Not a fan of spiders, either. I've had many a friend and family member tell me "Awww, don't kill it... it eats flies and other insects". Yeah, sure. Nice.
However, my saying is this... if its outside, it lives. Once it gets into the house, it ain't going back outside alive.
I've got tons of them where I live in the suburbs of Buffalo. Some of them get to be the size of a 50 cent piece. I had an Orb weaver spider whip up quite the web under one of our outside lights (front of the garage) when we first moved in. Huge mother! Thought it was cool to let it stay... then it had a massive sack of kids... time to evict!
Darren