>>Partially correct - snowy German cities are mostly myth, clouds are not that bad - I think production very close to consumation tilts the pro/con scale slightly to positive, although HEAVILY influenced by taxation and other due rules.
LOL. I like to pretend to be a bumpkin down under but I know (and appreciate) your cities. 14-year-old daughter currently is at school at the foot of mountains in France and complains that it snows occasionally but melts almost immediately.
Speaking of bumpkins down under: more than 85% of NZ's electricity is derived from renewable resources, mostly hydro.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
