For some people here is simply having snow on the ground enough? Like if you never got a big storm but were able to get a couple of 2-5 inch events and keep the snow cover, would that be good enough? Would you trade that for never being able to get a 20"+ snowstorm but getting those small events?
I can tell you personally I would prefer getting the big storms and never just getting the couple of 2-5 inch events. Where I go to school in upstate New York I always get a few inches from lake effect since I'm on the edge of where lake effect snow happens but rarely if ever get a big storm from synoptic. The way it works from Jan-March there is perpetually most of the winter at least an inch of snow cover (6 inches at most) but that is not enough. I would rather miss those small events completely and be at home near the coastal plain having a chance at the 20+ inch synoptic snowstorm then the other way around.