Ain't no way I'm grabbing a bug while it's still moving. My wife and I are both huge sissies with bugs. Standard protocol here is spray it with Raid until we are sure it's dead, then wait an hour before moving it to the trash.
I know, we suck.
I mean, it's a spray for lots of things, roach being one of them. (Ant/wasp/roach spray)
I had it on hand for ants.
Michigan, specifically southwest.
I'm in Michigan if that helps. Never even known anyone around here who has seen or had a roach problem.
Title cut off, I'm in Michigan and have no history of roaches. Never even seen one before.
I'd add on that the expectation in an individualist society like the US is to become independent and move out. Those ideas are used synonymously in a lot of contexts. Someone who hasn't moved out can be seen as lacking independence. Of course that isn't necessarily true, but it's the perception.
For a young person growing up with these ideas as the standard, there can be a certain safety in forgoing that independence. That was my situation for years, where I was financially independent, but moved back home after my roommates moved away. I was in my mid twenties before I moved out for good.
Sort of? Playing tabletop role-playing games is my go to, but that is either at a friend's house or my house.
Just because I'm sure you don't hear it enough, you're doing a good thing here. I hope someday the community here on Lemmy grows enough for more people to appreciate what you've built.
I'm glad we're getting another episode of C3 this week! It's felt really difficult to stay connected with how far apart they've been lately. 2 weeks between this and the last episode, and another 2 weeks before the episode before that. Hopefully now that the holidays are firmly behind us, the programming schedule will normalize a bit.
I've been down south and seen some before that I mistook for mice. I almost died on the spot.