Am from sunny California and am moving to Boston soon.

[bronsin]

When you drive across the country you will be able to watch the weather every night at the motel. So you'll have a pretty good idea of whats ahead. Its pretty easy to just drive around any problems!

Good luck and tell us all about it!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

When you drive across the country you will be able to watch the weather every night at the motel. So you'll have a pretty good idea of whats ahead. Its pretty easy to just drive around any problems!

Good luck and tell us all about it!

^^^^^ So true! I didn't realize this until I moved to the Houston area. I'd always previously lived around mountains. Now, as you illustrate above, I notice this while traveling.

[Slanoie]

Hi!

New Yaris owner from Quebec.

Been reading for some time to find some info about my Yaris and found this thread.

My old car (but I don't have less snow since I have my Yaris) :



That picture means a lot of fun to me so, like the others said, yes, you'll be fine with your Yaris in Boston!

[Kal-El]

The large majority of people in the north drive front wheel drive vehicles with no snow tires (just all seasons) all winter. I find it amusing that some people (not referring to here) believe that an AWD/4WD vehicle is required in northern states. I live in MA and there's like 10-15 days a year that you'll be driving in snow. Then when it does snow, it's plowed and salted very quickly.

With that said, I am one of the few who use winter tires. They are more important than having AWD. Yaris feels unstoppable in snow with them. All season tires are fine but winter rubber does add lots of confidence and fun to winter driving. They're worth the price if they save just one fender bender during the life of the tires.

As far as a cross country trip? The Yaris can go cross country 50 times with no repairs. My Yaris has done the equivalency of that (150K).

My road trips include MA > FL > MA and MA > TN > MA. Nothing to it.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

The large majority of people in the north drive front wheel drive vehicles with no snow tires (just all seasons) all winter. I find it amusing that some people (not referring to here) believe that an AWD/4WD vehicle is required in northern states. I live in MA and there's like 10-15 days a year that you'll be driving in snow. Then when it does snow, it's plowed and salted very quickly.

With that said, I am one of the few who use winter tires. They are more important than having AWD. Yaris feels unstoppable in snow with them. All season tires are fine but winter rubber does add lots of confidence and fun to winter driving. They're worth the price if they save just one fender bender during the life of the tires.

As far as a cross country trip? The Yaris can go cross country 50 times with no repairs. My Yaris has done the equivalency of that (150K).

My road trips include MA > FL > MA and MA > TN > MA. Nothing to it.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Kal-El

I live in MA and there's like 10-15 days a year that you'll be driving in snow.

How many days per year (re driving) = have to worry about ice ?

[bentjazz]

Government job, Debby?

[NEexpat]

^Fortunate.

My niece got her license a year ago, and got herself a car at the end of last winter. I told her that first time we get any kind of appreciable snow this year I will take her to the big parking lot and the industrial park and we will practice in the snow.

I think new/young drivers get what new pilots get - Goitis, gotta go no matter what. Trust the equipment, trust the machine, trust the technology, absolutely. However nothing beats experience and time in the seat. (Well how do you get time in the seat if you don't go?) Thats it right there, knowing when.

I think as you get older you're/me are less inclined to go. Leave earlier, go slower, if you must.

In my hometown there is no ryhme or reason to it, sometimes the my street gets plowed every couple of hours, and sometimes not once, I'll drive on fresh snow all day long, it's usually the second day after the sun has hit unpaved streets and then the temp drops, winter ice festival/demolition derby.

There are some steep, very steep hills here that all seem to end at a stop sign or light, in the winter I avoid them at all costs, driving out of my way in order to do so.

I guess I'm getting old.

Now get off my lawn!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by NEexpat

Leave earlier, go slower

I think this is helpful in all climates. I see people driving like a bat out of h***, and I shake my head. I also shake my head at my younger self. However, some people never learn. I don't think my mother was ever on time in her life, and she didn't get that from her parents, nor from my father. My mother was a very genteel person, yet she failed to grasp how rude it is to be late. My uncle (my mother's sister's husband) and I have a running joke (but it really is the truth) that we both have to fight to keep from being early. The most embarrassing moment of my life was at my father's funeral. My uncle (my father's brother) had made the funeral arrangements (hundreds of guests, mostly there out of respect for my uncle/hadn't seen my father in decades) at a church in a hard to find location in San Francisco where some relative of my aunt (my uncle's wife and mother of my cousins) was way up in the hierarchy of the church. My mother was running late. I couldn't leave her.....she had no idea how to get to the church. We arrived at the church. I opened one of the two huge doors to the church. Hundreds of heads turned around, almost in unison, to see the only child and only wife (ex-wife, but still only wife) this man had ever had late to his funeral....and we were the only people who were late.

P.S. Read this after posting,. Thought some might think my mother = a crazy driver. I don't think my mother ever went more than 5 MPH over the speed limit, nor ever got a speeding ticket in her life. She was usually already late before she left ( in a way that one only can with a parent).

[bronsin]

I have another "Camden Story" for you!

I had a friend at work named John. One day I noticed scars on his neck. I had just had a laminectomy which is a repair of a ruptured disk that is performed from behind. Some operations for the problem (called fusions) are done from the front. I asked him

"John did you have a fusion operation done on your neck?"

(oh I forgot to mention John grew up in Camden)

He said

"No. One night when I was a teenager I was walking home. Four black guys jumped me before I got there. (um...he did not use the words "black guys" he used something else which is unprintable)They thought I was somebody else they had a problem with. Three of them held me down while the fourth cut my throat. The left me for dead but I managed to get to my house and was taken to Lday of Lourdes where they sewed me up. They missed the juguler."

I shit you not!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

I have another "Camden Story" for you!

I had a friend at work named John. One day I noticed scars on his neck. I had just had a laminectomy which is a repair of a ruptured disk that is performed from behind. Some operations for the problem (called fusions) are done from the front. I asked him

"John did you have a fusion operation done on your neck?"

(oh I forgot to mention John grew up in Camden)

He said

"No. One night when I was a teenager I was walking home. Four black guys jumped me before I got there. (um...he did not use the words "black guys" he used something else which is unprintable)They thought I was somebody else they had a problem with. Three of them held me down while the fourth cut my throat. The left me for dead but I managed to get to my house and was taken to Lday of Lourdes where they sewed me up. They missed the juguler."

I shit you not!

I believe you. My dad had a much less severe incident happen to him. He was jumped from behind by two "black guys" (to use the phrasing from your post) in San Francisco on a sidewalk. He carried them on his back for most of the block (trying to shake them off...no joke - a female witness on the other side of the street confirmed this) before they got him down and got his wallet. He had a severely sprained ankle, one of the worst the treating physician said he had ever seen. Unfortunately, my dad used the same language your friend likely did. Fortunately, I take cues related to this from the women in my family, and not my dad and some of the other men in my family.

[bronsin]

Yes its no good getting into confrontations with each other over things. It just continues the unpleasentness which none of us needs!

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Yes its no good getting into confrontations with each other over things. It just continues the unpleasentness which none of us needs!

....and unnecessarily shortens one's life (not at that moment, but later issues related to stress...not me personally...but I have observed such).

[DefStarYaris]

I moved from Fresno, CA to Boston, MA a few years ago. The Yaris got me there like a champ.

You'll do fine in the snow as long as you've got some tread on your tires, but snow tires are definitely good to have when you get stuck out in a blizzard.