Eh. Nothing I haven’t dealt with for 2 years and change at RPI already. I guarantee you that RPI’s male/female ratio is higher than Waterloo’s.
Well, so far it sounds great. I mean, whether or not I’ll be able to buy a car (should I wish to take jaunts up to Toronto) is uncertain at best; I’ll have to wait until I get there and get my bearings financially. But other than that, it seems like the perfect spot to get a PhD in theoretical physics. Now I just have to get in! 
I feel a tad remiss for not mentioning ‘lake effect snow’.
You will be moving into what we like to call the ‘Snow Belt’.
A charming name for a peninsula of land between two great lakes. Now lake effect snow is when a storm system passing over a lake picks up lots of moisture which it converts to, well, snow as soon as it passes over land again.
In the snow belt it really doesn’t matter which way the wind is blowing, either way, it’s probably bringing more snow!
My first year at the university the city shut down several times due to weather.
Of course we spent those days studying and stuff.
…K-W doesn’t get lake effect snow. We’re too far inland. Smack dab in the middle of southwestern Ontario. We actually tend to get spared from the big snowfalls.
If you think we get a tonne of snow, take a January trip up towards Goderich. You’ll know when you hit the snowbelt, because the snowbanks will be taller than your car.
Wintertime is always “fun” around the Sauble Beach area too. A few years back, my grandpa one morning went to open his front door, but couldn’t because there was about 8 feet of snow in front of it. Luckily, he had lots of canned food and preserves, so he just waited and eventually one of his neighbors noticed and dug him out.
We usually get spared the worst. Usually. December 24th of last year was a nightmare. Big storm, snowbanks 5 feet high. Stinging winds, heavy snowfall, Cars stuck everywhere. And they still made us go to work!!! My brother told me a couple days later that one of his co-workers died in a crash trying to get to work.
Gorsnak, shhh. Let the little Ontarians keep their illusions. They’re happier that way. 
Getting back to the OP - one of the great things about K-W is that it’s a short drive away from Stratford, a little Ontario country town that just happens to have one of the world’s greatest Shakespeare festivals, if you’re into that sort of thing: