I live in a small village in Estonia, we get good amounts of snow here in north eastern europe and degrees down to -30 or less.
I think my village has around 100 people living inside, maybe a bit less. We are a very tight community and at winter times we always create ski tracks and sledding areas. We have a very big pine tree about in the middle of the village that have christmas lights on it all year round, but we only turn them on if there is snow on the ground.