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)?
Don’t go to Greece. Their roaches are big enough to beat you up and take your lunch money.
And they fly!!
I never saw that, but I believe you. My cats used to hunt them at night and dump the corpses into their water dish. I’d have to pick up the dish, at as long an arm’s length as I possibly could, and dump it out every morning. I remember those roaches being so massive I could see the details of their leg joints from 3 feet away. This was 15 years ago and I am still traumatized.
Also, you’d be walking down the street in Athens, look down, and see roaches strolling along the sidewalk along with you. The light didn’t scare them at all.
Northern canada. Barely any bugs here! Cost of living can stay quite low if you go off grid.
I have seen a few here in Sri Lanka, but only in the cities, I am in the countryside now, only about 100kms outside of Colombo and no cockroaches so far.
(But I imagine if you travel away from the cities in Thailand you will see them less too…)
What’s the rent like there now?
No roaches in Germany in the 7 years I was living there. And I lived in an LCOL neighbourhood. But Germany is HCOL compared to Thailand, so…
Malaysia way less I guess
South Korea. Not much wildlife and haven’t seen a roach in 15 years living here. :)
You would despise Sydney
Come to the Pacific Northwest I’m 22 and never seen a roach here in my life
Lol, never come to Mayalsia. I have been to Penang and Kuala Lumpur. It’s one of the worst places I have been too for roaches. Literally, in the most expensive hotels and Airbnb you will find American roaches and European ones. Look at under 4 star review or even 4.5 star Google reviews and people are taking pictures of cockroaches in food. Thailand is actually better than Mayalsia for cockroaches.
UK is amazing for cockroaches hardly any once outside of London. Even in London it’s hard to find. Bahrain used to be good as well, but due to the economic downturn a lot of the empty flats there are gaining roaches. But overall the gulf states have really good food hygiene so you won’t find many restaurants with a roach problem.
Japan and Korea are good as well for roaches not as much there.
Central Asia.
I used to live in Thailand, moved to Kazakhstan. No roaches, no bugs, odd mosquito in the summer.
Cheaper here, and certainly cheaper in Uzbekistan where I also never saw any roaches.
I left a nice hotel in Tashkent because my room was roach infested. I stepped on one with my bare feet in the bathroom and was like, WTF? I didn’t have my glasses on, and once I could see what had gone crunch under my foot, I was horrified. The roach was flaming red, too. Like the same color as a redheaded human. The hotel didn’t seem to care and wouldn’t do anything about it, so I walked out and couldn’t get another hotel so I spent the night at the train station outside on a bench.
TL:DR version: there are roaches in Uzbekistan, and they are weird
if there are people, there are roaches. it’s just part of life.
Never seen one in Bulgaria. Rarely see one in UK.
Japan is a no go. It would be tough to find a rental with no roaches. I saw them in each of my apartments. Since I had my house built though, I’ve been spared the terror. Most hotels would be fine too.
I live in Aomori (since 2018) and I really haven’t seem that many bugs. I’m from Alaska for reference so my tolerance for creepy crawlies is extremely low.
Yeah, I was kind of wondering about the situation up north. I live in Ise and we’ve got big ones.
Aren’t the mosquitoes in Alaska terrible in the summer? Can’t remember where I read that.
That explains the roaches in Animal Crossing
I’ve been having problems with German roaches every night for months until I realised they crawled up from the drains, so taped them all and no roaches since.
We are at the top of the food chain. Don’t be scared. The roaches are scared of you. Your best bet is a country that gets below freezing temps so that it helps control the bug population naturally. Any bugs thrive in hot climates.