hiking, snowshoeing or skiing. We also got skates and went out whenver they had a section of the river cleared.
Also hiked up to the cottage a couple times to make sure everything was still battened down after storms
Then again, if I actually shovelled my driveway I'm sure I'd have a completely different perspective. There's not much I won't do to save a buck, but I won't shovel. Hell I won't even use a snowblower... I see my neighbor out there schlepping around with that thing at 6am, with snow blasting back in his face. No thanks. I get my driveway plowed, but boy I paid the piper this year... over $700. Ouch.
Still better than shovelling. A good day shovelling is when you put your back out before you have a heart attack.