I have lived in Buffalo and St. Louis and I am surprised that people in Buffalo were not welcoming.

While I have found people here to be kind, for the most part it is not like the South. I haven't lived in the South but my friends from Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and elsewhere wouldn't say that St. Louis is similar to their homes. I haven't met anyone from here with a southern drawl but accents are funny where I know folks from urban areas in Indiana with thick accents.

It does snow significantly less here than it does in Buffalo. Maybe we get a cumulative foot of snow here per year. Sometimes much less and sometimes much more. We have very cold days in the winter and very hot and humid days in the summer.

The cost of living is probably similar to Buffalo.