Don’t drive in snow with the fwd vehicle when it snows. Then you will only have to buy snow or Winter tires for the 4WD vehicle. I had a 4WD truck in Maine and didn’t need great seasonal tires to go everywhere and neither did my 85 Escort.
I used to live in Hartford so do whatever you can to get into the Chelan Wa. area. Don’t trust me on that, but I went to Chelan in 1984 and it was the only dry weather I saw that month. It was raining in Limestone Maine; I went to Hartford and it was rainy; I went to Chelan where it doesn’t rain much in Summer and had a nice six days. It was raining when I got back to Connecticut and rain fell every day in Limestone while I was gone.
Now I live in the Augusta Maine area where snow makes the awful roads smoother. Before I drove in Augusta, I believed that eyeballs couldn’t rattle. Eye doctor asked me if I had double-vision. I told him “only if I close one eye”.