I HATE bugs and snakes yet here we are in Florida---living full-time!!! The only bugs I've been bothered by are the love-bugs and gnats but these seem "seasonal" and not that bad really. Snakes---have yet to see one and hope not to! I don't do yard work so maybe I'll luck out with that!! I did see a giant frog once in our front yard but it hopped away---probably startled as much as I was.
If you're from "up north" I'd suspect that the bugs and snakes can be found just as plentiful, if not more so, there! So down here, we get an exterminator and we're good to go.
The other question the nay-sayers will bring up is "what about summers down there?" Our stock answer is "we stay in during the heat of the day and do ALL of our activities either early or later on in the day! It's not a problem!"
I actually think our summers aren't all that much different than 'up north'...we were actually cooler here than they were, last week!!!
