I kind of got really lucky this winter, a lot like 10/11, 13/14, and 14/15 (for different reasons each time). I didn't get to see a snow in progress but it just happened to be that we were planning on going to my family's Christmas dinner in LaFayette, GA and it was the day after 12/8/17 that we were going to be on I-75 taking a cruise through most of NW GA...right through the area that was just crushed with snow. It wasn't on a whim that we went, it was planned and the storm happened. Funny thing is I called it in November. It felt like a winter that might see snow in December in the northern part of the state and perhaps I see snow through that and wouldn't you know it, it happened.
So this winter gets a B- from me. If I didn't have Lady Luck on my side and the coastal storm didn't happen (because it was cool to see), it'd be much more of a C, and I didn't see accumulating snow at home at all (with the NC special I had a good stretch of moderate, and for a few minutes bordering on heavy snow but no dice on accumulation due to temps). Expectations have to be realistic in the southeast.
What people need to realize is unless you're in the places like North TN, parts of NC like in the northern part and middle west, your snow average is not a realistic gauge because most likely, it's come through a mixture of big dog storm years and years in which you've blanked out instead of just a little every winter. This winter was a lot like 10/11 and 13/14 in my opinion winter storm wise, with one difference that sucks, there was two huge holes in the southeast, one from the eastern suburbs of Atlanta through to the SC/NC border, and the other from north central Mississippi into the TN valley.
Preferences are different for everyone, but mine would be the big dogs over just a little every season. I do plan to go back to North Georgia sometime in the future to live permanently, but it has more than the weather to do with why.