I grew up in a developing country. We lived in one of those giant high-rises the Soviets built for us… bro you can hear them motherfuckers crawling through the old, crusty wallpapers. My parents were kind of clean freaks so while the apartments was shabby, it was absolutely spotless. Couldn’t say the same for our neighbors so we got contact infestation lol. Then we impulse-bought a cat. Within a month or two, I didn’t see a single roach. Ngl, I felt middle class lol. I fucking normalized roach infestation for my whole childhood.
Oof! Yeah I never really had that with roaches, both in Mexico and in the US (though since my mention Soviets, my grandparents fled Russia to Mexico during the good ol USSR days)
Like even in Southern Mexico, you’d need to be living in super rural towns or in really poorly built places to have contact with roaches regularly. The worst I remember is that you might see them when taking out the trash, because naturally that’s where they like to be. And it was much of the same when we moved to the US, where on occasion you might see a few spring out when you open the trash bin or some crawling out of a sewer manhole cover at night, etc.
But I’ve never had a roach just crawl on me when totally awake and me being aware of it. I can’t think of any popular streamers where that happens to and they just blow it off like it’s whatever…. Like personally, my ass would IMMEDIATELY go into a cleaning frenzy if that ever happened to me
Wait, yall fled to Mexico? Where you from? That is so wild. Things must have been pretty fucked up for y’all to flee to Mexico. No shade to the nation of Mexico and its peoples… Thank goodness my friend doesn’t know my reddit account. He’d be pissed if he read what I said about his country… he’d agree with me but berate me regardless, based on general principle lmao.
I grew up in Mongolia during the 90s. There’s a shadow to the north, Russia. A shadow to the south, China. Fucking miserable lol.
It’s actually kinda complicated but yeah lots of Soviets sorta fled to Mexico and some used it as a launchpad to get into the US eventually but others kinda just hung around, especially in the northern states from what I can tell. Also Mexico was doing well after WW2 (Mexican Miracle) so it actually was an attractive place to be for some. Great grandparents were Jewish so they HAD to leave in the 40s, and they brought their daughter (my grandma) along with and rest is history.
Fun fact: one of the founders of the Soviet Union was granted asylum in Mexico, Leon Trotsky…. He was eventually assassinated by the Soviet Union. So one of the Soviet figureheads lays to rest in Mexico City lol
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u/awesomface 8d ago
Tbf roaches come around even if it’s not filthy, but he just has a level of not caring that they’re probably much more common for him.