I live in Chapel Hill, NC and I love my heated seats and heated steering wheel in the winter. It gets cold here too. It’s not Minnesota cold or anything, but definitely nice to have a the bun warmers.
If you don’t want to spring for new I would check out that Subie in Asheville on Auto Trader. It looks like a good car, but I’m not a big car person. We just went through hunting down a car for our 20 yr old, though.