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Originally Posted by BoSox 15
IDK if that poster is from up north but we always associated roaches with filth and poverty. Not saying it's right just that that's the general consensus.
I never saw a roach till I moved to NC. I heard people talking about palmetto bugs but I was like, nah that's a roach. But just like people up north are led to believe one thing, maybe people who grew up here are led to believe they are "everywhere". They may be in every geographical location but I assure you in the 30 years I lived in New England I never saw a single roach.
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Yep, grew up in the upper midwest, never saw a roach in person til I was 13 or so and a kid had one in his hockey bag in the locker room. Roaches were a pestilence caused by living in extreme filth or living in close quarters (IE an apartment building) with those that did.
When I first came down here, the first apartment I looked at said "The exterminator comes every other Tuesday" or something like that. I was taken aback; when I lived in old apartment buildings in Minneapolis we'd have a guy come spray twice a year for silverfish and something else, but no roaches.
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Originally Posted by pierretong1991
Just out of curiosity but how many cockroaches do you think is considered "normal" to see before it's considered a problem. Maybe it's because I was home more often and cooking more but I definitely saw more than normal this year - maybe 1 or 2 every two weeks during the summer if I went downstairs at night to the kitchen for some water. My current stance is that as long as I don't see them during the day and it isn't the tiny ones, it's not a huge problem (and I don't mind killing them)
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I saw more this year as well. I attribute some of it to a second dog with an additional screen door that doesn't close very well. For the first time in 2.5 years I've had the house sprayed.
We also had a lot of rain this year, and we haven't had a really cold winter in at least two years.
I think that a cold winter will snap some of them back a little bit.
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