Winters bad in Eastern WA? Never! :-)
I personally like the snow and winter sports, etc. but I get some folks don't. We try and escape to the sun in AZ for a week or two and once retired will probably winter in AZ for 2-3 months.
911 was buried for a while some work was being done on the house. We run studless snow tires on all vehicles from November through March.
Sometimes the snow is pretty
Sometimes the wind and snow are not so fun, this was damage from a November wind event that knocked my power out for a week