Seriously—where can I move to not deal with mosquitos?

[Anonymous]

What regions of the U.S. are the least likely to have mosquitos in backyards? What type of site? I don’t care about anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What regions of the U.S. are the least likely to have mosquitos in backyards? What type of site? I don’t care about anything else.

New York City
the Southwest
Places with lots of spiders, snakes and frogs

But I've been and lived all over the country and DC has the worst mosquitos of anywhere outside of Alaska.

[Anonymous]

We recently moved and our new yard doesn't have much mosquitoes. It was a pleasant surprise. I think you can look for land with few trees, good drainage and put a bat house close by. Now if only someone could rid of the gnats.

[Anonymous]

The Pacific Northwest

[Anonymous]

Arizona

[Anonymous]

Seattle

[Anonymous]

New York City has mosquitos.

[Anonymous]

I lived in Montana for almost a decade and can count on one hand the number of times I got bitten by mosquitoes - and those happened when I was visiting back east in New England.

Best places to be free of mosquitoes are dry places. In Montana you won’t see many of them except maybe in the thick of the mountains but even there I didn’t. However you will choke on wildfire smoke all summer.

[Anonymous]

California.

[Anonymous]

I've been in Southern California for 7 years now, have yet to see a mosquito. That said, we had a very wet winter so if it's ever going to happen it'll be this summer. But as of July 10th, not a mosquito in sight.

[Anonymous]

Thank you everyone for not mocking my distress. My kids and I can’t be out for 5 minutes!

My cousin lives in coastal MA and said that they saw their first mosquito ever this summer. Makes me scared that no place is safe.

Interesting conundrum of fire spoke v mosquitos. I’m sure rationally the smoke is worse for health and quality of life…

Part of it is that I love gardening and nature.

Interesting that the PNW is wet but doesn’t have S many skeeters?

[Anonymous]

Munich and Madrid have no mosquitos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What regions of the U.S. are the least likely to have mosquitos in backyards? What type of site? I don’t care about anything else.

New York City
the Southwest
Places with lots of spiders, snakes and frogs

But I've been and lived all over the country and DC has the worst mosquitos of anywhere outside of Alaska.

You’ve obviously never lived in florida or the Deep South then. Much worse than DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What regions of the U.S. are the least likely to have mosquitos in backyards? What type of site? I don’t care about anything else.

New York City
the Southwest
Places with lots of spiders, snakes and frogs

But I've been and lived all over the country and DC has the worst mosquitos of anywhere outside of Alaska.

You’ve obviously never lived in florida or the Deep South then. Much worse than DC.

I was born and raised in the DC area, lived there most of my adult life as well, but have now also lived in two different areas of Florida, east coast for six years and SW Gulf coast for three years.

There are mosquitos in Florida but they are much worse in the DC area than anything I have experienced in Florida.

[Anonymous]

Arizona.