Top Ten reasons why to not live in South Florida

[TubaRay]

amendment 1: OLD PEOPLE THAT SUCK AT LIFE

Now you didn't have to go and get personal about it.

[Rick Denney]

You forgot the so-called palmetto bugs (which anywhere else would be called big freakin' monster roaches).

I don't even want to contemplate how my life would be if my wife had to deal with these monsters every day the way we did when I was growing up in Houston. And those were the mild, crawl-on-the-floor kind, not the aggressive blatella kikayooassus smoky-brown roaches that crawl on the ceiling so they can fly down on you when you try to spray them with Bug Death. I had an invasion of them when I lived in Carrollton, Texas for a year and by the time I was done that house glowed brightly on satellite images being used to search for potential Superfund sites. And that was before I was married.

Rick "who can't tolerate the water-ski-sized insects in Florida" Denney

[Chuck Jackson]

I feel your pain, Rick. I lived in Norfolk, Virginia for 10 years. I have had those things take phone messages for me and I swear they used to order pizzas when I was at work.


Chuck"who can't abide any bug that fights back"Jackson

[Doug@GT]

You forgot the so-called palmetto bugs

I take it they don't really look like this:

[tubatooter1940]

Don't know Florida bugs but here in L.A. (Lower Alabama) the roaches are so big that when you step on one,he crunches so loud you can't hear the T.V..-badabrumpbump

[MaryAnn]

oh you should see the tarantulas and wolf spiders here in the desert! And the zillion-legged poisonous millipedes...and the scorpions!! I've had all the above except the tarantulas, inside the house at one point or another. The wolf spider was in the sink; can't figure how she couldn't get out... I trapped her in some tupperware and put her outside. The scorpions, millipedes, and roaches, I kill. I don't even kill black widows, as long as they don't come inside; they keep the rest of the bugs under control. And tarantulas are just downright cool.

What's a few gigantic roaches compared to the above? (We have not only the gonga-roaches but the Palo Verde beetles, which dive-bomb you at night and crunch like popcorn when you step on them.)

MA

[Louis]

It's interesting... Up here in Jersey for so long it seemed like that was the big goal for so many - retire and move to Florida. People still do it (good friends just a couple of months ago), but I don't hear people talk it up as much over the past few years.

Louis

P.S. New Jersey is humid enough, thank you.