"Mm." He's about to say that he's never lived in Maryland, so he wouldn't know, but he reconsiders his words just in case she's one of them. Or feeding information to them. Can't trust anyone here - especially neighbours who want to small talk.

"Snows for half the year in Siberia. Sometimes even in June." If this is annoying, she wouldn't want to spend any length of time over there. But Siberia isn't his home anymore, hasn't been in decades now.

"Guess it can be house-burying levels upstate." Which might imply he used to live downstate somewhere, but he doesn't specify, and it makes a whole lot more sense than Siberia. Anyway, it's wall of snow territory up there. And of course, it's normal in various parts of Europe other than Siberia, but he's not lived there for long either, and the time he did spend in Europe, he was running around with a gun and destabilising governments, not exactly shacking up in a cottage shoveling snow.