ChatGPT is telling me to go to Antarctica. Not sure about the cost of living there. And besides, I don’t think their food game all that.

Seriously though, where have you spent a considerable amount of time and seen no roaches (the American and German types)?

  • Accurate-Neck6933@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The farther away from the equator you are, the more expensive the cost of living. The farther away from the equator you are, the fewer roaches you will see . Alaska has no roaches, no snakes and just a few ticks have infiltrated thus far.

    • dadadawe@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      they exist in North-Western Europe too, but are usually so small they can be mistaken for ants or other unidentified insects of the “ignore” type.

  • petrichorax@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    What people think he’s asking: 'Please name a cheap place that literally has 0 roaches, if scanned with a science fiction life signs scanner"

    What he’s actually asking: “Please name a place where roaches are incredibly rare”

    • total_egglipse@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Legit. My Canadian family were total slobs with garbage and the first time I saw a roach was in my clean Japanese apartment.

      • ambimorph@alien.topBEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Meh. I used to get nightmares from roaches I witnessed in Waterloo and in Montreal. My impression is that once you have an infestation in a complex, it’s hard to change that.

      • digitalnomad23@alien.topBEnglish
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        2 years ago

        you’ll like never get them in canada in you live in a burbs house, there’s no big tropical ones and you only get the small ones infesting if you’re in a dirty place or your neightbors are dirty

  • fikri_inter-business@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Why don’t you ask chat gpt about living cost comparison antarctica vs thailand and start from there. They might change their idea

  • zappsg@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Uh, don’t think I ever had a roach in my condos in over 4 years in Thailand. Just an occasional gecko.

    Do not go to Taiwan then.

    • smpsnt@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Ohh I can confirm. It’s really really bad in Taiwan. If you’re out walking at night you might be seeing one every minute. So many houses are infested with the small ones too, they are literally everywhere. I was wondering if the situation in the rest of East/South-East Asia is the same.

      • digitalnomad23@alien.topBEnglish
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        2 years ago

        tney have food everywhere outside, i’m not surprised

        i like taipei but it was offputting to see vegetables delivered to restaurants in open mesh bags just laid out on the sidewalk, in all the dirt and whatever

        really put me off eating honestly, even in thailand you only see that in wet markets, not just on the street everywhere like that

    • edcRachel@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      First roach I ever saw was in a 5* hotel in the US, lol.

      Been in a couple business lounges in airports that were infested too. Looking at you, Pearson.

    • digitalnomad23@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      yeah you gotta live somewhere cold. cold countries don’t get the giant tropical ones that fly. if you live in a house in a neighborhood with other clean people (like not some gross slobs with trash everywhere) you will basically never get them. I first saw a roach when I moved into a big city apartment, previous to that I lived at my parent’s house in the burbs and I never saw a roach in my life

    • newbzzzzzz@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      In Laos (Don Det) A roach was on myface while sleeping. First time i ever saw one lol

  • founderscurve@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Roaches are everywhere but if you’re clean and have bug spray and roach traps it’ll help, also don’t live on lower floors if you’re in a condominium you’ll have an easier time. You can consider malaysia as an option

    • Guusssssssssssss@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      no this is bollocks - I live in the UK and use none of that shite and have never seen a roach, not did I see any in the andes. However if you live in a tropical area - you will see them no matter how much bug spray you sue. Why do people upvite these uniformed posts ? Oh yes because they are also clueless.

    • similarities@alien.topBEnglish
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      2 years ago

      First night in KL, I visited the Chinatown. While eating at an outdoor vendor, I saw a family of roaches chilling not too far from me…

  • BNeutral@alien.topBEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Only country almost without roaches is Iceland, but the cost of living is not close at all to Thailand.