Do you know how hard it is to actually get citizenship outside of usa? If you don’t work in a field that a country wants the website essentially says lol no (Ireland/Canada). They’d also quarantine the shit out of pets and traumatizing fluffy isn’t really top of the list.
Snow can definitely get you, at least here in MT. I’m from Raleigh and lived in Florida for a while. Florida was hot. Too hot. And nowhere else has rained like NC. I miss the rain the most. Florida got similar precip but it was seldom an all-day thing, more like a downpour and then done.