Help with decisions... again!

[Skittles1101]

I know, they're a weird mix lol. To be honest, I don't really have much experience at all with lizards other than having babysat my friends beardie for three weeks, so I'd probably be better off with the snake. I have two bps and a nic. boa, but have handled larger boas and have been dying for a large python of my own since I was 2 and saw an albino burm lol!

Again, most of my experience is with snakes, and so I feel I can read them much better than lizards, and I have the means/skills to build caging for a large snake as well as friends who would be willing to help out with maintenance. I'd intend on getting a really young one of either to get used to them and get them used to me from a young age so they're comfortable with me (and vice versa) as they grow.

Even large boas are much smaller than full grown retics...You HAVE to consider that you are a female (like me) and there is a possibility that you will be living alone when the retic is full grown. I don't think it'd be safe to handle alone even for cleaning and feeding. It'd be impossible! I handled a not even full grown female at NERD with 5 other guys in the room, and she was a lot more work to hang on to than I thought. She was 15 feet long easily. You can't assume you'll have a boyfriend (or girlfriend lol), or be married, or have a roomate, or whatever your situation is 10 years from now when the snake is much much bigger than you.