Clarence, I've been using a rear blade for over 18 years in the Jackson, Mich area and have only wished a couple of times I had something better. If your quite a bit further North or near Lake Mich, you may want something like a blower to get the snow out of your way, but otherwise I think the rear blade works quite nice. You'll have to experiment with it a little depending on if you're clearing a gravel or dirt drive or paved and whether you want the blade to dig in or not. On un-paved, a lot depends on whether the ground has froze or not. If not, the soil, once full of moisture, seems to move just as easy as the snow, so you can tear thing up pretty good if your not careful. The blade tilt, and sometimes even plowing with the blade turned around,(even though your moving forward) can help to keep it from digging in to much. Like I said, it just takes some getting used to.
If your expect lots of snow, just start the year with pushing it of your drive a little farther. Good luck, I think once you've tried it you'll really enjoy getting out and into it.