@Hay Dude. Sorry for the delay getting back to you.
Back home (SD), they don't use salt on the roads. Nearby in MN they use a great deal. The difference is so stark that most SD natives won't buy a used car that lived in MN. They become rust buckets in short order.
The residential streets in my hometown rarely got plowed. Only if we got real snow (typically 6"+ in one storm). We drove (and walked) on roads that were essentially hard-packed snow for 2-3 months. We half-skiied on our walk to school. It varied by year, though. I'd rather have snow than bitter cold. Really cold air masses cannot hold as much precipitation, so when it got really cold, we got less snow. The Dakotas (and some other places, I reckon) get a lot of drifting, even when snowfall is rather light.
The term 'real snow' is common speech up there. It isn't used as a pejorative, it just describes a storm that dropped enough to be a PITA (or, for enthusiasts, enough for sledding, skiing, snowmobiles, etc.)
"Oh, ja. We had real snow there last night, don'tcha know."