Anonymous wrote:So many bugs with lakes. The chiggars are especially a nightmare.

No-see-ums are even of a nightmare. Their bites are terrible

Anonymous wrote:How many months of the year can these northern lakes that are superior to southern lakes be used?

Family has a northern lake house. Use it year round. Summer is for boating and swimming, fall has leaf peeping, winter nearby ski resorts (multiple), and spring is probably the slowest time.

Beach!

Anonymous wrote:So many bugs with lakes. The chiggers are especially a nightmare.

Chiggers like warm weather so mostly found in the SE.

I prefer to rent either one, but buy neither.

So many bugs with lakes. The chiggars are especially a nightmare.

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Anonymous wrote:How many months of the year can these northern lakes that are superior to southern lakes be used?

Year round. Ice fishing, polar plunge, etc.

Bonus: no brain-eating amoeba!

Yes, northern lakes are the only good lakes imo.

Anonymous wrote:How many months of the year can these northern lakes that are superior to southern lakes be used?

Year round. Ice fishing, polar plunge, etc.

Bonus: no brain-eating amoeba!

A lake house for sure because I don't want to deal with hurricanes, erosion, insurance. I would say no to being near a river as well. The lake has the advantages without the drawbacks.

I prefer my Superyacht.

How many months of the year can these northern lakes that are superior to southern lakes be used?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get the snake issue either. I mean, there are sharks in the ocean…

The people afraid of snakes aren’t getting into the ocean.

Oh yes we are. We have a beach house and I'm in the ocean twice a day. Don't like the darker water of lakes - don't know what else is in the water with me.

Not all lakes are dark. Some are crystal clear.

+1 And the water at many ocean beaches are too dark to see what creatures you are stepping on, like jelly fish and sting rays.

Yeah, idk what PP above is smoking saying the ocean water is clear at their beach house unless their beach house is in Naples FL or somewhere else on the gulf or maybe Hawaii. That brackish mid Atlantic Ocean water is darkkkk and that holds for the entire east coast.