Seriously who likes freezing cold weather?

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21. My experience with bugs in NE Florida

I have lived here for 3 years now in a condo. The only bugs I have encountered in 3 years are 3 or 4 palmetto bugs and 2 small gecko's in my condo. The palmetto's come out only at night, and run away as soon as light is turned on. No bed bugs, no mosquitoes, no poisonous bugs or snakes. In my house in IL and in WA states we could not sit outside on the patio without getting mosquito bites. Here every condo patio's are covered with fine mesh screen. I have not had a mosquito bite ever.

OK we do see occasionally garden snakes because we have lots of woods surrounding the condo complex. They run away as fast as they can upon feeling human presence. Ditto with the gators in the 2 large ponds.

I played lot of golf in Chicago area and Seattle-Portland area. Chicago area has lots more biting mosquitoes. I expected reverse because of 7-8 months of rainy weather in western WA state. Surprise was there were far fewer mosquitoes. Florida also has fewer mosquitoes than Illinois.