[Zero10]

If you hate spiders you would hate my place...
I just moved to the Okanagan from Calgary. In Calgary the biggest spiders around were daddy long legs, and the odd cap spider, you would see maybe one or two of them a year.
When we moved into the house I counted 5 spinders larger than a loonie (including legs). 2 of them were the strange orange ones in the picture above, 3 of them were HUGE black ones. Their body alone was the size of a loonie. You could actually feel the crunch squishing them.
Now they are all over the outside of the house. There are probably 50-100 spiders of this size on the outside of my house. I keep going outside and blasting them all with the hose, but that only gets rid of them for a day or two. I look around and they are everywhere, even on the neighbor's house, I think they're normal around here.

Good news is that the orange spiders aren't dangerous. I forget what they are, but I looked them up. If they bite you odds are you won't feel it, and there are very minor toxic effects. The most you would get is a small red lump (like a mosquito bite).
The ones to worry about are....
Black Widows (I have these in the garage..... don't go out there often!)
Brown Recluses (brown spiders with violin shape on the back, very dangerous)
Hobo Spiders (you might not have these in your area, they're from europe and are very selective about their habitats)

Have I cheered you up at all?