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So... which countries with similar cost of living to Thailand got no roaches? 🫣 (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Roweie@alien.top to c/digitalnomad@expats.zone

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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)?

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[–] thales_of_albany@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Starsuponstars@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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