Replying to AWD vs FWD

So I'm moving to Salt Lake City, Utah. I also need a new car. I drove a Subaru WRX for a while and my brother drives an STI, so naturally, I'm leaning towards getting another Subaru for AWD. But if anyone has looked at the used market shits crazy rn. Honestly hard to find a clean WRX for under 20k with reasonable miles. My buddy has a Fiesta ST, which is a kinda slow but reasonably fun little hot hatch. I can find them with pretty low miles well under 20k with ease. But it's FWD. Good little city car too. But driving up the mountain to Park City for example I am wondering if it'll be able to handle that in some snow. I'd get snow tires and chains and all this shit, so I think it would be fine. But let me know if anyone thinks that's crazy.