Well, at least in :amerikkka: , most of the country is very far from the kind of geography and climate that is conducive to skiing. If you live south of like, Pennsylvania, you probably need to fly to skiable terrain, and get time off work to do it. So while Vermonters and Minnesotans can literally ski to work, skiing is bourgeois decadence to any resident of Texas, Florida, Georgia, most of California - probably at least half of amerikkkans