(You'll get used to those exotic critters after a while too. It might take just a bit longer, however, to get used to the daily thunderstorms that come and go every afternoon -- if it's anything like Central Florida there!) :-)
I found this sentence in the Wikipedia page for Gainesville, Fl:
"Also in 2007, Gainesville was ranked as one of the 'best places to live and play' in the United States by National Geographic Adventure."
I keep on wondering why our geological exploration methods aren’t good enough to suss out most incipient sinkholes. We can find oil thousands of feet underground.