A zoo where I worked had a 16 foot female. They had a bunch of us take her out and hold her (learning experience for us and fun for the supervisors to watch us struggle). When you’re on the tail end and she’s wrapping around just to grab on to something, not even trying to kill you, you can feel how strong that snake is. I’ve worked with plenty of dangerous animals, but that was by far one of the scariest encounters I’ve had.
As much as I’d love to live somewhere tropical, I’m more than happy to live where the most dangerous snake I’d regularly encounter is a garter.