You seem to be convinced that these snakes will thrive further north than Florida and from what I gather I from your posts is that you live somewhere in the maryland Virginia area. I may be wrong on that and if I am I apologize.
However if you are you could very easily get some burms and raise them outside and if your assumptions are correct you could prove us wrong. I am sure you could get the burms for cheap or for free and I would be willing to help you design excellent enclosures that can be built cheaply as would several others on here I am sure.
I have based my doubts on the pythons moving much further north on the fact that I have kept multiple species of reptiles outside here in central fl. for 15yrs. Through my successes and failures I have a good idea of what will live and what will not. I am also a professional landscaper and I have a thing for unusual trees from southeast asia. As a result I have a very intimate knowledge of how the climate here works and what I can and cannot get away with as well as climatological trends. There are many others on here with similar experience from here in Fl. some with much more experience than My own. All of them seem to come up with the same conclusion. We would all welcome any actual experience you could personally come up with that could prove us wrong.

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