Itsy Bitsy Spider

Okay, not so itsy bitsy and on my front porch! The second one this week on our street but comparing to our summer critters (copper heads, rattlers, coral snakes, scorpions) is a tarantula really that bad? Most tarantulas are not strongly venomous to humans. Maybe not but as I tell my kids, "my favorite kind of snake is a dead snake!" and I feel the same about BIG hairy spiders. I let this lucky one get away (maybe because I was barefoot and not to mention the nightmares that are now expected tonight). Can someone please remind me why we wanted to back up to a greenbelt in the hill country...maybe he just likes my Halloween decorations?