The snow really isn't a factor at all anymore. If you live right (near the subway & in a neighbourhood where you can get everything you may need in a pinch locally) you don't even notice it. I can probably count on one hand the number of days that I've been impacted by snow in the past few years.

In terms of NIMBYism, I don't think there's much more here than in similar cities. To my eye it's more about people being indifferent to the effects of gentrification on marginal populations, and a growing danger of homogeneity in many 'hoods.