We're moving from Texas to Minnesota and I've never owned a snow shovel. Are we crazy?
Answered by Chris Deutsch, Founder & Editor
Licensed Minnesota Realtor #20382264 ·
The short answer
You're not crazy, and you're not the first. Some of the happiest transplants I've worked with came from places where summer is the season you survive — they just flipped which months they spend indoors.
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The longer answer
The house will do more adapting than you will. Homes here come winter-ready by default: basements (a Southern rarity, standard equipment here), furnaces built for the real thing, and construction that takes the frost line seriously. Your job is shorter than your fear list — a real coat, decent boots, and the decision not to hibernate. The first winter is an adjustment. By the second, most people are startled by how ordinary life stays: school happens, work happens, the grocery run happens, all of it on plowed roads in a heated car from an attached garage.
DM me RELOCATE for my relocation guide — and yes, there's a winter chapter written for exactly you.
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