2WD or 4X4 for a truck camper

I live in B.C. Canada, and 4 wheel drive trucks are common. I still think they are a luxury unless you go off-roading. Over here, I use my 4x2 for everything. In the winter, there are only about 2 days where you need a 4x4 to get around. Yes, it snows, but diving slow and careful with a loaded bed and an LSD does wonders (Plus our snow crews are really good here) I originally wanted to get a 4x4 for off-roading purposes and made an excuse that it would be better in bad weather. However, I could not justify the extra price in paying for a 4x4. So far, I have owned my 4x2 for 3 years, and have only had one problem. I wish I had 4x4 then. I tried to climb a mud hill and it didn't work. I got winched out for 35 bucks. That still does not justify the 7 grand I would have paid extra for the 4x4 (I got a real good dea on the 4x2). Just about all my friends have 4x4's. We go off-roading with
them. However, when the real badass hauling come around, or heavy driving rolls to come, It's always me on the block. Due to their configuration, their trucks dont' handle as well as mine does, espcially on windy highways, or hauling things around even. With LSD, you'd be surprised how much this truck can do, but don't mistake it for a 4x4, because it defenitely does not haev the capabilities of a 4x4. It however poses other advantages over a 4x4

I have owned a Mazda truck for about 9 years (over 200,000 miles) and it is 2wd. I have driven in all kinds of weather and I hauled a bed-full of furniture from Clarksville Tenn. to Charlotte NC--no problem. I think having 4wd is good but it can get some people in over their head (if the forecast is calling for a blizzard--stay home--a beer run is not worth risking your life). Besides, if you don't go off-roading 4wd is pretty much a waste. It's like having a Ferrari and never doing more than 60mph.

who doesn't have the natural ability to drive in adverse conditions. I have driven in the snow belt of upstate New York, where we get more snow than anywhere else in the US outside of the western mountains for 49 years, and have never had a problem getting around with 2WD vehicles. My present truck is a 98 Dodge Quad SB and it does just fine thank you. My thought is that the manufactureres have done a great job of convincing younger crowd that they need 4WD if it rains, and the public has taken the bait.
To you guys who actually do go off road and slog through the mud and the muck, you don't have to remind me that you have an actual need for a 4x4. The rest of you who commute with a 4x4, too bad you don't know how to drive.