Rear wheel drive is generally inferior unless you have more than 150bhp or you're towing, in which cases it has some clear advantages. Because of weight transfer to the rear on acceleration, front wheel drive struggles to get a lot of power down without wheelspin (or traction control reducing engine power, which makes any additional power fairly pointless). In normal driving conditions, FWD and RWD cars don't feel significantly different, and I swap between the two types all the time.
Oh, and RWD makes clutch changes easier.