No, bush or tree anywhere near the house, so... nope it crawled up the doorway or rather slithered up the gap between the door and jam. And I have one cat we let out and one house cat... neither works to keep away the snakes :(. But even with my fear of the legsless wonders, i don't wish to kill them all... i just don't want them inviting themselves into my home or slithering through my lawn, sunning themselves under my car's tire (on my side of the car!) I don't go trapsing through their homes or yards and just wish they would offer me the same curteousy. :p

It's not like I cleared the woods and built my house here and now am upset the snakes are in my yard... it's been here for a long time, but like every other animal around the snakes seem to think I'm a haven for them. Since it's not only snakes coming up to and onto my porch or even waltzing in the front door.... oh no! Every stray dog and cat knows to come here, birds, mice, rats, squirrels, raccoons, possums, lizards, turtles, deer even (thankfully the alligators haven't found me yet or followed me home at least, I have come across the odd few...)

I have a flower garden yes, but it's not like they're plants that are supposed to attract anything more than an odd humming bird or butterfly, and yet the deer love to hang out here, wild pigs as well and I live in a subdivision! Granted there's not much "city" to kingsland ga, but it's not the kind of "country living" where you should have to fear finding a wild pig rooting around your walkway in the middle of the afternoon. Or that leaving the front door open while you bring in groceries in the evening will lead to a three hour chase around the house trying to get a possum (or 5) chased back out the door.

But the deer, birds, lizards, turtles and all I can deal with and have no issues chasing a family of possum out of my house, or patiently waiting for the odd pig to move off (never try to shoo one they're mean buggers) but the snakes! :eek: the snakes I just can't handle :eek:

(And I've tried mothballs that was a record year for snakes in the yard... don't use them if you don't LOVE snakes)

I'm in Maryland , not the REAL South but last night there was a ring-neck snake (non-poisonous) in Mudroom.

About ready to pack my bags and go move to the Artic, I'll hang with the penguins and odd leopard seal :D.

You do know that the black adder (European adder) is the only snake that lives ABOVE the Arctic Circle? It's poisonous too. So, you might want to rethink your moving plans if you're wanting to avoid snakes.

Antarctica might be a better choice.

Oh, and I almost forgot, there's another place on the planet to go where there isn't any snakes.

Ireland.

They speak English, it gets cold, but the weather is fairly nice for a good part of the year, and there's a lot of fun touristy things to do.

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and after a little more googling (because even though I knew Ireland didn't have snakes, I thought it couldn't be the only one) I found the other places that don't have snakes. New Zealand, Hawaii, Greenland, Iceland, and the aforementioned Antarctica.

If it were me, I'd go to either New Zealand, or Ireland, or Hawaii. I wouldn't need a passport for Hawaii, but New Zealand actually sounds a lot more fun. Ireland would be cool because I'd be able to do a lot of genealogy research at the source.

Hawaii is too hot :( and they still get the sea snakes so I couldn't go chill at the beaches. heck Georgia is too hot lol, bit Ireland could be an option, too bad I'm one generation shy of just waltzing in and making my return to the old country. 4th gen Irish American the my only openly welcome 3rd gen. If only my folks had thought to move there when I was a kid rather than icky Georgia. But one day (like one day after I bury the DH) I'll make it there and find out how long they'll let me hide from the snakes 😝

As 3rd generation Irish armed with my Grandfather's birth certificate was going to adopt there but got pregnant with twins! Visiting Ireland still on my bucket list. No snakes is just icing on the cake!!!

My house is fine, as are the neighbors and my folks and aunt and uncle did fine too. No power or potable water for me, folks got power last night and my aunt and uncle had water from a well along with a generator but they also got power last night, so the DH is heading out now to borrow theirs. Not a lot of damage as far as structures go, a few business lost parts of their roofs, but nothing flattened, there's quite a bit of flooding and many many many trees down on power lines and even a few vehicles and homes, but we all survived it seems thus far. We run on ga power that covers the whole state and as of 11 am there was still 775,000 power outages :eek: but that is down from last nights update of 934,000 so their crew of 5,500 field worker are being quite the busy bees right now and after okeefenokee power finishes getting their customers up and running they'll be giving GA Power a hand.

Other than that though my house and the street I'm on looks like nothing more than a typical afternoon thunderstorm, next street over looks like someone bombed the place (poorly though since they missed the houses but caught all the trees). But st Mary's is a royal mess, again most houses were spared, but lots of flooding and trees are down everywhere, boats sunk and stranded on land it's horrible there will be a long time getting it cleaned up