I lived overseas twice, Tokyo and Athens.

In Tokyo, the mosquitos behaved as you'd expected them to. They bit me continually during the summer and I hated them (as a zoology graduate, I had to respect them, though).

In Athens, they were so much worse. Not in the number of attacks, I was bitten much less frequently there. It was just that my flat's mosquito nets had a few holes in them and a few too many got into my apartment at night. And when I slept, they would always attack my ears. They were fucking terrors. It would get so bad that I would wake up at night dreaming that I'd heard one flying in for a bite. And the room would be empty of them. I had great memories of both cities but boy, I know which I preferred when it came to the native mosquitoes.

Went to Mexico for a holiday this year and wore a band on both wrists. Didn't get bit once! :D