Is this true?
LOL
I say more to the Pacific Northwest. We have fewer icky creepy crawly things. We do have slugs...but you can eat those. El Slug Burrito....YUM YUM!
In southeastern WA we do have scorpions, aggressive house spiders, brown recluse spiders (non-breeding, probably) and a fair number of rattlesnakes, but few slugs. Lots of small ants but no sensationally bad species.