The spiders and bugs worry me but we have bugs in California too.
Ho ho ho hee hee hee ha ha ha. The difference between bugs here in SD and bugs in Texas is like the difference between pee wee football and the NFL. You obviously haven’t spent much time in Texas, particulary the Eastern half that gets all of the rain. Allow me to introduce you to some of the new friends you’ll have if you move there:
Fire Ants. Unbelievably nasty animals, you can’t even imagine how fast and ferocious these are. As an added bonus you won’t notice they’re stinging you until a few seconds after it happens. This gives the hundreds of others swarming up your leg time to sting you too. A great portion of your life will be spent trying to rid your yard of these pests. You will never succeed.
Yellow Jackets. These guys will build nests in your eaves and attic and sting you at inopportune times. Very painful sting.
Cicadas. These don’t bite but they reproduce in incredible numbers and make a really loud racket at night. Their dead corpses and exoskeletons end up everywhere.
Crickets. Awww, crickets are cute, what could possibly be wrong with them? Imagine BILLIONS of crickets covering the road, covering your garage floor, infiltrating office buildings, hopping, whizzing around everywhere. This happens every few years across north Texas. You can’t believe how unpleasant and nasty this is until you experience it.
I could go on and on but I won’t. The mosquitos get pretty bad across the state because of all of the lakes and rivers.
