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If you don't leave food around, a single family house will not normally have roaches. Sometimes rental houses have them if previous tenants were sloppy. They can go between units in townhouses and apartments.
If you see them, just get the house professionally sprayed for insects.
Hi there! I've lived in Arizona for my whole life so far, and I'm just itching for a change. My husband and I are hoping to move to the east coast in the spring, and Raleigh (and the surrounding area) is one of the places we're thinking about moving to. I'd like to get some insight on the place from people who live in the area, so
1. What is your favorite thing about living in the Triangle?
2. What is your least favorite thing about living in the Triangle?
3. What is the best Triangle-specific advice you have for someone who wants to move there (not advice on moving to a new place in general)? For example, if I were to answer this question about Phoenix I would say to make sure all of your vehicles have working AC.
Thanks! :-)
Ahhh answerable questions. How fill in the black!
1. The spring and fall weather. Sorry that is two so I am double happy I guess!
2. The points! I tend to like circles and ellipses....the three points in a triangle....what's the point?
3. Bring a good direction finder....area is spread out and sprawls more each year!
It just rained over 5 inches on Sunday in Chapel Hill, breaking the previous record. Does Phoenix get buckets like that?
This is what our roaches look like. We call them "palmetto bugs" to avoid having to say the word "roach".
The bugs people love the most are ticks, chiggers, and mosquitos. The roaches are huge, but they don't bite like these others do. People also seem especially fond of our copperhead snakes. They're all over NC. We lead the country in venomous snake bites.
We have tons of deer. On any given day I can look out my front window and see a herd of deer in my front yard. Back yard has a big fence so they don't go back there. We also have a black bear visiting lately, although they aren't usually hanging around in this part of the state. Lots of them in the mountains and even more in SE NC. Plenty of coyotes here, too. No tarantulas (although we do have black widows) or gila monsters. No rattlers in the Triangle, but they're in the mountains and SE NC — I think we have 3 or 4 varieties of rattler.
We have lovely beaches (2.5 hrs away) and especially lush grass this year since it seems like it's rained almost every day this summer and very pretty fall colors in the mountains in particular, but throughout the state.
Ugh, these things freak me out. Is it really common to have these in your house? I do a better job of keeping clean than I use to in MA, but I am hardly "super clean". Still never had anything in my house besides a few ants, spiders and some centipede looking bugs. However, just got back from a Myrtle hotel and saw 2 huge roaches, they obviously do no harm, but if I saw them in my house I would feel like I was living in a dump
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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Only 5 states DON'T have them now:
- Hawaii - Never considered it
- Indiana - The laws are in place, but the driver manual will not be updated for two years.
- Maryland - The legislature prohibited them after the state experimented with them. Flashing red arrows are used.
- Pennsylvania - Rejected them (and the entire 2009 upgrade)
- West Virginia - never considered it
All of the other 45 states and DC have at least one installation,.
Interesting. I moved here from Northern Virginia and am from Pennsylvania where my family still lives, so I do drive the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania route often. But I cannot say I have ever seen it before moving to North Carolina. I'm sure they were not in NoVA where I lived.
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