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[quote=Anonymous]I went to law school in DC and had the intention of making a career there. Despite having very good summer clerkship opportunities in DC, I returned home to Maine instead both summers and then moved back north as soon as I could following the end of school. I simply could not tolerate summers in DC.

I’ve since lived in northern and southern New England, the southwest and the mountain west. I’m currently in southern New England for the past 7+ years. We have more hot weather than we used to have, but it’s only a few weeks that I have to close up and use AC. I live in a suburb, our yard is adjacent to woods and we have a meadow area and even a wetland area on the property where ducks nest every year. Despite this, I spend a fair amount of time in the yard and rarely see a mosquito or get bitten by one. I think that’s because we have a lot of birds and bats (we have a bat house on our house) and they keep the population in control. In general the biomass of insects is much lesser than it was when I grew up here decades ago and we’d get eaten alive playing in the yard. Similarly I cannot recall the last time I needed to clean bugs off my windshield between washes - it’s been years. It’s actually very unsettling how few insects we have these days.

Move north. Or out West, the insect situation there was totally tolerable. Not so much the politics. [/quote]

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